Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-17

There is one satisfactory observation L
have made in the course of my extensive
travels through America, and that is that
genuine plays, such as The Mountebank,'
when conscientiously rendered, always
awaken human sympathies and hold the
audience. | am sorry, though, on the
other hand, to say that the tendency of
modern polite society to disguise feelings
under the garb of decorum has depres-
sing and leveling effect upon dramatic art,
and it is now only possible to get genu-
inely responsive attention or verdict from
the masses. The public judgment, how
ever, at the best is only reliable when the
highest standards of art are presented to
their observation, and that is not the case
nowadays"
FoOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Donnelly and Girard's Natural Gas"
are yet in the West, coming money.
"The Exiles" was produced at Niblo's
Gardens, New York, on the 11th inst.
Harry B. Smith and Reginald De Koven's
new opera, "Don Quixote," is soon to be
produced at Boston.
Alexander Comstock has gone to Europe
Homestead" in London.
Amelia Glover "the little Fawn" of the
"Corsair" company, has sprained her ankle
and been put on the sick list.
w. H. Crane has achieved an emphatic
success in his new play, The Senator"
written by D. D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosen-
field.
Charles E. Locke and j. Charles Davis
have made fve-year contract with Will
ton Lackaye, during which he will be
starred.
Marie Petrovsky, a well-known actress,
is the latest one to write book, which
81 has called "The Mammon of Upright
eousness."
John Russelps comedy company have
been very successful with 'The City Di-
rectory," which is well received wherever
presented.
A. NJ. Palmer has acquired the Ameri-
can rights for "The Middleman," and
Paul Merritt's new melodrama, A Soul
less Crime"
John Rosenthal has severed his connec-
ton with "The Spider and Fly" and joined
''The Fakir" company, of which Thomas
Q. Seabrooke is the star.
Bronson Howard's success, "Shenan-
doah," will soon be taken to London,
while four companies will be engaged sim
ultaneously in representing it in America
America may want English plays and
actors, but England does not want Ameri-
can plays nor American actors. The ex-
ceptions which prove this rule can be
counted on the fingers Of one hand.
Anna Belmont, the young soubrette who
made an excellent impression at the be-
ginning of the season, has been engaged to
play Lucy Nettleford in Charles Jefier-
sons Hands Across the Sea" company.
Fanny Rice's lullaby, very pretty bit
of music dedicated by the clever young
actress to Lillian Russell's little daughter
Lillian, has made very popular and de-
served hit In New York all the boys
sing "Bye-lo, Baby, Bye-lo."
The prohibited drama, ola Conspira-
tion du General Malet," has been passed
by the censor, and will be produced at the
Chateau d'Eau, Paris. The play is a
strong one, and will no doubt soon be seen
throughout the world.
John Stetson, the theatrical manager,
newspaper owner, printer and banker, will
next year also become turf magnate, hay-
ing purchased the old Raadville, Mass,
mile track, which he intends to transform
into fine running course.
Miss Pauline Hall receives more floral
tributes nightly than has ever been pre-
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beauty. Her carriage is usually filled,
and three or four messenger boys employed
to take them to her home.
w. S. Cleveland and Billy Emerson have
completed arrangements to sail for the
other side to arrange for their London and
Paris engagements on or about June 1st.
The frst-named will take charge of the
London camp, while Emerson will super
intend the Paris end.
The operatic stage annals fairly bristle
with examples of six-syllabled, awe.iu-
spring nomenclature. The Russian IL
brettist, Tschernischewski, hides his head,
however, in deserved oblivion before the
imposing Helene Hastreiter Won Schoon-
hoven de Vasco Burgunzio.
The manager Of the Eden Theater, Paris,
is determined that the ''Mikado" shall 90
on at his theater, and the French version
will be by Armande Sylvestre What will
Gilbert say. And will he advise his ''young
lady of fifteen" to see his "Mikado" as doc.
tored by Amande Sylvestre exceedingly
clever, but-but-exceedingiy naughty
Dunlap's Stage Ne'rs.
''The Seven Ages" at the Standard, is
doing fair business in spite of the unpre-
cedented wealth of attractions offered in
the many New York playhouses. "Dixey
remains year," people say, so we will 90
and see Salvini, Booth, Wilson, Barrett,
Terriss and Wyndham first" When the
business drops, as it sometimes does, for a
night during the week, Rice blames it to
GiiPs li5retto, and Gill to Rice's music
The St. Louis Post Dispatch writing
about Nat Goodwin's "Gold Nine" says:
ga large measure of the enjoyment of the
performance was due to Isabelle Coe as
Mrs. Meredith. There was a bright dainti-
ness, fine naturalness, and warm, sympa-
thetic quality linked with an attractive
personality in her impersonation, which
was full of the charm Of sweet, lovable,
radiant womanhood. The refreshing breath
of clover fields and woodland, the ring of
happy voices, the ruddy glow of the
freside, where love and Joy rule
were suggested in her personality and
work. She touched that point of piquance,
quick warm sympathy and genuineness
which make the winning woman. The
love scene between Miss Coe and Mr..
Goodwin was as original, dainty, and
clever bit of comedy as one could wish
to see."
Brandon Thomas, who will be remem-
bered as the leading man with Miss Rosina
Vokes during her first season of the pres
ent series, bas written melodrama in four
acts called ''The Gold Craze" 1t is a
story of modern finance, and deals with the
limited liability craze in African gold
mines, one Of the scenes being laid in the
Dark Continent and another in "the city"
i. e., the Wall street of London. 1t will
be given its presentation as soon as the
decorations and reftting of the Princess
Theater, London, are completed, and will
be the first production, under the new Prin-
cess syndicate, which w. w. Kelly has
engineered. Brandon Thomas work in
"The Color Sergeant" and "The Highland
Legacy" two of the most successful one
act pieces of the last ten years, promises
well for the new play.