The record-union., 1892-01-16
music And THE DRAMA.
The Clunie 0pera-HOuse Under
New Management.
First-Class Plays and People and Low
Prices-Maude Granger on the joys
Millionaire -General Stage News.

OF CHRISTMAS Dan Sully In line
Millionaire General Stage News.
The Clunie Opera-house in this city
will be opened Monday, the 18th instant,
regularly, under the management of
Washington Norton, an old-time and
practiced manager and actor
The house has been repapered, fine
large heater put in, with nine hot-air
registers, new carpets are being laid, ex-
ira doors to openings put in. etc. II. P.
Duckert from the Alhambra, London,
has been for two weeks engaged in re-
painting the scenery of the house by Mr..
Norton's direction. Mr.. Duckert comes
Endorsed as scenic painter of ability.
Mr.. Norton will open the house every
night in the week and for Saturday matt
nees. He announces in a card published
this morning that his prices will be very
low, the best reserved seats being but
| fifty cents, and ranging from that down
ward to fifteen cents. But he is very en-
phatic in stating that he does not wish it
| to be understood thereby that cheap
| plays or cheap people are to be presented.
On the contrary he AYERS that first-class
drama and comedy, worthy the criticism
of the most refined and exacting theater-
goers, will be the rule, and that he will
| have only capable people about him,
those drawing good salaries and worth
every cent paid. But, as he puts it, he
believes "a well-filled auditorium at low
/ prices is better than thin house at high
prices, with people of modest means ex-
| Guided"
| He dwells upon the necessity, in
| o0 raiol ait Iy ~ to ~
amusement being constantly open, be-
| cause transients who come to do business
! in city as a rule want to visit theater
| in the evening. If the hotel reading-room
is their only possible resort, they avoid the
| town and go to San Francisco, where
they can enjoy dramatic performances
| any evening. There Is great deal of
| strength in that statement and it ought
| to come with force to business men.
| Mr.. Norton announces that cleanliness
of drama, capability of cast, fair dealing
and no favoritism, and politeness by at
| taches will be the rule of the Opera
! house," and that his success or failure
will be that of the community.
| The stock company with which Mr..
| Norton will open consists of Percy
Hunting of Boston as leading man, Miss
Ada Sterling of Chicago as leading lady,
and Miss Rene Slower, Miss Mary Herne,
Roy Glenfell, Warren De Lano, Albert
| W. "dIuS, w. d. MISS 1Qd
Aubrey, Miss Florence AXtell, Mrs. Ma
RE 6. Bishop, P. G. Craig, William S.
| Lansing, Frederic Bulla, Theodore West.
lingo Tyrrell. dramatic author and
actor, will be stage manager. He is cred
tied as thoroughly competent and of
broad experience. The play for the first
week will be Mr.. TyrrelPs arrangement
of Buchanan and Pettit's sensational
drama, His Natural Life.''
Speaking of this piece the Brooklyn
! On. " Times says:
lingo Tyrrell, the author actor, heads a
| company of true merit, which this week is
| presenting lingo Terrell and Marcus Clarke's
| Observation-Disclosures drama, sHis Natural
| Life" at Proctor's Theater. At the opening
| performance last evening the house was
crowded and not a seat was to be obtained
| after s O'Clock. The audience was a demon
| strative one and applause was showered on
| the different members OF the cast The uproar
was so great after the third act that Mr. Tyr
rell and his entire company were compelled to
| appear before the curtain. Mr.. TyrreIl made
| an address in which he said he greatly appre-
ciated the kindness of American audiences
particularly those of Brooklyn, and that when
| he returned to Australia his reception in the
! Eastern District would be q green spot in his
memory. OF the play itself it can be said that
| it has q strong plot and fine scenery. The
! plot of the piece is laid in England and Van
Dieman's Land and turns on the well-worn
pivot, the possession of real estate and money
| OF a relative. 1t is interesting, however and
| greatly pleased those who attended the thea
| ter last evening. lingo Tyrrell as Josh Graves
| did creditabie work and was warmly APP
plauded.
| The special scenery to be shown in this
| piece will be a great shipwreck scene, a
rescue in mid-ocean, prison scene and
| logging convict.
Mrs. Norton is TO be Treasurer of the
house, Karl Toelle orchestral leader,
James Roach machinist, and p. Duckert
scenic artist.
Mr.. Norton, at cost of $1,000, has pur-
| chased the Pacific Coast rights to the fol-
| lowing English and American dramatic
| successes: "a Million of Money" 1.-The
Rights of Man." "His Natural Lite"
Redemption, His Private Character"
| 1.-The Evil That Men Do, 1.-THE South
erner," etc. They will be produced in
weekly succession.
In his relations thus far with the COM
munity Mr.. Norton has impressed the
people very favorably, and he has won,
! by his straightforwardness gentlemanly
department and businesslike manner,
the respect of all who have come in con-
tact with him.
MISS GRANGER'S CHRISTMAS.
| The following account of an interview
with Miss Maud Granger is from the
| Wichita DAILY Eagle:
The wealthy lady, the society lady, the
musical lady and the literary lady were
| all heard from in yesterday mornings
| Eagle, with reference to how they in
| tended spending Christmas, and also as
to which was the happ1est Christmas in
! their lives. What they said was read
with good deal of interest, and no one
read it with more interest than Miss Maud
Granger, the popular and accomplished
actress, who appeared at the opera-house
| last night in that old but still intensely
| interesting emotional society drama, Ca
MILE" 1t was the intention of the editor
of the Eagle to get the statement of an
! actress in answer to the two questions,
and Miss Maude Granger was selected, as
| a typical society actress for that purpose,
| but, unfortunately, she did not arrive in
the city in time to be interviewed for yes
terday mornings paper.
Last night, however, the EagLe re-
| porter, in company with Manager Ogston,
called on the lustrous-eyed lady at her
| dressing-room, and found her ready for
the stage, dressed in robe that the proud
| Empress of France in the palmy DAYS of
! Napoleon Ill, might well envy. Upon
the reporters entrance hand as white as
snow, as soft as down, and as shapely as
that of Grecian goddess, was extended
to him. A pair of eyes as lustrous as the
| most brilliant pair Of stars in the firma-
| ment illumed the surroundings, and the
| honeyed words of welcome rendered him
would swell the head of an Emperor un-
| til it would burst his crown. Her low
necked dress revealed one of the most
beautiful necks that ever left the FEM
mime mold, and those arms-well, they