Venue(s):
Tony Pastor's Opera House
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 June 2025
“…Miss Selwyn, who has ever been popular with local audiences, shows improvement in her character songs in male attire. Her wardrobe has been replenished, and fresh songs have been added to her repertory since her last visit. La Belle Gabrielle, a little miss of eleven or twelve Summers, gave quite creditable performances upon musical glasses and a wood-and-straw instrument. Kitty Whitland, who has a pretty face, a tall, lithe figure, and a profusion of blonde hair, won approbation in songs-and dances. She wore male attire, and was modest and quiet in her deportment. Katie Howard sang several familiar serio-comic songs quite satisfactorily, and won the approval of her auditors…Tony Pastor sang a new song entitled ‘The East-side of Town,’ written and dedicated to him by Edward Harrigan, and the music composed by Marcel De Donato, the gentleman who plays the cornet in Mr. Pastor’s orchestra. The air is taking, and we think destined to become quite popular, while the words give Tony an admirable opportunity to display those qualities which have rendered him so popular with his patrons. It was loudly applauded…”