The record-union., 1895-04-16
STORY OF TRILBY" IN TABLEAU.
A Successful Artistic and Musical
Entertainment.
Kingsley Art Club, Saturday Club
and the School of
Design.

Design.
The "Trilby' entertainment at the Art
Gallery last evening was in every way a
complete success. 1t was originated by
the ladies of the Kingsley Art Club and
of the Saturday (Music) Club. The pur-
pose was to raise money to found scholar
ships in the School of Design. 1t was
free-will, unsuggested offering by the
ladies, and when proposed was a surprise
to the conductors of the school-the Cali
fornia Museum Association.
The ladies started out to make it as
'clear" benefit as possible. They man
aged the entire affair, the Museum Asso-
citation having nothing whatever to do
with it; they pushed it to success out of
pure public spirit. artistic enthusiasm
and generous impulses, sympathetic with
the endeavor to enlarge the capacity of
the School Of Design and augment it's
usefulness on its entry to-day upon the
second decade of its existence.
They met with such cordial sympathy,
nearly everything in the way of expense
being donated, that they will probably
realize enough to found three one-scholar-
ships and TO found also a small model
fund-a needed financial lever.
The entertainment was held last even
ing in the Art Gallery, the auditorium
being the art study room, which was
seated TO accommodate $50 guests. But
900 came, so that all standing room was
occupied, and a goodly number witnessed
the entertainment from the main picture
gallery above, looking down through the
great oval opening, and some had to be
tan wit h
imagining what was going on upon the
stage.
a stage, neatly draped and fitted up as
an artists studio, was erected at the south
end OF the room. To the left Of this the
orchestra was situated, and those of the
Saturday Club who sang and played the
Irilby music.
The entertainment opened with q state
IN ent OF the object OF the entertainment,
and then Hon. j. c. Brusie was intro
duced to make the running comment and
sketch the story of the novel that the
taDIeauX might be related to each other
by the thread of his recital. To say that
MIR. Brusie did this with skill and grace
fui diction is to put it mildly. He really
gave an outline of the story, and accom-
panied it by criticisms and comments of
his own upon the thought and philosophy
OF the story and the suggestions which 1t
raises in the reflective mind. Indeed,
without his neat and very graceful re-
cltal and rapid word painting more than
half the effectiveness of the dramatic
tableaux would have been lost.
The story begun with the playing of
"Rosamond' by the orchestra. Then
came the first picture, Little Billie and
his two friends, the Laird and Taffy. The
second tableau presented TrilbY IN her
reglmentals posing in the studio, and
then the song Ben Bolt" sung with
lzl and in,
thetic voice by Miss Gussie Stevenson.
Then Irilby was again shown, still pos
ing to her fIlends. The fourth tableau
presented Svengalh in the studio, de-
lighting the Bohemians with his music
Mrs. a. Bonnheim then sang TrIlby
song, with the finish, firmness and mu-
sicaI delicacy characteristic of that ac-
complished singerl
The fifth tableau was Little Billie and
his soldier friends, and the sixth WAS
Irllby's answer to Little Billie's pro-
pOsal. Mrs. Pierce then sang a Trilbv
song with strong emotional effect and
in voice tull Of feeling and governed bv
skill and taste. The seventh tabIeau
was one the ladies had some doubts
about presenting, but the applause it re-
ceIVed justified the courage. 1t was the
send oil" given 10 Little Billie by his
bachelor friends on the announcement of
his contemplated marriage.
The eighth taOleau represented that
phase in the heroine's life when she sacri-
ticed herself for her love, and for Billie's
sake gave him his liberty, and went out
into the world, as she put 1t, to take the
bull by the horns" The ninth tableau
the most dramatic and best posed OF all
showed Trilby passing under the hyD-
motto control of Svengalli and becoming
a musical machine, as it were. Mrs
Albert Elkus then played a piano solo.
llnSjc drawn fTOnt
rendering the selection with the high
skill for which this player is SO wei.
known in this community.
The last tableau, the tenth, presented
Irilby in that terrible scene on the
stage when the sudden death Of her ''cou-
troP' LETT her dumb, stricken and with
that agonized stare Of heiplessness and
vacancy which Du Maurier so graphically
paints. Miss Green, while persOnatIup
the heroine in earlier tableaus well. in
this achieved surprising success and
notable dramatic success. Her attitude
and expression of absolute heIplessness,
OF vague alarm, of sudden agony Of
unutterable woe, and the vacancy of
Countenance that precedes the dethrone-
ment Of reason were simulated admira-
ably.
This closed the series, but the audience
was 10th TO rise, and the hint had to be
thrown out that the tableaux had come
then cleared for dancing in which many
engaged, while many more assembled to
the picture galleries which were lighted
for the occasion. In the vestibule ladies'
OF the two clubs supplied their guests
without charge with light luncheon OF
cakes and mild beverages.
Those who took part upon the stage
were Miss Genevieye Green and Miss
Dixon, and Messrs. Adams, Chaplin,
Hopkins, Pierce and Miller. Art In
structor Jackson rendered assistance in
setting the poses and the stage. while the
ladies of the TWO clubs were busy and So
licitous in many duties related to the en-
lertalnment.
Mrs. DR.. w. a. Briggs, as President of
the Art Club, appeared to be the imme-
date and responsible head in general
control OF the management They en-
listed large number of gentlemen also,
business and professional men, and a
small army of young men, who acted in
any capacity demanded, from the trans
fer OF chairs from one floor TO another,
the ushering Of guests. clearing the floor
and so on-all with a will and generous
ambition to help on good cause that
speaks much for the interest felt ia the
School Of Design.
There was a battalion of young women
in summer costume and floral ornaments
who were much in evidence, with barred
heads ana beauty that makes Sacra-
mento proud of her young womanhood.
who were useful in various offices under
the direction of the matrous. and whose
white costumes and floral adornments
were strong oDtrasts to the somber hue
of the 200 or more men present, who ad-
here so persistenly to black, even when
the occasion is not one for formal dress.
Besides being a charming and novel
entertainment, dramatic and musical,
the occasion was one of social pleasure
bringing together in an atmosphere of
cordial kindIiness and hearty good will
over 800 Sacramentans, who would be
better and happier for more of such COM