The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-15
ADJUSTMENTS

At the Metropolitan Theater this and
tomorrow evening will be presented W.
J. Gilmore's spectacle and comic extrav-
aganza THE New Devils Auction" Some
sixty people are said to be in the com
pany; certainly as it appeared at the new
California Fheater, san Francisco, lately,
the stage was filled with figures. The
scenery is all new, very brilliant, and
was painted especially for the spectacle.
The text has been rewritten and new
features introduced into the action and
business Of the play, SO that it bears but
slight resemblance to the original
Golden Branch" But in wit, activity
and general excellence the claim is
stoutly maintained that the new piece is
superior all around to the old. In the
troupe is ballet corps led by Mile
Adele CamiaS, a very graceful and highly
skilled premier; Louise Dempsey and
Victoria Walters, in buriesQue and
sOubrette parts, are well-knoWn sue
cesses; w. II. Bartholomew is a favorite
! burlesque actor, and George H. Adams
is famous as a clown. Among the spe-
cialists are the BOsoobies, wonderfully
agile and clever ground and lofty men,
and the LOrellas, skilled acrobatS, as
also the comical Tiepsties, family of
eight eccentrics. The mystical black art
trick is introduced with entirely new
features and many clever tricks Of leger-
demain and modern magic. The
marches Of the Orientals and the dance OF
the Nautch girls are especially attractive
features Of the spectacle.
Announcement is made this morning
that on Monday evening the Clunie
Opera-house will be opened under the
management Of Washington Norton. He
will present for the first week each even
/ ing, and at a Saturday matinee, the sensa-
tiOnal drama, His Natural Life" The
prices are announced 10 be 80. % and Il
cents, with best reserved seats 80 cents.
! The opera-house has been much i'm
proved, Will be comfortably warmed, re-
Carpeted and otherwise made neat and
| attractive. Mr.. Duckert, the scenic-painteI
OF Mr.. Norton'S company, IS repainting
all the scenery, and has prepared special
sets for the first play The stage man
ager is 10 be lingo Tyrrell, a dramatic
author and actor who has had success
throughout his career. The leading man
is Percy Hunting, late of Boston, and
the leading lady Miss Ada Sterling, late o.
Hooley's rheater, Chicago, but another
/ leading lady takes her place the first
week. Mr.. Norton says that while the
prices of admission have been placed
! low, the plays presented will be iirst-ciass
and the company will be composed at
/ all times of thoroughly capable and
well salaried people. He promises to
! present entertainments of a clean charac-
ter, refining and sound in moral, and
that Will satisfy exacting tastes, and that
only the prices of admission viii be
cheap. His idea is that he can as well
! play at admission fees that give people OF
small means opportunity TO attend fire.
/ quently, as well as the well-to-do, and
thus have larger audiences of both,
as TO put the prices to the higher figure
and have smaller audiences. Mr.. Nor
/ ton is an old-time manager, and has been
in the theatrical business for thirty years.
! He has expended large sum in organic
] ing stock company Of all around good
! quality and intends to give Continuous
! season" business a full, fair trial in Sac
| ramentO. He has met with much en-
! enlargement here and has created a very
/ favorable impression by his business
/ like methods. a theater open continu-
/ ously here, with good stock company
/ and occasional stars in special pieces, il
/ has long been believed would be of posi-
/ tive business benefit TO the city, as it is
known that strangers who are theater-
goers are more attracted 10 Sacramento,
and TO do business here, if there is every
evening legitimate place Of amusement
open. With both theaters in this city in
friendly competition this need viii be
well met.
Capitol Lodge, No. g, International
Association of Machinists, will give its
second annual ball at Turner Hall on the
Dist