The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-18
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
AFTOAIMAs.

AiIOMAASs
Not very long ago Aptommas, the harper,
/ gave harp recital at Reception Hall. assisted
by Portland talent, and the result was an hour
and half of delightful music. On Wednes-
day evening he will give similar recital at
Rossini Hall, at which Miss Francis Dodwell
will assist vocaly. The programme will be all
that could bs desired, introducing Welsh, Irish
and Scotch airs.
The following will be the programme:
Fantasia--Lucrezia Borgia. ..........,.., .Avars
Duet-Twc Harps-Pfelades .Aptommas
Song-Darby and Joan. Molby
Miss Dodwell.
Sounds from home, Welsh melodies. ... Aptom1nas
Duet-Two Harps-Wedding march .Mendelssohn
song"The Ell King Sc ;A,Sars
Miss $ Dcdweli H. : ''''''N'''''
Etude. IT, La simpatia, Ar+ouuo.
Selections from FL. M. s. Pinafore. Sullivan
MARY ANDERSON.
Miss Mary Anderson, the young actress who
will make her Portland debut next Friday
evening as Parthenia, comes to US with the
/ endorsement of the critics throughout the land
Some claim she is ''the star of the first magni-
tude on the stage Just now" leaving out
Janauscheb, Genevieve Ward, Charlotte
Thompson. Clara Morris, Rose Eytinge and
Ada Cavendish, actresses of matured thought,
long study, great experience and artistic finish.
Mary Anderson is none Of these, and it is fool
ish to attempt to delude the public in a man.
ner which will only rebound like boomerang,
to the injury of the artist. Mary Anderson is,
however. tall, willOwy, handsome girl, who is
very uneven in her representations; at times
rising almost to grandeur, at others common
place. She is an excellent actress for her years
and experience, and if not ruined by indiscreet
praise and fiattery-which the Westerners have
"daubed'' her with-and if she continues to
study hard in the best schools, she will no
doubt become the equal of those we have
named, and perhaps, their superiors Mary
Anderson is, however, one of the tonnes of the
American stage, and every body who has seen
her photograph Is DESTROYS OF seeing the actress
There is no doabt therefore that Portland
Theatre will be Gro wded Friday Saturday and
Saturday matinee. The tickets will be ready
to-day.
sALsBUBY's TRoUBADoURs.
Last evening this qaintstts of actors who
have made fame and fortune for themselves
throughout the west, and have lately appeared
at the east with eclat, made their debut in this
City at Portland Theatre.
The evenings entertainment commenced
with little comedietta that served to in
troduce to the audience Miss Nellie McHenry,
Mr.. John Gourlay and Mr.. John Webster,
three of the Troub adours. Miss McHenry is a
young lady who possesses the great attractions
of a face that it would be shame to call
pretty since the word expresses SO ltsle, and
yet it would hardly be proper to call hand.
some; face, over which the varying emotions
fit, as shadows over mirror, and may be
called as pquant in feature as is possible to
the human visage. She is rather buxom in
figure, dresses richly and assumed the character
of the housekeeper in the comedietta with
great deal of spirit. Mr.. Gourlay made an ad-
mlrable old Scotch bar0net with hatred for
women, and MIR. Webster good Ir ish valet
But 1t was the extravaganza of "The
Brook" the large and brilliant audience as
sembled 10 witness. The plot-if plot it can
be called-as we have stated, is simply a
picnic at which the five ladies and gentlemen
OF the company have gathered, and indulge 10
song, Dance, story and character sketches
without number. OF these five Miss McHenry
Is the life of the piece, and, while she lacks
somewhat in refinement she keeps the
audience convulsed with her bouffe antics and
dances. She is not as graceful, as natural or
as refined in her fun as the Weathersby, but
she possesses some valuable accomplish mepts
that the latter does not She has good voice,
and in the drinking song with Miss Dungeon,
and her own selections pretty as Picture"
and others, che received hearty encores. In
Pretty as Picture" she displayed all the
enc that TOstee was noted for.
Miss Helen Dungeon is not an actress, but
she has an extraordinary voice for company
of this Kind 1t is of remarkable com pass up
per and lower register very clear under COM
plete control and edu3ated in a good school,
Her rendering of the brindiSe, "See How it
Sparkes." fairly captured the house, and her
"Robin Adair" completed the triumph. Later
10 the evening she executed TSrolean jodel
with remarkable power.
Mr.. Salisbury gave several Rotations with
good taste and strong effect, especially his
story of the tramp. His imitation Of Barney
Williams was very good, and of Charles Fech- |
ter very bad. AS q mimic he does not touch
Nat Goodwin, or 10 many other things that go
to make up the finished comedian, but for all
that he is an excellent actor and he sang ne
gro plantation song capitally. Mr.. G0urlay |
proved first rate burlesque actor as we'll as q |
good comedian. His song "What is Love" was |
very funny, and he displayed pathetic power in
I've Little One Dying at Home" Mr.. |
Webster had not much to do but was accepta- |
BILE, and the announcement that the company |
would return to Portland was greeted with APP |
plsuse.
While the s'Brook," in its representation
rather than its essential features, smacks more |
of the opera bouffs and the variety hall than |
the burlesque or comic stage, it affords most |
delightful entertainment and one that possesses |
SO many points IL wonld he impossible to pre- |
sent them in the limits Of newspaper notice |
The regular theatre orchestra lead by Mr.. Mea- |
der deserve praise for their accomp animent on |
the spur of the moment.
vLLIER
The tickets for the performance of DR.. J. |
Jay Villier, the humorist, to be given at City |
Hall Saturday afternoon ard evening, are |
ready at Stockbridge's. Saturday night ne |
will deliver his lecture Fanny People we
Meet
As Miss Emma Abbott was recently enter
ing the dress circle of the Olympic Theatre, ST,
Louis, the orchestra struck up whoa, EN- |
ma" much to the prima donna's annoyance,
Mr. Tom Karl has been engaged by Messrs |
Hathaway and Pond as a member of their |
Emma Abbott English opera company for next |
season.
Billy Florence recently remarked to a les.
tsurant owner in San Francisco, as they were
looking at a big, old fashioned pie: "My |
friend, the works look very nice, but don't
like the heavy double cases"
Kate Claxton has joined the ranks of the
robbed. Her dressing room at Macauley's in
Louisville was entered Tuesday night by
thief, who stole jewelry, etc., worth $3.50, and |
her husbands shirt and trousers
Mrs. Barney Williams, who has not, siAce
stage, has concluded to return to the profess
sion, and will open at the WALNUT street Thea
tire, Philadelphia, next month.
Palgrave Simpson version of Sardou's "Les
rates de Mouches, uLder the title OF "a
Scrap of Paper is drawing good houses at
Walack's in New York. 1t will he succeeded
BY either Caste or "Home.''
When girl makes up her mind that the
world isn't usiag her right, and that she is get
ting the bottom slice of bread at every meal, |
there is only one alternative-go On the stage
and play Juliet
The young Hungarian musician, Mr.. Maxi
min Vogrch, has given bis first New York
concert during the last week at Stairway Hall
The programme presented MIR. Vogrich as
composer for the orchestra, a poser for the
violin, aud an exceleut ex sou tant of The piano
music of Bach and Handel The most impor-
ia 1t number was violin concerto, written by |
him for Mr.. Remsnyi-Vogrich's instructor
and played by that artist. Favorable con-
ments upon the several ompishnents of |
Mr.. Vogrich were generally given by the New |
York City press.
KarmAulh