Sunny South

“quite a crowd of colored people, who sing and dance. The dancing is the part that is liked … one of the boys has a dance step that is indescribable, carried out half way across the stage.” The revue “grows steadily in effect and is pretty to look at”

Murphy and Frances

“the girl is highly painted and a pair of slippers give her feet a shapely form. Why will a colored girl, very dark, always try to emulate a mulatto in looks on the stage, and a mulatto try for white effect?”

McKissick and Shadley

The woman wore “forty-three different colors in her dress” she also wore a wig. “A change displayed a costume probably costing $4.50

Avery and Hart

two “real coons of differnet hues … following on the footsteps of Williams and Walker”