The Portland daily press., 1878-12-11

UNCLE TOMS CABIN.


Messrs. Anthony & Parsons COMPANY met
with the very worst weather last night, but
some three hundred people, including many
ladies, braved the storm and gathered in City
Hall to witness the representation of the often
told story of Uncle Toms Cabin. Miss Portia
Albesmade very pleasing little Eva, and the
death-bed scene was very affecting. Miss Min
ME Foster was very good Topsey. Mr. G.
81. CLARK as Phineas FLETCHER and Gumption
Cute and J. T. flaming as Uncle Tom were
excellent. We recognized them as old &C.
quaintances. They were several years ago
members Of VIM. B. Enelish's company.
Messrs Hay and Hart, also the Misses Lorraine
and Cannon, were we'll received. The stage
and its accessories dwarfed the performance,
regular theater, and on such night, so large
Q ball with SO small an audience caused the
voices of the actors to echo aud made the words
sometimes uuintelhgible Chandler's orchestra
furnished excellent music This company will
return here on the 28th of this mouth and give
matinee and evening performance of Uncle
Tom.
DAMON AND PYTHIAs.
Mr.. Homer D Cope will appear at Portland
Theatre tonight in his remarkable rendering of
Damon and Pythias under the auspices Of the
Knights of Pythias. A Western exchange
says:
The appearance of Mr.. Cope upon the stage was
greeted with applause. He came forward on the
platform and in few words explained the character
OF the play and gave slight description Of the events
tended to teach. He then began the evenings en-
tertainment. All knowledge of himself was lost,
and he entered at once into the spirit of the per-
the possessor. For two hours the audience was held
spell bound, enjoying to the uttermost one of the
in Des Moines. The changes in personation were
marvellous.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
Prot. Gage will appear at City Hall tomor-
row night and present his lecture on the "Elec-
tIic Telegraph" The Boston Traveller says
Mr. Gage showed himself master Of the subject,
and gave lecture which was pronounced to be one
Of the most practical entertaining and eloquent that
packed full Of deeply interesting facts and by the aid
of the sterereopticon he made telegraphy 90 simple
that every one present was able to comprehend it.
His battery was connected by wires with the stere-
opticon, and by working the instrument himself he
showed upon the screen the operations of this mys-
GRAFTON upon the Ecanvas, and brought down rounds
OF applause from the audience Superb views of the
methods used in laying the Atlantic Gable. coiling
given, and it was the general verdict that the
lecture was one Of intense interest.
NOTES.
The Chicago Tribune says: What we crave
for, and pay for, is the mirth-maker or the
tear-maker-the emoti0nalist Clara Morris
frenzes us into sobs one day, AMI Nat Good.
win makes our sides ache the next-both being
strictly emotional actors, aiming at a common
end, working with a common purpose, and
really with the same implements.
Mr.. John G. Cowper writes friend that he
will return to America as soon as he secures
something which will be an attraction.
A New York stage carpenter has patented
series of box sets that can be changed more
quickly than fats and wings.
At Buffalo, Friday night, in the potion scene
OF "Romeo and Juliet, when Modjsska was
about taking the poison, some ruff1an gave an
imitation of pulling . cork, which SO annoyed
the countess that she ordered the curtain rupg
down, left the stage until the loafer " as
elected, and then played the scene amid great
applause from the crowded auditorium.