The record-union., 1896-02-26
LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS.
The New Scenery at the Clunie Opera
House.
Sousa's Band Programmes "A Carnival
of Music-Anecdote of Sousa
and Mobiles.

A fine audience at the Clunie Opera
house last evening witnessed the Sec
ond production of the successful play
From Sire to Son. and admired and
applauded the beautiful new scenery,
really the most artistic and chaste
ever mounted on that stage. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mobiles were complimented by en-
thusiastic recalls from as we'll pleased
an audience as ever gathered in the
Opera-house. The play will be repeated
tonight. 1t should be noted that to
Stage Carpenter Parker, equally with
Scenic Artist Walthew, is credit due for
the four beautiful new scenes. Parker
is greatly successful in designing eff
fects and constructing the groundwork
upon which Walthew so skillfully uses
his brush. Both are rapidly improving
in taste, getting away from the lurid
and glaring to finer construction, ar
chitectural harmony and softness, del
icacy of finish and chasteness of design.
Evidently both are studying accepted
and standard works on scenic art
Charles w. Strine, representing Sou
sa's Band, is in the city. The band
will appear here next Tuesday at the
Metropolitan Theater, afternoon and
evening 1t is really unnecessary to
say much of this band. "The March
King is so widely and well known
that his name is familiar with all the
people. AS leader of the United States
Marine Band, he became famous; as
director of all the Columbian Exposition
bands he won new honors; as head OF
his own band, the largest in the United
States, he is adding to those
honors; as composer he en-
joys enviable distinction in the
music world. His present concert
band is the largest and best over which
he has presided. His afternoon pro-
gramme next Tuesday will embrace
solos by Miss Myrta French, a soprano
of fine voice and high culture, and
everywhere she appears a popular
singer; solos by Miss Currie Duke, vio-
linist, granddaughter of the brilliant
Southern General Basil Duke. She is
an artist of merit, and is noted for the
delicacy of her execution. Overture,
1872, or the Retreat of Napoleon From
Moscow" Tachaikowsky; suite, Last
Days of Pompeii," Sousa; (a) I'm the
House of Burbo and Stratonice"; (b)
"Nydia the Blind Girl; (c) tThe De-
struction and Death of Nydia"; grand
fantasia, my Old Kentucky Home"
Dalbey; (a) BELL Chorus From l Pagli-
acci," Leoncavello; (b) "Pasquinade,'
Gottschalk; soprano solo waltz from
Romeo and Juliet" Gounod, Miss Myr-
tie French; (a) intermezzo, Forget Me
Not" new, Macbeth; (b) march, THE
Directorate" Sousa; violin solo, ''Ron-
do Capriccioso," st. Saens, Miss Cur
rie Duke; variations on yankee Doo-
die" Reeves.
The evening programme will intro
duce both the ladies and these numbers:
Overture, "Thuringian Festival" Las
sen; Second Hungarian Rhapsody"
Listz; trombone solo, 'Aire varie''
pryor, Arthur Pryor; suite, Three
Quotations" new. Sousa; Ca) '"The
King Of France with Twenty Thousand
Came Down Again; (b) "And L, too,
Was Born in Arcadia; (c) In Darkest
Africa; soprano solo, Delight Valse''
Q4uckstone), Miss Myrta French; Ca)
caprice, 1.-THE Water Sprites" (new)
Kunkel (b) king Cotton" (new),
Sousa violin solo, "Zigeuner Weisen'
esque, "The Band Came Back" new,
oOdocl- 1lAoCWASlC t4AC PAASC0 eilld ddtG
of box-sheet opening are announced.
The box office of the Metropolitan
Theater opens this morning for res
elvation of seats for the Tavary Grand
Opera engagement.
The "house" for the Paderewski re-
cital is now assured. The auditorium
Of the Metropolitan Theater will be well
filed. Over 5000 worth of seats were
sold yesterday, and the promise is of
a heavy sale during the rest Of the
week.
Sacramento is to have what really
amounts to a carnival of music-three
successive days Sunday intervening)
of music of the very best order. Sat-
urday next the Tavary Grand Opera
Company will sing in the afternoon III
Trovatore, Saturday evening, Gar
men" The troupe is large one and
has in its roster some of the best known
vocal artists of the day, such as Nine.
Tavary, Thea Dorre, Chevalier Guile,
Mile. LIGHTER, Payne, Clarke; Mat Eu-
gene, Suzanne Ryane, Mime. Roman
and Sig. Abramoff. 1t has also a full
opera orchestra Of superior order, led
by Carl Martens, one of the most ex-
perienced of directors. Monday even
ing Paderewski, the Polish pianist,