Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-02
IUsIC and The DRAMA.
HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE METROPOLIS
ARE BEING ENTERTAINED.
Obligipg Burglars Help Banker Out of
Trouble = Intellectual Apathy of
Theater Goers-Stage Notes.

Rosalind May. the regular correspondent
of the SUNDAY UNION, writes about the
atrical matters in the great atmetropolis asfol
lows: ''Seidrs orchestral concerts at the
great Madison Square Amphitheater have
come to an end, but not an untimely one.
Missionary efforts, in the true sense of the
term, they have been, since while delight
ing those sufficiently cultured to appreci-
ate them, they have proved an educational
boon to numbers who at moderate cost
have been enabled to forget cares of money
getting, or perhaps daily drudgery, while
listening to the works of masters. To
listen is to learn, and TO acquire taste for
what elevates is an important step away
frors that which lowers. The Garden
Theater, inclosed in the same mammoth
building and under the same management,
is equally benefit in another way, and if
successive hearty laughs be good, DR.. Bill
and his patients afford the best medicine
in the world. The entertainment. more
over, is quite without coarseness, nor Is
there touch of that horse-play which at
present so often offends. Much was ex-
pected of
AGNESS HUNTINGTON
At the Broadway Theater, and she has not
been disappointment. Her remarkably
fine voice, quite the best on the operetta
stage, beautiful presence and excellent
dramatic abilities, would seem misplaced
among surrounding trivialities, but ope-
retta is popular and her visit to America
will doubtless prove successful.
Jefferson and Florence in The Heir
at Law at Palmer's draw nightly crowds
and no higher praise can be given either
actor than to say that they equal their
former efforts. Jefferson presents an ex-
quisitely droll impersonation Of the
learned DIR. Pangloss without trace of
the over-acting which might characterize
an inferior artist. At
DALY's
New Lamps for DID, as rendered by the
famous company is excellently amusing,
and like all performances at this special
place of amusement, without blemish In
stage setting and free from word or line
Objectionable to the most critical. This,
of course, is well understood by the public,
who literally patronize all entertainments
there and SO enable DAILY to present that
succession of admirable performances
which are credit to the metropolis and
entire country. New Lamps for Old is
not always as natural as it might be, but
this the spectator quite forgets in the
midst Of laughable situations, and strange
to say there is at one time some
over-acting on the part of John Drew,
who is usually perfection, and also Miss
Rehan, but the fault is momentsry.
THE LILLIPUTIANs
Having closed remarkably successful en-
gagement at Niblo's, are now playing at
the Metropolitan Opera House, the man
agement having been encouraged to re-
main longer in the city. Applause is
hardly the name to give the delighted en-
cores which greet the little men and
women who iis;r.1l- 60 much intelligence,
vivacity and genuine musical talent. The
dialogue is in German, but American au-
diences seem fully to appreciate the droll
performances, and each week the small
artists grow in favor. The spectacular
gives most agreeable change from lilli-
putian merriment, and most of the effects
are as novel as well chosen.
"The coming events of most interest are
the appearance of Mr.. Willard, at Palmer's
Theater, where he will make debut on
on November 10th, in The Middleman'
He is expected to remain most of the
winter, being preceded on the Both of this
month by Mr.. Palmer's own company at
the Madison Square Theater in "A Pair of
Spectacles.'
oBLIGING BURGLARS.
"Our two converted safe blowers recently
gave an exhibition Of their skill in their
old profession at Duluth that was not down
on the programme" said Charles A. Davis,
manager of "The Stowaway," at the Golden
Eagle Hotel last night. at happened
that our Treasurer" continued Mr.. Davis
"paid the company with checks on the
Duluth National Bank, instead of giving
them cash as is the custom, and when the
actors went to the bank the next morning
to obtain the current coin of the realm,
they found the cashier and other officials
m a state of great excitement over the fact
that the bank safe refused to open on the
combination. There were no traces of
burglars, and it was evidently a case of
accidental lockout which sometimes hap
pens in the complicated mechanism of
bank safe. The Cashier and Directors
were discussing the advisability of tele-
graphing to Chicago for the services of a
safe expert, when our two fire and burglar
proof annihilators, Spike Hennessey and
Kid Mccoy, sauntered into the bank to
get their checks cashed. When Hennessey
presented the bit of paper to the cashier
he was informed of the difficulty the bank
was in.
"'What,' he exclaimed, don't get no
dough on this check p
"The cashier being a man of peace
apologized profusely and offered to accom-
pany Hennessey and Mccoy to another
bank and see that they obtained the
amount of their checks. Treasurer
Hogarty came in at this time and sug.
gested that Spike and the Kid ought to
open the safe, and after some further
parley the two ex-cracksmen were shown
into the vault and began examining the
safe. Hennessey twirled the dial few
moments and listened intently to the click
of the tumblers inside the door,
"tWhat dye think, Kid?' he de-
manded of his partner.
"'The dogs rusty replied that worthy.
"'That's what l Think said Spike
Now, Mr.. Cashier continued Hennessey,
wait till l git my tools and we'll have
your safe open in pigs whisper
''Hennessey went over to the hotel and
returned shortly with a kit of TOOLS
Kneeling~ down before the safe he un-
screwed the dial and took off the dial ring;
he then fitted brass cylinder on the door
and forced about a pint of petroleum
into the lock around the spindle. The
Kid in the meantime was industriously
working the lock with pair of nippers,
and in about five minutes Hennessey
turned to the cashier and said:
"'She'll open now all right
"Sure enough, when the cashier worked
the combination the lock clicked, the
heavy bolts shot back and the big double
doors flew open, revealing the banks
treasures piled up inside. When the bank
officials offered to pay Hennessey and Nc
Coy for their services they shook their
heads, and Spike remarked with a grin:
"pThe balance is IN the ut her side We