San Francisco Minstrels

“New and cheerful Burlesques every week.”

“Good bills and crowded houses are two of the characteristics of 585 Broadway, and last night presented no exception to either peculiarities.  Messrs. Billy Birch and Charley Backus kept the audience in incensed laughter, some of the witticisms and bits being original as well as excessively funny.  The singing of Messrs. Grier, Wambold and Templeton was well received, and also the instrumentalism of Messrs. Brimmer and Donniker.  In fact, from the rise of the curtain to its final fall, the pretty little hall was turned into a chamber of merriment and laughter, and presented [illegible] appearances which could not fail to drive away from one’s mind any feeling of melancholy which might for a time have found lodgment therein.”

“Another great success in this great metropolis is that of the minstrel troupe known as the San Franciscos. No matter what the weather may be, nor how scarce the filthy may become, the auditorium of this favorite resort is nightly filled. Just look at the four managers; did’st ever behold’s spectacle more full of excellent living, and contented minds; why it’s a continual feast with them. We never knew four such heavy weights concentrated in one managerial association. Truly, they laugh and grown fat, and

            Loud are the plaudits that greet this fat troupe—

            The famed Frisco minstrels—from the great western slope.”