Metropolitan Theatre

Event Information

Venue(s):
Metropolitan Theatre

Manager / Director:
M. C. Campbell [minstrel]

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Feb 1875, 7:45 PM
09 Feb 1875, 7:45 PM
10 Feb 1875, 2:30 PM
10 Feb 1875, 7:45 PM
11 Feb 1875, 7:45 PM
12 Feb 1875, 7:45 PM
13 Feb 1875, 2:30 PM
13 Feb 1875, 7:45 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Arnold Brothers [dancers];  Marian Logrino’s Female Minstrel Troupe;  Charles F. [actor] Seabert;  Walter [comedian] Bray;  Hugh Haggerty;  Nellie Young;  Charles [ventriloquist] Young

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 February 1875, 1.
2)
Article: New York Clipper, 20 February 1875, 374.

Arrest of sixteen women and five men just before the close of the Wednesday matinee performance for dancing the cancan; the women later released on the grounds they were actresses; male prisoners released on bail.

3)
Article: New York Clipper, 27 February 1875, 382.

Discharge of jury, which was unable to reach a verdict in the charge of keeping a disorderly house; transfer of the case.