Oriental Entertainment, Music and Dancing

Event Information

Venue(s):
Niblo's Concert Saloon

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 July 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Dec 1863, 1:30 PM

Program Details

The New York Post lists the starting time as 2 pm.

Program includes Oscanyan’s lecture on the “Women of Turkey.”


Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 11 December 1863, 2.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 December 1863, 7.
“Mr. Oscanyan will, by special request of the ladies of New-York, give a Matinee of his popular lecture on the ‘Women of Turkey’ . . . when Oriental life and habits will be delineated by the assistance of Turkish, Jewish, Druz, Eygptian and other ladies, who will appear in both indoor and outdoor costumes.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 December 1863.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 12 December 1863, 9.

Three separate ads.

“Ladies who are curious in matters of toilet should not fail to see the display of Oriental fashions. . . . All gentlemen who long to have a peep into a Turkish Harem, or encounter the beau monde, can do so.”