The record-union., 1897-03-05
WITCHERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Last Nights Lantern Show Of the Camera
Club.
How the Kodak "FiendS" Furnish
Entertainment for the
Public.

The Sacramento Camera Club had
fine audience at the last of its lantern
evenings last night The Congrega-
tional Church was well filled, and by an
appreciative audience. The views shown
constituted more varied lot than any
yet exhibited by the club. Those from
the Photographic Times prize set
were by all odds the best. They were
best in choice of subjects, in tone, tim
! ing and finish. Indeed we have seen
no tranSparancies that have equaled
them, especially those illustrative of
| landscape. Take that exquisite thing,
Fading Into Night" could anything
| be more delicate, truthful or better
chosen?
The floral views were good, but not
to compare with the other bits. The
Orange (NeW Jersey slides were all
clever but none of them We're better
than our own club can do, given the
same class Of subjects, and this is said
adVisedly. But that must be properly
Understood, namely, that the work is
fine, and that the local club does re-
markably fine work. Take the 'Elec-
trical Carnival and our river views,
for instance, and the mountain and
foOthill plates, and it will be found
that the New Jersey club has nothing
to teach our own in choice of subjects,
finish or print.
The marines of last evening We're ex-
quisite examples of Photographic art,
full of motion and so fresh and sharp
that one could easily fancy the salty
breezes blowing behind, as the beauti-
full yachts foamed through the rolling
waters of the Atlantic.
Myron f. Wolf was the delineator of
the evening and opened the bali by de-
nouncing the Record Union as a no
such thing, and threatening it with an
action in libel for saying that he is "a
Wit" He assured the audience that II
any of them attended on that showing
they had a right to retire and demand
their money back. Indeed, Mr. Wolf
worked himself up on the point, and
then proceeded to establish the truth
in the Record UniOn," and to prove
how mendacious he is when he sets out
to be, by punctuating his entire delin-
cation with witty sayings, some good
and some poor and some brilliant and
some not. But all the same he kept the
audience in a merry humor and proved
that he has a keen sense of refined hu-
nor. and q good store of native wit.
His libel threat will not hold water.
The club was announced in these col
urlns some time ago as having resolved
to give no more public entertainments.
This occasioned so much regret that it
has resolved once more and this time
to change it's plans. 1t now proposes
to give another year of exhibitions,
three each quarter for three quarters
(omitting the summer months), condi-
toned on receiving subscribing MEM
bers enough. according to this plan,
namely: The club win issue to each
subscriber of 81 a quar-
ter three tickets tor each
entertainment, transferable, or nine
tickets in all, making the cost but
about eleven cents. No collections are
to be made until it is found enough
have subscribed. The club wishes TO
make no money on the entertainments,
neither can it afford to lose money to
entertain the people.
If the new plan proves well in prom
Use, the club will have to exhibit new
local views; the Photographic Times
prize set; the London standard Mag
azine" prize set; the American amateur
series. and the French Exchange Paris
ian set, and sets from Toronto, Colo
RADIO, New York, Montreal. San Fran
cisco and other clubs.
The musical interlude was filed last
evening by a delightful short pro-
gramme of three pieces tastefully and
melodously rendered. by the High
School Club under direction of r. j.
Carpenter. The club was aided also
by A W. Black.
The performers were: Mandoiins-
Halsey Smith, William E. Ross, Will
liam Hatfield: violns-Miss Alice Mont
fort. J. w S. Butler. w. Fl. Popert;
guitars-Miss Grace Priest. Albert Har-
ney Alex Goddard, George b. Lorenz,
and Messrs Carpenter and Black.