The record-union., 1898-09-04

The regular theatrical season in this
city will be ushered in with a strong
array of high-class vaudeville artists.
Manager Clifton, who has always kept
faith with the public, announces Tor
his first attraction the famous portray
ers of New York types, Hines and
Remington, character artists, present
ing their latest comedy 1.-The Queen OF
the Road" They will appear first in
Sacramento before opening at the San
Francisco Orpheum. Charles Case.
surnamed by the San Francisco press
the funny man from the East; the
clever French artists Valbon and An
thelmine, opera bouffe dancers; the re-
nowned athletes Mason and Reed; com
edy horizontal bar experts, Jacklln ana
Grodjens; character vocalists or ma
tfonal reputation; the comedy duo, the
Stanleys in an original wire speciality
Mrs. O'Grady's Wash Day" and 9TH
ers will appear. The very best com
panies coming to the Pacific Coast will
be presented throughout the season
The policy of Manager Clifton is to
offer only the high-class novelties, feel
ing assured that the public will appre-
ciate his efforts to give Sacramento a
first-class temple of amusement. Dur
ing the Orpheum vaudeville engage
ment regular Orpheum prices will pre-
vail
Manager Frank Clifton has booked a
large number of Baldwin Theater and
Orpheum attractions for the Orpheum
in this city in the near future. Fol-
lowing are those for this month: Week
commencing September 9th, Orpheum
Company; Monday and Tuesday, Sep
tember 18th and 18th, Harry Corson
Clarke in What Happened to Jones" !;
18th, 10Th, 10Th, 18th and 18th of Sep
tember the genuine Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons Carson City fight pictures, taken
at Carson City, New, by the Veriscope
Company; September 23d and oath
Hoyt's "A Milk White Flag; Septem-
Der 18th Madame Pacheco's Ideal Com
edy Company; September Both Mod
5eska. Frohman's Company, Frederick
Warde, Katharine Kidder, Louis James
and many other will come later
Mr.. Frohman has now a controlling
interest in two London theaters, the
Garrick and the Duke of YOrk's, and
a part interest in the Adelphi, the home
of melodrama so long held by William
Terris.
Elita Proctor Otis and Robert Hill
lard have been engaged to create the
leading parts in the forthcoming pro-
duction of Sporting Life" at the
Academy Of Mucis in New York City.
The production promises to be one of
the most elaborate ever made at this
theater.
Odell Williams, who went to London
to play his original part of the drunken
Sergeant in Heart of Maryland" has
returned and will reappear as the
stern but kindly old Squire Bartlett in
Way Down East" when w. A. Brady
produces that sympathetic rustic play
at the fremont Theater, Boston, the
middle of next month.
f. H. Sothern and Virginia Harmed
are not to part, as it was proposed
they should, for a while professionally.
Southern has accepted and has been
rehearSing a play written for him by
r. n. Stephens, author of AN Enemy
to the King" The new piece is called
s'The Continental Dragon; or, Alls
Fair in Love and War" and has been
seen already in the form of novel.
Mr.. Sothern has been rehearsing it at
the Lyceum and intended to produce
it on September 10Th at the Broad
Street Theater, philadelphia. But
there is a sudden shift. Stephens play
has been shelved temporarily and
Sothern will stage instead, at the
opening of his season, "A Shillings-
worth" comedy written by Mrs. Abb
bey Sage Richardson. who dramatized
.sThe Prince and the Pauper," and
Grace FNurness. Virginia Harmed Will