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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1911
Page
30
Viola Allen presents The White Sister at the Grand tonight with Jeanne Towler in the title role. The four act drama adapts F. Marion Crawford’s tale of love and religion, aimed to thrill and satisfy audiences from start to finish.
Henry W. Savage presents Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West in a grand production on Saturday December 30 with matinee and night showings. The piece features Minnie the sheriff and the desperado Johnson in a tale of pioneer life, love, roughness, and moral conflict.
A review notes the film's Italian setting and cast of international stars, praising F. Marion Crawford and Walter Hackett for atmosphere. Minnie and Rance dominate a dramatic poker scene, love conquers vengeance, and Minnie's prayers win, while Puccini's score earns high praise for its humanitarian, emotional depth.
Henry Woodruff stars in The Prince of Tonight a musical fantasy by Adams Hough and Howard at the Grand on January 29 and 30. Mort H. Singer produces the attraction with strong supporting company and a lavish scenic production.
Henry W. Savage brings the farce Excuse Me to the Grand Opera House with a 31 member cast led by top American character actors. The railroad farce follows multiple couples and passengers on a last overland train to San Francisco with a Wednesday matinee planned and its star production praised as a major season success.
A York actor in elaborate dress seeks a midnight appointment with The Girl in the Taxi at Cafe Churchill while Papa Stewart slips out to meet chorus girls. Bertie, short on money, steels a loving cup and heads to a pawnshop. A hunting party boasts big game but a prankish lie ends with the game warden outwitted.
A scene from The Girl in the Taxi features John Stewart’s Riverside Drive home in New York. At about 11 o clock a French maid turns on lights as moonlight fills the veranda and Percy Peters, Stewart’s Philadelphia nephew, arrives.
Richard Carle, famed author and comedian, comes to the Grand Wednesday and Thursday January 3 and 4 in Jumping Jupiter. He summers in Summerville, near Boston, and is noted for his long career as actor, author, stage producer and composer. He enjoys hunting in Maine during off hours.
LaSalle Opera house Chicago sends the unprecedented musical comedy The Sweetest Girl in Paris on a tour. Trixie Friganza stars with the LaSalle production visiting the Grand on January 5 6 and 7. Noted authors Addison Burkhardt Collin Davis and Joseph E Howard created the book lyrics and music. Howard among his many hits wrote The Time the Place and the Girl and The Flirting Princess. Friganza headlines a capable cast with Cathryn Rowe Palmer backing her as the comedienne star of the show.
An early Grand booking January 21 22 features Margaret Mayo's Baby Mine hailed as the funniest play. It ran a solid year at Daly's New York and now enters a second London run at Sir Charles Wyndham's Criterion theater before planned productions in Paris Berlin Vienna and Australia. The tour is led by William A Brady Limited noted for odd but funny staging. The Sweetest Girl in Paris plot follows a rich American and rich student girl with a tenor, a lost voice, and a waiter themed twist. The Grand company, over sixty strong, is described as especially capable.
The Balfe opera The Bohemian Girl will be presented January 1 and 2 in a grand production by Milton and Sar geant Aborn with Edward P. Temple directing. The staging aims for a gypsy milieu with horses geese pigs and other animals to enhance the spectacle.
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