The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-25
Cumberland County medicn, Society.

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The regular meeting of the Cumberland
County Medical Society was held yesterday
| morning.
DR.. L. A. Foster presented a patieut for ex'
| animation with emphysema of the lungs
| The records OF the last meeting were read
| and confirmed.
| The first paper called for was one by DR.. Eos
ter, on Injury of brain from fall" 1t was
a case of probable fracture of the skull without
displacement ending in recovery. The Doctor
explained at some length the meaning OF the
symptoms, by the anatomical distribution Of the
| nerves.
DIR. Gordon then gave verbal report OF two
very interesting operations for prolapsas atera,
with rupture of the peritoneun,, explaining upon
the black board the various steps of the opera,
ton known as Emmet's operation. The result
| of both cases was very satisfactory.
The time for adjournment having arrived,
DR.. Hersom's report was postponed till the
next meeting.
| The interest in these meetings is steadily III
creasing, and the number in attendance is very
satisfactory. The business committee have in
contemplation plans for still further increasing
the value of these meetings generally.
SIR MISUNDERSTANDING new operetta
of Sir Marmaduke (Which, by the way, is to be
given lin this city on the 18th of March) will
much interest Portland people because of the
appearance in it of Miss Alice Carrie. The
Boston Advertiser highly commends the work,
and has the following to say:
| The music by Mr.. Eichberg is we'll worthy of
| II is Eubt klipC and fn11
of melody. The concerted pieces show, MI
| Eichberg's mastery of composition, and the
piano score is richer and more symphonic than
| modern composers give to works OF much
greater pretensions. None OF the music Is
| tedious and nowhere do evidences OF too close
| following or imitation of other works appear
| The words are necessarily of a character to de-
ter most singers from selecting music OF the
| opera for the concert room, but there are two
| or three of the fifteen numbers which are sure
to become familiar in that way-notably the
| quarrel duet for tenor and soprano, Now pray
| hear me-" which is perchance the best number
in the opera, and will elicit an encore nine
| times out of ten. Mr.. Woolf has succeeded
admirably with the libretto. He has altered
| Mr.. Morton's dialogue but very little, but in
| the songs he has written lines such as can be
found in few English operas.
| AS for the singing, that goes almost without
| saying. OF course Mrs. Smith gave the So
prano music with excellent effect, and that
which fell to Mr. Barnabee and Mr.. Winch
was admirably rendered. The centralto. Miss
Alice Care,was probably stranger to the ma
| jorty of the audience. We believe she is q
| Portland lady, and was first engaged here as
| the cOntralto of the First Unitarian church in
Cambridge. She is bright-eyed brunette,
quite young, and of pretty face and figure.
She has a clear, strong and brilliant contrato
voice, capable of fine execution if she sue
| ceeds in overcoming decided nasal tendency.
| Her style, though as yet somewhat crude,
shows very decided dramatic genius, which, if
| cultivated, should enable her to take good rank.
Her acting was the best of the evening. Mrs.
Smith, of course, made no professions to act
ing. Mr.. Winch was decidedly amateurlsh,
and Mr.. Barnabee though quite funny at times
seemed to lack energy, and his impersonation
| had decided tendency toward monotony.