The record-union., 1894-04-11
ADJUSTMENTS.

! At the Metropolitan Theater this even
ing the Stockton Comic Opera Company,
consisting of sixty people from among
the prominent families of our sister city,
will present the comic opera "The Pi-
rates of Penzance." The opera was given
in Stockton twice last week under the
auspices of the Ladies' Guild Of st. Johns
Church. The testimony of the Stockton
papers is that it was surprising musical
and dramatic success. Allowing some
thing for local leaning, still the COM
mendation of some Sacramentans who
were present warrants the statement that
1t was phenomenal success.
The opera is given under the musical
direction of Mrs. Edward Oullahan of
Stockton and the stage direction Of A. NJ.
Thornton. In the cast is one well-known
and favorite Sacramento singer. The cast
is as follows:
Richard, pirate echief.............HoraceC Crocker
Samuel his utenant........-....-A. c. Parker
Frederic, pirate apprentice. Theodore Elliott
MaJor-General Stanley. British Army -:........
Harry 5. Hewlett
Edward, the Sergeant of Police.
Mabel, General Stanley's youngest daughter
Bessie smith
Kate Kate General stanley's Miss Miss Kate as,d Thomas
Isabel. daughters Miss Eva Brooks
Ruth, a piratical maid of all work-..............
II. c. Bender
To Will Lovdal of this city Sacrament
tans are indebted for the entertainment of
tonight in large measure, as it is owing
to his effort that the idea of this Stockton
invasion has materialiZed. That their
chosen sons and daughters may have fair
play and plenty of home backing, a
couple of carloads of Stockton's society
people are coming over with the sixty
pirates. The Slough City has, if its
press and the expressions of some of its
people are to be accepted, for years had
green eye for Sacramento. 1t has not
loved us deeply, ardently. 1t has tip
tilted its nose at our pretenSions, refused
our kind offices of affection and insisted
that when Stockton is mentioned Sacra-
mento is not in it. Now is our opportu-
nifty to do little heaping of live Goals.
We should treat these visiting pirates as
brethren and sisters and prove to them
that we knew all along that Stockton has
simply been joking. Truth is, Sacra-
mento and Stockton have many interests
in common and none in real antagonism.
Our sons have married their daughters
and their sons have carried off our wild
ows, so we are friends despite the SEEM
ing of jealousy, and Sacramento can
prove it tonight by giving full house to
the representatives Of our sister city, who
come to us in confiding faith in our mu-
steal taste and good judgment and gener-
Gus natures. Good critics tell the Stock
ton Independent that 1.-The company is
good enough 10 travel" that its musical
ability is fully worthy our criticism and
that the entertainment offered by it is far
and away above that of the mere anna
teur.
At the Clunie Opera-house tonight the
double bill will be repeated, "My Neigh
boris Wife, and The Jealous Family"
The bill is very attractive one, and the
pieces are we'll played.
Manager Todd elsewhere announces
the opening of the box-sheet this morn
ing for the BLACK Crook engagement at
the Metropolitan Theater, on the 18th and
18th insts. The spectacle is the same
as that so recently successfully pre-
sented at Stockwell's Theater, San
Francisco. 1t is the same troupe that
produced the spectacle at the Academy of
Music New York. The company carries
all the scenery used in the piece. and
wardrobe of unequalled richness and
volume. A chief feature in the perform
ance are the three grand ballet corps one
of which is composed of children. Of
speciality performers, there are the Rix-
ford brothers from the Circus Cisinelli,
st, Petersburg: the French quadrille
dancers, from the Paris Follies Bergere,
and the children's quadrille. The piece
will be mounted here precisely as it was
in San Francisco, and the company is