Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-23
AMUsEMENTs.

Maud Granger is to appear at the Metro
politan Theater Thursday, Friday and
Saturday next. Her engagement in San
Francisco of five weeks has been equaled
only by that of Crane in The Senator"
and has been one continued and notable
success. Three years ago she led in the
Palmer Company when it came to this
city. She then won the Sacramento thea
ter going public and the commentator of
her art was practically unanimous. Since
then it is certified she has made great ad-
vancement. and her career has been q
whirl of successes. If we except Clara
Morris, Miss Granger is probably without
superior among American emotional
actresses. But as against the claims OF
Miss Morris, Miss Granger has the advan'
tage of beauty and understands the art of
adorning beauty in the way of dressing as
do only the few. These may not be artistic
merits, but that they play a large part
upon the American stage of to-day in the
success of actresses, is undeniable, and are
moreover, it may be said. strong aids in the
class of dramas Miss Granger presents. She
will play here Inherited" the joint pro-
duct of the writing of the critic, Richard
Davy, of the London Times. and of Mrs.
Lucy NJ. Hooper, the well.known Paris cor
respondent 1t is cast in the mold of THE
Creole" and "East Lynne" schools. 1t was
originally produced year and half ago
in Paris at the Theater de rApplication,
and it won the approval of the severe crit
les of that city, Sarcey of the Temps de-
scribing it as "a weirdly powerful drama of
great beauty and intensity, like a tale by
Poe and worthy the skill of Bernhardt."
Miss Granger witnessed the initial perform
ance and bought the right to it for America,
producing it first at the Madison Square
Theater with the Palmer Company in sup
port. 1t met with an instant success that
has been maintained ever since. Manager
Hall seeing the play in San Francisco, in
duced Manager Wilkison to cancel dates
elsewhere and underwrite three for Sacra-
mento. In the troupe are Harry Main
hall, Frank Kelday, G. II. Mestayer, Chas.
Gray, Harry French, Esther Williams,
Carrie and Jennie Ebberts, Nettie Atkins,
and little Baby Parker. "Inherited" will
be played Thursday and Friday and The
Creole" on Saturday evening Nasby's
paper recently had the most compact and
comprehensive notice of Miss Granger in
Inherited" of any among the many We
have seen. 1t said:
Whether or not the emotional is Just what the
theater..going public long Tor most just now. is
a Hucotluu. DuL lieIe Is uO 4utst1Ou tudI iOl
those who do want their sympathies swayed as
a reed in the breeze. Miss Granger's Helen
Carruthers is the one piece of acting that will
do it most efectuaily. Mind you, this does not
mean that there is mad raving and tearing of
passion to tatters. Not at all. Maude Granger
is too finished an actress for anything of that
sort. She appeals to you not only with the
text, but with look, gesture, her own superb
presence and, above all, with that subtle bond
OF sympathy which so artistically compels her
audience to acknowledge aud appreciate. In
her latest role Miss Granger shows more careful
finish than ever before. While she is bold,
free colorist, she finishes her matchless define
alton of her complex character with those
minute details which. too oflen overlooked, are
after all the chiefest charm of the finished
whole. You admire the work in its entirety for
the perfection of its every part.