The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-16

Next week the Alcazar San Fran
cisco Stock Company will occupy the
Clunie Opera-house. 1t is the Belasco-
Ihall organization, and now takes the
road for the first time after 13l contln-
uous weeks in San Francisco. 1t Is 70
reproduce here eight of the attractions
1T has given at the Alcazar. The man
agement brings here a carload or
scenery and properties, including the
paraphernalia for THE Girl Left Be
hind Me- ''The First Born" 'Incog,
Lost For a Day. Peaceful Valley,
"A Man With Past, In Idaho, The
Charity Ball. "A Social Highwayman'
1.-The Wife," Men and Women" and
Lord Chumley." The claim of the
mana gement is that there is not play
in the above list that its royalty is not
greater than the salary list of some OF
the popular price road companies, and
not one of those plays has ever been
produced on the coast outside OF the
-Alcazar for less than the former scale
of admission. Louis Morgenstern we'll
known here is the manager of the COM
pany, which consists of twenty people,
with George Osbourne and Gertrude
Foster at the head. The company is
booked for all the leading towns and
cities of the Pacific Coast
Ian Maclaren' (the pen name of the
great Scotch authoD will lecture at the
C1unie Opera-house on the 22d inst.
His subject will be characteristics of
Scotch Life with readings from The
Bonnie Brier Bush. The announcement
of the coming of the eminent divine
and famous Scotch author is sufficient
to insure him hearty welcome.
Hilary Bell says Mrs. Garter has now
'beaten the critics into q pulp" and in
Confederation puts the following in his
paper: Meanwhile, what has happened
to justify the crookback's complaint
against fortune? Ada Rehan has lost
her freckles, and her red hair But she
has been compensated by being recog-
niZed as the greatest coincidence that
ireland has produced since Peg Wof
fington. The tiny tot that wadsd IN
the Shannon has shaken hands with the
Prince of Wales and has received the
applause of Sassa enach. Until Mrs.
Leslie Carter came up with her new
tangled ZaZa to upset our artistic stan
dard Ada Rehan was esteemed as the
chief actress Of America. She was the
first Yankee player who caught the cold
hearts of the English, and by the skill
of her humor in the classics she pre-
pared tine way for our present invasion
of London Few moss-covered stones
that mark the resting places of the
EliZabethan poets and the poets of the
restoration have been left unturned by
her. Ada Rehan has earned greater
renown than was won by Peg Voting
ton without arriving at any of the
heartaches experienced by the heroine
of Smock Alley and Drury Lane. Thus
history doubly repeats itself. Dublin
and Limerick gave to the English comic
posts their greatest interpreters, and in
her maturity Ada Rehan returns to that
style of the drama in which she made
her first appearance. A play was
written around Peg Wellington, and
when she is long dead a play may be
written around Ada Rehan. The sim
iftude can be carried further, for
neither married. Peg was, a spnster
to the end Of her days, and Ada steers
equally clear of the altar
No misunderstanding concerning af-
fairs at the Metropolitan is greater than
that which suggests that the singers
4EAuSS IL dDpC0I CdpIlClOuSilc-S
or any other frivolous motive, says thu
New York Sun When they retire
after they have been announced to sing,
and tickets have been sold, there are al
ways excellent reasons. The loss which
they suffer is made up to them only
in case there is some unexpected de-
nland for their services. A certain
number of performances are guaran-
re- 70 c.fY, Tn
pany as that at the Metropolitan it is
difficult to give the singers all the APP
pearances promised to them. So when
they are prevented by Illness from sing
ing, it is not likely that they will get
other opportunities later Nine Leh-
mann, who has been i'll for two weeks
has been compelled to miss four per-
formances. which in her case means a
loss of $1,000 Nobody who knows her
believes that she is satisfied with such
result or that she would refuse to sing
if she were able to. Nine Sembrich
has been compelled to lose two perform
ances, which will probably never be
made up during the season, and earlier
in the winter Nine. Eames was equally
unfortunate. opera singers may be
capricious in many matters. but they do
not throw away deliberately their OPP
portunities
New York Post: In the announce
lnent that has been made that the Peo-
pies Theater is to be leased to new
managers, and that, with the close of
the present season it will be given over
to the production of plays in Yiddish,
another Bowery feature will disappear.
Since this announcement is made with
authority, it is probable that there will
be no melodrama on the Bowery next
year. nor thereafter for some time. to
come There are this year two Yiddish
theaters open-the Thalia and the
Windsor-and ii is predicted that when
the East Side Hebrews have possession
of third, it also will prosper, though
the class of plays to be offered is about
the same.
The Thalia, which used to be called
the Old Bowery, and was we'll 5,1own
playhouse in its better days, Is block
north from Chatham Square. The
Windsor is across the road from it,
Both are crowded nightly; and on Sat
urday afternoons and evenings stand
ing room is sold, and noisy vendors of
oranges, and sweetmeats crowd about