September 4, 2018
You are reading “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical
Society.
Last week we
began sharing with you some of the performances in the early days of the Opera
House. Today we will continue with events that took place in December of
1896. There was a play presented on
Friday evening, December 11, 1896 titled “A Great Wrong Righted”. There are several synopses about this title
and your host is not comfortable with being sure that the plot is correctly
described. In two versions of the same
title there seemed to be a life changed or saved at the end after having gone
through some difficult times. So, we
will leave it at that. Listeners and readers of our blog will be interested to
note that the cost to see this play ranged from 10 to 30 cents.
On Saturday,
afternoon, December 12, 1896, the Opera House was host to “The Paiges” spelled
P-a-i-g-e-s. This was a matinee for ladies
and children and there was to be a drawing for a five dollar gold piece given
to the person holding the lucky ticket number.
At the evening performance “The Paiges” gave away six beautiful rocking
chairs. Three numbers were drawn from
those who purchased a 30 cent ticket, two if a 20 cent ticket was purchased and
one from a 10 cent ticket purchased. The
winners had to be present to claim their prize.
This was a marketing tool to increase attendance and from what has been
found so far in research, it was not done at every performance.
And… that’s
today’s story on “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical
Society.
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