Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-29
FREEHAND NOTES.
HoNoRs TO g.. JOIN EBPoMUK BY TIE
BOHEMIAN CLUB.
Janaaschek = The Figaro Spanish Stu
dents-Exhibition Of the Products
Of Honduras-Etc.

Day. Saturday evening the Bohemian
Club held a celebration in honor of st.
John Nepomuk, the ceremonies being con-
Quoted by General w. Il. L. Barnes in the
redwoods beyond Duncan's Mills. st.
John Nepomuk is the patron saint of liter.
airy Bohemia, because in that other b.
hernia, on the Moldau, he refused to re-
veal to Emperor Wenceslaus ". the con-
fession of the Empress, even under tor
ture, thus showing himself saint who
''doesn't give it away" Marion Wells
constructed statue of the discreet, good
man, in imitation of the stone image in
Prague. The figure, with its pedestal,
stood twenty. four feet high in a niche
formed by three giant pines, and was emil
nently imposing.
Janauschek has been airing some of her
beautiful dresses on the stage of the Cali
fornia to very meager houses. There is q
disposition to object to Janauschek on the
grounds that Mr.. Pickwick objected to Mr..
Tupman's design of going to a costumed
ball as bandit "Yeu're too old, sir,
says the worthy man, "and you're too fat,
sir" But there is knowledge of her art
about this actress which compensates, as
far as compensation is possible, for youth
and romantic outline. In the character OF
Lady O'clock, for example, where she
represents the mother of a grown daughter
and the emotions brought into the play are
maternal love and family pride,
JANAUscHEK' MATURE APPEARANCE
Is wholly in her favor, while as Hortense,
the French maid in the same play, she
would be pronounced perfect by any one
who has studied at first hand French
woman of the lower orders, her insolence
and vulgarity, of such a totally different
kind from the same charming traits in
English.speaking people her winning as.
sumption of kindly good temper when she
wishes to please her alert, cst.like watch.
passion when really reused against the for.
eigners whom she despises, and toward
whom her assumed humility or cordially
is always either hypocrisy or satire. Even
to the sing-song voice, with its slight
hoarseness, and the rapid, steely move
ments, Madam Janauschek presents in
Hortense that wonderful dramatic triumph
not an individual, but type. Her com.
pany was conscientious, but scarcely ill.,
spired. If there is revival of the guitar
craze this summer
THE FIGARO SPANISH STUDENTS
VIII be directly answerable for it. They
are most captivating band of young peo-
pie in their doublet and hose. They were
not loudly heralded; every one who goes
to see them feels as if he had made a
special discovery all by himself. They
wear jaunty cooked hats of felt, as it
appears, and an ivory spoon-something as
an Irishman wears 7. D. pipe, quoth the
escort-which is the immemorial badge Of
the educated class in Spain. There were
sixteen of them, violoncello, violin,
nine so.called mandnlins yet mandolina
they are not), and five guitars-monsters,
said to have three times the usual number
of strings. There is something extremely
weird in the view presented by them when
the drop. curtain goes up and they are dis
closed sitting in rows of five, one above
the other, on red cloth pyramid, while
the violinist stands at the right-hand cor.
ner to direct. They all have the intense
seriousness of Southern nations, and the
man with the big guitar, in the center OF
the middle row, when he crosses his legs,
leans back and raps the bass strings with that
long, powerful, graceful thumb of his,
looks like Moorish picture. The con-
certed sound of all these strings is quite
unique and indescribable it is like the
beating of rain.storm in the tropics, or
like the tiny drums in fairy reveille.
Gounod's Farewell March of Marion
cite suited the quality of the instruments
admirably the Schubert "Serenade, al
though it was asked for again, and although
serenade means guitar. and vice versa. it
is too rich and passionately real for the
worldly and shallow. souled guitar, but the
"Giralda, dance, as it appeared from
the swing, was deliciously Spanish and out
of-door, and although it was the last rum
Der on the programme, the audience in
sisted on repetition and stayed to hear it
to the end. They are very courteous
Spanish students, and rise in body to
bow to the applause, looking foreign enough
in their dark costumes. They go from
here to South America and Havana, where
they should create a furore among the
Spanish. Americans and Cubans, who are
more in sympathy with their nationality
and instruments than we, who. with all
our polyglot cosmopolitanism, are conserva,
tive to the verge of provinciality.