The record-union., 1894-06-16
ADJUSTMENTS


The comic opera 1.-THE Pirates of PEN
zance" will be given by the Clunie Opera
house Company at P. N. to-day for
matinee performance. tonight it will be
repeated, and tomorrow night will be
sung for the last time. No opera has been
better staged or better sung and acted by
this capable company. 1t is an enter
tainment full of spirit, merry humor and
charming music. Ii is not too much to
say that the company is giving for few
dimes admission performance superior
TO many of an operate character that the
Sacramento public has been charged 81
and 81 90 head for hearing.
The Metropolitan Theater was well
6lled last night. The performance was
by the Trocadero Vaudeville Company
and Sandow, the strong man. 1t was a
thoroughly good entertainment. The
Lucifers" are a team OF grotesQue ath-
letes, man and woman. The man is the
easiest high-jumper we have ever seen,
and accomplishes some remarkably high
leaps, and beside is an athlete and con-
tortionist of many clever and difficult
feats. The woman is q fine dancer and
throws ''cart-wheels' that are made up
of a bewildering mixture of woman,
drapery and sparkling eyes. Rosalin d.
Thrall gave fair example of whistling.
Walter Yanderlip and Elsie Adair pre-
eented most amusing burlesque sketch
and dance, the latter full of grace, vi
vacity and merry humor. Miss Adair is
q charming dancer. one of the best of her
order, and superior to seven-tenths of
her rivals. Mons. Drawee is juggler of
fine skill. He is a master in his business.
Carrie Roma is a soubrette singer, clever
and pleasing without being musically
surprising. All these people were en-
cored heartily and roundly applauded,
evidently thoroughly pleasing the audi
ence. Elsie Adair, in solo number,
gave the best @ Inhibition of the serpentine
dance ever seen here. 1t was greatly en-
HANGED in beauty by the adroit use of cal
cium lights, thrown in bands of rich col
ors upon the drapery. But without this
brilliant effect, her dance, poses and man
agement of the drapery were the poetry
of motion, and have never been even
have given the dance here. San
dow, the strong man, then appeared
in poses under the lime light, showing
the development of his muscles and his
command over them. He was stripped
to the waist, giving full opportunity for
the people TO see how wonderfully his
muscular structure has been cultivated.
Then followed feats of great strength,
lifting and swinging two fifty-six-pou
dumbbells, and throwing back somer-
sault while holding them. and doing the
same feat with his legs bound together
and blindfolded; lifting a 3O0-pound
dumbbell and holding overhead while he
rose to standing POSTURE; lifting and
passing over his head with ease a man
weighing about 135 pounds; lifting his
body to horizontal from head-dowD po-
sition with his knees braced to a standard
by chains; doing the same with the fifty
six-pound dunn bbells, and again with
single dumbbell OF about I75 pounds;
holding up while on his hands and feet
face up a heavy platform (requiring five
stage hands to lift it, on which a pony
and two horses of medium weight bal
anced themselves. Perhaps as interesting
q feature of his exhibition as any was his
chest expansion of fourteen inches, ex-
panding from the normal forty-seven 10
the maximum sixty-one; also his pro-
duction of the so-called checker board
arrangement OF the abdominal muscles
when tense. The strong man, who, by
the way, gave the people the impression
that in the pride of his strength be is
afflicted with vanity, is a wonder, giant
of muscular power, and a Sampson in his
feats of strength.