Dan Rice's Great Show!
Contributors: Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: H. Polkinhorn's Steam Job Printing Office, D Street, bet. 6th & 7th Sts.
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Other titles: Great show will exhibit at Washington on Monday, October 10th, 1859
Description: Dan Rice's Great Show! H.M. Whitbeck, manager, John H. Murray, equestrian director, Charles Warner, treasurer, Charles H. Castle, accredited agent, C.H. Noyes, zoological director. The great show will exhibit at Washington on Monday October 10th, 1859, afternoon and evening, admission 25 cts. Reserved seats 50 cts. Farewell visit of Dan Rice! ... Remarkable trained animals ... A grand constellation ... The distiguished humorist and jester Dan Rice! ... At every performance of the Troupe! ... The Favorite Son of Momus ... His last appearance as a humorist, Dan Rice will lecture upon the various topics and interesting themes, that are now agitated in the social and political world, giving a resume or epitome of our relation to Cuba and a general exhibit of his views upon the Universal American Character ... The Roman Brothers ... Julian Kent ... Miss Estella Barclay ... Thomas Canham ... The Living Animal Wonders ... The Rhinoceros, Gen. Putnam ... The Dancing Elephant, Lalla Rookh ... she will positively walk the tight rope ... The various breeds of horses ... the Talking horse, Excelsior, who is not dead! ... The Mexican Mustang Eureka ... Daniel Webster, the Racer! ... The Ladies Palfry, White Surrey! The Black Hawk Filly Lady Margaret ... Thorough-bred fillies, Rebecca & Rachel ... The Goat of Syria ... The Educated Mules ... The grand cavalcade consisting of the entire retinue of the establishement, and the animals great den, drawn by twenty Pennsylvania black horses ... accompanied by the Keystone Brass Band, led by the esquisite bugler, Prof. Canham.
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

LC copy rehoused: 2014-10-02. Shelved in Oversize.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).