Mr. Frank Mayo and Mrs. Julia Dean Rayne were on the Virginia, Sacramento, San Francisco circuit performing together very often. They were both celebrities. Frank Mayo got the rights to Pudd’nhead Wilson from Twain. They met in Virginia City and collaborated again later when they were both in San Francisco. Here is the Globe’s review:The […]
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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 […]
Sue Robinson
When Sue Robinson appeared at Maguire’s Opera House, she wasa favorite of both fire companies so she wore the colors of each on alternate nights, and both companies strove to outdo each other in size of silver bricks presented to her for singing “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Sue Robinson or Sue Robinson Getzler was […]
