San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-21
ROLLICKING FUN.
How Many OF Our Good Citizens Were
Entertained at the Fashion Theatre
Last Niphr

Entertained at the Fashion Theatre
Last Night.
The new session OF the Fashion thea,
tire commenced last evening, and the
popular house was thrown open to the
public. In the slight intermission that
has occurred, the house has been
cleansed and renovated. Handsome red
and blue lambrequiGs and curtains have
been set to the boxes, and several re-
markably good scenes painted by Cad
have been mounted. Indeed, for scenery
the house may now be said to eclipse
any thing in the city.
The announcement of the re-opening
and of the cslibre of the new company
was sufficient TO draw a large crowd.
Indeed. from the commencement OF the
performance to its close the theatre was
uncomfortably full Many OF our most
prominent citizens were among the au-
dience, and what Is more to the point,
all left acknowledging that the enter
tainment presented WAS the best ever
seen in the city. The programme opened
with laughablo sketch in which Den
Howe. the new stage manager, and Miss
Anna Earle took part, and which tiCkled
the public taste, and then the
other attractions followed in rap
Lewis made their debut in artistic
song and dance. Their pretty faces, fine
voices, and graceful movements. cap
tured the boys right away and they de-
served the enthusiastic applause re-
ceived. Miss Florence Matthews in her
melodic gems, the old comedian John
j. Burke, in his elegant humOr, and John
Hugh and Rosa l.ysle were all excellent
In their respective lines. Cooper and
Lovely as negro comedians were piquant
and evidently made great hit with
their audience. Miss Annie Earle's Sc
lections were fully appreciated, and the
Marion Brothers, the Irish comedians,
justly came in for their share of the hon
Ors. The California Rubies, Gus and
Willie Peters were novel, pleasing and
clever. Gus is IN excellent comedian
any way, but Willie is decidedly the
boss artist. Possessed of fresh girlish
face, graceful figure and rare masculine
soprano voice, he sang, danced and act
ed just like girl, indeed but for
knowledge to the contrary he could
we'll have fooled the audience into the
belief that he was woman. The mar
vellOus quick changes in dress that he
made, and the rich costumes he wore
was the subject of considerable wonder.
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his especial line Of business. The COM
edy of "Our BOardeIs" was produc-
tive of much laughter, and the
very fine dancing Of John Hugh came in
for a large measure of applause. Den
Howe gave remarkably clever exhibit
ton of rifle shooting, showing that he
could break glass balls In any way and
in any position. Then he wanted to
shoot An aDDle off some One's head n In
William Tell. He desired to borrow
a man and his head from the audience,
but no one seemed disposed to take the
risk. At length John Randolph, the
painter, came on the stage and Den
Howe shot the apple cleverly off his
head. then Mr.. Den Howe said he
would attempt the looking glass shot,
the same that was being done by Frank
Frayne when he killed his wife. Ran
dOlph WINGED then for the first
time, but he stood 1t and the shot WAS
made. The whole performance con-
cluded with ali absurdity arrival Of
Uncle DAN" which was cleverly enacted
and productive Of much fun. The cur
tain did not fall until after | o'clock, but
the major part of the vast audience
stayed till the last. No better compli-
ment than this can be paid to the merit
Of the artists or to the judgment OF the
management. We congratulate Mr..
Samuels upon his deserved success.