San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-03
ADJUSTMENTS.
Lillian Lewis in Two Fine Presenta-
tions and a Crowded House
at RiSche'S,

at Rische's.
Saturday night was gala night at the
Grand. In the afternoon matinee, OF at
course, the house was filled with ladies
who had come TO see and admire Miss
Lillian Lewis, but the night house was
one of the largest in the history OF the
Grand, being packed from the upper gal
lery To the pit. Credit Lorraine" was the
play and the star and the company worked
to gether as one piece and the audience
We're carried, unknown almost to them
selves from staid America back to the
Napoleonic times of France. when court
intrlgues and consequent plot and anguish
were wildly realistic. Miss Lewis has
great play in Credit Lorraine" does her
self justice in it and proves herself the
great artistic that she is. She vs. improved
since her last appearance in San Antonio,
in coStuming, in physique and in histri-
onic ability. A short notice of Miss Lewis
work in this and in her play last night,
AS in Looking Glass" would be inSuin-
cient in space to tell OF her splendld
abilities. Sufficient be said, she is nearly
and has already reached the pinnacle OF
fame. She will return next year.
Beginning tonight an engagement OF
four performances, including matinee
Wednesday. comes "Bluebeard, Jr, the
best production Of burlesque eXtraya-
ganza that ever came south, there being
so people in the cast. Every child in San
Antonio is familiar with the oriental
legend of Bluebeard and his wives,
and here is an opportunity to see
it amidst all the grandeur and ac-
cesories of modern stagecraft. In
every special scene, and there are eight,
exclusive of the transformation, that de-
serve this distinction, there is an eXcep-
tional degree of art, poetry, sentiment,
striking originality, several of them being
of character to indicate the genius OF
handiwork superior to that of the mere
scenic painter. Indeed, the work OF the
artists is of dignity and beauty, Of rich
ness, and in imaginative power worthy
| the adornment of the noblest dramatic
poems with which the inspired mind has
| enriched the stage. Enough each scene
| is worthy separate deScription--whtch
| of course, we have neither the time nor
the space to give-the first to command
unusual applause is in the second act
representing the "GrOtto Of Fantastic
| Fancy" INTELLECTUALLY unique and
| painted in Voegtlin'S best style, a strik-
| ing feature of it being admirably execu-
ted lifesized figures of nude woman
reclining, with light .gauze draperies,
under banks of arches and flowers,
| Another of Voegtlin'S successes Is the
second scene of the fourth act, repre-
| senting an embattlement castle with
| an immense perspective OF mountain
| gorge and rock roadway leading to a
| far-otf bridge that majesiically spans q
| deep ehasm. The great triumph OF this
uneQualed production is the tranSiorma-
| ton scene, painted by Mr.. Ernst Albert.
| This is not meaningless glitter, mere
| gorgeous mass of colors, but is the mas
| terful outworking of genuinely poetic
| idea, the first drops, Darkness. Fable,
| Progress, being strong and beautiful he
| Toic figures, artiStically executed, that
| prepare the way for the living group OF
| Music and Poetry, and give way to the
| magnificent spectacle of grouped figures
| in a surrounding of remarkably rich
scenic effects that indeed merits
| the title given it, Light and
| Beauty" The costumes are appro-
| pirate to the scenery.
| RISCHE'S OPERA HOUSE.
Nobody ought to kick at the sell Dun
| can Clark's female Ministries provided for
| the crowded male audience at RiSche'S
| opera house last night. The men all saw
| the loud and very bawdy Autographs that
were hung up in the barber shops Tin sew
| eral of which they were torn down as be-
| ing too lLud) and when the curtain arose
| about $50 o'clock and the performance
| proceeded the audience had no
right to make night hideous and
| create such disturbance as the west side
| of the San Pedro creek has never saw.
| They were sold and it was right they
| should be. AS the manager said in Little
| Rock, 1--WE have got your money and you
have got the finger for it,"