The record-union., 1896-01-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Clunie Opera-house the Hallett
Stock Company repeats this evening
Maggie Francis clever melodrama,
Fern, the Waif,' in which she does
herself a neat bit of personation of an
elderly widow, and Mr.. Russell gives
an exceptionally good Chinese with
specialties. Mr.. Steinle's Fairview is
well taken also, and Davies Meredith
is one of the kind Of Old men parts
very difficult to give without exaggera-
ton. But he certainly makes the role
a leading one, and is entitled to much
credit for his work. The Deltorrello
brothers musical act is very novel and
exceedingly amusing. They are more
than clever clowns.
The Lord Sholto Douglas Company
had a fair house last evening at the
Metropolitan Theater. The entertain
1nent opened with two acts of 'Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with Percy
Hunting in the lead. His personation
of the dual being is work of superior
art His support was fair, but in one
instance fearfully weak and stupid.
These acts constituted about all that
there was of worth in the show. LADY
Douglas" appeared in a dance and a
song. In neither has she any capacity
above the very commonest. She knows
neither how to dress nor dance with
grace. The audience kept up a, racket
of applause that could not be stayed
until it's curiosity was satisfied and
Lord Sholto" appeared for an instant
a the side entrance, leading his wife,
and bobbed a frightened acknowledge
ment of the call. Whereat the audience
laughed long and loud and voted itself
an aggregated simpleton for assem-
bling. A farce, Confusion" followed,
with Lady Douglas" in a minor role,
which she gave amateurishly. Evi-
IDENTIFY the little woman is no more an
actress than she is a songstress or
dancer. The piece for such merit as its
acting developed rested upon the shoul-
ders of Mr.. Hunting, Mr.. Craig, Mr..
Foster, Miss Browning and Miss Wild
ing They should have seen, however,
how much better the same play was re-
Gently given by the stock company at
the Clunie Opera house. Certainly, the
San Francisco press has raised a breeze
about Sholto and his doll-faced wife on
small capital How they found in the
two people most concerned in the show
of last night material for all the fuss
they have made over them is cause for
wonder But then it has to be a very
atomic thing indeed that the Bay pa
pers cannot magnify into Importance
and sensation. Douglas himself says
that for the life of him he don't under
stand what they made all their fuss
about, or why they keep it up-and we
quite agree with him.
The box office of the Metropolitan
Theater opens this morning for reser-
walton of seats for the engagement of
the tragedian Louis James in a series
OF Shakespearean plays, beginning
with Hamlet, on Thursday evening.
William Greer Harrison is a critic
student of the stage.i During Mr..
James recent successful engagement
i'll San Francisco he sent the tragedian
&. note in which he said that he had seen
about "all the actors for fifty years
who have played Hamlet and he es-
teemed Mr. Jones personation Of the
melancholy Dane as '.in the very high
est form of art" placing James, as
Harrison put it, right in with the
greatest" This may be too strong, but
it serves to illustrate what an impress
sion this artist makes upon the old
stager critics. Mr.. James second ad-
vance business manager Mr.. Sage, ar
rived in the city yesterday and is com
pleting the details for elaborate stag
ing Of Hamlet. . Macbeth" "Othello,
and Romeo and Juliet