The record-union., 1892-04-23
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Metropolitan Theater this even
ing 1.-THE Bostoniansp will sing one of
the most charming of comic operas,
Robin Hood" We have already noted
the success OF this company and named
the leading people who are to appear. It
is well, however, to refer again to the
leading soprano, Mrs. Carrie Hamilton,
California artist, and until recently
Miss Carrie MetZner, a singer who has
had much success and whose musical
future is full of high promise. H. C.
Barnabee, one of the best of comedians:
Eugene CowleS, a baritone of notably
fine quality; Edwin Hoff, Tom Karl, w.
ii. Macdonald, Geo. Nottingham, Peter
Lang and others, and notably Jessie Bart
lett Davis, one OF the most popular con-
traltoS and actresses on the stage, are all
members OF the troupe. 1t comes
equipped with fine scenery and stage
properties and good chorus and orches-
ira. The recent engagement of "The
BoStonlanS' in San Francisco was the
most successful ever played by any opera
company at the Baldwin. and here the
assurance is given that the house will be
full, ii having been half sold already.
Robin Hood is a comic opera of the
best order, is free from horse play and
butloonery and is musically crisp. spark
ling and full of charming melodies Its
success wherever well sung has been as
the New York CoalHlerctdt- Il dUertiSer
puts it, magical.
At the Clunie Opera-house Tuesday
night next the famous ticket-of-leave
man, George Bidwell, will lecture and
tell the story of Forging His Own
ChainS.' Seats will be on sale Monday
morning. Bidwell and his brother
twenty years ago were sent to an Eng
hsh prison for life for having by forgery.
swindled the Bank of England out of
S2,50O.000. George Bidwell has told the
story of his crimes in book form and how
ne and his brother (both Americans)
came to be sent for life to a British
prison. Now, that both are at liberty.
George has taken to the lecture platform,
not TO eXalt crime, but for the two pur-
poses of showing youth how man can
by neglect of his moral sensibilities be
led into crime, what punishment crime
pose something of the rigors and
trials of English prison life Both
brothers owe their liberation to the un-
wearying devotion of sister, who by
holiness, woman's wit, patience and un-
tirlng love, that fairly touched upon the
throne of England in appeal, achieved
that deemed impossible. No more noted
case of forgery has ever been known than
that OF the BIdwells. Before il allIothers
pale into lnSlgnifcance. The story lead
ing up to it is intensely interesting. as
also IS that of the hardShips of prison lie
in England. and so far as the recital
serves as warning, it is held TO justify
the appearance OF George Bidwell upon
the lecture platform. The New York
Herald recently gave an entire page to
the story of the Bidwelis and the details
OF their crime, which involved a plot that
for intricacy, cunning and magnitude
overshadowed any criminal swindle ever
perpetrated.
AT the New Pavilion on the 9th in
slant, Senator" Hamden, who managed
the successful Cake Walk entertainment
in San Francisco, viii manage similar
affair here Only the few know what a
cake walk is. Springing from an old
South custom, when the amusements of
the eolored people were very few and very
primitive, the cake walk is now a contest
Tor prizes for superior ease and grace of
carriage. In this many contestants can
enter, but theyAre sifted out as the en-
tertainment proceeds until the decision
lies between two couples. Prizes are