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There was a short and rather perfunctory notice of this performance in the
Brooklyn Eagle on 22 February 1885 (page 12):

IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Mark Twain and George W. Cable Entertain a Brooklyn Audience.
     The Academy of Music was well filled last night by an audience which
was entertained by Mark Twain and George W. Cable. It is not long since
these gentlemen visited Brooklyn, but they have entirely failed to exhaust
their welcome. Both readers were in excellent humor, their drolleries
competing with the more pathetic efforts by which the programme was
diversified. The latter was as follows: "Narcisse Puts on Mourning for Lady
Byron," Mr. Cable; "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer's Brilliant Achievement," Mark
Twain; "Aurore and Honore" (courtship scene), Mr. Cable; "The Blue Jay's
Mistake," Mark Twain; "Mary's Night Ride," Mr. Cable; "The Jumping Frog,"
Mark Twain.

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I can find no trace of a review for this show, neither the New York
> Tribune nor the Sun seem to have attended it.  This, at least from doing
> a search in the Library of Congress archives.  I find this a bit
> surprising given Twain's history with these papers.
>
>


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Benjamin Griffin
Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000
(510) 664-4238

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