Benefit for Hi Rumsey
Event Information
Venue(s):
Campbell’s Minstrel Hall
Price: $10 private box; $5 private box; .50 parquet; .25 family circle
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
24 August 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
12 Jan 1865, 2:30 PMProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
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Participants: First Brigade Band of 3d Div. of 15th Army Corps; Thomas Henry [Ethiopian comedian] Ryan; Joseph Bailey [minstrel, trumpeter]; Nelse Seymour; John H. Sivori; Leslie Chase (Lew) [minstrel] Brimmer; J. W. [minstrel] Hilton; Frank B. Converse; Willie Guy [minstrel]; Frank [minstrel] Leslie; Leopold de Meyer; W. W. [minstrel] Hodgkins; Charles Henry [minstrel tenor]; John T. Boyce [minstrel]; Adolph Nichols [minstrel-vn]; Napoleon W. Gould; H. Schwicardi; Archy Hughes; William S. Budworth; J. Harry Clifford; James W. [minstrel] Glenn; C. J . [minstrel] Lockwood; Cool [minstrel] Burgess; Dave [minstrel] Reed; Joseph [Campbell's] Livingston; E. O. [minstrel] Kimberly; Ned [minstrel] Davis; James H. Budworth; J. [Campbell's] Copeland; George W. Howard Griffin; Johnny Booker; Master L. [minstrel and dancer] Collins; Jed [minstrel] Herman; Daniel Decatur Emmett
Citations
1)
“[A] testimonial benefit to Hi Rumsey, the banjo player and Ethiopian comedian, who is totally incapacitated from performing, owing to what seems to be a paralysis of the lower limbs and hands.”
4)
“[A] great success. . . . The entertainment given was a most excellent one, embracing, as it did, all of Campbell’s Minstrels, as well as some of the leading performers of Wood’s, and Bryants’ Minstrels of this city, and Hooley’s Minstrels, Brooklyn. The lower part of the hall was crowded, while the gallery was comfortably filled. Previous to the performance, the 1st Brigade Band of the 3d Div. 15th Army Corps, which happened to be in the city on a furlough, volunteered and appeared in front of the hall, and discoursed most excellent music. Mr. E. O. Kimberly, a member of the band, was formerly one of Mr. Rumsey’s minstrel boys. The amount of money taken at the hall for tickets was $227. The amount realized was $528, including monies sent by letter from parties out of town.”