San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-01-16
THEATRICAL JOTTINGS.
Attractions at Turner Hall and Fashion
Theatre.
Tonight "Peck's Bad Boy" will APP
pear at Turner Hall.

Tonight "Peck's Bad Boy" will APP
pear at Turner Hall.
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Tomorrow and Monday. Miss Blanche
Curtisse and company, in only Farm
er's Daughter" at Turner Opera House.
Miss Curtisse has the reputation of being
a lovely woman and a fine actress.
"Only a Farmers Daughter" has been
popular for eight seasons, and it is an
exceptionally powerful drama.
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Sarony and the well-knOwn Larry
DOOley, of the Fashion, have doubled
up" as the term goes in professional
parlanCe, and will visit the old country,
commencing their engagement in Lon
don.
Local amateur talent in the city will
shortly produce the well-knOwn melu-
drama, Jessie Graham. 1t will be pro.
duced at Turner Opera House on or
about the 18th prOXimO.
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Regarding sunday performances, Mil
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the custom of giving theatrical per
fOrmances on Sunday broken up. Ihe
Law and Order League is doing good
work in this direction In Cincinnati. and
will do still better, having obtained
decision from the courts in its favor. |
have been looking over my books and
have discovered that in financial way
nothing is to be gained by playing on
Sunday. When | have played to big
business on Sunday | have found that
my Monday and Saturday receipts were
COrrespOndingly diminished. Before the
Inauguration OF Sunday performances
Monday and Saturday evenings were al
ways our big nights. Now, when We
open to $500 or $500 Sunday, the receipts
are apt to fall to $500 Monday. Then,
theater-goers who used to pack the
house Saturday nights now see the next
attraction billed in great style to open
Sunday and wait for that performance.
1t would be beneficial in more senses
than one to have the actors have day
trip through the West, hav-
ing gone over the Union Pacific
and returned over the Northern Pacific.
The Fashion Theatre this week has q
really good programme. The two Bur
tons, John and LOttie, are clever per-
formers. and IassO, the Chinese juggler.
is a marvel. One of his best tricks is as
follows: He walks among the audience
with a paper of needles, giving about %
to various people. He then asks each
one who has received u needle to put it
in his (IassO's) mouth, he coming for
that purpose. Each of these he appar-
emily swallows, and returning to the
stage, he gets piece of thread and once
more walks around the spectators.
While doing so he pulls each needle ont
of his mouth separately until all Of them
are perfectly threaded.
Miss Fanny Hunt D'Alma will give
concert at Turner Hall shortly.
DR. Hammond says that in thousand
years all white men will be bald. What
a rush there will be for front seats then.
The breach between John Henry Bro
drib Irving and Ellen Watts Kelly Terry
is said to have widened OF late to an i'm
passable chasm.
The female baseballists are working
this way. They Will probably visit San
Antonio soon.
Adelaide Detchen, once favorile
member of Wallack's New York com
pany, is whistling at fashionable matt
nees and sOirees in London. She has
learned trick for warbling that it
worth $50 for an easy programme Of
three numbers.
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Mrs. Scott-Siddons writes to a friend
in Chicago that she has no desire to re-
turn to this country.
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The following programme will lie