The record-union., 1898-03-19
ADJUSTMENTS.

Since Black PATHS Troubadours ap-
peared in this city last month. thew
have scored hits in San Francisco. San
Jose, Stockton, Los Angeles, San Diego
and Oakland. In all these places the
seating and standing capacity of the
houses, we are told were tested 10
their utmost. In fact. the entire trans
continental tour of the Black Patti
Troubadours is represented to have
been one continuous series of triumDhs
Beginning at ST Paul last Decembe
touring north to Portland, Or. and
south to San Diego, they have scored
the greatest hits of any company that
mas crossed the continent in recent
years. Their success here was very
hattering on the occasion of their first
appearance. The interest manifested for
the1r return here next Tuesday night
lndlcates that this success will be over
shadoWed. Seats for the performance
Will be on sale on Monday, though ap-
plications have been made for them al
ready. In this second engagement Ern-
est Hogan will offer some new vocal Sc
lectlons. Hogan is a successful COM
poser of modern coon songs, and mis-
latest rag time ballads are very fetch
ing" Black Patti will sing every
Rose Must Have It's Thorn a ballad
which she has recently added to her
repertoire, and which she sings with
fine taste and feeling
At the Orpheum this afternoon at 2
O'Clock and this evening at s o'clock
the last appearance of the very good
combination of vaudeville people now
on the Orpheum bills. If any who
take pleasure in such entertainments
as the Orpheum management presents,
have failed to see the performers in
this bill, they should not neglect the
two remaining opportunities. IF they
improve either of them they will not
regret it. Maud Beal Price Smart and
Williams and the Whitney Brothers are
alone enough to satisfy; but there are
others, and chief among them are the
Donners, than whom we have had no
better dancers and knockabouts here.
There was a fine, large audience at
the Metropolitan last night to see
Marie Wainwright in the new domestic
drama, Shall We Forgive Her?" 1t
is pitiful tale, with few lights or
glimpses of sunshine in it. The au-
dience fully forgave her" in the very
first act He would be less than man,
and she more than woman who would
not forgive one of such a nature as
the heroine had, sinner though she was
But the audience would probably not
vote to forgive Miss Wainwright for
accepting the role given her, in which
the most she has to do is to wiring her
hands and carry so dolorous a counte-
nance as to coax tears from stony eyes
out of pure sympathy. Certainly any
who have seen Miss Wainwright in
Twelfth Night" as Juliet or as Rosa
lind, will Withhold forgiveness from this
talented actress. But this is not say
ing that she did not play the part of the
forgivable woman in last nights play
artistically and we'll Only the author
has not invested the character with
sufficient wit, snap and spirit to make
it as human as it should be. One wants
to see this corner-driven woman reused
sufficiently to take Joanna, her jealous
rival, by the throat and give her a
sound shaking. The story of the play
is well told. There is not much action
in it, but not too much talk 1t ap-
peals strongly to the best sympathies,
it is a protest against the ethics of
humanity that fix irrevocable condem-
nation upon the woman for the same
sin for which man may be taken back
to the bosom of society. The support
was excellent throughout, and in two
respects exceedingly strong The char
acters of the stout, bighearted old
English matron assumed by Mrs. Con-
zales, and of the bluff, hearty, keen
sighted and witty old doctor, taken by
Mr. Hamilton, were revelations of art,
and shot athwart a sky of dramatic
gloom like sunshine from beneath a
storm cloud.