Salle Diabolique
Event Information
Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Variety / Vaudeville
Performance Forces:
Instrumental
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
5 August 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 May 1864, 8:00 PM31 May 1864, 8:00 PM
01 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
02 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
03 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
04 Jun 1864, 2:00 PM
04 Jun 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
5)
Heller’s “little temple of magic—‘Salle Diabolique’ is the proper name, but that’s too hard to say—is becoming quite a gay resort. This week Heller announces a fresh budget of marvels, and a programme of music ‘richer by far than pearls in the depths of the sea.’”
6)
“Mystifies. Jokes. Plays the Piano. Illusions. Perpetrates Puns. Is Always At Home. Cannot Be Found Out. Is Another Houdin. Is Artemus Ward No. 2. Is Thalberg on Broadway. Is Great. Is Good.”
8)
Includes a tale of Heller in Ohio, dealing with an indignant audience member. Also a brief review of his show. “One summer eve, by Heller led, to Broadway street, our way we sped, and then to ease our melon cholic, we entered his ‘Salle Diabolique;’ the wondrous things we there did see, would chase away dyspepsi-e, would cure the blues, and all such ills, much better far than Brandreth’s pills. End of the poem. Heller is a tearer [sic] on the magic boards, and performs feats that would have consigned him to a flight on the broomstick had he lived in the days of witchcraft, of which craft we have very few descends in the present day. New York audiences are proverbially composed of well-disposed, good-natured people: were it otherwise, magicians, physists [sic], and escamoteurists [sic] would be well paid out for their deceptive entertainments.”