Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-23
FOR CHARITY.
The Charleston Relief Fund Benent TO-
pight-The Play-The Tickets

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This people has known what 1t is 10 De
in sore distress, when present need sup
! piled is worth a sea of sympathy. Charles
ton is now experiencing that need. 1t Is
not merely the need of the poor, destitute
alike of home. money and opportunity to
labor, but of the men and women OF
moderate means also. For, when such
calamities come upon a community as have
overtaken the devoted $4,000 OF Charleston,
all suffer. Property will not command
money then, and even the man of posses
sions may suffer for bread; and, more than
that, he may suffer for want of a roof, as is
the case with thousands in Charleston to-
day. The appeal has been made to the
people of all the Union to aid
the sufferers in Charleston; to fur
nish food to the destitute, clothing
to those who need; means to the
unemployed and aid for the restora-
ton of homes. Sacramento is to do
her share, and to complete her fund to-
night by the proceeds of a benefit rendered
bv Miss Carrie Swain, the charming actress,
and her and the management of
the Clunie Opera House. These people
say, Here, we will do our share of labor,
and contribute our share and more OF in
vestment for one day; come up, people of
Sacramento, and make that by your pres
ence as large as possible" If all who are
able should do as well, what a splendid
offering would Sacramento's be. The COM
mittee in charge has accepted the offer
of the dramatic people, deemlng 1t
more than their share, and grateful
that strangers to the community
should be thus p~ublic-spirited in our be-
half. 1t remains now for the people to
make the benefit a rousing one. If there
are any who ever go to the play, and have
not seen Miss Swain on the stage as yet,
they will get their moneys worth in merry
entertainment and have the consciousness
of doing q good deed besides. Those who
have seen the lady in Cad, the Tomboy,"
can well afford to approve her generosity
by their presence once more, or at least by
the purchase of a ticket to-day, as they will
be offered upon the street by a committee.
As for the play itself, a few words may be
INDUCED in. Cad is a waif; a rescue
from one of the asylums of New York.
She has been adopted for selfish purposes
by a pair of adventurers, man and wife.
The girl serves them as a scullion. She has
spirit, however, and in her rough way re-
bells against their neglect Of her. But she
is full CT mirth II the spirit Of
fun and cannot harDor i'll feeling
long toward any one. Thus far the story
is that of many an orphan and dependent.
Romping in the streets one day, she meets
with a child much her junior, and the two
follow an organ-grinder, and, like most
children, they enjoy the experience hugely.
Cad" however, has the good sense to
carry the little one, in due time, to her
home, and comes laughing and shouting
into the house with the child upon her
broad shoulders. The master of the house
"a rascally fellow, by the way is pleased
with the frankness of Gao" as well as
astonished by her rude manners. He Of
fers to engage her as a servant, and she,
only too glad to escape from her guardians,
accepts. The child clings TO her, however,
and she remains to rock her to sleep, sing
ing a lullaby, which lures from a room
near by a blind woman, cruelty confined
in the house by the v~illainous master, her
brother-in-law, in the hope of gaining pos
session of the property left by his deceased
brother to this widow, herself ignorant OF
the fact. The song leads to the discovery
that this is "Cad's" mother, whom she be-
lieved dead. There is a happy reunion, but
"Cad," returning to her guardians to
gather her effects, reveals her discovery,
and the schemers being confederates of the
unnatural brother, set about to cOnciliate
the girl, and remove the woman to an in
sane asylum. The law-bookS are full of
cases equally romantic, and it cannot be
said, despite the eXtravagances of the dra-
matte action, that the story is unreal. Asy-
lums and prisons, could they speak, might
relate even more apparently improbable
tales. Cad discovers the treachery of
her uncle, and the precious pair who aid
him, too late to rescue her mother from a
falsely procured warrant for insanity.
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as Cad, and in love with her, she takes to
disguise, and in the most dramatic way
imaginable secures the release of her
mother, the punishment of the %conspira-
tors, and the restoration of her mothers
property and her own. The manner in
which this is done forms the chief interest
of the play, and shouldnot be weakened by
present recital. The story, strange and ex-
aggerated as it appears, is nevertheless
paralleled by any number of similar
dramas in real life. AS in
pictorial, so in dramatic art
there must be over-color. Years of events
must be crowded into the grasp of a few
moments, and the story of a lifetime told in
an hour or so. Hence the over-color and
extravaganza in this play. Miss Swain is
gifted in voice, grace of figure, and the
clever tricks of dance and song that please.
She has the vocabulary of the street Urchin
at tongues end, and the roughness of the
tomboy appears to fit her like a glove. She
must have opportunity TO show her skill in
this style of acting, and therefore the story
of the play is made TO serve as 4 means of
presenting her in ''specialties.' We have
said the play has iittle literary merit, is alb
surd in many respects, and that it is thin
timber generally. But Miss Swain in it has
drawn as few others ever have here. She
keeps her audience in the merriest of
moods, has calls before the curtain night
after night, after every act. She exaggerates
while she is natural; she takes liberties
with action not thinkable in real life, but
the audience condones the offense
she O~ver-colors all that she does,
but it is done with such bold
nonchalance, that the spectators
approve it; she creates situations impossi-
bic, but the lockers on forget and demand
repetition. She is at once an offender
against dramatic reason and the exponent
of natural action. Tonight Miss Swain
will introduce new songs and dances, and
the Hussar band will play concert music
between acts. in addition TO the musical
programme of the orchestra. Tickets will
be for sale at Sawtelle's bookstore to-day
aud by the committee OF the street, and
those presented at the theater will secure
for the holder q reserved seat. All seats
IN the lower DGTt Ol inc DOuSS are 10 CtLIS,
with no charge for reserves. In the gal
lery the seats will be % cents. Let the
house be filled to overflow. The free list
is TO be wholly suspended tonight. For
once the grand army of dead-heads will
have an opportunity to prove that it is not
ungrateful. 1t remains to be seen if it will
disappoint hope by absenting itself.
No AwARD.-The statement has been
published that q premium was awarded
upon one of the electric lights with which
the Pavilion was lighted during the recent
State Fair. This is entirely without foun-
dation in fact, as neither of the lights were
allowed to enter for premium, nor received
the slightest consideration in that direction.
The companies controlling them were en-
ploved bv the Board of Directors to fur
nish additional light during the fair, at so
much a thousand feet of streaked light
ming. and when the fair closed they were
paid according to contract. That is all
there is about the award of premium. Per-
haps it should not surprise anyone that a
person engaged in the manufacture and
sale oflightning should try to steal thunder.
FURNITURE AT AUcTIoN.-Ben & Co. an
nouuce an unusual sale of fine furniture
for to. day at 10 a. NJ, at their sales
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