Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-30
ENTERTAINMENTS,


CLUNIE OPERA HoUsE.-The Reilly e.
Woods specially performance drew large
audience last night. Asawhole, the show"
was very good, and in the main, novel.
The Healys are very clever personators
of the old-time plantation negro of the
South, and Napier and Marzello, the
French groteseue horizontal-bar perform
ers, are superior. Their exercises are not
entirely new, but they are admirably exc,
cuted. Delsur and Debonirout give very
extended and pleasing musical entertain
ment, with rapid changing of elegant cos
tunes. The lady has clear, strong and
flexible soprano voice, and the man bari
tone of good quality. They gave a num-
Der of comic opera selections in good taste
and effectiveness. Misses Melville ami
Stetson introduced u new feature for
women-comedy-sing and character
acting-with entire success, and were re-
peatedly recalled. Miss Bessie Gilbert is a
good cornetist, and was thrice encored.
Reilly and Sparks personated rollicking
Irishmen. Sparks is the better actor, and
"a very clever one. Reilly probably will not
be advised, but he would much improve
his manner if he would reduce his coarse
ness and moderate his blogue to degree
that will be understandable, and his enun-
citation not be lost in catarrhal obscurity
of nasal sounds. With subsection in these
directions, he would be an admirable per-
senator of the peasant Irishman as he is
supposed to be when fresh from the Emer-
aid Isle. Lizzie and Laura Collier, known
to the stage as the Vaidis Sisters, are the
especially strong cards" of the manage
ment. Their trapeze performance is ex-
cellent, seldom egualled by women, and by
none more gracefully done or with less
apparent effort. In the revolving
trapeze. invented by their father,
John William Collier. a feature en-
tirely new to that class of gymnastics is
introduced. 1t consists Of two very long
framed arms revolving upon common
center and each having a small trapeze on
which the sisters perform as it gracefully
turns and carries them now far aloft and
then sweeps them down almost to the level
of the dress circle. Their feats of strength
and gymnastic fiexibility n this instru-
ment were very fine, and only equalled by
their performance upon the rope upon
which they descend. Miss Lizzie's leap
from the dome of the theater crowned a
daring gymnastic exhibition. She stood
with her head against the ceiling, bent for
ward as diver does, with her hands above
her head, and shot headforemost into the
netting below, turning once Just as she
reached it. and landed on her back Generally
she calculates to alight on her feet. She
began the leap at twenty feet and gradually
increased it until she has been able to
dive two hundred feet through the air.
She has never met with an accident, and
declares that she experiences no shock or
jar by the stoppage OF the fall. She prefers
100 feet to any other distance, as it gives
her time 10 so turn as to alight uniformly
upon her feet. She calculates the distance
and the time for her revolution in air ms
her handkerchief hutters down that she
throws before her, and follows it up while
the idea of distance and time is fresh in
mind. The mother of these young women
accompanies them and exercises great
watchfulness for their safety in their peril
GUS business. which they have followed since
six years of age. The farce that concluded
the performance introduced Reilly and
Sparks in Irish eccentric action, but il
dragged and the performance was
not improved by it. The strange thing"
of all others, always will be, evidently, The
inability Of a specially company to present
a really clever afterpiece What is the
matter with the old-tme standard farces.
that they never attempt them? The COM
pany will appear again tonight.
SAM JONES LECTURE THIS EVENING
Sam Jones will lecture this evening in
the Congregational Church. This will be
the last opportunity to hear him in Califor-
mia. He will not speak here Sunday, but
returns to San Francisco. He starts East
by way of Los Angeles Monday morning.
as preacher he is acknowledged to be a
power, but from expressed opinions the
lecture platform is his great field.
The proceeds of the lecture 20 to the i'm
provement fund of the Seventh-street
Methodist Church of this city. Mr.. Jones
donates his services. He delivered this
same lecture, Character and Characters"
at Marysville. and one who heard it says
=" 1t was the ablest lecture ever heard, and
! have heard all the great men on the plat
form. 1t fairly sparkled with veins of hui
NOR that convulsed the audience It's biting
sarcasm and sallies OF wit were simply
powerful, and it contains flashes of elo-
quence that would rival Prentiss"
Some think that the admission fee of one
dollar is high, but when the quality of the
entertainment TO be given is considered, it
Is not high. Beside, the management
knew that no hall in the city would hold
the audience at fifty cents; then the cause
is worthy, and all the money remains in
our city to improve one of our churches.
THE HORSE TAMER.-Professo McKeown,
in the tent at Seventh and K streets, had
good attendance last night. He success
fully handled and tanned two horses, one a
very nervous and another a very rebellious
animal. Tonight will be the last of his
entertainments. A vicious stallion is to be
brought in from Hangtown Crossing, and
TWO rebellious and nervous horses are en-
route from up-country to be handled to-
night, having been shipped by rail yester-
day.
NoTEs.-There has been very general in
quiry as to whether the Little Lord Faunt-
leroy Company would appear in Sacra-
mento. Last night Manager Hall was
enabled to announce that the company will
appear here the last week in April for two
nights. Many letters from ladies begging
him 10 arrange for a matinee, if the COM
pany came. having been received, he SAYS
that there will be given one matinee per-
formapce, and the effort will be made to
secure it 10 children and ladies almost ex-
clusively, that the former may have full
opportunity to witness the playing of Mis-.
Frances Hodgdon Burnett's beautiful story
for children ...... The desire for the return of
the Mendelsshon Quintet Club is to be
grati6ed......If the Musin concerts are sue
cessful, the managers say it will be taken
as a warrant TO bring several other troupes
of like metal here. The orchestra and
band accompanying the Reilly & Woods
| Company, now at the Opera House. is
superior. The leader last evening played a
violin solo and was twice encored
MATHUsHEK solid iron frame pianos are
4 he haSs Cnopar's Musie Store