Wee Willie Winkie

Event Information

Venue(s):
Olympic Theatre

Conductor(s):
F. [conductor] Strebinger

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
18 May 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Oct 1870, Evening
05 Oct 1870, 2:00 PM
06 Oct 1870, Evening
07 Oct 1870, Evening
08 Oct 1870, Evening
08 Oct 1870, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Washington Lafayette Fox;  Jennie Yeamans
2)
Wee Willie Winkie
Participants:  George Washington Lafayette Fox (role: Wee Willie Winkie)

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 October 1870, 5.

Includes complete cast list.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 03 October 1870, 10.
3)
Announcement: New York Post, 05 October 1870, 2.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 October 1870, 5.
5)
Announcement: New York Sun, 05 October 1870, 3.
6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 October 1870, 7.
7)
Review: New York Herald, 06 October 1870, 7.

“The music, under the direction of Mr. Strebinger was of a superior character to what one generally hears in a pantomime.”

8)
Review: New York Post, 06 October 1870, 4.

“A tiny child, known as ‘Little Jennie Yeamans,’ exhibits wonderful precocity and astonishing knowledge of stage business in the different songs with which she delights the audience.”

9)
Review: New-York Times, 06 October 1870, 4.

“…Little Jennie Yeamans, who endows her songs and sketches with quite as much character as the mature ladies with blonde hair, whom she imitates. The tiny songstress, aged apparently about five years, was thrice recalled.”

10)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 07 October 1870, 5.

No mention of music.

11)
Review: New York Sun, 07 October 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

12)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 08 October 1870, 214.

Includes complete cast list.

13)
Review: New York Sun, 10 October 1870, 2.

Brief; no mention of music.

14)
Review: New York Clipper, 15 October 1870, 222.

“Little Jennie Yeamans, a beautiful child of some five or six years, sang several songs in character, which were most rapturously received by the audience. She has an archness of manner and grace of movement, especially with her arms, which is rarely found, even in those many years her senior. She is probably the most promising prodigy that has appeared that has appeared since the debut of the Bateman children, and unless her faculties are dulled by overwork in her younger years, she should occupy a high position in time to come.”

“A Lilliputian drum corps was attached to the regiment.”

“The music was excellent, and Mr. F. Strebinger is deserving of great credit for its arrangement.”