First night of the Zouaves! at the Howard Athenaeum, Boston, February 24, 1862

Howard Athenaeum. Sole lessee and manager, Mr. W.M. Fleming. For positively one week only! Greatest novelty of the season! First night of the Zouaves! (Original founders artists of the Theatre at Inkermann, during the Crimean War) ... New York Academy of Music! These are the original French soldiers! who formed themselves into a dramatic corps before the walls of Sebastopol and during many of their representations were attacked by the Russians! ... The Zouaves perform the ladies' parts in their plays! Monday evening, Feb. 24, 1862, the performance will commence with the great military overture of The Reminiscences of France! composed and dedicated by Mr. Cook, leader of the Niblo's Orchestra, to the Zouaves ...