The record-union., 1896-02-19
ADJUSTMENTS.

There was a good audience in the
Metropolitan Theater last night to see
and hear the Kimball Opera Comique
Company supporting Corinnein Gill and
F'raziers burlesque and extravaganza
''Hendrick Hudson, Jr., or the Discov-
cry of Columbus" The audience was
thoroughly satisfied with the entertain
ment and manifested it by generous ap-
plause, encore demands and hearty
laughter. The piece is as snowy as
Rice's 1892; it is far richer and more
varied as to costumery; it has a better
drilled chorus, and the music, while
simple and easy, is taking, pretty and
generally better than that of it's rival.
There is also greater variety in the en-
tertainment. Rice's surpasseS it only in
the living pictures. Indeed, it is sur
prising that so much that is clever.
pleasurable and varied can be crowded
into single evenings performance, as
was done last night Corinne, the star,
is clever, bright and attractive, of good
stage presence and fine figure and as a
dresser, as the stage phrase goes, she
carries off the palm. Since she was here
some years ago she has very much i'm
proved, notably in singing Her con-
tralto, while not very superior. is rich.
velvety and strong She dances with
grace and ease and reads text with
fluency and good effect She will. how
ever, never be a great dancer, for she
is too short and her foot is too small:
she Will never be a notable singer. but
always a pleasing one She is good in
burlesque, but she will never be a SUI
perior actress, for she lacks feeling.
Pleased as the audience was with her
and complimentary as it was in it's ex-
preston, the impression obtained that
her heart is not in her comedy work:
that her performance is largely per
functory, a performance by routine. SO
to speak. In her mandolin playing and
her Spanish dancing, however, and in
the beautiful LA Paloma" she was su-
perior- In these she seemed to delight;
there was fire, animation and feel
ing in those acts, leaving nothing to be
desired.
Corinne and her management under
stand the art of supporting by a splen-
dld company. The star is surrounded
by as Well-selected and large a group
OF capable people as one could wish
to see in comic opera and extravaganza
With Corinne-and it is fair to say she
played in the strong light of and in
contrast TO some of the best specialists
and comedians on the stage with her
seen here in many a day-supported by
such as the Nichols sisters, Ben Grin
nell, Lindsay Morrison, Charles FostelIe.
Harry Dickinson, j. H. Macke and
Lillian Knott, there could be nothing
short of a brilliant show. The Nichols
sisters are more than clever and more
than versatile; in their plantation
Swells," New Woman" and Miss
Manhattan" they are inimitabIe. Grin
nell is at once a good comedian, a good
singer, a good acrobat, a good dancer
and a satirist. Soo too, Morrison is a
low comedian and a basso, all around
good-and so through the list the prin-
cipals are sound timber, while the
chorus is in keeping with its surround
ings. Fine scenery, a strong orchestra,
rich costumes, taking and very pretty
music, host of specialties, topical
songs, satirical hits. clever burlesque,
fine dancing, a graceful ballet admira-
bly, drilled, all go to make Corinne's
Company a capital one, appealing
strongly to the desire for light amuse-
ment, a hearty laugh and a satisfying