Frank Mayo starred with Julia Hayne as the hero and heroine in Victor Hugo’s Ruy Blas. Booth appeared as Don Caesar de Bazan and Billy O’Neil reprised his favorite role of Paddy Miles in the Limerick Boy. But the heat wave was killing off the crowds. Notices in the paper reminded citizens of the winter […]
theatre
Billiard Championship at Maguires
Local champ, A.M. Jamison took on New York champ Goldthwaite in a series of matches that charged admission in theatres around the Comstock. — July 10, 1863 —
The Leighton Company’s run in a saloon theatre is noisy
The Leighton Company went on a limited run of a few plays, Ten Nights in a Bar Room” and “Ten Nights” which was written for Yankee Locke. W.H. Leighton, A.R. Phelps, E.T. Thayer, L.F. Browne, J.H. Ruby, O. Wilson, Mrs. G.E. Locke and Misses Parks and Leslie joined the company. — July 11, 1863 —
