Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-29
ENTERTAINMENTS.

CLUNIE OPERA HOUSE evening
Reilly & Woods New Big Show" will
open for brief season. 1t is a speciality
company. with a number of performers,
chief among whom are Reilly and Woods,
the proprietors, Mazelo and Napier, aero
bats, and the remarkable trapeze perform
ers, the Vaidis sisters. The latter appeared
here some fourteen years ago then mere
children, but, at that time, daring and ex-
pert. After leaving here, they went to
Chicago, where, while performing with
their father, John W. Collier, the latter
met tragic death at the Coliseum in
that city. While removing the trapeze
machinery after the performance one
day, be made miscalculation as to
the strength of a skylight, and crashing
through was dashed to death upon flight
OF marble steps far below. The sisters be-
gan their trapeze exercises at the age of six
years and have followed them ever since
They are probably the most expert per-
formers in the world in that line. One of
them is noted for leap she makes from
the dome of theater to a network below.
In the city OF Seville this leap was through
100 feet of space, and at the Royal AQUA
rum, London, was through loo feet. One
of their feats is upon what is styled the
'Trapezone Rotaire," and is described as at
once beautiful and daring achievement.
RPE.-Announcement is made
of the return next Monday for one week
of the George Woodthorpe Dramatic Com
psny. The troupe is this time to present
The Golden Giant" MAY Blossom
Among the Pines" "Fanchon,' 1.-The
Little Detective" and "M'liss." Miss
Woodthorpe is a well known actress of
California development, aud of admitted
ability and exceeding versatility. Her re-
cent engagement here justified these claims
MUsIN CONCERTS. = The Divide Musin
Concert Company is announced to appear
here Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
next. The company consists CT Divide
Musin, the eminent Belgian violinist of
whom the Boston Globe, not more en-
phatic than scores of other critical journals,
said: ITO the technique of Wilhelmj he
adds the magnetism of Remenyi and Ole
Bull, with grace and culture of his own.
which place him first in his profession
among living artists" Miss Annie L. Tanner,
soprano, Endorsed by the New York Tri-
bune as having voice of lovely quality,
and by the New York Times as possessing
voice of uncommon range and fexibility.
Whitney Mockridge. a lyric tenor who is
spoken of uniformly by the Eastern press
as tenor of remarkable sweetness of tone
and great dramatic power. Edwin NJ.
Shonert, pianist, concerning whom warm
testimonials from the press are presented.
The troupe is unquestionably one of very
high excellence, and will therefore COM
mand here, as it has everywhere, according
to press records, the commentators of the
enthusiastic music lovers of most exacting
tastes.
LAST EVENINGS entertainment at Profess
sor Mckeowns horse-taming exhibition,
at Seventh and K streets, was more than
interesting, though the horses that were
handled were few. An animal belonging
to Mr.. Marshall that was noted for its
vicious habits of kicking, bucking and
plunging at anything unusual was, after
hard struggle, so subdued that the pande-
monium caused by the beating of drum,
rafting tin cans, explosion of firearms, etc.
was not enough to cause it to stir; in fact
the animal was induced to drive up to
them without fear of being harmed. The
second horse handled was one much of the
same kind and was quickly brought to
similar terms The show will be repeated
tonight and Saturday evening.