San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-03-21
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When the Georgia MINISTRIES ap-
peared in San Antonio last they
were minus a number Of their best
performers, to-wit: Tom Brown
and the Mallory brothers. They
are now with Sam T. Jacks Gre
ole" company.
Sousa's band has been engaged
for appearance at New Orleans.
Frieda Somonson, the famous
child pianiste OF Berlin, will ap-
pear shortly in the Crescent City.
"Trilhy" dramatiZed, is touring
the South. San Antonio amateurs
will probably be the first to present
it in our city.
"Wang," the comic opera, will
not be seen in this city, although
it touched at Galveston.
1t costs more to 60 to a theatre
in Paris than in New York or Bos-
ton. At the Grand Opera the best
seats are II francs, ($34O), il en-
gagged in advance; the next best
are 10 francs, the next l., next s,
and so on down to 3 francs. these
latter seats being in the fifth gall
lery. At the Theatre Franchise
they are not so high as at the
Opera, being from about II francs
down to one franc, which latter is
away off in the top gallery. There
are about 1900 chairs in the Grand
Opera, l 400 in the Franchise.
Hermann, the Great, will take
out a variety extravaganza next
season through Europe and Ameri-
ca.
"Mme. de Belle Isle" will soon
be produced in this country by
Marion Lea.
The Castle Square Theatre in
Boston and the trolley car rail
roads OF that city have formed a
league. People that attend the
Castle Square can ride cheaper
than the rest of humanity in the
Bean City.
Mrs. Minnie Seligman Cutting
has inherited fortune.
Fannie Davenport writes a very
large, bold signature.
Chas. III. Hoyt, the farce comedy
writer, goes to Europe April 20. A
satire on old world ways may be
next looked for. 1t is his first
visit.
Katherine Grey who left Richard
Mansfield's company two weeks
ago for Denver where her mother
was very i'll, has rejoined that
stars support.
The Bathing Girl comic opera by
American authors, produced in the
West by company managed by
Fred G. Whitney, is reported to be
success.
Herbert Kelley, leading man of
Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Stock
Company in New York, is on the
warpath for Acton Davies, dramatic
editor Of the New York Evening
Sun. Mr.. Kelley says that Mr..
Davies has held Effie Shannon up
to ridicule in his paper, and Mr..
Kelley is a friend of Miss Shan
non. The article that has made
Mr.. Kelley bellicose related to
Miss ShannOl's refusal to be
Rugged, during rehearsals of Cos
sip at Palmer's Theatre, by Eben
Plympton. The hug was part
of the play. Harry Neagle, dram
attic editor of the New York
Recorder, suggests that perhaps
the wrong person Rugged Miss
Shannon. But the fact remains
that it was part Of the play and
that Mr.. Kelley is searching for
Da viCs.
A distinguished looking man
who seemed to have dined well,
asked for a front row seat to see Cis-
sy Fitzgerald dance at Hoyt's The
atre, New York, last week. The
treasurer told him the house was
all sold out. He then paid dol
lar for staining room. He left the
box office but returned. There's
an awful crush in there" he said,
81 want more standing room," and
he planked down a dollar and re-
entered the theatre with his two
tickets quite content.
All things considered, Rose Cogh-
Ian would have been the ideal &C
tress to play Madame Sans Gene,
the washer-woman who knew Ma
poleon when he was a lieutenant,
and afterwards became the wife of
one Of his marshals. Coghlan has
the animal charm, the scintillat-
ing intelligence, and the pelvic
breadth OF physical magnetism
that would have made her eclipse
the blanchisseuse Of Rejane and