The Star Company left VC to do the circuit all the way to Denver and Montana. Townsfolk in VC staged elaborate Balls with midnight suppers and dancing until dawn with professional dancers intermingling with the crowd. Grand Social Ball. They often produced gunfights, fist fights, family squabbles, neighborhood quarrels, as well as romances, congenial visiting […]
Nellie Brown tries for large extravaganza shows
Harry and Nellie brown are preparing the extravaganza John Brougham’s “Pocahontas” (or, Ye Gentle Savage) and the “colored opera” “Oh Hush”
Street Theatre for political purposes
J. H. Matthewson carried a union flag through town with two drummer boys looking for volunteers. Secessionists jumped the three and destroyed the drums. Other unionists joined the fight and a crowd joined cheering on the beating back of the secessionist assholes, they rallied to city hall where a former Justice of the California Supreme […]
