The record-union., 1897-12-19

At the Metropolitan Theater to-mor-
row night .'Proctor's Pleasure Party
will appear for a weeks engagement at
popular prices. The Seattle "Post-ln-
telligencer" says the troupe presents
clever pastoral play, Pleasant Valley,
a wholesome. old-fashioned drama
worked over according to later day
ioeas. The company it pronounces ca
pable and embracing some very good
specialists and character actors, notably
Anna Dorothy in illustrated songs;
Charles Cass, a German comedian; E.
+. Couch, a good tenor singer; Billy"
Robinson, low comedian, and Maude
Courtney, comedienne. The troupe is
under direction of William Alexander.
AS is elsewhere announced this morn
Ing, the Clunie Opera-house has ceased
10 exist under that title, and on Tues
day evening next the handsome and
commodious theater will be opened as
an Orpheum, becoming one of Gustav
Walters Orpheum Circuit, San Fran
cisce, Los Angeles and Sacramento, un-
der the immediate direction Of Frank
Clifton, who has been so many years
successfully mana ging in San Fran
prices include four orders. The orchestra
and first seven rows of the dress circle
will be so cents, last four rows Of dress
circle, % cents, box and loge seats. 10
cents, balcony, with all seats reserved,
% cents, gallery 10 cents. The matinee
prices are - cents to any part of the
house, children 10 cents, box and loge
seats 30 cents. with matinees Saturday
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raj bill gives fine promise. The chief
feature is the Knaben- -Kapelle, or Hun
sarian Boys Military Band of Buda
Pesth, Hungary There are forty pieces
in this organization. The band has
played the longest engagement in San
Francisco and Los Angeles ever filed
III California. namely seventeen weeks.
Another feature of the opening bill viii
be Moriss' trained ponies, six hand
some Shetlands, assisted by a New
foundland dog, a Rocky Mountain goat
and a colored man. The drill of this
combination is said to be remarkable,
and the tricks of the animals surprising.
One of the most amusing features of the
pony show is the wrestling match. The
EinOre sisters come direct from Tony
Pastors theater, New York to take
part in the opening They introduce an
entirely new line of comedy and vaude-
willie business. The Farrels, champion
cake walkers. and winners Of the Madi-
son Square prize; Baroness Won Zieber
of Vienna. prima donna soprano: CZita,
the Gypsy violinist. who plays Hungar-
ian airs as no woman on the stage ever
has: Stanley and Rathburn in a novel
turn on triple horizontal bars; Kerch-
ner's ladies' orchestra of eight members
under direction of Adolph Kerchner,
comprise the other features of the open
ing entertai inment Mr.. Clifton says
the Orpheums have always had high
maintained in Sacramento. The adj
vance sale of seats is now on.
Ole Olson, who played a successful en-
Fagement here some two or three years
ago, is to return soon and fill an engage
ment at the Metropolitan Theater
Among the attractions of his troupe is
John Lawson. known as the Terrible
Swede'' a noted athlete.
Mrs. Frances Whiteside Brough, who
died in London recently. at the vener-
able age of % years. was the mother of
a remarkable family. In earlier days
she used to he called the Mother of the
Gracchi" She had four sons. Robert,
or Bob" Brough, the dramatist. poet
and radical writer, author of Songs for
the Governing Classes who wrote or
ocllaborated with Frank Talfourd,