Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-25
ADJUSTMENTS.

1t should be scarcely necessary to more
than announce the appearance of Frederick
Warde, the eminent trsgedian, to insure
crowded houses. He will appear at the
Metropolitan Theater Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings of this week, in
"YiTginius,' Damon and Pythias' and
"The Mouutebank." His support is said
to be fully equal to that he had last year,
while his plays are STAG ed far better than be-
fore-indeed the San Francisco press agrees
that they have not been so well mounted at
any time. The Mountebank" has been
improved by reduction to three from four
acts. By many Mr.. Warje is classed as the
equal of Booth. and certainly in "Vir-
giniusn Mr.. Booth would not be his
equal, for several reasons. The COM
mon concession is that he is the best
Yirginius upon the stage in any country
The San Francisco AltG of the 18th instant,
after describing the ovation given him in
that city, pays his ability the highest COM
pliment that journal has given in long
time to any artist. Miss Wade, BY the
same authority. is pronounced an ideal
Virginia, and Charles Sutton's Icilius, says
that journal, is a realization of the authors
dream. THE Mountebank' serves to de-
monstrate Mr.. Warde's versatility. His in
depreciation of Belphegor is rare example
of transitions from comedy to sentiment, to
manly pathos, to heroic tragedy. He lifts
The Mountebank" to the dignity of higher
drama and with it plays the whole gamut
of emotions. In most other hands the play
would be more than gruesome and tedious.
In Damon and Pythias'' he rises fully to
his level as Virginius in mastery presen-
tation of one of the most difficult of char
QptarQ in the n nla raOoo IF tho 6ran1o
At the Congregational Church tomorrow
evening the celebrated Mendelssohn Quin-
tet Club of Boston will appear under the
auspices of the Sacramento Lecture Asso-
citation, the occasion being one of the reg
ular course entertainments. The club has
changed on two of the instruments and
has new soprano, Miss Elizabeth Ham
lin, said by the Chronicle to have a strong
soprano voice and to have made in San
Francisco a good impression, and by the
Call to be woman of fine presence, hand
some, statuesque, and by her manner, as
much as by her high range soprano, win
Mig the favor of her hearers. Hennen-
berg, the hutist, is set down as strong
feature OF The troupe, he playing, accord
ing to the Call, "in way that would have
caused WysheIn TO grow wild with enthu.
siesm, as il did the audience" Droge and
Ohliger, celloist and violinist come in also
for hearty commentator.
The fourth lecture of the season before
the California Museum Association viii! be
delivered this evening at the E. B. Crocker
Art Gallery, at s o'clock promptly, by Rev
Joseph Levy, on The Wonders of Water
1t will be the first time this cultured and
eloquent speaker has been heard upon the
ros.rum in America. The assurance is
given that the lecture will be one of great
interest and highly entertaining. Tickets
are procurable of members aud at the Gal.
lery without charge. The lecture and en-
tertainment course by the Association has
been thus far of a high character, educat-
ing, interesting and entertaining.
Jones, Fish, Watson & Robbins will give
grand masquerade ball at Turner Hall
on Thursday evening next.