Olympic Theatre

“For the many who often attend that theatre, the entertainment at the Olympic is the perfection of mental feasts; and for others it may be a healthful laxative. The programme for this week is remarkably varied. It begins with a farce and ends with an Irish sketch, the mean being occupied by negro minstrel performers, song and dance men of uncertain speech and agile limbs, and singers of sentimental songs.”  

“Miss Bridges is very young, and comparatively a novice. She did a song-and-dance in male attire, and evinced the possession of ability, which, when ripened by future practice, may make her a good performer…Tierney and Cronin, who are good song-and-dance men, won the approbation of the audience. A person who rejoices in the cognomen of ‘Paddy’ Hughes did an Ethiopian song-and-dance fairly.”