Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
FOR CHARITY'S SAKE.
THE AUTHORS CARNIVAL AT SAN FRAN
CISCO DESCRIBED.
Description OF the Principal Booths-The
Characters Personated-Rtch
Costume g-Etc.
rrorresnopdsnee of the RECORD. UNION. !


After all preparations were duly made
there was rehearsal of the large tableaux
those to be given on the grand stage-on
Saturday evening. Itwas cold and foriorn,
like most rehearsals, but praoticed eye
could get hint of what might be made of
the material. A great many unconsidered
criticisms were made, which were promptly
retracted on the opening night, and some
confident prophecies of success which the
event did not fulfill. 1t is the character
istic of these Carnivals to begin with cold
audiences and work up to a climax of
enthusiasm. On Monday night, although
the receipts at the door were near to So, COO,
the audience was more curious than inter-
ested. Tuesday night was little better.
People began to understand more what
they went out for to see, while Wednes.
day night was really like Carnival. there
was chatter and laughter and for the first
time applause.
What do you think they applauded
most? Among all the satin, velvet, bro
cade and cashmere, the Louis XVI, the
Early English all the historical and roman
tic costumes and posing, the dramatic
scenes, the grand transformations and
dances, the delight of the audience was in
THE TERRA-C GOTTA GROUPS.
There is nothing so successful as success.
Ali honor to the Terra Gotta booth for
reaching the popular heart. 1t was little
enterprise gotten up at the last moment to
L Al Il T. i fz,t
the ranks, and shows what ready wit and
able execution can accomplish. Pretty
Mrs, DERRICK and Mrs. Vermehr are the
managers, and, indeed. creators of the
booth, on behalf of the Old Ladies' Home.
| They found out some remarkable fabric Of
the proper reddish brown shade for the
| garments of their figures, studied the proper
pigments for the face and powder. for the
hair, and each night the little clay men and
women, as they seem, attract all eyes Ill
the grand march, and last night made a
genuine sensation. Everybody was heard
saying of the groups :" We have that one
at home y "Charlie has that in his Office"
etc. They gave the three lads under the
umbrella the two young girls measuring
to find out which is the taller the South
| ern woman compelled to take the oath
the woman looking over the pillar at the
| child, and many more. Tne little booth
from which the figures "hail" is obscurely
placed at the far end of the western gallery,
and had hard struggle to procure the
proper illumination for its first perform.
ances, but showed that the right material
was there by its success as soon as it could
command the right appliances.
1t seems as if there had always been
Carnival and always would be the year
! round, the curtains parting on the grand
stage every twenty minutes and in the in
tervals tableauX in the booths. II is SO
that the programmes are arranged. There
are two engines for throwing
ELECTRIC LIGHT
| Upon the stage and the booths in turn.
The special booth manager having posed his
figures, signals with his handkerchief to
the man in charge of the electric light, who
at once turns the vast reflector in that di.
rection
The favorite booths down stairs are the
Pre- Raphaelite, the Louis XVI. and the
! Pond Lily. The twolast named form one
Mrs. Butfandeau is illustrating the court Of
Louis WI, and ]. j. Grandvlile's ada pta-
ton of the old Greek legend of the Lotus,
aud on the grand stage. Toe legend mer-
It's a word of explanation Satan, the
| story goes, was permitted to evoke woman
from lotus and win her love if he could.
He is successful in bringing her iato exist
ence, but fsils TO suhdue her affec ion She
turns to religion at once, and in spite of
all Msphis5opheles' arts, becomes a nun.
Inc opening tableau of the Carnival was |
fro Z this legend, the incarnation of the |
Lstus By Satan's spells. The lily was an
Ingenious piece of mechanism which, ua-
like the generality Of such things in the
hands OF amateurs, worked to a charm.
The descent Of the young girl from among
its petals was extremely graceful.
THE PRE- RAPHAELITE BOOTH
Gave beautiful representation of Kaul-
backs Annunciation " Last night. The
pictures in this booth are charming, but
just little hard to understand. They are |
taken from poets and painters that the
world at large, the work-aIl, dey-and 60 to-
the-theater at night world, does not know
much about. They admire, but nightly |
ask what Hamlet means
The favorite booths upstairs are tie
Dore, the japanese, and the French booths.
the latter three artistically run into one, or
rather the Sale de Concert and tbs Victor
Hugo booth connected by the more than
popular "Cate des Clamps Eiysees."
The DIRE booth is giving pictures from
the Dore Bible, with great deal of atten.
tion to detail and appropriateness Many
OF the participants are of the jewish race,
and sustain the characters Of their own
early history admirably. Jael calling the
Generals TO look at the dead Siaera was
well posed last night, and Friday night
Moses in the Bu!rushes is promised. This
is a revival of pet feature from the Carni.
val of 1880.
YOUNG MOSES
Is fine, fat, fve-month-old baby. The
bulrushes are cut from some suburban
creek, and genuine negroes stand waving
peacocks' plumes over the Egyptian princess.
The japanese Tea-house, as, it is called,