Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-11-24
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
FROM TIE gECORD.UNsOs,S SPE-
CIAL CORRESPOND NJ.
What the Playgoers of the Eastern
Metropolis are Enjoying or
Undergoing this Season.
New YoRK, November II. 1855.


The settling down Of the sold Home
stead' at the Academy of Music was
singular theatrical venture, and settles the
status of that house, which can never
again resound TO strains Of fashionable
opera. What New York brain, tired of
walls and clatter, does not find restful en-
joyment in gazing on the wide landscape
of the opening scene on the realities of
the farmhouse, with clustering old-fash-
Toned flowers the well, from which buckets
of real water are drawn the barn and the
live oxen that Uncle Joshua drives? Low
prices, of course, attract "the common
people," but the unique entertainment
draws the higher classes also, and saves
from vulgar faint. 'Tis SO different the
blase, children Of fashion say, and for a
time they forget their fashionabieness and
breathe the fresh air OF native hills or
plains. People grow young again and are
| transported to the time when New York
battles had not begun. Then what
sweet, wholesome play is the sold Home
| stead" preaching lesson Of scooped in
dollars that vitiated New York can love
simplicity and purity The support has
been admirable, since each evening crowds
come to fill the great space The perpet-
ual run of 8 Love" at Days, has reached
climax in the
LOTTERY OF LOVE.
Giggles grow into roars, and doctors bills are
saved by the hearty laughs that convulse
everybody. Jollity is more healthful than
pills; good humor than drugging. The
medical fraternity, at least, owe grudge
to the. manager who can cheat them of
visits, and the public at large are debtors
to the man who entertains them in such
way that fastidious parents can count al
ways on safely taking their daughters to
his theater. Ones esthetic sensibiities,
too, are gratihed by visit where all that
good taste and liberal expenditure of
money can do is done to please the eye
and minister to physical comfort. Across
the way, at Pa'mer's Theater. Gillette's
excellent play, Held by the Enemy
well put on, except extremely unsouth-
ern, and quite too modern furniture in an
old Southern homestead-has been the
! PRELUDE To THE COMING OF OUR ''MARY."
Ringlets and all, she is with us, and as
! Hermione and Perdita, in the 90 Winters
Tale" brings forward novel production
to enhance her attractions. Such oppo-
site opinions are held concerning this ac-
tress, that she merits special praise or
censure, and both she will receive, when a
greater number of performances give room
for intelligent criticism. More of her in
my next letter. Jefferson, in the Rivals"
supported by Mrs. John Drew and John
Gilbert, at the Fifth Avenue Theater, has
drawn packed audiences. When was there
a rarer combination than the three veter-
ans? The public knew it and appreciated
it. This week they give way to the Booth
and Barrett combination that, with double
attraction, asks double prices and gets
them. Barrett, indeed, never consum-
mated a shrewder business venture than in
concentrating Booths performances with
his own. A part, in New York at least,
their audiences were often but 'so-so,"
with qualification of this last statement,
! however, in favor of Booth, after his Lon
don success, since it seems a theatrical
rule, that London captured, New York
falls. But such prestige might have
waned, and Barrett had been obliged to
resort to the spectacular to keep down
ranks of empty chairs. Together, the two
stars are power, and hundreds flock now
where hundreds staid away. Among coun-
| ter attractions
THE EDEN MISE