Article on police closing of Oriental Concert Salon

Event Information

Venue(s):
Oriental Music Hall

Proprietor / Lessee:
George [Varieties] Lea

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 December 2015

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Jan 1867

Citations

1)
Article: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 29 January 1867, 8.

“The Oriental Concert Salon on 652 Broadway was closed by the police last Sunday at 1 pm and everyone present was turned in. The next morning everyone but the innkeeper Geo. Lea and the ‘Shooting Gallery Owner’ Jos. Chillier was released; the latter mentioned posted $500 each in bail.”