The record-union., 1899-08-27

Beginning September Sd and for one
week we are to have at the Clume
Opera-house the Vroom- Addison com
pany in repertoire. The troupe comes
well credited from the East and plays
at popular prices. 1t gives romantic
drama and comedy. The leading man
is Frederic Vroom and the leading Wo-
man Miss Grace Addison. The Vroom-
Addisons are popular at the East ana
the leaders are commended by Chicago,
Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia pa
pers. AS to the support we know very
little as yet Neither have we seen the
leaders. but as they present Shakes
pearian plays and the higher order OF
the romantic drama. have been long
upon the stage and are approved by
many contemporaries. we assume that
the week of the company here will give
us very creditable entertainment.
Among the plays to be presented are:
1.-THE Dukes Pledge 1892, or Love
and War" 1.-THE Reapers," 'Ingomar'
and Love and Duty all romantic
dramas of the better order. The Vroom-
Addison company does not deal with
the lurid drama nor with farce comedy.
Gustav Hinrichs, the well-known di-
rector of opera, is conducting a singing
society which appears at the Terrace
Garden Sunday concerts in New York.
San Francisco Music and Drama,
New York correspondent: The DAILY
players, or most of them, are already
engaged for the coming season, Charles
Frohman having secured a large num-
ber of them, but several other manag-
ers have given them good engagements.
Even the chorus people have had no
difficulty in getting into comic opera
companies. The DAILY reputation seems
to be worth something to the people
who put up with the deceased manag-
er's pecularities.
The season of the Louis James,
Kathryn Kidder and Charles B. Han
ford combination will begin at the Al
vim Theater in Pittsburg on September
18th. Baltimore, Washington and New
York will follow and then the triple
star combination will go directly South
and West to the Pacific Coast. Their
itinerary will afford a large percentage
of the theater-going public of this coun-
try their first opportunity of witness
ing Shakespeare's winters Tale. "
which will be the feature bill of the
repertoire.
Maude Knowlton, the handsome and
talented young Califorienne who is
leading lady with Delcher and Hennes-
sy's Browns in Town." gained a
large share of her experience under
David Belasco's direction and subse-
quently in Augustin Daly's and Daniel
Frohman's Companies.
San Francisco Music and Drama:
There has been mild boom in theatri-
Gals on this Coast for several weeks
past and the outlook for profitable
season was never more promising. Last
season was an off one for California,
the worst in twenty years and there
was good reason for believing that the
financial depression occasioned by the
failure Of the crops last year would be
felt this season as we'll 1t is hard to
explain, however, why business should
remain dull in certain branches of trade
while the theaters enjoy the largest
patronage known for a decade, but such
has been the case for a month or more
1t appears from the announcements OF
important bookings at the regular thea
ters and the long list of attractions
pointing toward the Pacific Coast that
there will be more theatrical entertain
ment here this winter than there has
been for several years past and there
is great confidence on all sides that the
patronage will be proportionately large
From the interior come the most en-
couraging reports of good business ir
the very localities where it was least
expected, and the Elleford Company
the first to take the road this season
has broken records in several towns
On every hand one hears the most con-
fident predictions that the winter oi
1S99-1900 will be the most satisfactory
from a theatrical view that California
has experienced in ten years.
Paris correspondence London Post
A leather merchant named NJ. Bonier
who is in business near the Place de
la RepubliQue is the hero or the victim
as one likes, of a most remarkable re-
semblance to the eminent late dramatic
critic. NJ. Francisque Sarcey. NJ. BonieI
has been relating his woes to a Eympa-
thizing journalist. He cannot, he says
pass along the street without observing
clean-shaven individuals start and turr
pale when their eyes light on him. Ir
the Rue de Douai a few days ago q
well-dressed young woman tainted or
percelving him. When she recovered
she repeated in terror-stricken accents
1T is he. 1t is he,' and the crowd
mistaking the reason Of her fright, i'm
parted to NJ. Bonier the information
that he was an old rascal and ought
to be ashamed of himself. Equally