Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-05
CIunie Opera House.

Miss Mary Anderson, Saturday night,
was welcomed to the city of her birth by
as brilliant an audience as the place can
call out at any time The dress circle and
parqqette were filled. Fewer were in the
family circle, the charge of 81 being appar-
emily the cause. But when the number in
Mr.. Abbey's company is considered, the
great distance it comes. and the expense
entailed, it is comprehensive WHY he
charged the prices here that he did. 1t is
not probable that even with the house
filed in all parts at the 81 and 81 30
prices, that the manager could make
much under the cost involved. But, of
course, this carries the question back to
TO the necessity or not for such heavy cost
not intended to be now discussed. How
ever 1t is easy 10 see that there was no need
for Mr.. Abbey to have stopped here at all.
except that Miss Anderson, for the gratifi-
cation ola bit of commendable sentiment
had it so writ in the bond" She an
peared first as Galatea. Her welcome was
a warm one. There was no mistak-
could she have failed to observe that il
came from a critical audience. As Gala
tea she was superbly, classically, graceful.
Her form is tall, 1.-THE, almost perfect in
outline, and of classic mold her head deli
cately shaped, small, and poised on Il neck
that is almost copy after that of the Venus
di Milo; mobile features of striking beauty:
a speaking eye, full of intelligence, and
sympathetic with every expression of the
pure face, she is unquestionably a woman
possessing every requisite for posing as
Galatea. Her grace of movement and flow
ing gesticulation are very near to the high
est demand of dramatic art for those quail
ties OF person. Her voice is deep-toned,
musical, rich, of broad register and admit
rably managed. We can easily I'M
created the furore she did in
England, where the taste for classic fig
ures is highly cultivated Her interpreta-
ton of the character was true 1t was full
of the tenderness of innocence in sud-
denly-vitalized humanity strong in the
touching and natural pathOs that followed
the rude shock that showed her the world
as it is. Her posing as the statue was with
out blemish and could not have failed to
excite the admiration of every spectator for
the classically beautiful scene. In Com
edy and Tragedy" she was presented in a
totally different light. If she was all that
the statuesque implies, in Galatea, she was
all that the pure, loving, devoted and
courageous woman of wit can be,
IN the character of Clarice. As she stood
upon the tiger-skin at the foot of the stair
way, posing in the dignity of insulted
womanhood, and yet suppressing the emo
tons of her heart for the sake of the re-
venge she plotted, she was one Of the most
striking pictures stage tableaux is possible
to produce. Opinions widely differ as to
Miss Anderson's ability. Among her au-
ditors some judges declared that she is a
beautiful woman, clever, graceful and
cultured, but not great actress. Others,
who have had broad opportunities of COM
parison and judgment were equally pro-
nounced in saying that she is the coming
American dramatic artist. and that now, in
her youth, she is a consummate actor
We estimate her as gifted with dramatic
qualities of rare power; thatshe has genius
of high order, and that her splendid quail
tiles of person, her upquestioned fine taste
and keen intelligence distinguish her as
one whose native ability and ambition will
place her foremost in her art Her present
position is more difficult to define. She is
an actor of capacity, finish and great re-
serve power-in fact she constantly i'm
presses upon the auditor the idea that she
has not made her best effort, but that she is
conscious of capacity to exceed. She
probably lacks viyacity, and will steadily
move to the tragic in her profession. She has
underlying power and informing spirit
clear comprehension and discriminating
taste, and natural refinement, and these are
qualities fortified by physical gifts such as
Miss Anderson possesses, that certainly in
dictate her to be now woman of dramatic
genius, an actress in the front rank, and an
artist who in the not far distant future will
challenge any American rival, with per-
feet confidence in perfect triumph. She
was recalled after every act, and the storm
of applause that greeted her testified to the
fact that the majority of her auditors were
converts to the claims of her enthusiastic
admirers.
Boar RAcE.-There was race in skiffs
yesterday afternoon between Loughlan, of
San Francisco, and rutland, of Sacramento
for $25 side, which attracted considerable
attention. The course was from the foot Of
l. street to stakeboat opposite the gas
works wharf, then up to the foot of / street
and back to the point of starting rutland
won quite easily Loughlan fouled with The
steamer Governor Dana soon after starting
and fogled the stakeboat while turning
losing considerable time, but it was The
opinion Of those who saw the race tina
Rutland would have won even if the foul,
had not taken place. Captain Dryer anC
H. W. Carroll acted as judges.
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