The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-03
OUR ADJUSTMENTS
Notes of Business at the
Theaters.
ManteIl Gives Touch of the Super.
natural" AristoCraCy -" La
File de Nine. Angot."

Robert Mantell INDUCES in frequent
change of programme at the New Cali
fornla. He has already given US "The
Face In the Moonlight" "Monbars" and
THE Corsican Brothers" The first men,
toned is the best thing he has done. consid-
erlng him as the leading individual. for his
support amounts to but little. Mon bars"
he has given here before, and the pre-
sentation on Tuesday night showed no i'm
provement in his study of the hero. Du-
mas celebrated romantic play. or melo-
drama, as it has been sometimes called,
that Fechter .relisned so much, and from
which Archie Gunther absorbed his ven-
delta business for Mr.. Barnes of New
York." occupied the boards last night and
was played to a good attendance. 1.-THE
Corsican Brothers" seems to have a peren-
NAL interest, and can always get hear
pervading the drama, that the twinship of
Fablen and Louis Del Franchi. who came
into the world ligamented together like
the Siamese brothers, Chang and Eng.
gives them sympathy with each other in
all tn cir affairs Of life, is we'll preserved.
or course the scalpel of the surgeon sepa-
rated the infant CorSicanS; but no matter
how far they may be removed from each
other after they had arrived at mans
estate, there was still complete commune ion
Of body and soul. When Louis Is killed
in duel In Paris Fabien experiences the
pain of the wound he being at the old home
in Sulacaro. Corsica. The apparition
Fabien. was pretty we'll managed.
hut the illusion was not as COM
plete as it might haye been. This
old Corsican mansion with its psyche
logical curios, must have been rather q
dreary place at the best, and the first two
acts. taken up for the most part by the
brothers. one in France and the other In
Corsica, relating to Alfred Meynard. a
visitor, the peculiar privileges Of the Del
Franchi family in the second-sight and
ghost business. are moDotonous to de-
gree. Each brother goes over the same
story to Meynard, as if ii was pet with
both of them and new listener to the de-
tails luxury. The duel in the forest
glade (act 81 Is an exciting episode. but
taken altogether the piece is rather un-
comfortable in its main features, and the
only reason why it draws at all is, we
opine, to be found in tie superstitious
feeling latent in every ones nature. The
same programme will be the order Of TO-
night.
"Aristocracy" continues the attraction
at the Baldwin. While there is no par
ticular dramatic effort in the piece, and it
may be said to be based on the news
columns OF fashionable society journal.
there is enough weil-presented matter in
this line to please the feminine taste.
"Aristocracv" ought to be first class as
matinee attraction.
ia File de Madame Angot" makes
things lively about the Tivoli just row.
especially as some of the members of the
management and the company are showing
clean bill Of health again. The light
Affections. which were but for a moment,
worked out for them nice stock of
patience, and now that the complaints
have almost entirely disappeared afforded
the cause of much thankfulness.
Roger la Homie" will play this week
out at the StocKwell. Its fortnight's busl-
ness will sum up In a manner satisfaction
to the management. "Mr. Potter of
Texas" takes its plare next Monday even
ing. Archibald c. Gunther, author of the
Texan dramatic picture. wrote, it Is said.
The part of Sampson Potter to fit l.. r.
Stockwell, aud we will see how near he
came to doing 1t when the play is presented
a. the time stated. for Stockwell will dress
himself In the suit Gun ther has provided
for him. The performance will still fur
Their be rendered notable by the fact that
it is for the benefit Of the manager OF the
the theater-ths first complimentary he
has received at this house.
At the Grove-street Theater the much
worn Lady of Lyons" is being played in
an accountable manner by the principal
people of the cast Pauline. as treated by
Miss Kate Dalgleisb. and Claude. by
N0rvai McGregor, escape in degree hack
neyeu methods and new, and, at the same
time. intelligent features show.