The record-union., 1899-12-12
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house the Eugene Blair company will
will present the latest success,
the dramatization of Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel,
"a Lady of Quality" To properly stage
the production requires scenery, fur
niture and wardrobe suitable to the
time of the play, the seventeenth CEN
| tury, and hence the management brings
carload of material for to-night's
production The very commendatory
criticisms of the San Francisco "Post"
and San Francisco Chronicle have
been given in these columns. We add
expressions in the same line from the
San Francisco "Call": ga Lady of
Quality, as produced last night. was
decidedly a hit. There Is little about it
with which to find fault and much to
commend. For a first night the play
went smoothly and was f1atteringly re-
ceived. This dramatization of the we'll
known novel by Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett, promises to have a successful run
for the week that it is billed here. The
company is strong one, the stage set
tingS perfect. There are some things
that border on the suggestive in the
piece, but there is really nothing at
which the most delicate feeling can take
Offense. Eugene Blair, as Clorinda
2Wildairs the wild child of fortune, was
decidedly strong in her Interpretation
of the part, and William Bramwell, as
Sir John Oxon, the heavy william of
the play, won admiration for his acting
| while he earned condemnation for the
character he portrayed. The act where
Miss Blair, as the heroine, bounded by
her prosecutor, strikes him a blow that
results in his almost instant death was
realistic and thrilling. In this act Miss
Blair shows to the best advantag e. The
play abounds in tragic situations and no
one who admires plays with plenty of
villainy. adverse fate and the triumph
of the right will regret seeing A Lady
of Quality Miss Blair is a handsome
and highly accomplished emotional
actress. She Facts as one would con-
ceive an artist of essentially refined
character should, and she demonstrates
| that she is a woman of rare good taste
in the beautiful wardrobe she uses and
in the selection of the scenery and stage
appointments which are all of her
choosing. The Denver News" a critic
| rather hard to please, says of the per-
Torrance promised for tonight: 1.-The
sympathy with the heroine which holds
the interest Of the audience from first
to last is due not entirely to the author,
but rather to the personal charms of
Miss Eugene Blair, who makes of
Clorinda Wildairs sweet and femi-
! nine and altogether attractive creature
by the omission of all unfeminine quail
ties SO extensively emphasized in the
book and so frequently referred to in
the dialogue of the play. On her first
appearance she has no suggestion of a
coarse hoyden, but is simply a fresh
young girl, Nubbling over with innocent
good spirits, and throughout the play
she is apparently as pure and refined
in thought as in expression, with the
| forcefulness of a woman, never of
| shrew. She thus softens and beauties
a creation that in its original outlines
would be scarcely tolerable, and the
success of last evening at the Broadway
Theater was largely Miss Blair's own.
| She is a rarely beautiful woman, with
brilliant face, a charming voice and
an admirably natural and effective de-
| livery. She plays with true womanly
| sentiment and excellent skill and in
every respect, the impression she made
was a delightful one.
The Sacramento operate Society in
conjunction with Sacramento Parlor.
No. 3, N. S. G. W., win produce Gilbert
& Sullivan's comic opera, THE Pirates
of Penzance," in two acts, at the Clunie
| Opera-house, Thursday and Friday
evenings. January 25th and 26th. The
opera will be given with ten principal
characters and a. chorus of fifty leading
| singers. Also an enlarged orchestra,
new scenery and elaborate costumes.
Much interest is being taken by those
who are to give the opera, as it is sew
eral years since opera has been sung in
| this city by amateurs. Regular re-
hearsals are being held and everything
is progressing so we'll that the first
night of the opera promises to be a
success. The whole production will be
under the leadership of Louis William
Weer. who has had long experience in
conducting operas.