The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-31
ADJUSTMENTS.

Az inc MeUrOpOlltan 1neat6r Monday
night Turner's English Girls" will ap-
pear. From the billboard display one
would think it leg show bare and sim
pie. But the manager is insistert that it
is an entirely proper burlesque vaude-
vile entertainment. The MINNEAPOLIS
Tribune is cited as saying: George Tur-
ner's English Gaiety Girls opened their
week S engagement at the Pence yester-
day to two large audiences, and everyone
went away well satisfied. The ladies are
all young and pretty and the wardrobe is
gorgeous. The singing of Miss Ella
Francis, the premier soprano vocalist, is
most pleasant. The Sisters La Verne
were encored to the echo. Charles Dunn
is a sketch artist of talent. Fred Barth,
the eccentric grotesque comedian, fully
sustained his reputation as a trick come
dian. Miss Nellie Russell held the stage
for over thirty minutes and was then
compelled to ask the audience to excuse
her. The presentation of Cleopatra was
very fine and took well also. The Merry
Female Club sent everyone home in good
humor."
The extravaganza" so called, of the
stage is oftenest eclipsed by reality.
In the thrilling drama now being
played at the Clunie Opera-house by
Dailey's New York stock company there
is a sensational fire scene.
A rag-buyer, an Irish lad, lives in a
howell, in the outskirts of London. He has
accumulated money, and has fortunately
found more, for which there is no owner.
The hero of the play having, when he
was set upon, befriended the boy, the lat
ter, in return, saves him when the hero
is in distress, and protlers his coin to him
to aid him.
The two are overheard by tramp.
who, when the lad is alone, breaks into
his room, attempts to brain him, but only
knocks him senseless, and then robs the
boy of his gold.
TO conceal the crime, aided by his
wife, the vagabond casts the unconscious
youth into the cellar and fires the house.
But the hero comes in time, drags the
youth out, bursts out window and saves
him from the devouring flames. This is
called the extravant, the sensational, the
over-colored, the improbable OF the
drama.
Let us see. In the same week in which
this ''extravagant" play is presented at
the Opera-house a real tragedy is enacted
just five miles distant. At Brighton
Station two or more tramps break into
the station house in the dead of night
probably brain the woman in charge-at
least overcome her, rob her of money and
lewelry, and setting ire to the building,
it is burned to the ground, and of the un-
fortunate lady only the charred trunk
of her body is found in the ruins Which
is the most tragic of the two pictures, the
mimic or the real?
The Inside Track" has run the week
to good business. The company is good
one, all around reliable. Waldron and
Miss Calef have become favorites as
comedians, Mr.. Duffield, Miss AIIister.
Mr.. Cleaves, Mr.. Snow, Mr.. Hess and
Miss Lingham have won public favor.
and the support has been clean-cut, faith
full and capable. For first week the
new venture has succeeded. This after
noon the first matinee will be given.
Tonight and tomorrow night the last
performance of The Inside Track
Next week, beginning Monday night,
the new troupe is to show its hand in all
comedy performances, the play being the
rafting, the manager calls it roaring"
low comedy summer Boarders," in
which Miss Mollie Stockmeyer will
make her first appearance.