Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-17

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Ing to receive contributions of any amount
from people to whom he introduces himself.
He is such a bore that not few gladly
give something to get rid of him.
| The old butts, like Macdonald Clarke.
the Mad Poet, Stephen FL. Branch and the
| eccentric Boole, have been well-nigh for
gotten, though they were all stock sub
Jects for jokes in their day. Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage is almost the only target for
general comment and criticism now left,
and the fact of his singularity, in nu-
merical as well as grammatical sense, may
account for the dlsproportioned attention
which he receives
ANNA DICKINSON AS CYNIC.
a rumor is circulating that Anna Z.
Dickinson is to appear at one of the metro
poltan theaters this winter in two of her
new plays. l doubt if the rumor has any
foundation, for she is understood to have
a very strong prejudice against the city
theatrcally and against its critics. You
know that she had very i'll success when
she appeared ON the boards here, and she
attributed 1t to causes independent OF her.
self. She surely was not fortunate in her
management or surroundings, but her lack
OF dramatic prosperity is unquestionably
due, IN part, to her unttness for the stage.
This she does not believe, and cannot be
made to believe. She was very anxious to
60 on the stage years before she did and
yet all her best friends felt confident, when
she talked of it, of her constitutional dlsqual-
ificatlons for the profession, and seeing her
merely corroborated the opinion they had
beforehand. Any one who has heard
her lecture might know that she could not
play acceptably She has not the neces-
sary adaptability. Even her delivery on
the platform is mostly in monotone The
truth is that she has too much character
for bistronic artist Whatever part she
may attempt she cannot help being Anna
Dickinson.
Her want of dramatic success has been a
very severe disappointment to her, and she
blames the critics for it; they are in her
partial judgment, combined against her.
She has been greatly flattered and has been
extremely prosperous as lecturer and she
cannot reconcile herself to failure as an ac-
tress. She has undergone revolution,
understand, since she has been baked in
her dramatic ambition. She has grown
bitter, cynical, misanthropic. She has
separated herself from her best friends
those who have always stood by her-and
they are all wondering at the change. She
seems to hold them in some manner re-
sponsible for her non-success, and they
cannot placate her for wrong which she
imagine conspring world has done her.
/ am very sorry to learn that
she is poor. She has made a great
deal of money on the rostrum; but
she has always been very generous and
charitable, and has taken no heed of to-
morrow She is strong, independent brave,
high minded, and it is a pity that she
should shut herself out from sympathy and
friendship because she has not achieved in
the theater the success to which she deems
herself entitled. She is something better
than great actress she is a fine specimen
of a true woman, and her present attitude
toward her friends is totally unworthy Of
her and her antecedents.
VARIETIES.
Most people in the East will be surprised
to learn that the very best carving sets
that come to this market are made in Cali
fornia. The knives and forks are entirely
manufactured in your State, and with their
buck horn handles, silver-mounted, all of
native product, are as beautiful as they are
serviceable. The very finest cutlery from
California, and selling in New York at the
highest price, seems to us Eastern folk
genuine anomaly.
One of the leading attractions of the |
drama in the city Just now is Maud Gran
gers arms, of which she makes most Law
ish display. They are much admired, and
seem as if they might be, to quote Douglas
Jerrold on the subject of feminine arms,
the voluptuous serpents that would stran- |
gle mans good resolutions.
1t is reported that George w. Childs, !
Levi ?. Morton, and two or three more of |
General Grants intimate friends have paid |
half of his travelling expenses round the |
world. He did not want them to, but /
they insisted.
Steele Mackays Madison Square Thea
ter, with its double stage, and many IN
precedented Improvements, will, it is now
asserted, open positively Saturday evening, |
oath instant He has hackers to NUM- !
ticenb extent, and expects great success in
his enterprise.
The New York Club, which was disor-
ganized several years since, and then Or
difficulties. Its present Clubhouse is in
the upper part OF Madison Square. Now |
that times have improved, the Club may
weather their stress.
Daring the last six months the hotels
here have done better business than in
any similar period for seven years. They
are all making money.
The death Of Count Johannes is great
relief, I am told, to George Jones, pub
Usher of the Times, who had often been
COMPOUNDED with him on account of the
likeness of names.
The Tribune has cleared, learn, $780,
600 during the year. 1t does not declare
dividends, because it prefers to pay off its
debt first on its new building, which is
certainly commendable, though unusual.
There is to be published here soon 100
portraits of American beauties, with ac-
companying letter-p press. The work will
be necessarily slow, as it is to be done in
the best style. CHAUBERT.