Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House
Price: Ladies admitted free on Friday evenings
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
24 March 2025
Long paragraph that notes each sketch. Diamond and Ryan “…were the freshest of the arrivals, having come direct from Ireland. They are both lads, their vocalism is fair, their feet are nimble and their movements graceful; and in their double songs-and-dances they introduce shillelahs and hods and pathetic poses. Their reception was most hearty…Also complimented by three recalls were the Freeman Sisters, who made their reappearance, and whose popularity with the Opera-housers was put to the severest of tests by their singing at the outset ‘Driven from Home’…Tony Pastor renewed his budget of trifles, but trifles consecrated by a great name in comic melody. The vocal success of the week, however, was Miss Jennie Engel’s new song, ‘I Wish Momma was Here.’ The words are those of a dying motherless child, and the ballad, sweet in its simplicity and heart-reaching in its sentiment, derives added force from the tender pathos the lady throws into it without at all straining nature. Attendance excellent.”