The record-union., 1895-04-17
ADJUSTMENTS.

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ADJUSTMENTS
By inadvertence credit failed in the
RECoRD-UNIoN OF yesterday to Mrs.
Hawley for charming song and Miss
| May Dunster for an artistic piano solo at
! the 'Irllby" entertainment OF Monday
night
Inc burlesque and extravaganza at the
CIunie Opera-house is put together sim
ply to give group of capable people op-
portunlty to pose in variety of costumes
anu Go some clever speciality work. II is
/ the veriest nonsense, and as q play is
/ nothing. But 1t is marry, grotesque and
/ spectacular and draws we'll. The voice
/ OF the prompter was heard too frequently
last night. \ little more of study on the
! part Of some of the leading peo-
| pie will make the burlesque run
more smoothly. Whatever may be the
ideas Of people about posing for The
! nearly nude statuary, there is no question
/ whatever that Miss NOlau's pose as Venus
presents very nearly q perfect model that
viii bear the artistic test for the we'll
/ prOportioned female form. Artists Will
| scarcely differ in that matter. But Miss
| Nolan would lit the pose out OF the flesh
and blood atmosphere and the common
! conception OF the nude if she would
!,
! successfully Stimulates in marble white.
1t would then become an art model, and
! approximate very closely indeed to the
| ideal Of beauty OF form. 4 tinted Venus,
however, never can reach the artistic
level or get up out of the sensuous.
Mrs. Carroll Nicholson if she can ind
the pocket in the ample folds Of her robe,
viii have to go down into it to-day and
bring up good Oakland coin. For she
had not enough people in attendance
upon her concert last night. at the Con-
/ gregational Church, to represent the dol
/ lars OF expense incident to the giving of
! one OF the best musical entertainments
/ with which this city has been favored
Ii the audience was light IN numbers it
! was large IN enthusiastic appreciation
/ and liberal in applause. 1t was a delight
| fuI programme-nO weak or iuditfer-
/ ent nun Der in it. Miss Newland's So
/ prano is light, but as sweet and
fresh and charming the notes
OF the most tuueful bird 1t is
flexible, sllyery, admirably managed,
and altogether charming voice, not hard
ened by culture nor deprived Of sympa-
thetIc quality by entertaining. Lovers
OF good vocal music who stayed away
last night missed much in not hearing
Miss New land. Mr.. Bogart was in good
voice ana sang with the ease, assurance
and feeling OF youth that is as yet enthusi-
astlc and revels in melody. Classed as a
baritone he is more nearly a tenor. He
has the qualities OF each, but more Of the
latter than the former. OF Mrs. Carroll
Nicholson the RECORD UNION spoke last
November, and e has now to emphasize
the judgment then pronounced. that she
IS contralto OF rare quality. Her voice
is not only resonant, broad OF register
ana full of feeling, but it is umpid, deli
cafe III It's expression ana dramatically
sympathetic. There are Dut few
such cOntralto voices, and fewer that
with such fine natural endowments
are possessed by those whose musical
training, judgment and execution so
nearly approach the ideal demand, and so
/ nearly meet the eXactions OF the best
critics. Miss Jordan is accomplished, has
lew EQUALS and fewer Superiors. We re-
peat, the concert was all around one of
the very best ever givon in this city. That
1t was so poorly patrOniZed, caused all
! who were so fortunate as to be present
deep regret 1t is to be hoped that these
! singers will give Sacramento musical taste
| one more opportunity to prove itself
worthy of such a performance az that of
last night.
The absurdity of the curlew at at
night in this day and age of clocks, and
when it is not necessary to listen for a
/ bell stroke to distinguish between night
ana day, was humorously proved last
night At Mrs. CarrolI-Nicholson's con-
/ cert longer watt than usual was nee
! essary between the first and second parts
TO give the whang hanger on the Fifth
| street bell time TO beat out his nine dole
fuI strokes. When he began the audi
ence rustled in the seats; at the third
! stroka the people smiled; at the sixth
they laughed, and as the ninth gave per-
mission Tor the song recital 10 be re-
sumed the singers reappeared, smiling
TO the audience, not conYentionalIy but
IN genuine merriment over the relic
OF seml-barbarlc age retained in this
one OF civilization, when it is not
! necessary to beat a tom-tom or ham
mer on bell TO tell people that the
sun has been some hours below the
! horizon. But suppose the ridiculous
| curtew had banged the hour in the midst
OF Miss Newland's exquisite rendering of
! Ihome's Sonnet d'Amour" and have
| knocked 1t out of tune, and that charm
| ing little lady out OF her musical poise?
! How disguised the audience would have
! been, and how justitiable would be Miss
/ Newlaud's report to envious Oakland
! that Sacramento has not yet risen to the
! level OF the age that substitutes clocks for
hour glasses and bells TOR watches.
! The high hat still asserts itself. 1t has
come to shame in the theater, and good
taste has discarded it there But it would
seem that when an entertainment is
! given in church or a concert hall. the
women revenge themselves by putting il
| on adorned little higher than ever and
/ with bows, feathers and what not a
/ little thicker than before-as at the con-
cert last evening, for instance, where the
! nigh hat had its own way and only five
ladies' had the good taste and courage to
uncover. y few others, however, wore
low headgear, but the mass triumphed
over protest aud proved that when
woman wills it the wheel of progress
turns backward.
Unknown Dead.
Following is the description of an un-
known man who was run over and killed