The record-union., 1895-10-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

Dull IL was N6ll ulOuUlou. tU0 0lpby
dell scene was especially effective. IL
was quite well played too. While OF
course not given as the Iamented Barrett
as Elliott Gray. John Wilson as Nc
kenna, Mrs. Judah as Tabitha, and
others of the flush days OF the drama IN
California played it, it was, neverthe-
less. very nicely presented and ought TO
prove drawing success all this week.
Nh Hallett. as Elliott Gray. had part
away out of his line, but surprised his
best friends by the success of his effort.
But he will never entrance the world
with the melody of the songs the piece
puts into his unmusical throat. but he
did his best. Miss Mifllin was very
happy as Rosa, a charming character
prettliy and very effectively taken; Mrs.
Belmour was an excellent Tabitha, and
strongly suggestive of the old school, and
Eldridge was really faultless as Burberry
Cobb. Little Alice Condor is the child OF
the play. and better PRESERVATION by a
child none need wish TO see. Mr.. Cald-
we'll IS Colonel Gray was fairly success
full, but can improve his grasp of the
authors idea of the polished rascal. Mr..
Collins, Mr.. DeNaull and Miss Powers
were acceptable IN the roles assumed, and
MIR. Craig and Miss Gassman made all
that is possible out of the minor charac-
tonight.
Prof W. Fletcher Hall, DR.. Bryant, his
colleague, and the worker in animal
magnetism called The Boy Wizard-a
young man OF about 26-drew an audi
ence of over a thousand people to the
Metropolitan Theater last night to nave
aches and pains eased, or to look on and
wonder if the show was fraud or with
faith. That which was promised was
done, so far at least as the impartial OBJ
server could discover-tbat much 1t is fair
to say.
There has never been such gathering
of the halt, deaf and blind, the paralytic
and the crippled, in one assembly before
in Sacramento. For the most part these
occupied the parquet and the front rows
of the dress circle. With canes, crutcbes,
ear trumpets, feeling sticks and band
ages, leg supports and the like, the crowd
was sight to behold.
Professor Hall opened the evening with
twenty minutes well-delivered lecture
on animal magnetism workers OF all
time, from the heaters who III the early
centuries laid on hands, 10 Mesmer and
his school and the magnetic manipulators
of the present era. He was modest in most
OF his claims, stating that the young man
who was TO exhibit the powers he claims
to possess, did not present himself nor
those who work with him as healers OF
all ills, that they did not claim to restore
lost parts or make crippled limbs whole,
nor to give sight or hearing whore the
essentials of the eye or ear were de-
troyed.
But the claim was made Of rapid dag
nosis by sight and touch without in
quiry, and then determination if the
wizard" they presented could alleviate
the sufferer or heal the disease. The dag
Mysticism claimed was an astonishing
one and excited the incredulous smiles
OF physicians TO whom II was communi-
Gated.
The young man who laid on hands was
duly presented. a strong, vigorous, hand
some and intelligent-appearing youth,
who when not laying on hands WAS
busily engsged in washing and toweling
them industriously. Several assistants
in evening costume aided the eager pa
tients IN the audience to the stage; cOlored
attendants there took their crutches,
sticks, bandages and supports from them
and seated them, aud al the end of treat
ment in each case followed them to the
boxes and restored their artificial means
OF locomotioD.
In a majority of cases such relief was
apparently given as was promised and
seemingly the treated were suddenly
transformed into new beings. How faI
this was the result OF inauguration, OF
suggestion, of a controlling will power
or the sequence Of the manipulation by
the magnetic worker, must be lett TO in
diyidual Judgment. There were some Of
the halt and afflicted who inspired nc
confidence in their sincerity, some who
were SO we'll known that there could be
no doubt whatever of their being afflicted
as they claim TO be, or OF their getting re-
lief. The facts are presented as they
were witnessed and with neither faith in
their verify nor assault upon their in
tegrity.
The general belief of the spectators was
divided fairly evenly between perfect
faith and the idea that what was done was
but temporary, and that Imagination an
suggestion had much to do with it. There
were cases that could not be doubted, as
! in those instances where parties known tC
! have been all but helpless for a long
| period walked to their seats with al
| agility they were known not to possess
heretofore. II is iair 10 say OF the per
| formers that they did not claim TO effec
| cures or the stage, but to give relief out
| of which cure might possibly progress.
Aft Hall, middle-aged man, said hC
was from Penryn. He had long beer
4 crippled with sciatica. In five minutes
! he walked easily and left his canes be-
! hind. The operator had used, as in al
| cases, the passes, stockings and limt
manipulation, common with mesmerists
and layers on of hands. NJ. Augustus
/ 1926 Sixth street, with rheumatism a,
/ the result Of broken leg, was half lifteI
/ to the stage and tripped off of it alone. NJ
/ Gabriel, well-known gardener on the
/ J-street road, long rheumatic sufferer
! hobbled TO the stage and presently
walked off with ease and lightness. Alex
! LIE Blanch, Nell-known character
about town, went up on two crutche;
! and came down without them. The doc
/ tors diagnosed his case as complication
/ of disorders that would make well man
turn pale, but lie Bianch inspired little
/ con fdence.
W. X. bailey OF the railroad shops, {
( well-known face, suffered constant pair
+ in a swollen ankle. broken a long time
/ ago; went up on a crutch and stick anc
/ in bandsges, and came off without eithel
and smiling like a summer morning
| l.. i. Ashley, 1917 Sixteenth street, sAiC
/ he had been growing deaf for years. ti'
hearing, he thought, was a little i'm
proved after the youth boxed about biz
! ears while. Richard Clark, long in thc
/ County Hospital, was vouched for by
several in the audience as long sufferer
/ from rheumatism in the feet. lie was a!
light as a dancer when he left the stage
sam Gale, the well-known colored man
claimed 10 be rheumatic. and presently
danced jig. He gave no one confidence
in his case. a very fieshy, middie-agee
woman, whose name was lnaudibIe q.
pronounced. living at IA Thirteenth
street, had to be lifted to the stage. Rheu
matism of sixteen years. standing baC
crooked her limbs hopelessly, anC
her joints were said to be like oaks
OF old age, gnarled and knotted
In few minutes she walked
fairly well on her bent limbs. She wal
by all odds the most Interesting case o
tho entertainment. That she was all bu
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