House of Commons

Event Information

Venue(s):
House of Commons

Proprietor / Lessee:
Robert Smith [House of Commons]
[House of Commons] Corwin

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 November 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Aug 1863, Evening

Program Details

Watts, presiding.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Mr. [Free & Easy] Watts;  George Guy [baritone];  Fred [Free & Easy] Rouse
2)
"Ship on fire, The"
aka Ship on fire, man the life boat, The; Ship's on fire, The
Composer(s): Russell
Text Author: Mackay
Participants:  George Guy [baritone]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 August 1863, 7.

“Guy in his great characteristic songs. . . . Rouse , the inimitable, in his side-splitting Comic Songs. . . . Watts will preside.”