Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-21
BAY THEATRICALs.
CHURCH AND STAGE AT SAN FRANCISCO
THIS SPRING.
Some Of the Men and Women of "The
Play" and What They Do
Opera Bouffe-Etc.
SAY Fl. cisco. March 10. 1851.

Ihat ID an oio saying, Many men OF
many minds" On Sunday night Rev. DR..
Stebbins lectured on George Eliot, and by
the way, how many lectures" there are
in the pulpit, now. As the discourses are
announced in the religious column of the
newspapers, some few of the subjects are
as labored and high. colored as the titles of
modern novels. But Mr.. Moody, contrary
to the fashion, gives no lectures, confning
himself in refreshing way to text and
the old-time heads. lYou're not to be
revived in Sacramento, see, and you will
have lost great deal in not hearing Mr..
and Mrs. Stebbirs sing together. The latter
has a face as we'll as a voice well suited to
spiritual songs, the one being as sweet as
the other. Well, while Rev. DR.. Stebbins
eulogized George Eliot, and said never a
word against her, another reverend gentle
man of this city whom have heard regards
her influence as
AN UNFORTUNATE INFLUENCE,
And oharacterizes her Middlemaroh +" as
ga bad book" Most clergymen frown
upon the theater, but I think some here
unbent little when Booth played his en-
gagement. At any rate have seen their
children in attendance upon the drama, but
all the world knows that can't count for
anything, as everyone has learned by heart
that in the very nature of things ministers
sons as well as deacons' daughters may be
expected to be full to the brim of way.
wardness. They have new play at
BaldwIn's Theater which brings under
meath strong light the free-thinker of the
present day and his peculiar opposition
to churchly matters. The character is
that of Daniel Rochat, who falls violently
in love with an English girl bred in the
ritual ceremony of the Church of England.
They are married in all haste in Switzer.
land according to the forms of law, which
short action the lady regards as necessary
to insure legality merely, expecting the
sams day the sacred ceremony to be solem-
nized by clergyman in the chapel. To her
horror, the bridegroom ridicules further
ceremony, regards himself as already suf-
fciently married, declares himself an
atheist, and finally refuses the religious
marriage. She cannot think herself a
wife without the vow before God, and re-
fuses to be known as such, at the same
time begging in touching words to be al
lowed to satisfy her conscience, when she
will prove herself faithful and devoted.
Probably the man never lived who would
hesitate an instant to oblige in answer to
such a request; but Daniel Rochat refuses,
and the situation serves very well as
pivot to turn plot upon. That night he
enters her room by the low window and
again entreats her
BY HER LOVE FOR HIM
To make their happiness, and her entreaties
for the conservation at the altar are equally
moving. Both remain firm while they
suffer the same pang at separation and the
lady is left unconscious on the floor A day
intervenes before their next meeting, and
the lady enters clad in black with the
white death face of ghost, and Daniel
Rochat now consents to the change and
the service, which she will not have be-
cause there could be no harmony between
them, but constant warfare in thought.
She says she has received mortal blow,
and looks it, while she signs her name to
the document providing for divorce. The
part of Daniel is taken by j. r.
Grismer, a most conscientious and
very pleasing leading man, who was
principal support to Sheridan during
the latter's star engagement at the theater.
Katherine Rogers is at present on the same
boards, and comes with an extended reper-
toire of plays. She opened in "Two
Nights in Rome, of great interest to us,
because it was written by Archie Gunther
San Francisco boy, whom everybody
used to laugh at, because he would try to
write plays. Miss Rogers played the
Corsican wife, out of whose eyes the
devil looks, but she does not begin toinvest
the character with the catfish gleam with
which Jeffrey Lewis had made US familiar
in Stephanie and Zicka. She is very dis
appointing, seeming to reach after effect,
and yet not quite to grasp it, though the
whole play was so good as to make us warm
into friendliness toward Archie Gunther.
Miss Rogers redeems herself, however,
when she plays Lea Henderson in Daniel
Rochat, with quiet strength and simple
force. This next week we have Wilhelmj,
one of the kings of the violin, and those old
favorites, the Lingards. Don't you remem-
ber their pretense of divorce suit, begun,
as is more than suspected, to bring them
into notice? met our old friend,
MRS. SAUNDERS,
Going home in the car the other night
after the theater. She said she was SO
tired, and was just thinking how she
should like never to be obliged to play
again, and wondering how any one could
love the theater Yet she remembered her
childish delight in it, though she was sell
dom allowed then by her mother to visit
the play. 1t is said that Mrs. Saunders
had proportionately the smallest foot of
any lady on the stage, and l referred to the
fact, when she answered, g A big shoe fits
it best now." Another old woman is Emily
Soidene, yet somewhat different from the
other, who gradually and gracefully sinks
into the beauty of declining years. Soldene
is fine remains" picturesque ruin, an
old woman who takes the part of a young
one so well, that two or three times during
an evenings entertainment she compels
you to forget which she is. Her engage
ment at the Standard Theater is an attrac-
tive one, and although as yet she does not
take the stage in every scene, she fills.it
when she is upon it. She wears great
deal of hat and feather and she dresses
modestly, which is great Recommendation
to an actress. or it ought to be. note
NEW IMMo0EsTY
Which has appeared within couple of
years, and which owes its existence to the
strap-sleeve. The strap-sleeve not only
exposes the full curve of the upper arm
and the dimple on the shoulder, but neces-
states or allows theexposure of the hollow
under the arm, unless special provision is
made toward concealment. Several of oar
debutantes, young ladies whose sense of
modesty is keen and unblunted, have
made the mistake of intrussing
their costumes entirely to the mo-
diste, with the result above men,
toned. thus placing themselves in false
position with. the public. The Soldene
company have fnll-leg display, but to
this we have become SO accustomed that
we take no ofYense at it. Thomas Carlyle
put in writing bis objection to medical
students Of both sexes taking she same
course Of study together, but she young
lady and the young gentleman 80 to opera
bouffe together, look at the same display
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