Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-26

ate anything higher than Iopsy or the
donkey in Uncle Toms Cabin" When
she had delivered herself of this ebulli-
tion of indignation she calmly and deliber-
ately proceeded to die in the most ap-
proved style, eounterfeiting death with
wonderful accuracy, and there was no
more tittering, either.
CARLEToN's OPERA COMPANY.
". I. Carleton is making his farewell
tour of the Pacific coast, and the country
generally, as an operatic impressario. At
the end of the present season he will place
the very excellent company which he has
brought 10 Sacramento every year, with
one exception during the past seven, into
a new theater in New York This theater
is to be built for him by New York capi-
talists and club men, as a result of his
phenomenally successful production of
THE Brigands' at the Grand Opera House
in New York, while the same opera was
having long run at the famous New
York Casino. The superiority of his
production in singing and action
and costumings, and Of the methods
employed by him generally, was
yeritable revelation to the men of the
metropolis, and they were brought to
realize the fact that the cities Of the
West and the Pacific coast did not have TO
go to New York to hear comic opera as
we'll presented as ii was there. With
their usual desire to monopolize the best
of everything a number of capitalists and
club men made a proposition to Mr..
Carleton to build theater with the gen.
eral scope of the Casino and place it in
h,e a0,frNl IL baA o1rool,, IL
for the appearance of his company
throughout the country during this season,
and could net locate his company until its
conclusion. Considerable difficulty was
experienced in securing an available site,
but it has at last been obtained and work
will begin at once on the building of the
theater. He will not confiue himself to
this theater, however, but will send an
other company out upon the road with
himself as the stellar attraction, to present
| an entirely new form of entertainment,
but the exact character of it cannot vet be
| divulged, as its production will be neces-
sary before some Of its many novel fea-
| lures can be secured.
cLEvELAND's coLoRED MINsrRELs.
For several years past the country has
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minstrels, each band comprising from
fourteen to twenty people, which have
| travelled under the titles ofGeorgia's, Ala
| bama's, Black Boys and Colored Minstrels,
giving performances that were painful to
behold, not only to the audience, but to
| the performers themselves Manager w.
S. Cleveland, who is ever on the alert to
! give his patrons something new, therefore
concluded to have the leading genuine
colored minstrel company, as well as the
two largest white minstrel companies in
the world, and with his usual good iudg-
ment has succeeded in getting under con-
tract all the best colored artists in the uni
verse, and will have company comprising
sixty of the very best genuine colored per-
| formers ever seen on one stage together,
prominent among whom are Tom McIn-
tosh, James Bland, Will Eldridge, Doc
Sayles, Geo. Tichner, four Brewer brothers
Eaton and Williams, Cicero Reed and son,
Grant and Williams. the Sans Souci Quar-.
tet, the Twilight Quartet, Billy Farrell
Smart and Taylor the great Jalvan, Pro.
fessor James Wilson, w. C. Harris, Hen,
derson Smith, Mons. Levard, Frank War.
ner and Tom Jones, together with mum.
berless acrobats, comedians, singers
dancers and musicians, who will present a
unique entertainment with many novelties
original with Manager Cleveland. This
company is also booked in most of the
leading theaters of this country, from
Maine to California and New York to
New Orleans, and will appear at the Met
ropolitan Theater in this city on Novem-
Der 7tb, Sth and 9th.
STAGE NOTES.
Nat Goodwin is preparing for his fall
theatrical campaign.
"Kate," is the name of the new play OF
Annie Pixley's which is said to rival
''Mliss" in attractiveness.
A new comic opera by Planquette, en-
titled "Paul Jones'" has replaced the
''Merry Monarch" at the Broadway The
ater.
"Blue jeans" new sensational comedy
by Joseph Arthur, was given its initial
| presentation at the Fourteenth Street
Theater on October 9th.
One of the lions in "Nero," which is to
be the winter attraction in Niblo's in New
York, rides bicycle, and another settles
all disputes between the management and
the members of the company.
Without an exception the critics of San
Francisco, Portland and Los Angeles de-
clare that w. T. Carleton's company is
this season by far the largest and strongest
he has ever brought out to this coast.
The repertory for the engagement of w.
T.. Carleton's opera company for four
| nights, beginning next Thursday. is ar
| ranged as follows: Thursday, and Saturday
matinee, "The Brigands," Friday, "Nanon;"
Saturday, "Erminie;" Sunday, "The
Mikado"
Manager c. P. Hall has secured the
great company Just organized by Messrs.
Frohman and Hayman for the production
of "hll the Comforts of a Home" at the
Metropolitan Theater on the 10th, 18th
and 18th of March next. 1t will be the
largest and most carefully selected COM
pany on the road.
Manager Hall has attractions booked for
this city as follows: "The Still Alarm, y
October 9th. 2Sth and 29th; Carleton's
Opera Company, October 30th and 31st
and November 1st and I'd; "The Stow
away" November 4th and 5th; Cleve-
lands .Minstrels, November 9TH, Sth and
9th; "Hearts Of Oak" November 11th and
18th; Hoyts Brass Monkey" November
14th and 10Th.
sfLooking Backward; or, A Carnival Of
| Crime" is to be the title of the new play
in which Spike" Hennessey and "Kid''
Mccoy are to star next season, when their
present engagement with "The Stowaway''
| lin which they crack safe during every
| performance terminates. This latter en-.
deavor towards the elevation of the
STAGE bids fair to be the most remarkable
occurrence that has ever been recorded in
dramatic annals.
New York has % theaters; the gross
seating capacity of which is over $4,000
people. There are hundreds of concert
music and lecture halls all over the city
two-thirds of which are used every night
1t is safe to estimate the total capacity oi
the various places of amusement in the
metropolis at 10000 Over rs, 600 dollars
are spent every night in the big city for
theatrical and musical entertainment.
The new Madison Square Garden is the
largest place of amusement; next comes
the Academy, where the 'Old Homestead
is permanent attraction, then the Metro
politan Opera House, and Nible's, where
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