Camilla's husband

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]

Proprietor / Lessee:
Phineas Taylor Barnum

Price: $.25; $.15 children under 10

Event Type:
Play With Music, Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 October 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jan 1864, All Day
26 Jan 1864, All Day
27 Jan 1864, All Day
28 Jan 1864, All Day
29 Jan 1864, All Day
30 Jan 1864, All Day

Program Details

3pm and 7:30pm.

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 23 January 1864, 6.

“…From Europe, where he received enormous acclaim, the Tyrolian piper, secured at great cost, will perform every afternoon and evening...”

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 January 1864, 7.
“CAMILLA’S HUSBAND, with new Scenery, Decorations, Music, Costumes, &c . . . THE TYROLEAN WHISTLER produces beautiful music at each performance, ON THREE WHISTLES AT ONCE and on THE TYROLEAN FAMILY COFFEE-POT. . . . LAST WEEK OF KELLY’S AUTOMATON MUSICAL TROUPE. . . . EDUCATED SEAL, which plays a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.”
3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 24 January 1864, 8.

“…at every performance [he] makes magical music on three pipes at the same time.”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 January 1864, 3.

5)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 January 1864, 4.

6)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 January 1864, 7.