Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-26

METROPOLITAN THEATER.-Wm. j. Scan
Ian is not stranger to a Sacramento audi
ence, he having played 3 successful engage
ment in this city few weeks since. He has
Just completed e successful engagement in
San Francisco, and appeared at the Metro
politan Thester last evening in one of Bart
ley Campbeips best dramas, Friend and
Foe" 1t is not new piece by any means,
but it has been resrranged and there has been
inserted some new and taking business
and some charming songs. This play is one
of a semi-militarY character, and has pecu-
liar attraction, however thin the plot. In the
play there is many a csteh-line OF pure sentl.
ment and many appeals 90 the ehivalric sym.
pathies The plot is not deep, nor is it 10
be pronounced shallow. Inc interest Is
well maintained. But Scanlsns frank
and manly style, his ease and cool
ness, lift the play up bodily and make
is very pleasing. Seaman presents to bis
auditors an Irish character very different
from that usually presented. His Carroll
Moore is very heroic fellow, man of wit
and some culture, clean-hasded and tul OF
the spirit Of tenderness and love. Seaman Is
q comedian of no mean order, and has the
art of bringing his auditors into very close
=
with much feeling, and acts with natural
ness and esrnestuess that should oftener be
seen on the stage He is adapted to better
work than " Friend snd Foe " cuts out for
him. The company gives bin good support
throughout; especislly pleasing Is Miss
Arnold, the heroine, in s part that requires
very sdroit management 20 prevent 1t becom-
ing tame. Seaman and his support make up
. well-balapced company, one of pains-taklng
tG.E, ~ -r5r-
tainment Of even merit, and worth the visit
to the theater. The same performances this
evening.
The POLICE CoURT.-But very little bust
ness was transacted IN this Temple of Justice
yesterday. Mrs. Mary Galway, charged
with being common drunkard, was found
guilty and sentenced to thirty days in the
County Jail. She did not take her sentence
very kindly, and seemed to he laboring under
what is termed still drunk" She used
very uncourteous language to the Court, and
said she did not care If he made the sentence
ninety days. The ever. accommodating
Judge said he was not particular,
and under the circumstances be would
split the difference and make it sixty days.
Mrs. Galway was very much exercised when
the additional thirty days was added to her
sentence, and it took two policemen to con-
vey her to the iron tank on the first floor.
AS she was being locked up in the cell she
read lecture, couched in exceedingly choice
language, to officer Dunlevy, who took the
same down IN shorthand, and has pasted
it in his scrap-book. Peter Qnigley,
charged with being q confirmed inebriste,
was informed that he would be given board
and lodging in the County jail for forty days,
and would be expected during that time to
assist the chain-gang in making necessary
street improvements. John Mara, who Is
charged with having stolen horse from the
Telegraph stable a few nights since, appeared
with d. L. Buckley as counsel, and had the
hearing of his case continued to Tuesday
next.