San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-26
SEASON lsS9-lS9O.
MANAGER MULLALLY'S LIST OF
ATTRACTIONS
His Opinions of New Tork--TW
New opera Houses Shook
With BENNY, ETC.

| With Benny, Exc
Manager Il. w. Mutually, Of the
Grand Opera house, returned yester-
day evening via the |. & G. \. rail-
way with his wife, from New York,
where he has been booking attrac-
| lions for the coming season III san
Antonio. A LIGHT reporter saw him
today and welcomed him back. He
SAID he was glad to get back; San An
tonic was cooler than New York. He
did not have much time to look
around him there, being confined
most of the time in his theatrical
office on Broadway. 1--WE won't
have as many attractions this season
as LAST he said, "but they will be
much superior. 1 found that one
manager in Texas was slightly
handicapped. Actors and companies
don't like the long Jump from Hous-
ton to San Antonio. 1t is the long
est Jump on any route in the country.
| had been negotiating for the Tex
arkana and Little Rock opera houses,
intending to play them with the
Grand during the season of $50 and
'9l, but seeing this | closed with
them and will run them this season.
found great many compa-
MES who play at Little Rock
and TeXarkana, who will not
enter Texas, and / have booked
good many of these, and propose TO
have something to say about who will
appear in San Antonio.
I'VE have worked hard this summer
against the interstate commerce law,
and the Managers Association, of
New York, which l will join, will aid
us. They are now preparing to pre-
sent matters to the interstate COM
mission, to assist the companies in
getting over the railroads without so
much expense for baggage. They
have already gained promises of some
concessions in this line.
II will open the Grand opera house
September 20, maybe on the 18th or
10Th. Booking had already COM
menced when l got to New York. 1t
commenced early this year. Of course,
my sudden departure from New York
and Little Rock opera houses left me
will be filled in later by correspond
ence. My list of attractions is not yet
complete, but so far, here it is: James
O'Neill, Arthur Rehan's Days The
atre Co., Ezra Kendall. 81 Perkins,
Katie Emmett, in Waits of New
York, Fairies Well Company, Royal
Marionettes, KendalPs American Bur-
lesque Co., J. w. Morris Grand Eng
lish Opera Co., Imre Kiralfy's new
spectacular play, 'Legardere, RiCe's
Evangeline, Emma Abbott opera COM
pany, 1 days, A Possible Case A
Night OFF, Kate ClaXton in Capt.
Swift Webster-Brady She company,
Jules Grau's Comic Opera Co., George
Over in Old Homespun,' Held by the
Enemy Co. No. =, Margaret Mather,
Oore Davidson, Prof. Bristol's Educa-
ted Horses, Lewis Morrison in Faust,
Hanlon's Beautiful Fantasma, Lizzie
Evans Chip % the Old Block, Said
Pasha, T. E. Mills Spectacular Zozo,
Hettie Bernard Chase, in Little Co.
quette, Lillian Lewis, Geo. Wilson's
Minstrels, E. NJ. Gardeners Streets of
New York, w. H. Powers Ivy Leaf,
Boucicault's After Dark, Kellar, the
Magician, Thatcher, Primrose and
Vests MINISTRIES, The Paymaster,
Jack Curry Musical Comedy Co.,
Hearts of DID, Herbert Marsden's
Shaksperian tragedy, Little Lord
Fauntleroy, Grismer-Davies, Jennie
Calf Comedy Co., probably the
Boston Ideals, Adelaide Moore,
He, She, Him and Her, Roland
Reed, whose only stand in the
state is in San Antonio, Pres
cott-McLean, Carl Gardiner, Mel
lie McHenry, Lily Clay's Gaiety COM
pany, and probably Lost in New
York, and Fred Warde, who were
asking for time when left.
There will be some few changes
in the opera house. 1 will have an
other assistant manager, and Otto
Hilgers will lead my orchestra. We
will not have much tragedy, but will
have plenty of opera. Those are all
good opera companies I have booked,
that Ems lish opera carrying 80 people.
| san Antonio led the state last season
in the matter of successful companies,
learned, and was second in the
South. \ tlanta first. of course, except
ing New Orleans. Dallas is about the
only town in Texas that is known in
New York, and she has advertised
herself pretty we'll. A great many
New York capitalists have money
loaned in that town. Money only
commands per cent in Gotham,
and when | told them they can get
s, 10 and l. per cent. for money in
Texas, they were astonished. L was
called upon by the secretary and
president of the Fidelity Trust Co.
who inquired about lands.alOng the
line of the Arkansas Pass in Bee and
Zavalla counties, and lively inter
est in Texas is manifest. While in
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