Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-02
NEW HAVEN OPERA HOUSE.

Notable Changes and Improvements
 Just CompIeted-TheN New Method of
 Lighting the House-MagIcal EIec-
 tric Apparatus-Mr. Walls Third
 Year.
 This cosy and most popular opera house will open it's season on Monday next, refur- nished and freshened, and with promised list of first class legitimate attractions said to eclipee anything yet offered by the man agement of this establishment
 MT. Horace Wall enters upon the third year of his dictatorship of the theater, which anterior to his coming, represented no par ticular policy, and was imperfectly conduct ed. By persistent labor, energy and expert ence of 27 years in the dramatic profession to guide his craft, he has made his opera house an absolute necessity among our amuse- ment seekers, and his successful endeavors ought to be liberally patronized.
 Prominent among the many improvements made in the house, the lighting apparatus will be pleasurable surprise to all. An electrical apparatus has been introduced if by magic, in an instant. This done away with the old conventional manner of lighting the thester by torch, while hithereto. especial ly on the stage, has always been considered dangerous.
 While the danger of fire is reduced there by to an impossibility, the audience will also be relieved of the inconvenience that is generally caused by the gasburners in the body of the house, while greater an excessive heat and renders the tempera- ture of a house at times almost unbearable. The light for the whole auditorium will be confined to the ceiling, where a huge rehec- tor not only adorns the building but throws ofI iobf nfT duo ton in any other manner. This one item in the improvements cost over $1 ,O00 and was the work of MT. A. l.. Bogart, the celebrated New York electrician.
 At the request of the fire department and I number of the patrons of this house who are property holders or have business interests in the city, signal will be given from the stage denoting the district in which 8 fire occurs at the time of it's occurrence.
 By this sign any member of the depart ment in the theater at the time of the alarm, or any other persons interested, may be ap- prised of the exact location of the fire or alarm, and can leave the house without ex- citing remark or causing any commotion therein. Many persons have hitherto been deprived of their theater amusement by feaI of an alarm occurring and no way of having it communicated.
 We are assured by MT. Wall that he has contracted only with combinations of a SIrlcIly ursI-ciaSS cndTacIef, sucu us pldy LII the best opera houses in the large cities of the country, where the so-called museum attrac- tions are never engaged. The prices will remain as heretofore, 75c. and soc. for the best re- served seats and 25c. for the gallery. The opening attraction will be Monte Cris- to, the hero of which play is impersonated by that excellent young artist, Mir. James O'Neil. The work is one of the strongest and boldest of the great Dumas prod uctions and was d1amatised by the late great actor Charles Fechter. The scenery is all new this season and was the work of the whole sum- mer from the brush of the great New York artist, MT. Gaspard Maeder. The company will be the same as last year save in two in- stances, where the cast is improved. This is the third season of this great play, and it's success would warrant continuance for sev- eral seasons yet to come.
 On Friday and Saturday nights and Satur- day matinee Miss Kate Claxton, Charles Stevenson and their exquisite company will appear in the greatest of all Boucicault's works, Arroh -na- -Pogue, which has occupied the attention of Bostonians for several weeks this summer with unbounded success per formed by these artists. The box office will be open on Friday for the sale of seats.