San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-12
OPERA SEASON. lsss-ee.
The Grand Opera House In Apple
Pie Order--Manager Mullaly
Displays His Taste--The
Present Appointing ntS

ment, some months since, those who
! knew him were confident that his
natural love of order and neatness,
and his ambition to make the most OF
the situation would work revolution
in the appearance of things. This ex-
pectation will not be disappointed.
A LIGHT representative made the
grand rounds yesterday and can
speak from positive knowledge con-
corning the changes wrought,
having critically inspected the ap-
poin tments from the regions be-
meath the stage to the topmOst
flies, and from the rear door to the
grand Ell trance on Alamo plaza.
For three months Manager Mullaly
has been quietly renovating, paint
ing, improving, lettering and num-
boring; adding new properties, fur
nishing his dressing rooms, arranging
his box office and managers room,
preparing for ornamentatian of foyer
and arcade as we'll as stage and pro-
cenium arch, until he has recreated
the opera-house for the season so soon
to open. The properties provided are
exceptionally good in quality, and in
clude everything that experience and
a thorough run OF the best metropoli-
tan theatres have suggested as likely
to be needed in putting any travelling
company upon the stage, i'll the most
effective manner.
For the shifting of scenery, intelli-
gent improvements have been added,
and the $1,000 additional feet of rope
adjusted in the flies will enable
changes to be made with such econo-
my of time as will greatly enhance
the pleasure of the audience, who are
always impatient of delays between
acts. Scores of property articles, as
costly tables, mantles, mountings,
elegantly upholstered furniture,
throne steps, wells, ballusters, etc.,
have been added, all tending to a
more complete and perfect realism of
the scene. The adjusta BILE traps have
been weighted, and thus balanced,
can be raised or lowered without
noise, effort or confusion. The "star's"
dressing room on the stage floor is
elegantly appointed a conspicuous OBJ
ject being the $4,000 mirror
with its beaten brass frame.
The six dressing rooms in
the basement and the two above the
stage are models of neatness, comfort
and cleanliness, with their tinted
walls, soft rugs, fine toilet sets and
large mirrors.
On the stage the electric switch
board" battery" and gas" have all
been enclosed and the doors securely
locked 80 that no tampering with
either is possible. Everything behind
the drop curtain, on the stage and
above and below is in perfect order, as
clean as the day it was opened to the
public and much more perfectly APP
pointed.
On the stage floor, just forward of
the line of the drop curtain, and at
the base of the prOscenium arch are
placed two busts, one representing
the emperor of Morocco, the other the
empress. These busts on richly huted
pedestals are in perfect keeping with
the scene depicted upon the elegant
drop curtain, which is reproduction
OF Gueroult'S Beauty and booty be-
fore the Moorish king"
The orchestra has been furnished
with all elegant piano, the very best
New England make, from the house
OF II. d. CheeSeman IL Co., Of this city.
Lovers OF good music will enjoy a
rich treat III the tones of this lnStru-
ment under the manipulations of
first rate pianist.
/ rrl,o al, l. rIy ha
tofore made to duty for numbers, have
been obliterated and numbers and
letters plainly painted will show the
divisions for the guidance Of ushers.
The Opera House will have this
year what was SO perceptibly lack
| ing last year, managers room. This
room opens from the foyer, under the
| stair case to the south, aud is hand
| sOmely carpeted and elegantly fur
nished. Here Manager Mullaly will
be at home and his desk is provided
with complete set OF books from
which can at all times be
seen the exact condition of the
treasury and in which com
plete accounts between the manage
ment and every department will be
kept. These books will show every
dollar of outlay and income, and be a
perfect guide to comparison of
profits and losses as existing between
the house and any particular compa-
ny or any specific item of expense.
The arcade, vestibule and box office
each receive their share of attention.
Four large banana plants will be
placed at the corners of the cross arch
formed by the intersection of the
Alamo plaza and Crockett street en-