Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
DRAMATIC NOTES.

cessful its fault lies in its critics.
Edwin Booth has been well received at
the Princess Theater, London. His father
was dangerous rival to Edmund Kean in
the zenith OF his metropolitan glory, and
is not yet entirely forgotten by the London
playgoers.
When Jenny Lind visited America the
famous caricaturist Cham amused himself
by representing an American walking
about with his hand in glass case. 81
do not use it any longer, since Jenny Lind
has shook it. We suppose the eight hun
bred odd who had the pleasure of shaking
the hand of the great French actress a
week ago will take the hint.
1t is noticed that Mary Anderson wears
blonde hair when playing the character of
an Italian girl, and the critics contend
that it is not proper. We never have seen
a blonde Italian of any kind that we can
remember Of, but there is nothing like
originality. 1t is sure to win, while those
who follow in the beaten paths, and are
afraid to brave popular opinion, generally
fail. We should think red headed Ital
ian girl would draw a full house.
In reference to dramatic training, Mrs.
Scott-Siddons says: 81 was married at
sixteen to naval officer, and soon after
that appeared on the stage for the first
time. Inever took lesson never had any
dramatic training. | played Portia in the
Merchant of Venice the first time I was
ever ON the stage, and that with only
weeks notice and but one rehearsal. |
never had the least instruction about ges-
lures was never told what to do nobody
said word to me about the stage bust
ness l made success at first, and from
that time to this have not lacked engage
ments. | say this to show you that dra-
matte training is not necessary to make
successful actresses. | have tried always to
be myself, and to be entirely natural
Irving is busily engaged in mounting
Tennyson's new play at the London
Lyceum. The scene of the laureate's
latest drama is laid in Asia Minor, and the
main incidents turn upon the love of
priestess for King, her betrayal by him,
and his subsequent poisoning by the priests
oil the temple. Mr. Irving himself will, of
course, take the part of the King. and Miss
Ellen Terry that of the Priestess. The
last scene, the action of which takes place
in temple, is a very powerful one and all
the appliances of the modern stage will be
brought to bear upon it. Very large sums
are being expended on the scenery and
decorations. The pagan rites will be re-
produced in all their splendor and I'M
pressiveness, and the monarch will die in
regal msgnifcence at the altar OF the tenn
pie itself
The London World thus hints at cur
rent romance of real life Is it absolutely
necessary to engage two policemen q per-
petstite when a handsome singer makes
tour, in order to protect her and her off
spring from a repenting and admiring hus
baud? The case happened not many hun
dred years ago-perhaps not many hundred
hours-and regular chase, with all pos
sible cunning had to be met with equal
persistence and forethought. That in
race of shrewdness and determination the
weaker sex-poer weaker sex never gets
the worst was brilliantly demonstrated in
the case alluded to, when at last the de-
spairing consort prayed could he only see
her and the inaexible reply was, " Never,
never, never :!
Mr.. and Mrs. Ofutt drove twenty miles
to Paris, KY, to see performance by the
Wallace Comedy Company. Mrs. Ofutt
vino was young and pretty, was charmed
by the acting of E. Guy Spangler, the
handsome hero OF the play. The Offutts
went to the same hotel where the come.
dams stayed. 0futt declares that, both
from the stage and at the dinner table,
Spangler firted with his wife, After the
meal Offutt invited Spangler into third
story room, ostensibly for the purpose of
introducing the actor to his wife. He
locked the door, and gave him the choice
between jumping out of the window and
being shot. Spangler jumped. 0ffutt is
the same gentleman who, some years ago.
told Deacon Holstein that the hotel they
were stopping at was not big enough to
hold both of them. The tone OF the d.
minutive Offutt convinced the stalwart
Holstein that it wouldn't be the little man
who would go, so he adopted Spangler's
idea, and left.
Paul Delourede has written a fve-act
tragedy called 1.-The Moabite, and the
French are divided into two camps as 70
whether it should or should not be played
It was accepted by the Francois, and was
just going to be put into rehearsal, when 1t
was suddenly adjourned to the Greek Ka-
lends The Government had not ordered
the adjournment. Oh, no ! the Govern
ment is not afraid of poets; only M. Per-
rim, the administrator of the Francois, after
a private conference with the Minister,
undertook to postpone it on his own re-
sponsibility. II is splendidly written but.
alas, it is not only poetical but political.
"The Moabite' is wicked woman, whose
witching beauty wins Mizael, son of the
High Priest of Israel from the path
of Hebrew orthodoxy. There is no
excuse for him, for gentle Hebrew
maiden, Miriam, whom anybody might
love, adores him but ne persists in pre-
ferring the society of the idolatress. He
carries his neglect of Miriam to the ex-
treme length OF killing her father, and
then, entering the Tabernacle before the
Mortified people, dares to penetrate into
the Holy of Holes to prove that the popu-
lar idea Of It's mystic terrors is supersti-
ticn like the rest. g What will he see in
the Tabernacle?' ask the awe-struck
crowd. They have not long to wait for an
answer. His Own father, the High Priest
appears from behind the curtains with a
reekiDg poinard in his hand: He has
seen God = That is the end OF the piece.
The play was read before highly select
audience of dramatists and critics at Nine.
Edmond Adams, by way of protest against
the Ministerial double shuttle which has
kept it from the boards. 1t may wait till
Sara Bernhard comes back there is no
other woman who could play the heroine,
though some infatuated people talk of
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