Salon Diabolique
Event Information
Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Variety / Vaudeville
Performance Forces:
Instrumental
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
27 July 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
16 May 1864, 8:00 PM17 May 1864, 8:00 PM
18 May 1864, 8:00 PM
19 May 1864, 8:00 PM
20 May 1864, 8:00 PM
21 May 1864, 2:00 PM
21 May 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
“The musical programme will be altered to-night; the magical part of the entertainment remains the same as heretofore.” AN: NYT 05/16/64, p. 5.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
“Fifth and Last Week of Programme of Illusion No. 1 . . . . Change of the Musical Performance”
2)
“The musical programme will be altered to-night; the magical part of the entertainment remains the same as heretofore. We advise our readers to pass a couple of hours in Mr. Heller’s pleasant and well managed establishment. They will confirm all we have written in his praise.”
3)
“Fifth week. . . . Two new solos. . . . Notice No. 1.—Heller’s is as crowded nightly as any house on Broadway.”
4)
“WHAT THE HERALD SAYS OF HELLER. Mr. Robert Heller, musician, magician and comedian has been quite successful in his soirees at his new hall, 585 Broadway. Mr. Heller is not as great a musician as Gottschalk, not as great a magician as Caligosiro, nor as great a comedian as Burton; but still we have never seen a single man who combines all these three qualities half so well. He has taken the Davenport Brothers in hand, and does everything they do and more besides. Mr. Heller ought to omit the last two letters of his name and claim relationship with Satan.—New York Herald, May 14, 1864.”
9)
“The Strange Man on Broadway has accomplished what many of his predecessors failed in, and that is, in drawing large audiences to his Salle Diabolique, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel. This pretty little hall has generally been regarded as an unlucky place to spend money on, but Heller went in, and let the people know where he was, what he was about, and many other things which they knew not of before. Now the place is doing a greenback manufacturing business, and the issues of Heller’s note are only equalled [sic] by the duties taken at the ticket office. Whether it’s the illusions or the pianoforte performances, or both, we can’t tell. It is enough to know that the people go there pleased, and come away with pleasant faces and happy remarks.”