Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-09
" SOMEWHERE TO co."
THsATERs AND ACTORS AT SAN FRAN
clsco-pLAYs ARD PEOPLE.
A Place People Go to XIII Ttme-odd
Fanciss-The Life Of Crowd.
Correspondents of the RECORD. UNION. !

Correspondence of the RECORD UNIosl
SAN Francisco, September 6, 1882.
A lady once remarked that she thought
TIE city was beautiful place because in it
there was always somewhere to go. An6
it does really inspire one to he somebody
to mingle among people, and see the pretty
part of the world. There is wondrously
pleasant and inspiring thrill in making one
OF an audience thoroughly charged with
electricity, which passes, almost clicking
as 1t goes, from one presence 20 another in
large assemblage. Il lightens the eye,
reddens the cheek, brightens the wit and
unburdens the heart of any but cynic.
We are unusually fortunate, just now, in
our somewhere to CO." It is a great
pleasure to go and cry together over that
fearful little drama, Hazel Kirke," which
is at the Baldwin Theater this week and
then at the California Theater the Union
Square Company, of New York, is visiting.
1t is a company such as should be, all the
members being equal to the parts they
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STARTLED INTO LIFE.
Its leading lady is Miss Sara Jewett,
well-known and happily known to the ont.
side world and to the inner Attic circle.
by her pleasant little books and magazine
sketches. We have had beautiful, brill.
liant and talented actresses, score of them.
come to us before, but with the exception
OF Mrs. Scott.Siddons, we have never re.
ceived one, until Miss Jewett, who i'm.
pressed her audience with a subtle and re-.
fined quality not dependent upon beauty
or talent-the quality of being a lady.
The rest may have been ladies', but their
manner OF it was not such as to make YOU
look at them in that light first. It goes to
the heart of lover of the stage to see
such women upon it. A man naturally
takes off his hat at the memory of them.
and women devoutly wiehes she could
live up to them. Maud Harrison also plays
with the company, pretty woman, who
seems like an English woman, and always
sees point to be made. Stoddart and
Mrs. Phillips are two people who stand out
In the play as prominently as do the lead.
ing characters-they seem to play above
their parts and does not that mean that
some day the public will demand greater
part from them? De Bsllevilie, French.
man, is the leading man, and he came to us
first from Australia, as did also Eleanor
Carey, now with this company, and Lillian
Andrews, last with the Michael Stropoff
company, and as did Emile Melville with
her first reputation, and she has gone back
20 Australia again to show there that she
has deserved the reputation they gave her
as a feather In her cap. The play of
''DANIEL RoCHAT,"
Which tbs Union Square company have
presented SO well, has excited much inter.
est everywhere, because its plot is built on
the two antagonisms of the day-religion
and atheism. Daniel Rochat, the hero.
voices the opinion of the friends who 81.
lently furnish him encouragement, and he
is introduced as about to deliver an grafton
upon Voltaire. He is in Switzerland and
meets two young English girls, Lea and
Esther HENDERSON, and with Lea falls in
love. She listens to his Grafton and is in
ecstasy with his ideas upon liberty of
thought, but has no suspicion of his athe.
ism. Quite enchanted with her enthusiasm
he declares his love to her and they are
afiianced, announcing the fact at once to
friends of both. The marriage takes place
in three weeks by a brief civil service,
which is robbed of solemnity by it's matter.
of-factness and LEAFS evident failure to
realize it as marriage. Daniel regards j.
as sufficient and binding, refuses the relig.
ious ceremony and confesses atheism.
In spite of their differences she
legs to become his wife in her
own way, but he, urged by his
friends, refuses the ceremony again, only
to consent to it when he finds her broken
in heart but firm, believing that their diff.
ferences can in spirit never be reconciled,
and refusing to accept his concession. The
play ends with separation by divorce al
simple as their marriage. Dealing, as the
| play does, with one of the momentous
questions of the time, the theater, during
the representation of "Daniel Rochat.
was attended by many whose minds do no,
always run in the groove of somewhere
to CO." Indeed, even saw one Of the
| deacons of my own church, with his wife
both exceedingly interested in the play
And close a. hand was another man who
might have been a deacon, too, from hi!
quiet and gentlemauIy air. But he was I
dancer and character actor in . minstrel
troupe. Nowhere would it be possible to
| mix with an ola. podrida of humanity more
thoroughly than at the Mechanics Fair
which has been going on these severa
weeks st its pretty and fresh new pavilion
on Larkin street, near the City Hall.
ALL SHADES, ALL CLASSES,
|
may be met there. It seems to meet th,
general want of some place to 60. Peopl,
buy season tickets and 60 every day apc
every night women and children take
lunch and stay all day /; young men 20 ani
have pride in being seen with different
| girl each night; some step out and int
their carriages, others indulge in the luxur,
of horse-car, and still Others trudee ava,
on foot. Saturday night the building wa,
so crowded there was no moving abou
with comfort, and there was no approach
ing the attractive standa The oandr 4