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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1912
Page
42
Al H. Wilson stars in It Happened In Potsdam with M Sherry and Asa Meade set for Wednesday and Sunday performances next week.
Al H Wilson the singing German dialect comedian presents his new singing comedy It Happened in Potsdam tonight under manager Sidney Elis. The cast scenic and costume elements surpass earlier plays and Wilson introduces new songs in his repertoire.
The musical comedy centers on a New York man-about-town who fabricates a domestic life to satisfy an unsuspecting uncle. A convent girl, a housekeeper posing as wife, and a staged family drive a string of comic misadventures. Debuts Wednesday with matinees.
The Pink Lady is portrayed as the era’s biggest musical comedy from Klaw & Erlanger. It ran over 400 performances in New York and four months at the Globe Theatre in London. The show features sixteen songs including My Beautiful Lady and The Girl by the Saskatchewan and will be seen at the Grand Opera house starting December 12 for four nights.
Scott Welsh plays Victor Jolibeau in the musical comedy Oh Oh Delphine at the Knickerbocker theater New York, noted as the only red headed tenor in captivity.
Edith Taliaferro reports London engagement of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was warmly received yet puzzling to British audiences who misread Maine as a southern or western setting. The Ben Hur company also headlines with a record year, continuing high standards on a vast Pacific-coast tour.
Miss Moore, sister of Plaza theater manager Lloyd Spencer, headlines Madame Sherry at the Grand Opera house next week. Mizzi Hajos stars in The Spring Maid on November 26 and 27 with new faces and gowns enriching the production.
At 9 o clock tomorrow morning seats will go on sale at the box office of the Grand Opera House for the engagement of Madame Sherry the phenomenally successful musical comedy which will appear here for five nights starting Wednesday with matinees Wednesday and Saturday That the attendance during the engagement in this city will relatively equal that of
The long running Mutt and Jeff production headlines regional theaters with strong demand. Grand Opera House and Manhattan Opera House report record receipts as audiences fill venues. Fourteen weeks at the Globe in Boston sold to capacity, underscoring the show’s popularity.
The article notes Joe Weber will present Alma Where Do You Live at the Grand Opera House on December 6 7 and 8 and praises his casting Grace Drew as Alma. It contrasts the value of a complete theatrical production with a single hit tune and mentions Guitry announcing Kismet at Theater Sara Bernhardt and Otis Skinner’s success with Kismet in the U.S.
The Rozell Minstrel company with eighteen members and a private orchestra opens at the Plaza Theater this week. The bill features the Dollar Troupe from New York Hippodrome, Schnee and Fish singing and dancing, Alva York the London born singing actress, and Wright and Stanley in a lively vaudeville act with Miss Wing.
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