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Theater playbill for Mrs. Matt Peel's Campbell Minstrels at Washington Theater, June 4, 1860

by Nathaniel Orr

Washington Theater! Monday ev'g, June 4th. Fifth night of the star troupe immense success. By general request, Mrs. Matt Peel's original Campbell minstrells will continue their unsurpassable entertainments until further notice. The theatre crowded by the beauty and fashion of Washington, and all proclaim the above Troupe to be, without any exception, the excelsior troupe of the world! New Songs, new choruses! New bursleques, new dances! Everything new to-night. Mr. J.T. Huntley, the celebrated burlesque female cantatrice, will enact his original melange of incomparable acts, in all of which he stands pre-eminet. Amusment of the million! Competition challenged! Variation of pieces nightly ... musical department under the personal supervision of Herr Male.

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