The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-07
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA,
FAUST.

| EAUSIs
We would urge upon our readers the pecessi-
| ty of securing their tickets for the opera, now
| for sale at the box Office of Portland Theatre,
| before they will be unable to procure seats.
Already there is decided movement that give g
| indications of large audience. The artists
| are all well known here, the prices calculated
to suit every purse, and. with the recollection of
Trovstore fresh 10 every mind delightful eve
ming NAV be anticipated. The following will
be the cast:
Miss Marie Stone as ................. Marguerite
Mss Adelaide Phillips as. .Siebel
Mr. rom Kari 49,. ......................Fau Faust
Mr. A 4. Stoddard as Valentine
MT. W. H. Macdonald as.......... Mephistophtles
Miss Carrie Burton AZ. ...................Ma Martha
Mr' haemIneIlee as wagner
UNCLE TOMS CABIN.
Uncle Toms Cabin will be presented in City
Ball Tuesday evening by Anthony & Parsons
popular and successful company. Miss Minnie
Foster as Topsv is said to be unrivalled, and
her songs, dances and banjo solos are every
where received with applause Eva is imper-
sonated by Porta Albee, the renowned child
actress, who s we'll known here. MIR. G. 81.
Clark. the comedian, and very strong compa-
ny make up the cast. A good entertainment
and low prices will draw large house here.
Special scenery will bs put into City Ii all for
the occasion. During the past four weeks 3d.
642 tickets have been sold for this entertain
ment by this company. Their success has been
great.
HOMER D. COPE.
In Damon and Pythias there are fourteen
characters ranging in scope and power from the
earnest patriot Damon, to the fair Calanthe,
and from the tyrant Dionysius to the little boy,
the son;of Damon. To rersouste all the various
characters, to assume their being and to be-
come identical with each parsonage, is the task
which Mr.. Cope undertakes when he rectes
this play. 1t is no easy task. II is accounted
a remarkable talent which can take even one
character in play and carry it successfully to
she close, but what must be said of one who
takes all the parts in play where the charac-
tiers are as varied as they are in this, and does
it with as much credit to himself as Mr.. Cope
obtains? What must be said Of such power of
OF memorization? And yet long criticisms III
papers all over the country attest his success.
MIR. Cope will appear at Grand Army Hall
bs secured at Frye's and Sturges' drug stores
and Collins q Buxton's music store.
Mrs. Rousby, the actress. wss lately brought
up for trial for assault on the manager of the
Standard Theatre, London. SThe jury acquitted
her, although by her own admission she was
Intoxicated at the time.
Fanny Herring fell from scaffolding 10 an
Indianapolis theatre, breaking three ribs and
INJECTING internal iujurles
The complimentary benefit to John Gilbert
at Waliatk's Wednesday night was great ova-
ton.
MaHd Branscombe, the Dramatic News says,
was given weeks notice to leave McWsde's
Rtp Van Winkle company on the score Of in-
competency.
L'zzie May Ulmer has been sick. She has
now entirely recovered.
Douglass Jerroid asked Emily Cushman,
Chariotte's sister, to marry hin Jerroid was a
small man, ana she aughingly replied if she
married it would be a man of size; something
masculine. Jerrold piqaed, replied, ''rnep,
my dear, why don't you marry your sister,