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Abbey, The 120 temperance and abstinence Abe, the Pioneer, or the Mad Hunter of Arizona movements 12 (melodrama) 39 in theatres 20–1, 35 Academy of Fun, The 48, 56, 63 Alhambra Theatre 39 acrobats 16, 31, 48, 54, 118–19 Allen, John 109 Actors’ Fund 28 Allen, Robert C. xix. 3 acts 41–60 Allen, William (“Billy”) 43, 66, 81 as advertising device 29, 59, 76 amateur performances 32–3, 117 ethnic performers 4–5, 79–80 American Concert Hall 28 and immorality charges 2, 12, 17–18, 20 American Hall 49 professional 49–50, 77–8, 117, 130–1 amusement parks 9 range before Concert Bill 15–16 Arion 128, 130, 131 SPJD documents on 57–60, 130–1 Arizona Star 119 see also acrobats; child actors; circus; dance Asbury, Herbert xvi, xx, 82, 107, 110–11 acts; drag acts; magic acts; minstrelsy; “Asmodeus” 75, 81, 85, 86 musical entertainments; puppet shows; Assembly 23–4 sketches; songs; women (performers); and assignations 25, 83, 119–20 under beer gardens, German; dance Athenaeum 585, 37, 39 houses; variety theatre Atlantic Garden 27, 100, 101–3, 104, 127 advertising xiii, 9, 62–4 Audran, Edmond 36 of “bar maids” 31 entertainments as 26, 59, 76 Bailey, James 8 handbills 62, 110 Baker’s Central Hall 33 medicine shows and xiii, 9, 33 balconies in newspapers 28, 37, 42, 62 concert saloons 73–4, 76 sandwich boards 62 dance houses 106, 107, 112, 113 signs 63–4, 107 flat floor opera houses 117 stock poster 71, 72 German beer gardens 98, 102 transparencies 25, 62–3 San Francisco box houses 119–20 African Americans 79–80 Ballard’s What Is It 42, 61, 63, 75, 90, 92 afterpieces 6–7, 57 ballet girls 20, 85 alcohol Baltimore 77, 117 in German beer gardens 96, 99 bar maids 31 and immorality 2, 12, 17–18, 20 Barnum, P. T. 8 post-war decline in concern over 26 Barrett, Dora 37, 56–7, 119–20 sale as main business of concert saloons 26, bartenders 71, 72, 81 41, 59, 76, 86 Batchelor’s Music Hall 48, 49, 54 141 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-81478-2 - The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights Brooks Mcnamara Index More information 142 INDEX beer gardens, German xi, xv, xvii, xviii, box houses 119, 120 96–104 boxes 74 acts 39–40, 50, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104 in dance houses 107 family orientation 25, 27–8, 96, 99, 101, private 1, 31, 64, 65, 74 103, 104, 116 in West 74, 118, 118, 119–20 gambling 99, 101 boxing matches 54 matinees 28 Brand, William 59, 130 music 50, 99, 102, 103, 104 Bremer Haven 62, 128, 129 non-German-speaking patrons and acts 27, Brighton Winter Garden 48, 50, 64, 71, 130 101, 102, 104 songs performed at 127, 128, 129 shooting halls 102 Britain SPJD investigations of xv, 29, 31–2 music halls xiii, xvi, 3, 4, 4–5, 9, 74; masters spaces and equipment 98, 99, 101, 102 of ceremonies 4, 47 summer gardens 75, 99 pleasure gardens xvi, 8 Sunday opening 99, 101 Theatres Registry Act (1843) 4 Bella Union 119 British Blondes, The 5–6, 12 Belles of the Concert Saloon (1862 publication) Broadway, lower xi, 1, 12, 13–15 19, 84 Broadway Music Hall 28, 78 benefit shows 29, 54, 82 Buckingham (Palace) dance house 73, 105–7 Bigelow, Charlie 33–4 Bull’s Head Tavern, site of former 101–2, 103 Bijou Opera House 36 Bunnel, Sam 130 Billboard magazine xiv burlesque xi, xiii, 9, 37, 90 billiards 12, 74 early form xv, 5–6 bills, legislative Burns, Frank 43 of 1839 22 Burrows, Edwin G. xix of 1872 23–4, 28–9, 48, 49, 124–6; Burton, Edward 58 amendment, 1875 and 1876 xv, Busch, Frank 54, 130 xvi–xvii Butler, James 59 see also Blue Laws; Concert Bill Butler, Robert 78 Binter, James 130 Butler, Tom 62, 130 Bird Cage, Tombstone, Arizona 119, 121 Butler’s Varieties 78 black Americans 56, 79–80, 94, 108 Butsch, Richard xix minstrel troupes xvii, 7, 80 Byrne, Charles 29 black and “black-and-tan” saloons 79 Black Crook, The (musical play) 5, 12, 72 cabarets 5 blackface performers see minstrelsy cafe concert and cafe chantant, French 3–4 Blue Laws 62, 89 calliope, imitations of 47 Blythe’s String Band 42 Canterbury 11, 15–16, 19–20, 23–4, 28, 73 Bon Ton 24–5, 42, 64–5, 71, 94, 94 Carran, Jerry 130 “Bones” (minstrel role) 6, 30 Carroll’s Sixth Avenue Saloon 57–9, 79–80 Booth’s Theatre 35 Casino 31–2, 51, 73, 128, 129 Boulevard 24, 80, 81, 85, 88, 93 Centennial Gardens 49, 52, 53, 71 Bowery 13 Century 102–3 changing character 99, 122 Champion Music Hall 74, 81, 82, 85, 91–2, 93 concert saloons xi, 1, 2, 11, 12–13, 13 charges, admission 26, 64, 65, 70, 101, 107 dime museums 8, 12, 97 checks 86 German immigrants 97, 101 Cheyenne, Wyoming 117–19, 118 theatres 36 child actors 36, 