Multiple cards on this page. “Hear Tony Pastor’s Songs For the season. Christmas Carols this afternoon.” “Grand Holiday Chorus of 600 Voices. Hear The Choristers Today, 600 voices at Tony Pastor’s.”

“The aggregation of special novelties…is unusually large…play-goers will not lack for suitable entertainment during the holiday season.”

On one card: “Santa Claus kind to the big folks. Santa Claus hereby informs the ladies that they will be admitted free to Tony Pastor’s Opera House this evening.” On another card: “Christmas Treat for your Mother-in-Law. Take the old lady to Tony Pastor’s Opera House this evening. She will be admitted for free. That will tickle her.”

McAndrews gave “in response to encores performed a burlesque sailor’s hornpipe and burlesque acrobatic feats. Foley and Wade in their songs-and-dances were liberally applauded, as, being excellent performers, they deserve to be. Will H. Stowe gave songs with rapid changes of costumes, without leaving the stage. Although evidently a novice, he gives promise of future success, with which will come, as a natural concomitant, an improvement in his trick dresses… Miss Jennie Engle… earned her accustomed encores by her serio-comic vocalisms. Tony Pastor introduced among his songs two fresh ones which hit the popular taste. ‘On Board the Mary Jane,’ a musical sketch, is excellently well-performed by the Freeman Sisters, has become immensely popular. Charming Kitty Brooke warbled some fresh ditties in her arch and piquant style; William Ashcroft gave his characteristic songs-and-dances; the Adams Brothers continued their excellent Dutch character sketches…” No further mention of music.

Notes that Pastor “was on Christmas-eve presented by the members of his company with a magnificent whip. It is some ten feet in length. [Describes whip.] …It is one of the handsomest whips we ever saw, and evinces, beyond its intrinsic value, the good feeling which exists between that popular manager and his company.”