Barnum’s New American Museum

Event Information

Venue(s):
Barnum's New American Museum [SEP 65-MAR 68]

Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 October 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Sep 1865, All Day

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Infant [Christy's] Ravel;  William B. [comic singer] Harrison
2)
Roll of the drum, The
Text Author: Wilks

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 September 1865, 7.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 30 September 1865, 198.

“Mr. W.B. Harrison, who has no aversion to making a verse on any subject suggested by his hearers, is one of Mr. Barnum’s trump cards, and gets off some very clever points.”

3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 30 September 1865, 199.