Mr. Frank Mayo and Mrs. Julia Dean Rayne were on the Virginia, Sacramento, San Francisco circuit performing together very often.ย ย They were both celebrities. Frank Mayo got the rights to Pudd’nhead Wilson from Twain.ย They met in Virginia City and collaborated again later when they were both in San Francisco. Here is the Globe’s review:The […]
entertainment
Territorial Enterprise
The Territorial Enterprise newspaper arrived on the Comstock during the summer of 1860, and the first issue bearing a Virginia City dateline was in November of that same year. Unfortunately, no files of this edition survive. The newspaper files up to that time all perished in the great fire of 1875. After the fire, back […]
Performance
With the growth in population of Virginia City, Nevada came a thirst for musical and theatrical entertainment, and variety theatres featuring minstrelsy, burlesque, and vaudeville, appealing to both more genteel audiences as well as to rough miners, proliferated. When Virginia City sprang up, Thomas Maguire recognized the opportunity resulting from the new found wealth created […]