The Portland daily press., 1879-11-05
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
KERRY Cow.

Mr.. Murphy had better house last night,
but not such an audience as he deserved.
The play, as we said yesterday, is bright and
pleasing. 1t is not the old Boucicault Irish
drama 1t is new departure in the right di-
rection and interests old theatre goers from
the beginning to the close. The scenes of the
blacksmith S forge in the third, and the dove
cotes in the fourth act are two of the best
scenes put on the boards of Portland Theatre.
The acting is excellent. The piece will be re-
peated tonight and we hope our theatre going
public will not fail to witness it.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA
Tonight Paul and Virginia will be presented
by the Emma Abbott Opera Company at City
Hall. That there will be very large audience
present goes for the saying because the COM
pany is called the strongest in the country be-
cause it has won immense popularity in the
great commercial cities, and because it will
present two of the most attractive operas ever
given in English in America. Not oaly does
the company embrace the names OF those we'll
known artists Mrs. Seguin, Mrs. Stone, Messrs
Karl, Macdonald and Stoddard, (the former of
whom has appeared here with all the best
English companies, such as the Castle &
Campbell and the Richings- Bernard, and the
last four with the Carleton troupe who were so
much enjoyed last autumn,) but Miss Emma
Abbott has won recognition from the public,
and Misses Maurel, Gilbert and Mr.. Ryse are
well spoken of.
Paul and Virginia will attact very critical
audience because the opera is comparatively
new, having only been heard in this country
lately The effects are said to be very fine.
A full description of the opera, with the cast,
has been published in the PRESS so that our
readers are well aware of what will be offered
them. Those who have not secured tneir seats
should be about it to-day. Tomorrow night
the Chimes of Normandy will be given.
JOE JEFFERSON.
Next Monday night Joseph jefferson will
appear at City Hall in his world famous crea-
ton of Rip Van Wrinkle.
An exchange says: "It never can be con-
sdered common chance that brings back to
our eyes, which have missed him, and to our
hearts, if ever he has been suffered to wander
out of them, such au actor as Jefferson. 1t is
a chance that lights up with renewed vitality
some of the sweetest and noblest of influences
that flow from the stage. To mention that
Jefferson reappeared here last night, eifecting
his Remittance at the Grand Opera House, is
therefore, to record the occurrence OF an I'M
portant event and the presence OF great
public benefit. The comedian came forward
in his old character of Rip Van Wrinkle, and,
of course, he was welcomed with reclamation
and obvious and sincere pleasure. 1t has often
been our task to dissect and describe this per-
formance and to honor it for its rare poetical
and spiritual beauty-as an ideal-while re-
cognizng its spell of tender humanity, and
the simple perfection of its mechanism as a
work of art. There is no call to retrace q
familiar line of comment.
Tickets are ready at Stockbridges.
THE PLEIADEs.
One of the most delightful entertainments
which will be given in Portland this winter
will be the Pleiades. Miss Helen Potter is
second Mrs. Howard Paul in her character i'm
personations The Swedish Ladies Quartette
are delightful singers and true artists Anna
Berger is a first rate cornet player and very
pretty woman. Regalney is q genius at carica-
ture drawing, and Fritz Schmersir will appear
in native costumes and sing, Tickets at
Stockbridge's
Sardon's new comedy will be produced at the
Theatre Francois in December
Joe Wheelock will appear in Ion Perdicaris'
play of ''The Picture at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York. Mr.. Perdicaris is a
Greek by descent, q graduate of Harvard Col
lege, class of 1860, and an artist by profession.
Miss Ada Cavendish will appear on the New
England circuit soon.
The London Worlds paragrapher says: m.
Gustave Flaubert has been somewhat spare in
the production of his pen lately hear that
he is to produce, ere long, a grand spectacular
drama Of 'Shakesperian proportions title and
subject unknown, but the scenery OF which is
already intrusted to ten of the best stage
painters in Paris
Mr.. Burnand's version of LES Trente Mil
lions de Gladiator" originally called THE
Nabob," is now to be known as "Ready
Money! the former title discovered to have
baan anticinated nv more than one dramatiSt,
English and foreign. The farcical scenes of
the original have undergone at the adapter's
hands considerable notifications. The mil
lionaire hero, to be represented by Mr.. Royce,
will be not Brazilian but an Oriental gentle
tleman in full costume.