Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-18
ADJUSTMENTS,

The air yesterday and last evening was
full of flying rumors of changes in the
management of the two theaters in this
city. Some of the reports of revolution of
this character were very detailed and ex-
plicit, wearing, apparently, all the regalia
of verify. The most pronounced stories
were that the combination of the two
houses under one management was to be
abandoned, and that Mr.. Hall was to retire
from the management and 60 East, or else
retain but one house. Other parties were
named as likely to become managers of one
or both houses. Mr.. Crouch, the 8gent for
the owners, gave denial point blank to the
stories, and said he had not even heard
suggestion of changes. Mr. Hall with great
emphasis declared that it was news to him,
and that people appeared TO know great
deal more about his business than he knew
himself. He had no knowledge of the
stories or how they originated. Mr. Hall
has been managing the theaters well, Sc
curing all attractions for this place possible
to be bad, and it is not unreasonable that
he should feel nettled over the reports re-
ferred to.
Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Theater Com
pany is announced to appear at the Metro
politan Theater next Monday and Tuesday
evenings. 1t is better known as THE
Wife" Company. 1t stands in the front
rank of the finest dramatic talent of the
age. 1t is company that commands the
very highest figures and has everywhere
| achieved the finest success. 1t comes from
a five weeks engagement at the Baldwin
Theater to continuously crowded houses.
THE Wife will be played Monday
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which ran four hundred nights at the
Lyceum Theater, New York, and four
weeks at the Baldwin Theater, San Fran
cisco, last year, ami three weeks this year
The Wife is play with an American
theme, and which has a strong comedy ele-
ment 10 add TO its attractivenesS. 1t is not
often given to a city like this 10 see
model stock company in successful
drama, company that includes no incom-
petent or mediocre people, but each men,
| Der OF which is tried and acknowledged
| fsvorite. 1t is the hope OF this journal that
the local management will be sustained
amply in bringing the Lyceum Company
here, as its appearance will 60 far toward
stimulating similar efforts. and thus tend
to the elevation of the stage here, and the
cultivation of the public taste for the most
| finished order of dramatic performances.
The box sheet opens Saturday.
There was large audience at the Opera
House last night, mostly of men. The
Lily Clay Variety Company, except for the
grossly immodest approach to nudity on
the part of the women, gave fairly good
variety performance, with some novel and
witty features. The appearance of the
women in fieshlings and meager bodices,
save in two or three instances. was not,
perhaps, more immodest than the "un-
dressy" character of the chorus in Carleton's
Opera Troupe, and half dozen spectacu-
lar and other performances that have had
public approval. But in this latter case of
! last night there was not the semblance of
excuse of an operate or dramatic plot, or
| fairy tale, or spectacle or holiday panto-
mime. The purposive effort to approach as
nearly as possible to nudity within the
\ law, with no dramatic setting to even sug-
gest excuse, was what condemns the snow,
and makes il one no man of sensibility
would take his daughter, and no honest
lover his sweetheart, TO see. Such vicious
exhibitions are the dead weights that are
sinking the stage steadily.
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