The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-10-18
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
ART PICTURES

1t has been decided to introduce into the en-
tertainments at Portland Theatre, Monday and
Tuesday evenings, the fan-drill which proved
such card at the Carnival of Authors last
autumn. The tableaux will also prove very
beautiful, judging from the care that is evil
denced in the selection of characters, the cos
tuning and grouping: and the same may be
said of the statuary.
ENGAGED.
We wish to again urge upon all our readers
interested in the drama the performance of
Engaged which will be given by the Park
Theatre Company at Music Hall, Monday
night. This is one of the entertainments
furnished to Portland audiences once or twice
in a season. The play is a satire on society
and is founded on that popularity of Scotch
law which makes legal marriage by simple
declaration of man and woman in the pres
ence of witnesses that they are man and wife.
Cheviott Hill, young man of fortune, has
propensity of falling in love with every woman
he sees, and manages to believe himself mar
ried after the Scotch fashion to both Maggie
MacFarlane, Scotch Lowland lassie, the
daughter of Lowand widow, Mrs. MacFar-
lane, and to Belinda Treherne. Mrs. Mac
Farlane's cottage is in England and its garden
in Scotland, and thus the question of whether
English or Scotch law applies to the marriage
is a nice one. But besides the much marrying
Cheviott is engaged to be married to Minnie
Symperson, and it is on his wedding day that
he finds himself with two wives already. The
complications which grow out of this state of
things are all clearly explained and are very
droll, and they end by Maggie unising with
Angus Manchester, Scotch Lowland peasant
1ad VIII che had 6acprtn6 for ChaViOtt. and
the latter becomes the husband of Belinda,
while Minnie is transferred to Chevlott's
friend, Balvauney. Part of the fun OF the
burlesque consists in the mock heroic senti-
The tickets are ready at Music Hall and the
box office will be open from to p. M, to-
night.
CROWN DIAMONDS.
Auber's beautiful opera of "Crown Dia-
monds'' will be brought out at Music Hall by
Stetson's New England opera company Tues
day next. AS we have said before the COM
pany has been selected with great care, and
drilled with assiduity, by Mr. G. R. Adams,
the we'll known tenor The prices for tickets
are the ordinary house prices and the theatre
should be filed. The best seats can be pro-
cured now if application is made at once, and
from to s p. IN. tonight the box office will be
open.
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.
Next Wednesday Mr.. William Warren, of
the Boston Museum Company, will appear at
Portland Theatre as 'Chawles'' Liquorpond in
ga Fool and His Money" The plot is as fol-
lows: "Chawles'' Liquorpond, a confidential
servant of Mr.. Ransome, is made heir to
very large property by the death of the latter.
AS he is illiterate and generally low-bred, he
betakes himself to Welsh village where he
imagines that no enc who knows OF his ante
cedents will find him. Young Percival Ran
some, the rightful heir, who has returned from
the Continent as he supposes, to take posses
sion of his property, goes with "Chawes,' as
valet and instructor in etiquette, when he
finds himself penniless "Chawles' is
obliged by the will to take the name of Ran
some, and he is pursued into Wales by Braba
zon Vandaleur, distant relative of Ransome
the elder, who is impecunious and scheming.
and who has manageable daughter to dis
pose of. This daughter happens to be one
whom Percival, under an assumed name, has
wooed on the continent, and his appearance in
Wales as valet complicates love affairs as
younger Ransome Finally, after "Chawles''
has Teen made miserable by his Welsh tenants
and neighbors the Vandaleurs, and by Masy
Draper, one Of the female servants of Ran
some, whom he had wooed in the old days in
the servants hall, the will is broken, and Per-
cival enters into his rightful possessions, and
wins Kate Vandaleur, while "Chawles' is
consoled by ease of conscience, relief from per-
secution, and last but not least, by Mary
Draper. This bare sketch does not even indi-
cate the comical situations, ludicrous language,
and bright dialogue with which the comedy is
fairly studded.
NOTES.
The sale of seats for the Emma Abbott
Opera Company entertainments will COM
mence at Army & Navy Hall next Wednes-
day at O'Clock a. m. 1t costs $50, 900 to fit
out the company with costumes and scenery.
The Jewellers gave their second enter
tainment last evening. There will be a matt
nee this afternoon and the last performance
will take place tonight.
Those old-time Portland favorites, S. H.
Verney and Victoria Cameron, will appear in
F. S. Chanfrau's company.