First Electric Light In A Theater

It ie believed that the first electrio llght installed in an American theater was a Jablochkoff candle, tised as a foonsing lamp in the oíd California theater, in Buüh street, San Francisco, in 1878. The managers of the theater at that time were Mesera. Barton & Hill, General Barton and Frank Lawler. The play " Antón y and Cleopatra, ' ' Rom Bytinge and Cjril Bearle tking Ü leaciing parta. Mr. A. H. JReee wm th nirioeer in charge of the work. Time bas worked a oomplete revolution in tbeais-ieal listtuig, aud today there i ot a tkcatei' iu Ui e Uüitaï BtolöB whick conld dieeetuM witi tk leatxM Xigkt.