Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-11
AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Some Features of the Eighth Sea
 son's Prosram-To be Opened Next |
 Thursday Evening, August IT,
 "she'' the Opening Attraction.
 G. B. Bunnell, the popular manager of the Grand opera house, was in town yes terday attending to the arrangements for | the coming season at the Grand opera l house. The season at this house will open on next Thursday evening, August IF, when A. Y. Pearson's big company will present the we'll known attraction, "She." An exchange say that the play has been much improved sincs it was fret brought | out, and that it will be mounted with more complete scenic and stage effects than 1t was at Niblo's garden, New York, where 1t was great success. This attraction will be followed by Sam T. Jacks great speota- cular production of "Old Age and Youth" and this will be followed by Tuxedo" and
 Glands Across the Sea-" MT. Bunnell
 eaid yesterday that these attractions and
 the majority of the others that will be pre-
 scented during the season will play three | nights and matinee engagements. There
 wilt be some extraordinary attractions that
 cannot be booked for more than two
 nights. If the attractions I intend pre-
 senting for the public does not succeed in
 bucking the times, one might just ss well
 surrender and hang up the fiddle, for
 strictly popular prices for such heavy
 weight attractions were never heard of be-
 fore.
 The policy at the Grand this year will
 bs the greatest attractions st the lowest
 possible prices. intend to cut loose from
 the ordinary popular price attractions and
 mn ftir huf hes O "a mi iaH
 and plays. I find I can do 1t, as the theat-
 rical people are very willing on account of
 the present state of affairs to play stellar
 attractions where they are sure to draw
 big houses at rates that permit ms to offer
 strictly popular prices.
 "The Grand was never such an attrac-
 tive place of amusement as it is now. This summer I have completed the improve ) ments which I expected to finish last sea son and now everything connected with
 the house is 6rst-class in every sense oi the word. To begin with have 8 great
 deal of new scenery which will be com plete revelation to the public in regard tc tone and color. The york was done by = Blakeslee & Thomas and is fine. Int house has been newly carpeted throughout
 especial attention being paid to covering tn,
 gallery stairs with rubber mating, which will prevent the noise of boys running uI stairs being heard by the patrons of tn,
 lower part of the house. The heating anC 8 ventilation Of the house has also beel l greatly improved, and 1t will now be pos : sib'e to keep an even temperature in al f parts of the house without having anyon
 feel cold draughts AS said before, intent to book nothing but the bsst attraction
 for this house and to this end I expect t !, travel about the country shortly, getting Il line on the best plays in the country. l 0 people see fit to take advantage of tn d liberal policy that is to be pursued at tn Grand this year the season will be @ tre mendous success"
 f. G.B. Bunnen, Originator. e 1.-THE CLIPPER" SAYS HIS WAS THE FRS DIME MUSEUM.
 . The New York Clipper of the currer week publishes 8 review of the theater 1 z, Americs-its rise and progress during K period of 160 years. It pays a tribute a- Manager Bunnell as follows
 1' Bunnelps museum located ar 205 Bower S' was opened iu the fall of 1876 and was th
 first popular museum at cheap prices.
 has been published that Charles A. Bral ID denbursh was the originator of the or al dime admission principle. This is nc correct, as George Bunpell is the O '9 iginator of the idea-that is of gi' ae ing stage performances in come
 tion with curiosities. Brandenburgh hs ,5 a museum in Brooklyn Sd early as 186
 also ore on Broadway, New York, opp lo' site 444. one year later; but the attrs ee ton was wax figures, mechanical col
 triyances, pictorial views, etc, and it T !8, msined for Bunnell to originate u afterwards popular priced dime mussur It. The feature at BunnelPs museum VI d, ''Dante's Inferno" in the baHemen as There WAS 0 stage erected in the ma 8. hall, where various entertainments of ne light order were given. There we 's- three stories, all filled with curiositie
 He remained here for two years, and u
 place is now occupied as 8 furnitu va store. When Bunnell left here he We ., to POS Bowery, near Bleecker street, al of opened the Great American museum by March, 1879. Be secured lease of t ,a- property from Georgians B. Euglish whi er the building was in progress, turned 1t in 8 museum and ran 1t successfully. T GU second eeaeon he sold 1t to Frank Uffn n and Middleton. Was destroyed by t ll- n May 25 1880. Bunnell's museum locst ,ss at the northwest corner of Ninth stre no and Broadway, IL was five stories hig 'r' George B. Bunnell leased the building a,
 fitted up six rooms with curiosities of 6
 cry description, The opening was Decel te- Der 8. 1880, and he closed it in 1883. Fro IT, six to ten performances were given dai from morning till night, and the atten or ance averaged over 5000 daily.