Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-14
ADJUSTMENTS.

A fine and thoroughly appreciative and
greatly pleased audience assembled at the
Metropolitan Theater last night to witness
the appearance of the favoriie and accom-
plished comedian, Stuart Robson, in
Howard Bronson's most successful play,
times convulsed with laughter and again
melted to tears: at times brought almost to
the point of disgust with the representa-
ton of human frailty, -mindedness
and folly; again, reused to phenomenal
enthusiasm by the vivid pictures drawn of
manly conduct, great-heartedness and
loyal love. Mr.. Robson has admirable
support in Frank Mordaunt, one OF the
strongest stock actors of the American stage,
and who does nothing i'll Misses May
| Waldron, Eugene Lindeman, Helen Mar
and Katherine Florence, ladies whose IA
miliarity with and study for the stage is
evidenced by the fine quality of their act
| ing; and by the several gentlemen who
filed up the cast in addition. Among these
there is no really weak timber, but some
are open to minor correction for rapidity
of speech, and in one case for excess
of caricature. But in the presence
of such all around excellence as
the company represents, minor details
are lost sight OF, in the main. Mr.. Robson
! fits into the part of "Bertie" completely,
| and that it was written for him in no sense
detracts from the merit OF his performance.
| It is a work of fine style, and the finish of
the part is compl tie in his hands. If It is
objected that il is an extravaganza and I'M
natural character, it must be borne
in mind that the play is satire
| that all the over color is purposively
strong; that the extravaganza of the char
acter sketches was deliberately intended,
and that by no other means probably could
the playwright have so well gained the end
he had in view and still have preserved
the comedy element. The play is min
| Cling of tears and smiles; of tragic situa-
atoms and farcial passages; OF tenderest
sympathy; of grossest ingratitude; of the
| development of the greed that swallows up
| the affections, and of the love that softens
the stern nature and melts the heart
of the coolest and most unsympa-
| thetic fnancier. 1t is q highly wrought,
an extravagantly overdrawn and luridly
i colored picture of activity in the bitter
competition and bewildering whirl
of stock speculation, in which the
bulls toss fortunes and the bears crush rep
utations and ruin fair hopes, without pity
or heart. But, as we have said, the ad-
herence to the real would not have created
the impression desired, nor have held up
for contemplation the evils of a gaming as
vicious as any that responds to the rattle of
dice or the click of the ivory checks over
the green. cloth. 1t is more than clever
satire for it is melodramatic, but it is none
| the less a comedy than satire. 1t is a
play, as said, boldly and strongly mingling
| laughter and human woe, magnanimity
and hard heartedness, cruel unfaithfulness
and exhibitions of manliness. There will
be matinee to-day, the reduced prices for
which are elsewhere announced, and final
performance this evening.
At the Clunie Opera House Monday and
Tuesday evenings next, Charles Cowles,
the eccentric comedian, supported by Miss
Eleanor Best and the Riggs Comedy Com
pany, will appear in the New England
comedy "Orrin Judkins." The troupe has
with it a concert orchestra and Hussar
bind. Interior press notices of the troupe
shown us are pleasantly complimentary,
| The hoy sheet Onens on Monday morning