The record-union., 1892-08-13

Miss sybn sanderson Coming Jeffreys
Lewis New Play-Personal Notes
and Some Criticism-'Glori

"Gloriana," which Charles Frohman's
Comedy Company brings to this city on
Monday ana Tuesday next, has had
great success wherever produced. Its
run in New York was one hundred and
fifty nights, and in San Francisco TWEEN
ty-five nights. 1t is built upon the plot
of the French comedy "Truc d'Arthur."
At the Globe Theater, London, it is still
on, and runs its three hundred night.
The play is a series of masquerading by
three of the characters, and the story in
brief is as follows:
Leopold Fitz-Jocelyn is about to marry
Miss Chadwick, the daughter OF rich
birmingham tanner, but he is somewhat
embarrassed by certain episodes in his
nte IN which figures a dashing young
widow, Mrs. Gloriana Lowering, and a
trip TO Brighton. Miss Chadwick and
her father visit JOcelyn in his bachelor
apartments, and just after they leave the
mouse the widow is announced. 1t occurs
10 Jocelyn 10 change clothes with Spinks,
his valet, and pretend to be the servant
instead OF the gentleman he appeared
while flirting with the widow at Bright
on. Spinks dons his masters clothes
and the master masqueradeS as q me-
NAL.
The widow, being of a romantic turn of
mind, instead OF being disguised at the
fact that she has lavished her affections
upon Il servant, takes greater fancy to
Jocelyn than ever. and insists on contin-
uing the Irritation. Spinks, the sOi-disdnt
master gives the masquerading Jocelyn
the worst characters, but it ayails nothing,
and the widow insists upon taking the
iVeried adnirer into her own service in
order to have him always near her.
JOcelyn reluctantly consents. While in
the yWIdOVr'S nplTNinvv hn hnT, Rms
sian lover. Count Exitoff, the latter also
encountering the real SpinkS disguised
as the master.
Mrs. Coverings servant girl, Kitty,
discovers her old sweetheart in the form
OF Spinks, and this greatly complicates
matters, mixing up master and man with
mistress and maid IN various love affairs.
Mr.. Chadwick and the Count discover
the parties in peculiar situations which
results in the russian challenging Spinks
to duel, and nearly causes the postpone
ment of the marriage between Jocelyn
and Miss Chadwick. Finally the Counts
jealousy is .aIIayed by q ruse of Kitty's.
the masquerading is explained to the sat
istaction OF the innocent parties, Mrs.
Lowering also having disguised herself,
and the curtain falls on three happy pairs
of united lovers.
The cast has been selected from Charles
FrOhman's 400 for the sole purpose of
Dldy iuS ILllS COluGuy anu INCLUDES SQCD
talent as l.. j. Henley, Henrietta Cross
man, Frederick Bond, May Robson,
Charles b. Wells, Margaret Robinson,
Edwin Stevens, Joseph Alien, Thomas
A. Wise, William Robson and others.
STAGE NOTES.
During the coming season Margaret
Mather will present i'll this city one of
the repertoire Of plays for which she is
famous.
Edwin Stevens, the leading comedian
from the New York Casino. and a San
Francisco boy, is a member OF Charles
Frohman's Gloriana Company.
Manager Clunie has induced the Charles
Frohmau Company to play in Sacrament
TO at popular prices. Good; and FrOh-
man is sure the 81 80 charge won't ''go'
in this city.
Edwin Booth is rusticating on the
shores of buzzard's Bay, Mass, where
he is the guest of Joseph Jefferson His
health is said to have considerably i'm
proved of late.
Thomas A. Wise, another Californian,
is member and stage manager of Chas.
Frohman's comedy, "Gloriana," to be
played in Sacramento on Monday and
Tuesday nights next.
There will be an exhibit by the scenic
painters at the Worlds Fair. The Amer
lean Society of Scenic Painters has APP
piled for space and very creditable
showing should be made.
Sybn Sanderson, the new star in the
armament of songs, is coming to Califor-
MIA. Why should she not follow the ex-
ample of Mary Anderson and first APP
pear in the city of her birth, Sacramento
Forty photographs and half dozen
Water-color studies were taken of the
gundeck of the United States man-of-war
kearsage by the scenic artist who prepared
the setting for Lift and Davis production
of The Ensign"
Peter Robertson, the dramatic critic of
the San Francisco Chronicle, has been
quietly writing the libretto for comic
opera, for which IL. j. Stewart has nearly
completed the score. Mr.. Stewart is also
composing another opera, for which Clay
Green wrote the libretto.
Tuxedo" made hit in San Francisco.
The old thin cry that the metropolis will
not receive play first presented in the
interior is exploded. ''Tuxedo," 1.-THE
Lost Paradise and 1.-The Witch" all in