The record-union., 1893-11-23
ADJUSTMENTS.

evening the comedy-melodrama (ln fact,
lust such a com mbination), 1.-THE Nihilists,"
will be repeated. Mr.. Kremer has made
an excellent impression in the play.
which is from his pen. The piece is well
mounted and excellently played.
Peter T. Daley, with the farce-comedy
"a Country Sport" drew an immense
audience at the Metropolitan Theater last
night. Literally, the house was packed,
and fully hundred people stood the
whole evening in the side aisles and
lobby below, while as many more on the
sides of the gallery. The company IS
strong in farce comedy; the piece one OF
the best of its class. 1t is full OF actlcn,
song, dance, comely women, and capltal
comedy specialists among the men. The
applause was almost continuous and the
laughter constant among the auditors.
Ben Stern, the Manager for the Fanny
Davenport Company, is in the city. Mr..
Stern has managed for Miss Davenport
in all advance work for four years. He
is never related to any second-class dra-
matte troupes, but is invariably with
the best. Miss Davenport is to play here
| four nights; on the first three presenting
"Cleopatra," in which character she has
no superior. 1t is claimed by many that
she eXcels the famous Bernhardt in tho
character Her troupe embraces tifty-two
people. The scenery for CLEOPATRA" is
all carried by the company. This scenery
fills two largo cars closely packed, and 1t
| requires tWenty-four hours, day and
night work, to set it upon the stage. For
that purpose Manager Todd furnishes
twenty-three stage hands and Miss
! Davenport six skilled stage carpenters.
MIR. Todd bargains also to supply eleven
musicians in the orchestra, and Miss
Davenport one, and to put full chorus
on the stage. Two of the scenes are
| beautiful cycloramas, something mover
before shown here. One of the barges
used carries fifteen people, and will al
most fill the stage. TO prepare for the
play the Metropolitan stage is to be COM
pletely cleared of its present fittings.
All in all, it promises to be the most note
worthy dramatic and spectacular produc-
! ton combined ever presented here.
There was jam at the entrance of the
Metropolitan Theater last night as early
as o'clock, but the doors did not open
| till the announced time, 7:30. The people
then rushed in pell-mell, and SO crowded
and pushed at the gallery entrance that
one of the fine glass Window-doorS OF the
dress circle lobby was crushed in. The
people rushed into the gallery and cap
tured the front rows OF reserved seats,
and there was any amount of trouble to
| get them out and deliver the seats TO those
who held reserved seat checks. Chief OF
Police Rodgers complains bitterly be-
cause the doors were not opened when
the crowd became SO dense. Another
! thing that was com planned of by the peo-
| pie was the failure to open the K-street
doors of exit from the gallery at the close
of the performance, instead of diScharg-
| ing the whole house through one hall
way. The supplemental exit certainly
! should be used in all cases where the
| theater is so crowded-it was provided
| for just such uses.
There appeared in San Francisco last
week child pianist, genius not yet 10
years of age, who created furore III
metropolitan musical circles and led the
newspapers into giving columns of de-
scription of her playing and her remark
able musical powers. 1t was this little
girl who so delighted Lolita at one Of her
last week concerts, that the actress went
| into ecstacies of delight, and stepping 10
| the front of her box led the audience in
applause, and afterward went upon the
stage and took the young miss in her
arms, with the impulsive ardor of her
admiration for wonderful genius.
Augusta Cottlow's success at the East
was what 1t has been on this coast. Every
music critic has paid her honors, and the
press unanimously agrees that she is a
prodigy. Il. L. Cohn, the well-known
| tenor singer of this city, learning that no
management would risk the heavy cost
of bringing Gussie Cottlow here, has re-
solved to undertake the task himself, and
yesterday closed a contract for her APP
| pearance in Sacramento next Wednes-
n irrhf f,stIG tn q n q
public TO ''see him through" as he puts
it. Mr.. Cohn has for years served
the people SO generously with his voice
on public occasions, and for charities and
| scores of entertainments, that it is rea-
sonable to be concluded that he will "be
seen through as he desires. Augusta
Cottlow began to play when toddler OF
three years. AS a mere child she declared
that musical tones were seen by her, and
that each has its color. Thus, to her, G is
always pure white, e is red, d is yellow,
! A is gray and G a beautiful olive, etc.
| So. too, the chords she compares to ma
terials, the chords of flats being to her
heavy velvets, A minor suggests to her
gray-hued soft goods. Whatever vibrates
and gives forth sound she instantly names
| in tone, so acute is her sense of pitch.
Clarence Eddy, the critic, composer and
artist, being asked his impression of the
girls playing, replied: II listen to her
with astonishment and delight;" and the
late 2. 5. Gilmore declared that 'She has
no equal in America" Several of oul
local musical people will render Mr..
Cohn assistance in his venture and in the
making up of the programme, necessary
to the bringing here of the genius who,
when she was but ii years old, the ac.
complished critic of the st. Louis Repu6-
Acdn one of the best in the Western
country, pronounced "a marvellous
| pianist"