Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-05
ADJUSTMENTS.

The Lecture Association had crowded
house at the Congregational Church last
night. The entertainment was by the
Swedish Quartet of male voices-C. A.
Skoog and Henri Pugh, tenors; A. Emil
Skoog, baritone; II. W. Wennerberg basso,
with Miss Vida ]. Skoog, accompanist.
They were assisted By Miss Laura Barden,
reader. 1t was charming entertainment;
the music was mixture OF light and popu-
lar melodies, with few selections OF a
higher order. 1t is rare that quartets succeed
so we'll in pleasing an audience. The voices
harmouized exquisitely and were managed
with admirable tact. No one singer of the
four is remarkable in vocal power or in
finish, but combined they are like q rich
inely-toned and skillfully manipulated
organ. Three selections were given in the
Swedish tongue, all the others in English,
AMI with fsultless enunciation. We do not
remember that any concert quartet has
ever been more heartily applauded in this
city than was that of last night. The sue
cess OF the singers was pronounced; and it
was due not only to the variety of the pro-
gramme, and the melodic grace with which
these strangely. costumed singers performed
their part, but because they know how to
win the sympathy of their auditors, and
to move upon the level of g large congre-
CATION of people who came to be restfully
pleased-to be amused, rather than TO
engage their minds with critical measure
ments of quality and style. Our local
singers might well take a hint from the
Swedish Quartet, and learn that success is
is not always attained by attempts to fly
loftily, or to entertain with drill exercises.
Miss Barden is an accomplished reader.
We do not recall reader of her sex who
so quickly won her audience. In an in
slant, after her first appearance, her per-
sonal megnetism-for lack of better term
was felt, and every listener was her
friend. She has a resonant musical and
dramatic voice, and is grace personifed.
She reads from the heart; she apparently
feels her subject, aud the auditor does not
entertain for a moment the thought that
she is acting. 1t was altogether delight
full entertainment, and suggests the thought
that an association that can give people
such charming "evening out" for the
tritiing sum of fourteen cents, is teaching
the professional managers some emphatic
and useful lessons concerning the possibil-
ity of combination OF excellence and
cheapness.
At the Metropolitan Theater this evening
Manager Hall will present the second edi-
ton, so to speak, OF Hermans Transatlan-
tiques. The company is wholly different
from Hermans first troupe, and the press
notices from all quarters speak of it as su-
perior to its predecessor. Thus the Detroit
Free Press says it is show of uncommon
merit and diversity the Philadelphia
Ledger says it entertains without taxing
mental resources, and Music and Drama
says it has dash, brIlliancy and variety.
The company includes Les Trois Washing
ton, in musical act: Gus Bruno, dialec
performer; Guyer and Goodwin, burlesque
and eccentric actors; Josephine Henley, a
London singer and dancer; the Glinseretti
troupe Of five acrobats; Mocama ct Ta;ero,
balancing team Flora Moore, dialect
singer; Tholen, electrical clown; George
Holloway, in an unsupported-ladder act
Harry Kennedy, the famous ventriloquist,
and the Alexander brothers, grotesQues.
These are deemed the pick of speciality PEG.
pie OF the variety stage of the day. There
is no charge made for reserved seats.
At Houghtons, at and after A. NJ. to.
day.; the box sheet for the McNeil Club
season of grand opera opens for the general
public.
There will be an apron and necktie
party given by Rising Star Rebekah De-
gree Lodge, No. s, l. o. o. F., at Turner
Hall, this evening.
The postponed ball of the Council of
Federated Trades will come off at Armory