Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-07

writer. Mathews son, Charles James,
was better scholar than his father. He
was 4 most accomplished linguist and
draughtsMan. He was almost as perfect a
minnie as his sire, but he was certainly not
troubled with nerves He had the vivac-
ity of Garriek and the assurance of Foote.
In the case of the two Keans, again, we
find the elder, Edmund, tempestuous, ire
sistible in tragedy, yet unable through
nervousness, according to the more chari-
table of his siographers, to undertake a
great part witheot priming himself with
large draughts of alcohol practice
which became vice and his ultimate
ruin. His son Charles was an accom-
plished scholar and gentleman, temperate,
estimable in all the relations of life and
habitually cool and collected on the stage.
He was highly talented actor, but had
he the genius of his incorporate and
nervous father? 1t strikes rs that in the
little word genius is the omitted guam
tity in NJ. Cots perhaps ironical disquisi-
tion on the actors calling Even as there
are mob of ladies and gentlemen who
write with ease or paint with tolerable
facility, so are there multitude of actors
who can go through their parts with unde-
niable efficiency, who can alternately
tickle and split the ears Of the ground
lings who can win fair wages and encour-
aging applause and even little celebrity,
and then they pass away and are forgotten,
There are, however, actors and actors.
There Is genius, and no one should be
more aware of that fact than VI. Got. 1t
is not only the mimetic faculty in its
highest form, the acutest perception of
character and the most seduloas study of
the passions which agitate the human
heart that are needed to make the great
actor. He must have in addition the non
so. che diCiH0-the I'VE know not what" of
inward fire and spirituality which enchain
and fascinate an audience, now melting it
into tears, now convulsiug it with laeghter,
now thrilling it with terror. And really
great actor must be, we take it, a man Of
high intellect, although the powers of his
mind are not devoted to the command of
armies, the intrigues of diplomacy or the
factious struggles of politics.
STAGE NOTES.
Miss Pearl Means will be the leading
lady'of "The Rajah" company.
Mckee Rankin's success with "The Ca
muck" continues at the Bijou Theater.
Max Freeman is busily rehearsing Locke
Il Davis gigantic production Of ''Nero."
Agnes Blake has been engaged to play
Daisy in Donnelly and Girards Natural
Cas-"
Arthur B. Chase, Miss Margaret Mather's
is at present in Carlsbad, Ger
many, with his family.
Stuart Robson intends to produce three
new plays this season. He will begin
work on September 22d.
Sardou has arranged to write play for
Stuart Robson, which will be ready for
production q year hence.
Frank G. Custer will be business mana
ger for Arthur B. Chase, who will manage
the tour of Miss Margaret Mather.
Charles Frohman's engagements for the
coming season are now complete. They
consist of 17S contracts, all acting people.
William Gillette is still i'll and confined
to his home at Hartford. The last work
he did was on "Allth Comforts of Home.",
Clara Morris, when she comes to Sacra-
mento this fall, will bring an entirely new
company and an entirely new repertoire.
The Cleveland Magnifcents are doing a
very large business in the West They are
said to be the best minstrel organization
on the road.
Agnes Huntington is packing her grip
sack and getting ready TO return home.
Her English friends are giving her Won
derful send-of, and at the Royal Yacht
IL
young German Emperor was also a visitor,
she has been feted to death.
''The Crystal Slipper" will leave ST.
Louis September 11th on FIVE special cars
for San Francisco, where they open at the
Baldwin September 10th. Senorita Fras-
cuela, the wife of the famous Spanish bull
fighter, and Senorita Azella, the Flying
Dancer, have joined the company.
Miss Ada Deaves, who will appear next
season in "Two Old Cronies," is a winning
favorite who will make people laugh more
heartily than any other comedienne on
the stage. Her numerous costumes, which
are now ready, are the most unique that
have yet been seen in farce-comedy.
American audiences are to be granted an
to enjoy American originality
through John Morrissey's All-American
Stars. Mr.. Morrissey, who is favorably
known in Eastern theatrical circles, and
w. r. Daley, San Francisco journalist,
will put the above company on the roadin
1891, and promise number of novel feat
lres.
At the first production of iarce-comedy.
First Nighter-"Who is that fellow in the
Dox?" Second Nighter-"The author of
the play" First Nighter-"He ought to
have better taste tnan to laugh so uproar-
o1sly." Second Nighter-"Oh, that's all
right. He is the author of the play, but
he never heard the jokes before; the actors
put them in"
"The Crystal Slipper" is announced as
one of the coming attractions at the Met
ropolitan Theater. 1t comes to the Coast
under the auspices of Manager Al. Hay
man, and he promises its production will
be one of the events of his managerial
career. For its proper representation in
San Francisco he has just secured the
Grand Opera House.
"The Editor" is pretty sure to make a
hit on the road this season. 1t possesses
all the humorous and original elements
that make pieces successful. The princi-
pal character, that of Colonel John Haw-
kins, Western editor, is sustained by Mr..
Aldrich, who works into it all the go
ahead Western spirit for which he was re-
in MY Partner"
"Rapid Transit" which will begin its
season at Cincinnati, September 18th, will
be composed of the following MEMBERS
Arthur Ricketts,, Fred. Mendoza, Alf. Nc
Dowell, Jote Ducron, the famous dialect
ard grotesque dancer, Steve
Maley, VIII j. Mack, James Grifien, Miss
Carrie Tutien, Miss Marion Elmore, the
Pelzer Sisters, and Totty Graham.
Fritz Morris, the business manager of
the "Prince and Pauper' Company, says
that Manager Daniel Erohman's own New
York Lyceum Theater Stock Company will
visit the Coast under Al. Hayman's man
agement next summer. The pleasant
reeollections of the charming players who
gave Us the wife insure them welcome
whenever they come TO Sacramento.
Charles P. Hall, manager of the two
theaters in Sacramento, who has been VS.
ting in New York, has RETAINED West
Mr. Hall. during bis stay here was the re-
cipient of number of pleasant entertain
ments from leading Eastern managers-