The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-04-02

notes.
A. P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date OF March 10Th, says
..The only novelty in town on Monday
was a farce comedy entitled Our Grab
Bag at Nm. III. Dunlevy's New Park
Theater. When I first saw Later ON
thought it the worst farce comedy had
ever seen, but then came The Hustler
and little while after { and l." and
changed my mind. our Grab Bag forces
me again TO alter my opinion.
Eat the Bijou Theater Nellie McHenry
has made a telling hit with her new play,
A Night at the Circus which will have
run of four weeks. 1t is very funny
play and Judging from. the large audi
enceS she has drawn, her engagement
will be very profitable. Every dramatic
editor in town has a good word to say
about her, and ii looks very much as If
she is the most popular comedienne IN
America to-day.
katie Emmett, charming actress, also
came to town on Monday and has at
tracted considerable attention with her
play, The Waits of New York. The
Barnum and Bailey Circus did not open
on Monday to the large audiences which
in former days greeted them.
''On Tuesday A. NJ. Palmer brought
out Augustus Thomas dramatization of
+. Hopkinson Smiths novel, Colonel
y
Theater contained one of the old-time dis
tinguished audiences which filled the
playhouse when it was Wallack'S. Those
who went to see a strong and stirring
drama were of course disappointed, for
the play Is just what might have been eX-
pected. 1t contains few incidents, and
the dramatic action is conferred solely in
the development of character exposing
the weaknesses, the many delightful
traits and the eccentricities of Colonel
George Fairfax Carter, &. S. A. Mr..
Thomas has followed the story of the
book closely, and the dialogue is delight
fully fresh and the humor keen and tell
ing. The motive of the play is set forth
almost at the beginning OF the play when
the Colonel's friend Fitzpatrick declares
that the only real Americans of this day
are TO be found in the South. And the
aim of the dramatist is to portray type
OF Southern character, composite in its
breadth, mingling all the salient traits of
that people as they were in their days of
prosperity, as they still are in the remote
neighborhoods of the old States. Colonel
Carter is, therefore, much more than a
sketch. lie represents the virtues and
the feelings, the humor and the sentiment
the chiyalry, the fervor, the impulsive-
ness, the fidelity TO lofty ideals, the ne
glectfulneSS of practical details, the in
geniousneSs of a race. Mr.. Palmer GER
talnly deserves great praise, for he has
set the play in the most perfect manner,
and il would be hard to SurDasS in eX-
cellence the two views given OF the old
Virginia home. Il. NJ. Holland played
the part OF the Colonel with great deli
cacy, and in his hands it will ripen into
one of the great characters of the stage;
SO also will Charles Harris Chad, the
faithful old negro. While the play is
purely episode and needs cutting it made
"a brilliant success"
THE L. s. MARINE BAND.
The United States Marine Band of
Washington comes to the Pacific Coast
for the first time in its career, which has
extended over period covering nearly
a hundred years. The band has ever
been regarded as part and parcel OF the
Government household at Washington,
even doing Government duty, an adj
junct especially of the Presidents house
hold. 1t occupies first place in all Gov
ernmental occasions Of unusual cere-
mony, parades, inaugurals ETC., and is
the.one and only organization detailed to
render brilliant with music all Presiden-
tial receptions and affairs of state at the
White House. 1t is, in short, the only
organization of its kind in America. The
director, Sousa, is chief musician of the
army and navy OF the United States. The
coming Of this great national band to
Sacramento is, therefore, an event OF
rarest interest and importance to the
the city and the region. The Marine
Band IS a credit to this Government for
it maintains not only the supreme place
among ali the military bands of the coun-
try, but a position second TO none in eX-
istence. Its performances are of the most
brilliant sort. This is conceded at home
and abroad. Its public appearances are
invariably hailed with demonstrations,
whether ia special concerts of its own or
upon State and national affairs wherein
the whole people are interested.
John Philip SouZa, the Director, is
man of rare type, not only as u master in
his art, leader and composer, but indi-
viduallv as man of education, of soci-
ETY. and of public affairs. He is endowed
with that rareSt of qualities, magnetism,
by which he achieves and maintains Won
derful control over his men, every one of
whom is an artist, in fact, andinfuses in
them the same ardor, enthusiasm and
fervor which he himself feels in the pro-
duction of whatever Is in hand. His
influence is electric, and pervades even
the fartheSt corner of the audience-room
Ii is his mastery baton that has brought
the Marine Band up TO the highest stan
dard possible for military band TO at
tain, and made the fame OF the band of
the United States Government equal TO
that of the greatest bands of the Old
World.
But Souza and the Marine Band of
ureS of these grand military concerts of
this transcontnental tour. There is
songstress 10 be heard who has earned
and maintained an equal position among
the great vocalists of the times.
Mile. Marie Decca, a true American
girl, prima whom all Americans may
well be proud to honor, comes upon this
tour with the Marine Band, and will be
heard at both grand concerts at the Pa
vilion on April 10th. Mile. Decca is prob
ably unknown TO the general public on
the coast, and little is the wonder. She
returned To America only a year and
4 half ago. but not as a stranger Her
fame had preceded her. Several wears
since she went 10 Paris. after long study
in New \ DIRK and Boston, and completed
her vocal studies under the best masters
there. Mime. Marchesi was the last.
Upon her debut in grand concert in Paris
there was a Juror. All Paris was aston
ished over the appearance of the Young
American singer. Mapleson heard of her
in London. hurried to Paris. listened 10
her voice, and in less than twenty-four
hours afterward had secured her at
high salary for his Grand Opera Conn
pany. then at Covent Garden, London
Her debut in opera was in 1.-The Magic
Flute.n Her success was instantaneous
She quickly became the prima of THAI
great company and her name shoue
brilliantly throughout Europe. s.She
Is the most brilliant soprano America has
sent us III ten years." said The Err OF
London.
When she appeared in New York last
spring the Sun said: Her singing ap-
proacheS the marvellous: Decea mas now
established throughout the East the same
fame she made in Europe. She has a
repertoire of twenty operas and hundreds
of songs. Her voice is wonderfully
pure, sweet and sympathetic, and its fiex-
Utility is more like that of n S0DU-hird IN