51, 59, 130 Bowery Boy types 108 Chinese immigrants, satire on 54 Bowery Concert Hall (later Melodeon) 15 chorus girls, burlesque 5–6 Bowery Garden Theatre 39 cigar girls 82, 85 Bowery Mission and Home for Young Men 13 cinema 7, 109, 120 Bowery Music Hall, The 48, 52, 82, 127 circus xiv, 9, 79, 107 Bowery Theatre 97 influence on concert saloon 5, 8, 60 Bowery Varieties, The 30–1 minstrel acts 7, 53 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-81478-2 - The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights Brooks Mcnamara Index More information INDEX 143 cities, concert saloons in other US xi, 77, 117 dime museums xi, 5, 8, 14 Civil War xi, 11–26 Bowery 8, 12, 97 concert saloon before 15 entertainments 7, 60 military in New York during 12, 17, 18, 27, family audience 35 40, 91–2, 104 lecture rooms 29, 35 post-war period xi–xii, 2, 25, 27–40 transparencies 62 slump 16–17 dining rooms, private 66–7 Clark, Jenny 84 “dives” 3 Cleveland, Ohio 79 Dowling, Justice 23–4 Clinton Garden 49, 52, 54, 71 drag acts 31, 52, 79, 119 Clipper xiv–xv, xv–xvi, xvii, 20, 24–5 “dragging the town” 9 on patrons 91–2, 93–4 Dramatic News 29 on spaces and equipment 65–8 “Duffy’s Opening Night” (song) 55, 127 on waiter girls 85–6, 87–8 “Dutch” (German immigrants) 7, 37, 39 see also individual citations detailed in Notes elderly patrons 94 comedians 15, 37, 38, 104 Elwists’ 55, 62, 127, 129, 130, 131 Concert Bill (1862) xiv, xvi, 16–18 Emerson, Billy 130 effect xv, 18–21, 41, 42, 61–2, 77 Emmett, Dan 6 genesis 16–18, 91 employees of concert saloons 77–90 SPJD’s receipt of fines under 22–3, 28 see also acts; musical entertainments; owners concert gardens xii and managers; waiter girls; and under concert halls 3 prostitutes concert rooms xii, xvii, 3 entertainments see acts; musical entertainments Conroy, Jack 130 equipment see spaces and equipment control, social 22 Erdoes, Richard 117 corruption, civic 61 Essex Hall, Maier’s 51, 54, 68, 70 Cosmopolitan Theatre 36 establishment of concert saloons xi, 3 costumes 5–6, 72–3 “Ethiopian delineator” (act) 15 country customers 93–4, 105, 111, 113 ethnic groups court papers xv, 114–15 mixing of 79–80, 94, 108 Cremourne (or Cremorne) dance house 107 performers from 4–5, 79–80 Curley, Jerry 130 satire on 7, 53–4, 56, 57 Current Literature 2 see also black Americans; German Curtis and Health Minstrel Burlesque Americans; Indians, North American; Company 64 Irish Americans; Jews Eureka see Lee and Hatstatt’s Eureka; Shafer’s dance acts xvii, 56, 104 Eureka dance floors 73, 76 Evening Post 83, 93 dance houses xiv, xvii–xviii, 96, 104–16 acts 111, 112, 113, 116 family orientation fights 116 concert saloons develop xix, 9–10, 25, 41, gambling 109 60, 104 influence on West 117, 120 dime museums 35 patrons 91, 96, 104, 105, 108 German beer gardens 25, 27–8, 96, 99, 101, sexuality and prostitution 96, 104, 105, 103, 104, 116 106, 108–9, 113–16 matinees 28, 39 spaces and equipment 106, 107, 110, 112, summer gardens 75 113 Farrell, Bob 130 dance tunes 50–1 Fashion, The 53, 54, 128, 130 Dare, Leona 39 fights 92, 108, 116 Davenport (performer) 130 firemen, volunteer 108 De Briantio 43 fireworks 9 Deutsches Volksgarten 99, 101 Five Points area 108 Devlin, Master (child actor) 51, 59, 130 Four-forty-four (444) 47 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-81478-2 - The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights Brooks Mcnamara Index More information 144 INDEX Fourteenth Street Theatre 40 Hill, Harry 111 France: cafe concert and cafe chantant 3–4 court papers served on 114–15 freak shows 61, 63 dance house 15, 73, 109–16, 110, 112, 120 free and easys 3 Hill, Marilyn Wood xx, 90 frontier see West Hill, Raphael 130 “Fun in an Elevated Station” (sketch) 33 Hoboken, New Jersey 97 Home Journal 62 Gaieties, The 20, 42, 65 homosexuality 78–9, 81 gambling 1, 94, 99, 101, 109, 118, 119 House of Refuge xv Garden, The 47, 51, 127, 128, 129, 130 Howard, Al 81 gardens Hoyt, Charles vi, 12 pleasure xvi, 5, 7, 8–9 Hubert’s Prospect Concert Garden 73 rooftop 75, 104 Hyland, Chris 130 summer 75, 99 winter 99 “I Have No Home” (song) 45, 128 Gaunt, Percy vi, 12 Illustrated Newspaper 117–19, 118 Geohagan, “Ownie” 54, 63 immigrant groups see ethnic groups German Americans immorality, charges of 2, 12, 17–18, 20 entertainments for 50, 101 improvisation 56, 57 immigration 96, 97, 102 Indians, North American 16, 33–4 performers 80 influences on concert saloon xiii, xv–xvi, 3–9 satirization 7, 53, 56 see also advertising; burlesque; cafe concert; see also beer gardens, German circus; dime museums; minstrelsy; music Geschwandrer, S.