Keith's Union Square Theatre
1898 Sep 18, New York
Published at DVHH.org 29 May 2020 by Jody McKim Pharr

"Keith's Union Square Theatre - The Management will present a remarkably strong list this week, the feature of which is a Hungarian Boys' Imperial Military Band, composed of forty boys in training at the school in Billid for the Austrian Army. They youngest, Mikel Braunn, is not yet seven, and does extraordinary execution on the drums. The oldest, Mikel Bohn, sixteen, is drum major. The leader is Nicklas Schilzone, twenty-two years old, and his assistant is the boys' tutor during the daily school hours. They play classical music, operatic selections, and popular airs with precision and seriousness."