Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-13

We reserve, for Places of Worship, graf
10 directory, which will appear every
Sunday morning.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The Theatrical Dsclsnsioa-The Bank Of
Nevada and the Precautions Of Aillionairss
Some Mistakss - to Recent Transac-
tion Respecting the Pisnts Ranch.
EDITOR HEARLD: The story of
San Francisco, from q theatrical
standpoint, Is a pitiaOle one. Time
was, and not very long ago, at
that, when the stock company Of
the California Theatsr was some
thing to be proud OF. It comprised
such brilliant national and inter-
natl onal stars as Mccullough and
Keene. In sober verify, that was
. splendid Thespian era in Califor-
mia, and the genial shadow of
Ralston dominated the situation
both from q theatrical and busi-
ness point of view. In those days
some dignity attached to q profes.
sion recognized in all quarters OF
the world as one of great prestige
and usefulness. Since then, in
San Francisco, there has been in
the theatrical line something
which is very much an affair of
dramatic shrsds and patches. Slow.
ly but Inevitably the "variety"
dry rot has taken possession Of q
city which has proclaimed its es-
sential artistic vulgarity by per-
mittiHg such q thing to be done.
Go where one pleases just now,
from the Baldwin to the Bush,
from the Standard to the Tivoli or
Winter Garden, from the Adelphi
to the Bella Union, there is a vnl-
gar obtrusiveness of the lowest
phase Of theatrical representation
which 10 shocking to any one of re-
fined taste. Slowly, but with the
inexorableness of death and taxes,
anything which has partaken of q
real artistic or esthetic purpose,
has been frozen out of this town.
This 10 surely sad commentary
upon any community. When a
people have come down to operet-
tas In which an imbecile jig meas
ure harmonizes with the bedizened
and regued ladies who, by a fiction
of newspaper courtesy, are called
actresses or cantatrices, however
easy ii may be, in the language OF
Virgil, the descent to AvernHs,
tbkre are no further deeps to be
flummeted. Lately there has
been one exception to this ignoble
record, and that has been in the
several dramatic performances Of
Sheridan. This gentleman 10 char
acterized by a fine, tenee dramatic
genius, which has made his imper-
sonations of Louis XII, King Lear,
Richelieu and several melo-
dramati3 roles, things calculated
to delight the judicious in an ex-
csptional degree. Mr.. Sheridan's
appearances have been what one
might call intercalary in an era of
dsgeneracy, and 1t lie consollng to
know that he has bad houses
which might be called from "fair
to middling." If this gifted actor,
whose capabilities run through a
splendid gamut, we're to press his
Welcome, however, he would. be
bsggared in a month, in San Fran
cisco.
THE BANK OF NEVADA.
Whom, with great flourish of
trumpets, the Bank of Nevada was
started In San Francisco, with its
paid up capital of ten million dol.
lars, and it's branch In New York,
great things we're expected of it.
But, as q matter of fact, great
things hav'n't come Of it. This tre-
mendous fiscal institution was
glad to take advantage of the new
Constitution agitation to reduce its
paid up capital to five million dol
lars. The question arises why,
with all the unlimited money
which was behind this institution,
such state Of things could exist?
There 10 little doubt but that, be-
tween the Messrs. Flood, Msckey
and Fair, at the least, one hundred
million dollars are somewhere dis
posed Of. In addition, should
there be series of new bonanzas
on the Comstoek, their wealth
would probably be colossal-in-
dsed-slmpIy inealculable. Yet,
Notwithstanding the marked fina.-
cial prestige which attended the
organisation Of this bank, 1t has at
no time attracted to itself the SYM
pathies either OF the mercantile
community, of the trustee invest.
ment class or Of the stock brokers.
With Its pretentious building,
looming up over the center of
trade, the Bank of Nevada, SO far,