Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-09


10 an immoderate extent, having
withstood the destinations of two genera
tons OF bellies, and having played gallant to
the mothers, as young ladies, whose daugh-
tiers he is now escorting.
He has always been consecrated to soci-
ETY., but has taken so good care of him
self that he shows none of the puffness,
hardness and animalism apt to accompany
continual heavy dinners, late hours and in
cessant persuit of pleasure. He is amiable,
intelligent, common n-sensible-far more so
than are most men so much addicted to So
ciety. What he would do without the
charity ball, or what the charity ball would
do without him, 1t is impossible to conjec-
ture. They are as much part of one an
other as are the horse and man of the IA
bled Centaur
Arthur Leary is now swallowed up again.
He Will not emerge until next winter His
visible life is confined to the night of the
charity ball, after which he relapses into
his normal oblivion. He may be consid-
cred strictly social ephemeron.
A LEGAL wREcGER.
Samuel L. M. Barlow, who was very
noticeable at the ball on account of his
liberal proportions, has made large part
of his ample fortune by IL e management of
railway cases. He is railway lawyer, and
along with Samuel j. Tiden has the repu-
tatiOn of wrecker-that is, a man who in
his professional capacity wrecks corpora
tions for his own advantage. In other
words, he gets enormous fees, and people
who envy his good luck give him bad
name.
VIM. R. Travers, of Wall street, q
famous wag, whose stories are in every
bodys mouth, went into his Office one day,
and remarked, with his peculiar stamner,
+" live g-got goo-good joke on Sa-Sam
Barlow"
"Weil, what is it, Travers ~
'' Pro-probably yo-you wo-won't be-be-
lieve it. Bu-but II a-actually saw Sa-Sam
Barlow o-on the cor-corner, iu-just now,
wi-with his hands in his own pockets"
sAGAcIoUs MANAGER.
There has been, as you may have OBJ
served, considerable difference of opinion
about Edgar Fawcett's new play. I" The
False Friend" now drawing crowded
houses at the Union Square Theater. The
piece is very clever, and though it has a
number of palpable faults, it is decidedly
effective as an acting drama, and that is
what is wanted above everything else.
A. NJ. Palmer, the manager, understands
this clearly. While he appreciates the
purpose and influence of the Press of the
better sort, he does not care for the opin-
ions Of critics when these clash with the
opinion of the public. He is man of
oounl 4 foo nd 81 @l1a
same time of thorough practicability. He
Judgment of plays presented to him
demonstrates. He reads them himself,
and if he approves, accepts them, and IN
the best style, with all the atfiuent aids at
his command. Every piece which he has
accepted has enjoyed unequivocal pros
perity.
Unlike other managers, he has no fear of
what the newspapers may say after he has
once made up his mind. He rather expects
them to censure new American play
but he knows that their censure will do no
harm if the play has the requisite quail
ties. He has more than once defied the
critics, and his defiance has been justified
by the community. He plainly believes
that one (himself), with the ticket
seller, is majority, and so itshas proved.
Would that we had more managers
like A. NJ. Palmer He is at once
the most discriminating and the most
successful theater director in the
metropolis. The native drama owes him
much, and will owe him much more.
When he has accepted play the favorable
verdict of the public may be anticipated
with confidence:
VARIETIES.
Now that Emerson has ceased to write,
and is philosophically awaiting the sum-
mons of nature to another sphere of ex-
istence, there is active and earnest de-
mand for new books by him. This is very
like the world and the course of fame.
When Emerson, as a young man, had pro-
duced his initial volume, Mature and
Other Essays, it lay ON the shelves of the
Boston publisher twenty years before even
the cultured of that city could discover
anything in it. Then they found in its
pages fresh oracles.
Nearly all the most successful men in
Wall street were originally from small
towns, and had to depend on their own ex-
ertions for livelihood.
Daly's adaptation from the German, pre-
sented with the title of the Royal
MILDLY" Wednesday evening, has made
decided hit. 1t is one of the very best
musical comedies we have ever had, and it
is mounted with all the sumptuousness for
which Daily has always been noted. The
20 Royal MILDLY" will prove formidable
rival to the 90 Pirates of Penzance," to
which many prefer 1t. Some of the num-
bers are so very sweet and taking that they
refuse to desert the memory. 1t is likely
to have, and it certainly deserves to have
long run.
James Parton's "Life of Yoltaire," on
which he has been engaged for many years,
and which he has regarded as labor of
love, will probably be ready tor the pub
fishers by spring. 1t cannot fail to be
very interesting. Mr. Parton is the most
interesting of biographers.
A journalist here says that Hon. S. s.
Cox writes at least one hundred private
letters year to the editors of newspapers,
urging them to notice his course in Con-
gress, and to make laudatory mention of
what he has done, is doing, or is about
to do. 1t is strange that a man who has
been journalist himself can beg in his
own autograph for wholesale puffs.
The report comes from Brooklyn that
Henry Ward Beecher intends to write an
other novel, much of which is expected to
be photographed. Such novel would
necessarily have an enormous sale.
During the week just closed, 80 persons
have died in this city who were more than
y years old, and 6 of them were over S5.
Longevity is steadily increasing in this
country, particularly at the great centers.
CHAUBERT.