Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02

half the effect as you will imagine, when
/ tell you that last night listened to Mrs.
Tippett singing an Ave Maria to big-drum
accompaniment also, that the sweet,
trembling tones of the either were lost in
a clash of c&mbals and kettle-drum roll.
Last year there was beautiful woman,
Mrs. Holmes, who represented one of
Moore's heroines in trousers, and this year
the same beautiful woman is Venus in the
classic booth, and as Venus rising from the
sea on the grand stage she makes beauti-
full picture, great sea-shell opening to
disclose her. Every one thinks this tab
leau lovely. wish you might be here to
see it all and enjoy it with me. want to
emphasize the fact that the dressing this
year is comparatively modest, the gowns
in most instances being high enough and
long enough. Yet they say as whole
there are not as many fine folks IN this
carnival as in the last that it is differ
ent class of people, and query thus Do
our better class dress less modestly than
the other class? There is real live and
very young baby playing little Moses dis
covered in the bulrushes, and many little
girls and boys much too young in years to
be out every night so late But night air
is the fashionable air for little folks nova
days And who should be Aladdin in the
Arabian Nights booth but Mrs. Sanford
Bennett, and in the House of Seven Gables
l heard Anna Kelley sing. Blanche
Thayer attracts great notice as Prince
Arthur, who is going to have his eyes
put out with irons. Don't you remember
how we used to read that in school as
dialogue in the old Standard Fifth Reader
And how Fan laughed out once at girl
who called Arthur author There are lots
of girls we know belonging to the charity
school in Lintern Abbey-Minnie Gray,
for one, and she does look too prim
in the black dress and little muslin
apron and cap. Cora Taylor takes the
part of Princess Bob in the Bret Harte
booth, and she looks her character to per-
lection. She's just the same witchy little
thing she always was. Ada Bartling IS
manager of the Barnaby Rudge scenes and
runs across to the Shakespeare booth
every few evenings. They do say
she means to come out as a regular
on the stage by-and-by and in themeantlme
she and Mrs. Judah are great friends. You
have heard me speak of Mrs Malone OF
San Jose. Her husband has taken to the
stage permanently now and quit the law.
She is still just as lovely as she can be, and
is in the carnival as Adriana, in 'Comedyof
Errors She dresses in pale blue and
silver, and looks like an angel Mary
Belding walks at the head of the seminary
girls as their schoolmistress, Miss Mon
fathers, aud do wish you might see her.
She is gotten up outrageously in all colors,
and carries her chin at 40 degrees. You
remember what beautiful complexion
Mary always had, and it must be
trial to get herself up in that funny style.
Yes; and there's Clay Greene-seems to
me I've heard Mabel say he was school
mate of hers. Well, he's turned out
play-writer, and all that, you know, and
he Just looks clear-eyed and handsome on
the stage in Shakespeare. He's very close
to the theater anyhow, you know, and seems
to come to it of the manner born. Susie
Dugan is Little Nell, and looks like little
bit of thing. Don't you know, she's be-
longed to the art school this ever so long
and paints beautifully. They say she's
Just devoted to her brush.
Well, girls, good-by. I've mentioned
everyone you know, l think. As long as
you couldn't be here I've tried to see for
you, too. l shall expect good, long letter
from each of you in return, remember, and
| am Just the same as l always was.
KATE HEATH.