The record-union., 1896-03-26
ADJUSTMENTS.

The "Texas Steer company had a
fine audience at the Metropolitan Thea
ter last night. Mr.. Murphy has had
trouble with the management and left
the company, but all others of the orig
inal cast remain. Murphy's part, Nav
erick Brander, was taken by Mr. Alli-
son, and well taken. The audience GER
tainly was satisfied with Mr. AlIison's
personation. 1t was excellently done,
and the makeup was especially fine,
suggesting an effort to present an i'm
age of President Andrew Jackson. The
story having been put in print that
Murphy had left because of refusal to
advance his salary is untrue; he made
no such demand He left because of
disagreement as to the payment of his
proportion of receipts. The manage
ment claims that he demanded his share
of net profits before profits accrued, in
stead of after they had been arrived at
The box-office of the Metropolitan
Theater opens this morning for sale of
seats for the O'Neill engagement The
outlook is that O'Neill will have full
houses since news of his success in
tragedy has preceded him.
Anna Eva Fay had another large au-
dience at the Clunie Opera-house last
evening, and gave her interesting cabi-
net tricks and her mind-reading with
complete success, but not, we think,
quite so successfully as on the first two
nights. She had rather more difficult
clientage to handle. People are becom-
ing also more exacting. 1t is more than
clever performance, and well worth it's
price as an exhibition of high skill in
deceiving eye and ear and judgment
But it is all a trick, in all its subdivis-
ions. Miss Fay is bound in the cabinet
past apparent release by herself, never
theleSs all her work is done by her, with
the assistance of the cleverest lot of as
sistantS any operator ever gathered to-
gether. That the committee, consisting
of Thomas Harper, f. S. Smith and
Richard May, was mystified last night,
and failed to discover anything, is not
at all surprising. Everything was too
well guarded for that. Dollars to nick
els that If a chosen committee were
given leave to name conditions Miss
Fay would be stumped completely, and
that too, without at all interfering with
her, but the stage, on the level, above
and below, would have to be given over
to the committee. So, too the mind
reading business, the best ever done
here, is explainabfe on entirely rational
grounds. But of course, cunning, ex-
perienced and witty Miss Fay will
deny it all and challenge the proofs.
They could be given if she would permit
herself to be placed on the stage else
where than of her own choosing, and
would retire Mr.. Pingree a silent and
interested onlooker to a middle seat;
also if the very gentlemanly and nu-
merous assistants who wait upon the
audience could be supplanted by others
not of managerial choosing. 1T is a
wonderfully complex system Of signal
telegraphy, of secret communication, Of
witty guessing and generalization, to
say nothing of the adroit ''pick-ups"
But we have no disposition to attempt
any expose of Miss Fay. She is in the
business and understands it, but
neither spirits, adopts, or unknown
forces have anything to do with this
clever woman's clever work. 1t may,
however, interest spectators to attend
and apply reason under suggestions
limited to ascertain the probable truth
Another performance tonight