The record-union., 1896-10-05
ADJUSTMENTS.

The stock company Of the Clunie
Opera house will this evening present
the sensational melodrama Master and
Man." which the Palmer Company
made a great New York success. 1t will
be presented with new scenery specially
prepared for the occasion, and mechan-
ical effects elaborate and novel. The
play is cast to the full strength of the
company and will have just as thorough
and complete presentation on the first
as on any other night, for the rehears-
ais have been thorough and the mem
bers Of the company are letter perfect
IN 1t.
At the Metropolitan Theater tonight
company under the management Of
Augustus Pitou will present the latest
success. Madame Sans Gene" with
Kathryn Kidder and Augustus Cook in
the leading roles. The play will be
given with the original scenery, cos
tunes and effects precisely. we are as
sufed, as presented at the Baldwin
Theater In San Francisco during it's re-
cent three weeks run at that house. The
troupe does not leave here until lilo
tomorrow forenoon, SO that there will
be no abridgement Of the piece.
The sale OF seats has been very large,
and the promise of a crowded house is
certain to be fulfilled. The San Fran
cisco Call" in speaking of the first
night Of the play there. said: "Sardou
wrote Nine. Sans Gene when the recent
Napoleon craze was at its hight, but we
arc still too near the days of the First
Empire for a dramatist to presume to
| take poetic license with the memory of
le petit Caporal. which perhaps ac-
counts for the fact that Napoleon has
not been made the central figure of the
play. Nine. Sans Gene, the wife Of one
of his Marshals. appears in that capac-
ity, and with her brilliant Napoleonic
background she quite captured her
first San Francisco audience"
The San Francisco Chronicle"
speaking of the historical characters of
the piece, says: The play would be a
good one even If It dealt with less inter
esting characters. When we know that
those people are all in history, all have
lived and played great parts in the most
exciting periods in France, they appeal
to us particularly strongly. And Sar-
dou writes with such an apparently
complete understanding Of the life he
depicts that the atmosphere Of the En-
peror's court seems to fill the stage In
the last three acts, while there is not a
burst of such ornate fustian comes from
any Of the principle characters there as
we are accustomed to hear in other
plays 1t is, indeed, from beginning to
end a brilliant piece of dramatic work,
with dialogue that is never dull, in
every part characteristic, and If our
playwrights would study what SIM
plicity Of language can have dramatic
strength, they may make special note
of several speeches put into the mouth
of Nine. Sans Gene. One gets interested
first in the woman, and, without losing
that interest in the least, follows the
thread Of the play with a pleasurable
excitement which we have rarely of
late had an opportunity of knowing.
. The play was worth the audi
ence, and its success was assured from
the beginning, for the women all fell
in love with Nine. Sans Gene, the wash
erwoman- vivandiere- Duchess of Napo-
Icons time as drawn by Sardou- He is SO
far the master of stagecraft to-day that
# is a delight to get into the dramatic
atmosphere Of his plays, doubly so when
it is piece clean, witty and exciting as
Mime. Sans Gene is. The translation
of the name is not Nine. Don't Care
Mime. Free and Easy would be more
accurate, but she is such a breezy, good,
good od-natured character, SO full of spirit
and healthy life that she Is infectious
and carries the audience with her"
Manager Bouvier of the Baldwin
r,heater. San Francisco, has hit upon a
method for the suppression of the big
hat nuisance that he thinks will be sue
cessful When a. woman with one of
these distractions on her head is seated
in the Baldwin he will have an usher
present her with a card on a silver
saIver, with the compliments of the
management, firmly, but politely, re-
uuesting her to remove her hat as there
IS complaint that it obstructs the view