The record-union., 1894-09-10
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AhS yhe opera company DeglnS ltS
third week at the Ciunie Opera House
this evening, presenting the ever accept
able comic opera, 1.-The Mikado." No
more complete, better balanced or more
conscientious comic opera company has
ever appeared here. The belief of Man
ager Todd was that with the low prices
charged and the large company of COM
petent people brought together in Pyke's
company The patronage would be large
and compensate for the necessary heavy
outlay. That expectation has not been
realized as yet. Ii the company is TO be
retained here there must be better attend
ance. This will probably be given here
after. The general desire is that the pro-
posed half year season shall be main
tanned, as ii ought to be. The company
is large, and ali around better than that al
the San Francisco Iivoli, where greater
prices OF admission are charged; at least
none less than the scale OF rates at
the opera mouse. The cast tonight gives
us Louise Manfred as Yum Yum, char
acter III which she has achieved great
success. Miss Wilson will be Pitt Sing,
and Rose Southern Peep Boo. Miss Min
ME Is uff, favorlte whose return will be
hailed by all lovers OF rich musical con-
tralto voice. Will assume the role OF kati-
sha. Mr.. Pyke will be the Nanki Poo
and Mr.. Blake the Pooh Bah, while Al
Leach viii, for the second time within
the year, appear as ko 10, than whom
we have never had better here. Mir.
Whitney will be the Mikado aud Clarence
Cook viii appear as PIsh rush. Ii would
be very difficult to make a stronger cast
for the opera from talent on this coast.
At the Metropolitan Theater this even
ing Jeffreys Lewis will appear supported
by a select company. She comes fresh
from a long European vacation greatly
improved. say her friends, in health, fig
ure and capacity, and equipped with new
tollettes. She will appear for five nights
IN different play each evening, to-
nights drama being Master and Man."
new play for her and this public.
Among the support of Miss Lewis are Il.
q. Brinker, Fred j. Butler. Frank Hatch
and Kate Eckert, we'll known and COM
petent people. JeffreyS Lewis always has
been favorite in Sacramento. We do
not recall an engagement of the many
she has played here that has been unsuc-
cessfui or unsatisfactory. There is no
question concerning her fine ability, and
in some lines it may be said that she has
perhaps no superior, certainly very few
equals.
Mr.. Chase, at his entertainment hall.
which he styles Temple of Art" TT X
street, presents three distinct features for
the qualification of his patrons from 10 A.
NJ. until 10 P. NJ. The chief attraction is
the wonderful wood-carved figure of
himself, by the Japanese artist, Hanauma
Masakichi. Whether to class it as work
OF art or as a rare specimen of the hight
OF achievement by initiative genius IS the
question. We incline TO the belief that it
Is to be placed in the fine art category.
AS artistic representation of the anatomy
OF the human form we do not believe that
1t has its equal either in exact copying or
in marvellous attention to detail The
figure is life-size, carved from bits of
wood which were united and the whole
figure then dressed by the artist to
final finish, showing every vein,
muscle, defect, abrasion, scar and mark
upon his own body with matchless skill
in every matter of detail. Indeed, pass
ing out OF the realm of sculpture, he has,
with the ureless cunning OF his race.
planted the beard and the hair of the
head and placed artificial eyes, so that
the figure stands before the spectator
lacking, as Mr.. Chase aptly puts it, only
the breath of life TO make it indeed a
man.
The truth of the work exctes not only
curious interest as to the method eui-
ployed to achieve such results, but
quickens admiration for the artistic
genius OF the sculptor, or, shall he be
termed carver? In his own country
Hanauma ranks next to his master.
Matsumoto, and, perhaps, in some re-
spects he is his equal. The figure now
on exhibition, and which is worthy Of
inspection by every one, is first shown in
America at this time, as it came
but recently from Japan, where it
was procured by Colonel Smith.
the proprietor Of the exhibition.
at heavy cost. 1t is not possible
to more than indicate it's merits within
the limits of brief notice in the amuse-
ment column-for a criticism of it is
worthy extended and analytical treat
ment. Yet it cannot be considered under
the strict rules of criticism, since it is
not an artists conception of creation, but
rather the application of all genius to the
Initiative faculty. How the sculptor
posed TO himself is not explained. Mir=
rors he may have used; most likely he
worked from plaster casts, YET when it
came TO the pose of the figure he must
have relied mainly upon reflection in
mirrors, for it is unlikely that he first
modelled his figure from casts, though
that may have been the plan of the work.
However accomplished, it is sufficient to
know that the statue stands before us
one of the most lifelike and exquisitelv
carved pieces it has ever been our for
tune to examine. There is, as we have
said, but one departure from the artistic
i'll it, and that is the detail of hair and
head and the placing of the glasses
before the eyes-yetif if he was reproducing
his own portrait rather than carving his
features, he has simply followed in the
path OF portraiture in oil, which would be
true only when all such details were
worked in. The second feature of the
exhibition is the copy of Reifsky's
"Glimpse OF the Harem," by the Rus
sian artist de Suchorowski. 1t is not TO
be mentioned in the same hour with the
original, but is nevertheless q good ex-
ample OF nude figure painting, but not
superior to similar work by several
American artists, nor equal indeed TO
that OF very many. The third feature of
the exhibition is poses by u professional
model, woman of fine proportions,
probably very near to the artists re-
Quisite, who poses in number of
classical positions and several of modern
casting. Those we saw last night were
very well taken and were of the half
draped figure, as Spring" "rhe Laugh
ing Girl, f" Venus" Eureka" etc. The
effect OF good stage surroundings is very
cleverly improved in the exhibition of
these living pictures. New poses are
given nightly. representing sculpture and
noted paintings. To those to whom the
nude in art is at all offensive and the
half nude in model posing Objectionable,
this entertainment will have no attrac-
tions.
Gold Dollars aG Eighty Cents.
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