[66] B. O. Conquest covered this space with a permanent platform.
[67] Some Singers and Actors at the Eagle.—Miss Tunstall sang in 1838, etc. Sims Reeves sang for a fortnight only—in 1839—at the garden concerts, under the name of Johnson.
Deulin ( = Isaac Dowling, d. 1860) made a reputation here as harlequin.
Thérèse Cushine (d. 1856), the dancer, appeared first at the (old) Garrick and afterwards at the Eagle. She married Milano, the harlequin and ballet-master, who was at the Eagle circa 1847.
W. T. Moncrieff was one of the dramatic writers. E. L. Blanchard’s Arcadia was produced here in 1841. In this operetta Miss Forde, a charming ballad-singer, appeared as Phyllis.
Harriet Coveney, from circa 1840; Miss Carlotta Leclercq and other members of the Leclercq family; Harry Boleno, the pantomimist; Miss C. Parkes, columbine, 1851; T. Mead, the actor, 1859; Herbert Campbell (d. 1904) in pantomime in the seventies; Baldwin, baritone singer (from 1833) was chorus-master.
Charles Montgomery in 1851 succeeded Campbell (the Sadler’s Wells actor) as stage-manager.
The musical director (1838–1840) was Harroway. C. Sloman, a comic singer and improvisatore, well known at the London gardens and tavern concerts, was concert director in 1860. Oscar Barrett was musical director, 1877.
[69] Site.—A triangular piece of ground, bounded on the north by part of Shaftesbury Street, on the south by part of Wenlock Street; on the east by Wallbrook Street (now Cropley Street), on the west by Shepherdess Walk.
Entertainments.—The singers were of the tavern-concert rank. Miss Tunstall sang in 1843. In 1841 (or 1840?) Herring made a hit in The Imp of the Devil’s Gorge pantomime (cf. Blanchard’s Life, p. 479). In 1849 he was clown in Sinbad the Sailor. In 1840 Van Amburgh, the well-known lion-tamer of Vauxhall, etc., appeared with his lions and ‘colossal elephant.’ In 1837–1840, Devon and Cornwall wrestlers.