Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-11
THEATRICAL CHAT.
GOSSIP ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO TaHATERs
AND sonE ACTORS.
" Sister Mag" Buriesuus-" Uncle
Toms Cabin Who Wants
3 Boy-ftc.
correspondents of the Rrcoro-uao.I

Correspondents of the REroEpU sIozI
SAN Francisco, March S, 1882
Oar tive largest theaters have seemed,
| for the past week, to have the audiences OF
old. The Geistinger opera troupe have
drawn to standing room only, and they
are German at that 1t is delight to see
such houses once more. On Saturday
night at the California, from pit to dome,
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds OF
faces were all that was to be seen. The
aisles were full, the lobby was so many
deep, the stairways were crowded, and
every seat meant at least one man, woman
or child. The play was "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and we had all come out to see
what we had read and seen many times be-
| fore. I read it first when was seven years
| old, have read it at intervals ever since,
aud never expect by coming perusals to
| deaden the effect of two SITUATIONS
which always seemed to be actually blood
chilling. These two are the escape OF
| Eliza Harris with her child across the
cakes of ice floating on the Ohio river, and
the hiding away in the lott OF CASEY and
| Emmeiine, while they watch their pursuers
depart in search of their trail. Different
versions of the plot, as put upon toe stage.
emphasize and bring to prominence differ
emit characters and incidents, so that You
may see the play dozen times, and while
yoa recognise
"UNcLE TOMS CABIN"
In each, feel that you have seen new
play. The one running now at the Cali
fornia puts Eliza Harris in the foreground
She leaps from the window into the snow
to escape, and directly after three blood
hounds are unleashed, given the scent aud
| start on her trail. The next scene shows
her on the ice, which rocks under her feet
as she springs from cake to cake, and then,
while her screams fill the house, through
the falling snow the dogs come leaping
after her. They are great, powerful fel-
lows, and their baying and yelping IN their
efforts to reach her create great excite
ment though one can easily see that Just
out of touch of her hands they are at the
| last held back by ropes. There is an ex-
eellent Topsy, with very natural, taking
| laugh, and number of real daFkies, who
| dance breakdowns in scene among the
cotton fields. They sing negro melodies,
too, that seem TO have the real ring; and
| Topsy, after she "got real good, came in
| slowly, singing hymn, which had little
undertone of male voices chanting through
| it behind the scenes, that was worth the
trouble of coming out to hear. Ii was a
Saturday-nig audience. That means that
he . bov, ~ xua-a
WILD ELEMENT,
That will infect you no matter how re-
spectacle you may be, unless you take great
care. When Miss Ophelia was in the
middle of one Of her interesting speeches,
a little gamin piped out from the gallery
in his shrill boyish treble, Chow long are
We wound up fer?' Much other guying
was INDUCED in, shrill whistles and cat
calls came from those rollicking upper
circles, and by and by Kisses, the stamping
of feet and laughter announced to the
decorous people below that the fun was
turned upon one of their own number In
stead of the people on the stage. Two
young girls stood in the aisle Rear me
whose hair was frightfully banged, whose
features and skin had turned coarse, even
at their early age, and whose cheap orna-
mentation harmonized completely with
their whole appearance. One of them was
chewing gum, and both had every slang of
the day by heart. When Eva died these
two sobbed and cried, and said how sweet
she was, and "poor little thing" and
wasn't it dreadful to have her die, i" I'M
consciously worshiping in her that purity |
and goodness they themselves, SO con-
spicuous, lacked. The Lingards have just |
left us, but during their engagement they |
had no such houses. 1t is strange how we |
will associate some little private action |
with those who are entitled to be remem-
bered by much greater ones. | never fail |
10 remember the beautiful Alice Lingard |
as she seemed On a railway train doing her |
hest
TO ENTERTAIN
A little girl travelling in the same direction.
Mrs. Lingard attracted the child to her,
and surely che never had looked so pretty
as when her own dark eyes and hair were
in such charming contrast to the long
blonde hair, the blue eyes and fair skin of
the little one. my two little girls, said
Mrs. Lingard, as she dexterously cut out
another paper doll with her scissors, care
named Lulu and Nellie, Just as your SIS
tera at home are" l have thought may
times since she could not possibly appear
to better advantage than she did on that
Journey. Phoebe Davies, young girl of
perhaps 10, who made her debut here and
has since been playing at the Baldwin
Theater, working very hard and meeting
with great success, is a member of Beth
any church, little UNCOVERED church out
on Bartlett street in charge of Rev. MIR.
Pond Being obliged to make her own way
in the werld, her tastes led her to the
stage, which she resolved to adopt as pro-
fession, in spite of the objections of her
friends. but you will meet with so much
urged her teacher, Mr. :
White. 81 shall meet with temptations {
I do" returned she; ''but I {
hope to be strong enough to withstand [
them" Nevertheless love to remember
Phoebe Davis as she carried her books in ,
her hand going regularly to Mrs. Clark's G
Bible class in Bethany Sunday-school. I
The risky and sprite- like little Lolita was I
! regular attendant at the Unitarian Sun n
lay school. When Maggie Moore and j. t
J. Williamson, her husband, were going Q
'ound the world with ''Struck Oar 1t T
that almost every day met her /
sister. then school girl. heard o
much then of 'sister Mag"-of how she f
rad sent this little token and that souye. C
lir of some stay in her travels; of how t
he was here, there and everywhere; and o
~ and by "sister Mag" came home-an t
vent duly heralded and dwelt upon with t
owing pride. And when | went to see L
Struck OH it isn't strange, is it. that l b
ooked for "sister Mag" instead Of for e
drs. J. G. Williamson? This brings to q
mind d
AN INCIDENT
Connected with Johnnie De Angels, the v
ainstrel. He had boy attending the class =
{ Miss Annie Hucks in the Union street G.
chool, and, as was his parental duty, he is
rent decorously one afternoon to pay the n