Event Information

Venue(s):
Terrace Garden Theatre

Price: $1; $1.50 reserved seat

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Feb 1874, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Jennie [vocalist] Hughes;  James [Irish comic singer] Collins;  Martha Wren
2)
Barney's courtship
aka Emigrants, The; or, Good-bye to ould Ireland
Participants:  James [Irish comic singer] Collins;  Martha Wren
3)
Merry cobbler, The
aka Jolly cobbler; Contentment is better than riches
Text Author: Coffey
4)
All that glitters is not gold
Text Author: Morton

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 February 1874, 4.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 11 February 1874, 7.

“…The entertainment was begun with the musical sketch, ‘Barney’s Courtship,’ which was very cleverly played by Miss Martha Wren and Mr. James Collins…Miss Jennie Hughes followed with several songs, rendered in a manner that certainly proves her a finished vocalist…”