The record-union., 1891-05-30
MUSIC And THE DRAMA.
Concert for the Benefit of Miss
Gertie Carly-Auld.
Hamlin's Farce Comedy Company
With Its Pretty Forms and Faces
Flashes From the Feotlights of
Many Theaters.

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Gertie Carly-Auld will give a farewell
concert at the Congregational Church.
Tuesday the young lady leaves for Eu-
rope to complete her musical education.
She is a Sacramento girl, taken in early
childhood from the orphan asylum by
Mrs. e. NJ. Carly and raised by her.
From infancy she manifested vocal
powers of superior order. She was
given lessons in singing in this city and
sent also to Napa Collegiate Institute for
further instruction under Professor
| Bacon.
| She made rapid progress, and as she
attained maturity, became a great
favorite in this city. She had not means,
however, for cultivation and study that
were needed. Her voice had serious
artificial defects, and these she realized.
| Over a year ago she went TO San Fran
cisco, and has studied since then under
Professor Passmore, has had home with
Mrs. Heyman. late of Sacramento, and
has improved wonderfully. She sang
in choirS and concerts, attracted much
attention and received hearty critical in
| dorsement i'll San Francisco. She has
worked hard, saved her small means, and
| aided by Mrs. Heyman will now ac-
company the latter's daughter to Europe
to avail of vocal training under masters
of high standing.
! The concert tendered her Monday night
is to add to her slender funds. On that
occasion an orchestra of fifteen musicians,
| VINO have volunteered, will take part. G..
| a. NeaIe is TO be Musical Director and
| c. NJ. Prodger, Manager. Miss Kitty
Heyman, Mrs. Addie Carter and r. L.
COIN will appear.
| nnnos tho r1rinciy,aI faat,rrac of Tho on,
tertainment will be a poem entitled
Greetings and Partings," to be sung by
Mrs. Addie Carter and Richard L. Cohn,
accompanied by guitar orchestra under
| the direction of Miss Eugenia a. Kelly.
! The words and music of the poem were
composed by Miss Kelly, and those who
| have heard a rehearsal of it say that it
! viii prove the most charming feature of
the programme. 1t is certainly new and
novel.
Mr.. Frank Miller, who two years ago
set aside the value of lot in this city TO
encourage the singing art in local people,
proposes to sell the lot and put 500 Of it
in Miss Carly's purse, on a promise from
her that on her return from Europe she
| VIII agree to give concert here for the
benefit Of this music fund. OF course
Miss Carly Will accept the offer.
1.-THE FAKIR."
Hamlin's farce-comedy company.
which met with great success in New
| York, will be seen at the Metropolitan
Theater on Monday and Tuesday even
ings next. Like its congeners, 1.-THE
FalIir'' is built to make fun. The au-
thors, Paul M. Potter and, Harry l..
| Hamlin, make no claim to high literary
merit or elaborate dramatic construction
for their bantling. What there is Of di-
alogue is crisp and entirely without the
shadow of vulgarity. The costumes of
the women are magnificent. Their faces
are pretty and their forms all that an
artist could desire. The music is
bright" the specialties are numerous
and elaborate.
The action hinges on the complications
in which a retired fakfr, who has made
his fortune from a confiding and long
suffering public, finds himself through
his relations with the members of the
| Folly BurleSque company, who have been
invited to his country seat through fraud
ulent advertisement signed with his
name, Seth Boxer. The opening scene is
the lawn of Mr.. Boxers summer resi-
dence. The incidents of the second act
are located in the green-room of the Folly
Theater, where the specialists have full
swing for uproarious merriment. The
final scene is the drawing-room of the
fakir's city residence.
1t will readily be seen that, within
the limits here indicated there is the
fullest opportunity for harmless fun
making. The movement is rapid and
the action spirited throughout. To the
average critic this latest arrival OF the
farce comedy family, which has taken
such prodigious hold on the popular
taste of late, presents several distinct and
pleasant surprises. The text is absolutely
clean and without a single double enten-
Dire. II does not depend for success upon
mere horseplay. Every man and woman
IL the cast has something to do and does
hot Il, l.
dummies. There is no skirt-Clance, and
no imitation of Carmencita. The COM
pany has been selected with view to the
ability of every member Of it in some
special line and every one gets a fair
chance for the exhibition of his or her
ability in that line. 1t IS said that there
is no piece on the stage to-day which can
pass an evening more pleasantly for an
audience in search of unauthorized fun
than 1.-The Fakir," with his group of
merrymakers.
In the company are Max Arnold, ALI
Hampton, Rosa France, Lillian Mark
ham, Helen Reimer, John Gilroy, Eva
Randolph, William L. Mack, Alice Garlic,
Dan Barrett, Stella Ellis, Madge Abbott
and others.
CREDIT LORRAINE"
Lillian Lewis and the Credit Lorraine
Company are on their way west. Oftheir
appearance in Salt Lake the Tribune
says:
Among the most emphatic successes of
the theatrical season will be recorded
Credit Lorraine by the Lillian Lewis
Company last evening. Miss Lewis,
coming stranger to Salt Lake, should
feel proud of the warmth of her recep-
tion-a warmth evinced in frequent APP
plause and in calls and recalls at the end
of each act It was an audience that,
starting apathetic, soon became so en-
rap5 in the production as to give way to
laughter. breathless suspense, cheers,
horror and tears in turn.
The story of Credit Lorraine is skill
fully constructed and happily conceived.
1t is one of the best emotional plays that
has been presented to us in many a day,
The magnitude of its scope is such as to
compel the closest attention of the nearer
as the loss of the least portion breaks the
thread of the whole plot.
STAGE NOTES.
Money is still unlocked with "a Bunch
of Keys"
seriously i'll.
When show is tied up the performers
are 'at liberty"
the London Gaiety Company.
kidnapped" has stolen the hearts of
those who love thrilling drama.
Mrs. 4: M. Bates is playing Mrs. Stan
ley in ''The Blue and the Gray at the
Alcazar.
Lillian Markham, now with "The
Fakir,n returns to 1.-THE Parlor Match''
next season.
The stage manager of Honest Hearts
and Willing Hands" is Strong; but he is
! not as strong as Sullivan.