Word: backus
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. The San Francisco Minstrels bring a very successful season to a close this week. Charles Backus and Billy Birch are as amusing as ever. The performance ends with "Beadle's Pirates for Ten Cents," a good burlesque of the more familiar "Pirates...
...plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...