The record-union., 1899-09-21
ADJUSTMENTS.

Friday evening Clay Clement and his
superior company will begin a brief en-
gagement at the Clunie Opera house.
The sale of seats begins this morning.
Friday evening the play will be THE
New Dominion" Saturday night, 'The
Bells; Sunday night, "A Southern
Gentleman" Mr. Clement is both a
successful playwright and an accom-
plished and refined actor. His recent
long engagement in San Francisco was
was believed could be maintained. Mr..
Clement is the author Of the first and
last Of the plays to be given here. In
The Bells he assumes the character
of Matthias, in which Irving has made
the greatest of his successes. The
play is melodramatic in color and
theme, with all the characters circling
about the chief figure, a character in
which remorse for murder brings pun
ishment of the most fearful character
to the offender. 1t is a psychological
study; revelation of the burning tor
lures of a self-accusing soul. The
New Dominion" is pronounced warm,
genial, refreshing and full of human
interest. OF it the Chicago Inter
Ocean said:
ut is truly something uncomm IN, and
certainly most welcome, to find new
play that has some originality in agree
able lines, play that never offends,
and which presents modern types amid
pleasing surroundings. 1t is also a
novelty to find a play that, having its
scenes laid in Virginia, proves itself to
be in no sense war play the word war
never being mentioned once or even
referred to. All the characters are
Americans but one, and they are the
familiar ones of the American drama.
The one new type is that of the Baron
Franz Victor Won Hohenstauffen, a
German botanist who finds himself in
Virginia, where, in the study of the
American flora, he discovers something
rarer still, Flora May Randolph, with
whom he at once falls in love. There
is but very little plot to this dainty
play, but it is so rich in delightful epi-
sodes, so fascinating in it's half-poeti-
cally devised incidents, that it charms
with its absolute simplicity and truth.
The language is exceedingly bright and
fanciful as a whole, and is replete with
a great deal of wit and humor that is
wholly new and sympathetic to cul-
tured mind, while agreeable to less in
tellectual auditors"
Of "A Southern Gentleman" and its
author actor, the Louisville Courier
Journal" said:
"Of Mr. Clements new play, ga
Southern Gentleman" old words must
be repeated. When it was acted in
Louisville for the first time in any
Southern city, the opinion of the writer
was given unreservedly in favor of the
first truthful stage presentation of
Southern character. 1t has been
pleasant to watch Mr.. Clements career
since then. His visit to the Pacific
Coast resulted in complete success.
Then came his tour of the chief South
ern cities and their unqualified endorse
ment of the Louisville verdict In Ne "
Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, and, in
fact all points visited, critics and play
goers united in praise of Mr.. Clement s
characterization as the first truthful
picture of the Southern aristocrat of
the old regime. It has been the most
profitable season in Mr.. Clement s
career as a star, and in no city that
he visits will the news of his prosper
ity give pleasure to more well wishers
than in conservative Louisville, where
he is slowly but surely acquiring the
following that is the due of ability and
honest art endeavor."
Mr.. Clement is supported by his
wife, H S. Duffield and his wife Phosa
McAllister, both popular in Sacrament
to; by Jeffrey D. Willard, Nell Mac
Even, Gertrude OMalley, T. F. O'Mal-
ley, Bertha Foltz, Augustus Cook Ghe
original Napoleon in America in Mad
anne Sans Gene') and others.