The record-union., 1895-03-23
ADJUSTMENTS

The Warde and James engagement for
next week at the Metropolitan Theater is
announced this morning. The prices are
the same as charged in San Francisco.
Oakland, Los Angeles and Fresno, name
ly, lower section Of the house, 81 30: up
per, 81 and 30 cents, for the evening en-
tertainments. For the matinee 81 low
section, and Tor the upper 70 cents and 80
cents. The plays of the engagement are
thus scheduled: Thursday, Julius
Caesar"; Friday, Henry W.; sat-
urday, ''Richard ILL.,; Saturday
matinee, "Richelieu." The box office
will open for sale of seats Monday morn
ing, and every precauIion will be taken
10 prevent sales TO spectators. The COM
pany is very large this season, very
strong, and carries the most complete
equipment OF costumes, fittings and
scenery of any troupe in the country.
At the Clunie Opera-house this after
noon for matinee the Higgins Wsldron
Company will play Camille This
evening and tomorrow evening it will
be repeated for the last times. Called
Back" Is IN rehearsal for production next
week.
The Metropolitan Theater was COM
pletely filled last evening and the better
part OF the first act was spoiled, for audi
tors, by about one hundred late comers
Gathering down the aisles and crowding
TO their seats past those who had
that regard for others rights which
prompts them 10 come before the play
begins. Hoyt's "A Temperance Town.
was the play. The company is large and
strong, and there IS but one weak per-
sonatlon In the cast. The play is a
comedy, with serious shading here and
there. 1t prompts explosions of laugh
ter with about the frequency of minute
guns. y good deal OF the punning and
considerable OF the things to laugh at
are old and familiar, bat applied in q new
and entertaining form. The aim of the
playwright has been to show the opera
tIon OF the prohibitory liquor law in a
hard-shel crmOnt community. The
claim Is made that il is a story free
from eNagEerauon or any misrepresenta-
ton; that II Is 8 close follower of truth as
Mr.. Hoyt found IL in Vermont. We are
not prepared TO take issue with him on
that point, but while it pretends to give a
fair show" 10 the prohibitionist and the
lquor-sel,er il is strongly colored on one
side. All sympathy is evoked for the
saloon and all reproach for the pro-
hibltionist. The latter is shown to be
hide bound, cruel, dishonest and devoid
OF the commonest attribute OF mercy,
Ihe former Is pictured as biameleSs kind
and merciful and his saloon as a place OF
w.t. good nature and the home OF chiyalry
and peace. The mcst touching thing in
II is the driving out OF daughter by a
pronlbIuOnist father for sentiments :
sake, and her suecoring by the town
drunkard. The hquor-seller is all gen.
teness, charity and loving kindness:
the prohihiIonists are hypocrites,
cranks and pulseless beings. These
are extremes. The liquor seller is
not OF necessity bad man, hard-hearted
or wanting IN mercy, charity or integ-
rlty; nor are prohibitionisis of necessity
inerclleSs, cruel, hypocriles, cheats and
insane On the one hand. in depicting
truth, Mr.; Hoyt might have shown, as he
Has, now hard adhesion to a temperance
fad may make men and women harsh.
cruel, silly and intolerant; but the truth