The record-union., 1892-10-27
ADJUSTMENTS.
'The Stowaway' had large audience
at the Metropolitan Theater last night.
The blood and thunder drama will
draw

B
] The box-sheet of the Metropolitan
/ Theater will be open at the Clunie Opera
house Office at 9 o'clock this morning for
sale Of seats for any of the three perform
ances Of the new and sparkling comedy,
1 "Nlobe." Manager Todd, in response
to complaint about having box sales for
/ The Metropolitan at the opera-house, eX-
plains that at the opera-house are the
| otnees OF the management Of the theaters,
artificial light does not have to be en-
| ployed, there is plenty Of office room, and
| 1t IS greatly more convenient for the
management, besides being central.
At Snowflake Park Saturday and Sum
day afternoons. from to o'clock, there
will be given an exhibition by Cunning
HAMS Australian Cannibals and
Boomerang -Throwers." There are eight
of these black trackers in the party and
they have been brought to the country
for exhibition at the Worlds Fair next
SprIng. They give exhibitions of native
dances and weaponry, etc, but especially
of the throwing OF that remarkable
weapon, the boomerang. The San Fran
cisco Chronicle, speaking of their per-
tormances in that city, where they eX
cited great curiosity and interest for seg-
eral weeks, said:
Their performance was unlike any
ever given here before. 1t included not
only throwing of the boomerang, but of
weird, native dances, which brought
out their barbarism better than the hand
bills could. They are powerfully built
bushmen, graceful in movement, swift as
deer, and are peculiarly strange and un-
prepossesslng in countenance. They dress
IN picturesque costumes. In native
state the bushman is usually clad only in
p Z a esIr al pcf.- IN
throwing the boomerang, that curiously-
shaped piece of wood which violates in
It's swift flight through the air the law Of
grayltation, and puzzles the wise men Of
science. The dangerous weapons whiZZed
| through the air i'll erratic course, whirl-
ing, 1t seemed, a wheel within wheel.
curvlng now up and again down, and
coming uncomtortably near the heads Of
the spectators, but always touching the
ground a few feet from the man who sent
it on its flight. The black men were very
accurate in throwing the weapons. They
We're only playing, and would not use the
heavier boomerang welded in war. 1t
was too dangerous and might hurt some
one. When one of the heavier ones strikes
a man it goes straight through him, and
the bushmen never fail to hit the object at
which they aim. After displaying their
dexterity with the weapon in a variety Of
ways, using both hands with equal ease,
the black trackers, including the two
women, gave an exhibition of their ma
tive 'corrobrie' dance. 1t was a weird,
fantastic measure, with slow, monoton-
Gus chant that grew louder and louder as
the dance progressed, and the mems eyes
flashed and their bodies writhed in strange
contortions. The men stamped with their
feet and twisted and turned as they
chanted the music and kept time with the
slow beating of their boomerangs."
The Oakland Times thus described one
form of throwing the weapon: liking
Billy and his five accomplices are won
ders in the art of curve pitching. They
were a mOtley-looking throng as they
stood in line with a bundle of Stats bent
near the center, and with the greatest ap-
parent ease throw them around corners
and send them spinning into the air cir
cling and swooping. one by one they
would step forward and with the greatest
apparent ease send a boomerang whistling
out over the lake and long after everyone
had forgotten that it had been cast it
would come circling back from the direc-
ton of the Piedmont Bath building"