Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-12
rRggHAnD NOTES.
Madame Modjeska Social and Musical
Events at the Bay,

Madame Modjeska and Musical
Events at the Bay.
SAN Francisco, May 8, 1883.
San Francisco is adapted, both by eli.
mate and position, to arrange her social
seasons ike London-that is, to have it an
understood thing that the ball. giving
world will make its most serious, best and
costliest efforts in May and June. The
country lie beautiful in winter time, and
should be visited then, as it is the custom
in England. To be sure there can be no
sitting out of doors after dinner, but even
in summer that is hardly ever really com.
Portable in the country about San Fran
cisco. In spring and summer the theatre
cal people come TO us because the Eastern
ers have gone to the seaside to avoid real
heat our pretense Of avoiding heat when
we go to the country in July is hollow
mockery. We have exactly six hot days
in the year-three in the spring, in April
or May, and three in the autumn, IN Sep.
TENDER or October. Then indeed it is de.
lightful to be out of the city, but who can
time those most movable feasts of the sun
We have brought with US from our original
homes at the East certain traditional lines
of conduct attached to the names of certain
months of the year, which we diligently
pursue here in California without perceiv-
ing that the season whose name suggests
travel or rest to US, is quite different from
the same season under another sky. Among
the spring delights is our
MADAME MoDJEsKA,
Who came as was promised, and opened in
" Adrienne Lecouvreur at the Baldwin
Theater. Madame Modjeska was great
favorite when she played here six years
ago, and her triumphs in other cities
notably in New York, where the Critic, not
won't to be enthusiastic, used to write prose
poems about each new character she tried
have added the halo of prestige to her
already well-liked personality. The OPEN
ing night was a great success. Modjeska
seems not to have altered in the least since
the last time she was here. The outlines
of her face and figure are as delicate as
then, and her great grace, which seems al
ways lowering on the edge of languor, yet
never gives the audience the disturbing i'm
preston produced by involuntary sym
pathy with apparent i'll health, was as fine
and feminine as the characteristic descrip-
tions of Polish women given by their own
poets and occasional French writers.
"Adrienne Lecouvreur was one of Ra.
chefs great plays, but it seems almost i'm.
possible that any of the traditions of the
character as played by that red star can
survive in Madame Modjeska's rendering.
When she enters the green-room in the Sec
ond act, and
THE SOFT WINNING TONES OF HER VOICE
Are heard, one thinks that such a refined
and sensitive nature would wither and die
in the terrible atmosphere of the Coincide
Franchise even in 1920. The members of
the Society knew what the grand man.
ner was, but they only assumed it where
it was remunerative-on the stage. The
real Adrienne, the actress about whose
career-that part of it which was linked
with Maurice de Saxe-the playis written,
was the daughter of halter, and, in her
early years, laundress, a person well.
fitted to cope with the rivalry and obstacles
of theatrical career. Her character is
idealized by Legouve and Scribe. by
Madame Moieska handling it is ethereal
lied. GAS You Like 1t is the play next
week. 1t is strange to see the dainty,
pointed face under SLOUGH hat and the
graceful figure in boys dress in the
Autographs about town, representing Mod
ieska as Rosalind. She is a charming one
they say. Yesterday evening Gounod's
oRAToRIo OF THE REDEMPTION
Was given at the First Congregational
Church, and tonight the new series of the
invitation concerts at Professor Blankart's
begins. There is to be some four.handed
music, Wagner's Kaiser.Marsch and
some ''Lohengrin selections. Bishop Kip
has been appointed, as you have heard, one
of the examiners to go to West Point.
Mrs. Kip accompanies him, aud they will
leave California after the Bishops usual
tour through the southern country, about
the first of June. Mr. and Mrs. Willie
Kip, the Bishops son and his wife, design
spending the summer and autumn in Ala.
MEDIA, while young William Third, the
Bishops grandson, is keeping up his share
of the family honor by winning the
HIGHEST MEDALS AND PRIZES
At Trinity school, where he has also been
appointed valedictorian of his class. Cap.
tain and Mrs. Richard Floyd, and Miss
Cora Matthews, leave San Francisco for
their country home at Clear Lake about the
2Osh of this month. There is said to be an
amiable spirit of competition existing as TO
whose shall be chronicled the most gorgeous
wedding since Easter, and when w. Mayo
Nswhall marries Miss Bessie Slade in June,
the whole Philharmonic orchestra is to con.
tribute the music for the occasion. Mrs.
Tavernier. Graham gives musical and
literary entertainment at her home this
evening, where she will read some of the
humorous sketches which her talent for
elocution makes SO enjoyable.
PHILIP SHIRLEY.