Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-26
ADJUSTMENTS,

A good house, representative audience,
greeted Maud Granger last evening at the
Metropolitan Theater. This artist, whom
we have known as so accomplished Rosa
lind, so true in Diplomacy" and so
charming in My Partner who at Is
years of age was a good Julia in Tine
Hunchback;' who was notably successful
Juliet in the Mccullough Company, and
not less as the leading lady in IF airfsx,"
and the Planters Wife, "Eynwood
Led Astray" and similar dramas, proved
in the new play Inherited" that she is
possessed of true dramatic genius and is an
actress of fine sensibility, of quick compre-
hension and finely discriminating taste.
As Helen Carruthers her impersonation is
Illuminated with the brilliancy of studied
art, but exalted by an underlying power
and informing spirit which give new value
to the physical conditions of beauty and a
graceful presence. She conceives her
part wildly, and expresses it distinctly.
She is not what would be called a mag
netic actress-she is too digniied in
her art for that, but in the utter
ance of extreme emotion she has
passionate power and mastery skill in the
reproduction OF natural feeling. Her mad
scene is revelation, wholly unconven-
tiopal, meiOdramatic without extrav-
agance, thrilling but refined, intense and
vivid without rant, impressive to the very
verge of the awful, and yet so charged
with feeling and human nature as to win
the tender sympathy and the pity of all
her auditors. She is consummate actress
as Helen, not without faults, lot free
from some mannerism, and not wholly I'M
conscious of self, but still consummete
artist, quite satisfying the exacting taste
for completeness of artistic effort,
and illustrating real suffering and genuine
heroism as Only q true devofee of dramatic
art can OF her support-Esther Williams,
was a fine foil, background, without
which Miss Granger's fascinating picture
would have greatly suffered. So, too, Mr..
Mesta ayers Doctor Raymond was manly
and admirably sustained character. Mr..
Mainhall was what we have always known
him, neither better Tor worse, neither very
poor nor notably strong as Julian. 1t is
great pity that MIR. Brooke (Mr. Gray
should be cast for juvenile part that his
years and physique forbid, and for COM
edy effect, that by misconceivine, he makes
Americans sympathize with the English
that such exuberant and unpruned represen
tatives of our republic are thrust upon them.
The pretty and graceful Miss Carrie Elberts
added to some of the incongruities OF the
play by defying time, and not advancing
after lapse of two years, between acts one
and two, out of iuvenility by so much as
the dropping of single tuck in her skirts.
The little child, Baby Parker, is wonder
of precocity, and makes the auditor regret
that the programme should insist upon the
absurdity of a second lapse, this time OF
five years, that the babe is in her sixth year.
So, too, the effort of Mr.. French to ape an
English turnkey is marred by the ridicu-
lous precision and silhouette character of
his whiskers. But these are minor de-
fects, and though the symmetry of the
play is marred by them, it is still power
full emotional drama-one that calls for
great strength and the coinage of art on the
part of at least three of the characters. and
that in intensity of emotion is superior to
the majority Of pieces that make men thor
oughly mad and cause women 10 weep.
We can well understand how the piece has
gained such strong hold apoa public SYM
patty and won such applause and recalls
as il did last night. The plsy is the story
of splendidly matured English woman
forbidden marriage by the hereditary faint
OF insanity. she braves the curse
and marries the lover OF her
youth. A child is born to them,
and with it the insanity Of the mother
develops and eliminates in maniacal mad
ness with h9mioidsl tendency. Confined
in an insane asylum for years, she escspss
with reason restored and returns TO her
home to find herself divorced and her hus-
band married to her foster sister, who had
been mother to her child aud cultivated
In ii the memory of its unfortunate parent
and love for her. She yields her place to
the sister, who flies on her wedding day
to hide her sorrows, and the unhappy
mo- her, believing her child to have ex-
pired in o sickness. takes poison and dies,
Just when all circumstances had conspired
for her restoration 10 her rights and her
husband, who had never ceased to love
her but cowardly married to silence the
tongues of gossips. Inherited" will be
repeated tonight.
At Turner Hall this evening Capital City
Rebekah Degree Lodge, l. o. o. F., will
give social party.
There will be literary and social enter.