Theatre Comique

Describes the Indian box trick.

Full cast list (extremely long). “Please remember, this is not a burlesque on the Indian Box Trick, but the original.”

“…Long before the performances began there was not even standing room left, and the hundreds who did secure even that captured it in some instances at the risk of breaking their necks; for when they got in they had to hang on to the window sills in the galleries by their finger ends and toe tips, and from the balcony railings in all sorts of hazardous positions…” Describes the box trick.

The page number at the upper left reads 810, but that is clearly a typo and should read 310. “…Harry Munroe sang well songs…Miss Jennie Hughes sang a number of serio-comic songs, which elicited liberal applause. Harrigan and Hart performed a new Irish sketch called ‘Blackball Sailors,’ which, although pleasing, was not up to the standard of their former productions. R. M. Carroll gave a song-and-dance called ‘Mortar and Bricks,’ and with this sons and James Bradley repeated the quintuple song-and-dance given the previous week. Serio-comic songs by Mrs. John Wild; character songs and changes by Little Jennie Yeamans… filled out the programme. Large audiences were present during the entire week.” In a separate paragraph: “Miss Jennie Hughes, one of the most popular serio-comic vocalists that have ever appeared in this city, and who has been engaged for some time past at the Theatre Comique, closed her engagement at that theatre on Dec. 20. She will probably soon reappear at some other theater.”