Event Information
Venue(s):
Salle Diabolique
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
15 September 2011
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
21 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
22 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
23 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
24 Nov 1864, 3:00 PM
24 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
25 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
26 Nov 1864, 3:00 PM
26 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM
Program Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
2)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 19 November 1864, 255.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 November 1864.
3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 November 1864, 5.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 21 November 1864, 7.
5)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 November 1864, 5.
“No. 585 Broadway continues to be filled each night with admirers of Mr. Heller’s various feats of digital dexterity. In respect to his piano-forte playing it would be difficult to speak too highly. . . .His necromantic exhibitions, which pretend to be [illeg.] artistic value, are nevertheless the most popularly diverting parts of his entertainment.”
6)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 21 November 1864.
7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 26 November 1864, 263.
Advertises for performance on 11/26/64; also announces: “Immense preparations for a startling Christmas novelty.”
8)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 November 1864, 4.