The record-union., 1894-05-30
ADJUSTMENTS.

There was a good audience at the Clu-
ME Opera House last night to hear "Ol
vette" sung. The opera went more
smoothly than on the first night, and the
leading solosts We're warmly applauded
and several times encored. The chorus
is doing better work than at any other
time. The orchestra has been enlarged
and is notably better. Miss Huff last
night interpolated a song that won much
applause. The opera will be repeated to-
night.
Reifsky's superb painting, "A Glimpse
of the Harem," is on exhibition at 323 X
street, and is drawing many people to
Wow it. No better example, indeed not
so fine specimen of figure painting and
coloring has ever been shown here. The
marvellous effects of theeyes, the veins, the
expression of the innocent countenance,
the apparent changing tints OF the pupils
of the eyes, excite the admiration OF all
beholders, and lead very many people To
intimate that there is cheat in the matter
somewhere. 1t is work OF very high
artistic merit, and of ali work i'll the
nude that we have seen it Is the least sug
geStive. 1t is not gross, because It's artls-
tic beauty and grace so predominate; 1t is
not the nude in the vulgar sense. because,
merit lifts it up and out of the sensual
thought. The Sacramento School Of De-
sign, from the l.. B. Crocker Art Gallery,
under the direction of Instructor jack
son, will visit the exhibition to-day from
9 TO 10 a. NJ, by invitation, to study this
masterpiece of Reiisky from the artistic
standpoint. The exhibition is open daily
from 3 a. NJ. to l0 p. NJ.
We are to have muscle dancing from
this on for four or five days; that Ounce
Of Turkey, Algeria and Syria of which it
is claimed the hula hula of Hawaii is an
echo; that on the opposed sides of the
globe only is this dance native, namely.
III Oriental East and in the Sandwich
Islands. But, it is added, the Pacific edi
ton of the dance Is degenerate and poor
imitation. y troupe of four Syrian, AL
gerian aud Egyptian women are to be The
performers; Turner Hall, X street, near
Tenth, is TO be the scene of the dance, and
the business OF the show begins at s
o'clock this evening. Thereafter 1t will
90 on from tc 4:3O and TO II =. VI. daily.
So much has been said pro and con
concerning the dance, that there IS
little heed 10 discuss 1t HON. Livery
one presumably has read OF the baI-
ties royal in ana out OF The courts over
il. The present troupe consists, say the
managers. Ol ahdtueTliids no sNttS lIl0
first woman to give the dance in the
United States; Marguerite. late OF Belle
l5aya's company ut the Mldwinter Fair,
ana Of Aicha Il Arailnena. There are tWo
men with lhe company who are expert
Turkish swonlsiiien. one, Georgi, won
a gold medal III open competition at the
Worlds Fair. Chicago. IiIese give eX-
ampies of fiHe craftsmanship al each en-
hibItion. The dancers are accoin panied
in their performances by Turkish music,
vocal and Instrumental, and all the per-
formers appear i'll Egyptian, turkish and
Syrian costumes. The manager says
that the dance is common IN his
country, and is taught TO uancers AT
the early age OF .; that it is a
dance OF rejoicing. and has relation III u
broad sense 10 joyful religious exercises;
that il is dance involving the body and
limbs from the shoulders 20 the hips and
from the hips To the knees. On the other
hand obiectors 10 the exhibition pro-
nounce it immoral aud vulgariy suggest
i've. bat in the courts II is TO be SAID that
this contention has not not been main-
tanned thus far.