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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1908
Page
8
A fragment outlines Happy Hour Theatre weekly bill starting Sunday November 4 with acts including Johnny Guise and Mr Charlie Hodges. Mentions Lonnyn Steves and The Mexttle Bay in a terse program overview.
A fragmentary Chicago item describes a young man visiting and a mother's caution. The text mentions a mare and a patient with rheumatism, noting Hoat's Sarsaparilla as a remedy. The garbled OCR yields unclear names and places, with the only clear product reference being a medicinal claim.
The schedule lists performances for Monday and Tuesday nights and a Tuesday matinee The Colinerner Wednesday and Thursday nights and Thursday matinee The Sheath Gown Girls provide the lineup for the week in local playhouses.
A lively vaudeville segment features Rogers and Clark performing a top tier clog dance. The Five Musical Marines with Woods Julian Bell, Watters, and Quigley offer a pleasing musical tour through multiple instruments. Abe Wilson, famed dialect comedian, shares a backstage tale of a young man with a voracious appetite and a dramatic price rise before a Grand Theatre engagement on November 16.
Matinees and nights feature The Belle of the Capital at Empire Theater with The Devil and The Southerner at the Grand. Ned, Nigger an' Gent'man adaptation The South ofeer dramatizes postwar tension, romance, and justice amid a robust minstrel lineup led by Herbert Hall Winslow and Al G Fields with local Louisville connections spotlighted.
The Empire presents The Devil a Hungarian drama by Frans Miloar staged by the Robert Burgess players with an elaborate production. The review notes its educational tone, strong psychological drama, and a plot where the Devil tempts two separated lovers, exposing conventional safeguards and leading them toward perdition with dramatic suspense and moral undertones.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West brings global horsemen to America with daring acts and native riding styles. Henry Savage adapts The Devil with Oliver Herford, praised in New York Philadelphia and Chicago. Grand hosts later in November amid Fort Worth reviews of Holy City at Byers Opera House performances.
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