The success of Salvas’s productions was dramatic, and his plays at the City Theater were sold-out social events. It was not unusual for French-speaking audiences of 1100 to be entertained at one of Salvas’s plays. One group of very versatile actors worked not only with Salvas, but also with two other directors, J.B. Joncas and Joseph Bonneau. Often they would be performing simultaneously in a play by each director, having to memorize lines in French from three plays at a time, and sometimes performing fifteen plays in a single season.
