The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-19
Theatrical


Reed, Murray & Mack. tho Romance of
Coon Hollow, company and the Klimt-
Hearn company. which made It's Anal ap-
pcarancc here this season. Business
throughout the week was good, especially
80 in view OF the cold weather which pre-
vailed the first two or three nights. Mr..
Reed was in ''His Fathers Boy" the best
comedy he hos presented for years, and
both he and Miss Rush appear 10 espe-
cially good advantage.
Next week the productions of Chas. II
Yale's Devils Auction" the Bostonians
Ia The Serenade," Scalchi In grand mp
era and Tim Murphy In THE Carpctbeg
GER viii be made known. a reproduce
ton of the Shnrkey- Mccoy fight Dyyfneans
of the Edison kaleidoscope win also be
scen during the week.
Chas. II. Yale's Forever Devils Aac-
ton, !" like It's peculiarly prehxed title and
Tepnyson's brook. seems to 70 on for
ever. The management of the Devils
Auction have looked upon their title as
valuable piece of property OF the same
commodity as any large mercantile inter-
est and they have by irnpressing upon
the public that their title simply an
nounced ,heir trade mark, convinced them
that the property would, as usual, be bet
lei than before; to sum ii up, that under
the title of the Devils Auction new
production filled with late novelties tnd
ideas, with background OF handsome
scenery. brilliant costuming. pretty faces
ana figures, all presented IN a clean and
oredtable manner without resoftng 10
line. song. scene, situation or incident
that would offend the most fastldods,
would he presented yearly in the cities
and towns of the country. That an attrhc-
ticn. however, should for seventeen years
hold the affections of the public, without
loss OF patronage, Is somewhat out of the
ordinary. a new Devils Auction" Is
announced for Sweeney Coombs opera
house tomorrow afternoon and night. The
play itself has been gone over Wy Manager
Yale, new scenes, situation and dialogue
in keeping with The times have heeu IN
iocted. new mechanical trick scene hns
been introduced by Geo. -. Melville, ana
IL is expected that the new oonica en-
pcrience and cscapadcs OF Toby and his
companions in the Magic Castle VIII cre-
ate no end of fun and amusement Tho
scene will take the place of the former
trick scene, THE Vaults OF Bencdictinc."
New scenery has been painted by Manager
falas artists. John Il. Wilkins and Ralph
NJ. Bechtal and assistants. among 'ss,ch
arc THE Caverps of Faces. THE Garden
Of the Blue Dragon "'rhe Palace 81
Golden Flowers" and Transformation
scene. The mechanical effects trick
work, etc, have been manufactured by A..
j ovcrpeok and Arthur j. Clark and as
sihtants.
The ever popular Bcstonlnns will be
the attraction ut The opera house on
Tuesday. February 81. presenting The
comic opera. The serenade, for cue
night only. This opera, produced in New
York little over year ago, Is sim in
the hey day OF Its success and continues
to he Endorsed as The best light opera IN
Tho repertoire of this popular orgaufap-
lion The cnst al The Serenudc" VIII in
clude the tull singing and acting strength
OF the BostoninnB Among the list VI
singers who viii appeqr hero arc Henry
Clay Barnahee, William II, Macdonald,
Jessie Bartlett Davis Helen Bertram,
William -. Lawn, George Buckingham.
William Brodcrick Harry Brown, Jo-
sephine Bartlett Lloyd Rand. w II. IFitz-
gerald, Charles Hawloy, Carolyn Daniels
and :. Il. Studley. From All accounts,
Harry b. Smith, WIN laa furnished The
book of tho opera is said 10 hive evolved
- most humorous entertainment The stp-
ry deals with the adventures Vt jealous
old Spanish grandee, who is greatly in
censed at an unknown sercnader who has
dared TO pay his addresses 10 his ward
and ilancce The attempts OF the duke 10
place his betrothed beyond the reach OF
his rival, and the adventures which heAet
him on the road, hiring lit high lcliot
background rich III color aud movement.
In the first act there are revealed Gi'lnrsc9
of brlgands and men at arms, in the see
ond net the merry HE of some jolly trars
is disclosed. and in the last act the move
ment of the opera brings about \ come
denouement iat Is at once novel and
satisfying. The music, by Victor Her
bert. is In this popular composers best
vein and each OF the principal artists Is
furnished with several vocal gems.
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A fac similo OF the Sharkcy- Mccoy fight
viii be the attraction Mt the opera house
Wednesday February ~. The rounds win
be reproduced by Edisou's latest improved
kaleidoscope. and each sidestep. punch,
feint, clinch and fall are said 10 be shown
so distinctly that IL Is hard 10 imagine
that one is not at the riugsde itself. The
impression carried away from the the
alter is that one has really seen the light
instead of the moving pictures OF The
came.
The pictures are lfe-szo and full u an
imatiou, and they are said to be 40 true
10 life that they have heen pronounced
by managers OF opera houses TO be The
best OF their Kind IN existence. There Is
no nickering. gllmmering or tremlImg
such as is sometimes seen in exhibitions
of this kind.
Intelligent audiences composed largely
OF ladies', have witnessed the reproductions
OF this fight, and the ladies are sail 20 be
lludest In their praises OF the marvellous
Invention by which one Is enabled q see
scenes and events which have taken place
80 many miles away.
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