The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-11-24
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people, including a strong chorus Will
appear in the operetta and chorus THE
Little Trooper" The company carries
all the scenery used in the piece and a
wardrobe of unusual richness and brill
fancy. Miss Fox and her company
scored a great success in 1.-THE Little
Trooper in New York, and has repeated
the process in all the critics visited on TO
the West. 1T had a run of two weeks in
San Francis at the Baldwin Theater.
OF the piece and people-and it is adj
mitted that Miss Fox is one of the hand
soonest, brightest, wittiest and most
charming comic opera ARTISTS of TINS
Countrywide San Francisco "Chron-
icle" said the morning after the opening
of the enga cement: 1T rs some time
since We have had a genuine French
comic opera, and The Little Trooper
has all the gay characteristics of that
article. 1t has been very cleverly
adapted by Clay Greene. The story is a
little complicated and not overexciting,
but the opera is full of color and bright
ness, spirit and action, and it is carried
through With unfailing vivacity. The
music has been edited by William Furst
and it is all taking and jingly, with some
specially pretty numbers which wall be-
come popular on the streets. There was
some curiosity to see what Della Fox
had developed into, for she had many
admirers when We heard her years ago.
She has matured, her figure is trim and
neat and she is as lively as she was in
The Kings Fool She has acquired
Nv f,J
to come out i'm all comic opera stars, the
eXuberance of gesture and affectatlon
of stage department.; but she is a clever
comedienne and she has the magnetism
to draw and hold the audience. There
were other interests of a local kind, too,
in the cast Charles DUNCAN came back
to us in the role of a fascinating French
Colonel, in which he looked, sang and
acted excellently, and Frank Blair had
a bit of a comedy part in which he did
WELL The hit among the men was
Harry Macdonoughs Gibard, one Of the
most comical and thoroughly sustained
Characterization we have had in some
time. Mr.. Chilvers, whom we have had
before, was the hero of the story, and he
was quite picturesque in the role. An
attractive girl in the cast was Trixie
Friganza, and Mathilde was well acted
by Nellie Braggins.
On the 26th and 9th inst Manager
Todd will have at the Metropolitan
Theater Sidney Ellis company, now
playing at the California Theater, San
Francisco, in Darkest Russia" Of the
piece the Cali said: Darkest Rus
STA is a strong play of love, hatred re-
venge, nihilistic plots begun on the
banks Of the Neva and continued
across the snowy wastes into the farth-
est quarters of the Emperor's domin-
ions. Ida Barosky, the daughter of
an exile, is introduced into the palace
of Count NaZimoff as a member of the
orchestra. She refuses to play God
Save the Car and is about to be pun
ished when she is rescued by the son
of the nobleman and AN American Col
onel, Septimus Cobb. The young man
is her lover, and following her to her
abode, becomes mixed up in a company
of nihilsts. There he learns that his
promised wife, a noble lady, Olga Kar-
scheif, is the wife of Ilda's brother.
One Of the best scenes of the piece is
where Olgas mother perSuades her
husband to exile the young man, who
refuses her daughter, to Siberia, and
few moments after she Internationally
induces his father to Danish her own
daughter, literally turning the tables on
the malignant woman.
Her husband is soon deprived of his
office as Minister of Police and ordered
to the command Of penal post in Sibe-
ria. There all the characters meet, and
the wretched eXiles are protected and
rescued by the courtier Of the Gar.
What little humor there is in Dark
est Russia is played by Colonel Cobb
and Nine Carine Jordan, and he, in her
appreciative term Learned from him),
takes zee cake.
THE stage setting of the piece is
magnificent; the scenery is painted
from photographs taken in Russia.
The orchestral music is sprightly,
though contrasting with the somber set
tings of latter portions of the play
Little Lord Fauntleroy" was capt.
tally played at the Clunie Opera house
last evening Little Mildred, who has
three times as many lines to read as any
other person in the cast, was just bit
embarrassed, but it really added to the
charm and innocence of her manner.
The child as the little Lord was simply
lovable naive and every inch what Mrs.
Burnett intended her hero to be- Mil
dred will be over her nervousness to-
night, though it was very slight last
evening, and the beautiful play will
be seen to even better advantage. Mr..
Gibney as the old Lord was excellent.
He left nothing wanting. He does not
play the part so harshly an irrascible
old man as did Paul Craig. He gives it
a bit more Of dignity than did Mr.. Craig,
and less of the repulsive is shown in the
character at the outset. The change to
gentleness is less abrupt. Nina Gleason
as the mother of Fauntleroy was excel
lent. She read and acted the character
with an informing intelligence as to
its demands, and won sincere recognl.
ton from the audience. Miss Harring-
ton fairly eclipsed herself as the ad-
ventures Minna. Her 'get-up" was
wonderful to behold, and her assump-
ton of the bold, bad, vulgar and heart
less American was something to be
remembered as a creation in dramatic
| art-a repulsively good one. Mr. Hal
lett as the kindly old lawyer was so
good that, with other parts he has re-
Gently assumed, well tempts us
to conclude that Mr.. Hallett should
not return to the heavies -
he is altogether too useful and sue
cessful an all-around man for that Mr..
Gleason was OF course the Grocer
| Hobbs, and good one; little too loud
voiced. but hearty character he made
1t; while Mr.. Stockbridge, as one of
Fauntleroy's New York friends, was
thoroughly good. Mr.. Stuart was ideal