The Portland daily press., 1880-10-01
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA


MY PARTNER.
The sale of seats for ''My Partner" which
will be given at Portland Theatre to nj, ut,
shows that there will be large and fashion
able audience There should be for the play
is one of the great successes of the day. The
cast has already been given. The following
is the plot:
Joe Saunders and Ned Singleton are part
ners in California mining town. Here lives
Mr.. Matthew Brandon, a man who has seen
better days, and who trusts his motherless
daughter Mary, to the chances of life in the
place. Mr.. Brandon is followed and hated by
Josiah Scraggs, the evil genius Of the piece,
but has no other enemies. Wsth his daughter
the elder of the partners" Joe, falls in love;
and ignorant of the fact that she has loved
Ned Singleton and has been seduced by him,
he offers her his hearts devotion. Mary,
knowing the truth and fearing to disclose it /,
is overcome by her emotions and faints away.
While Joe ruSheS to the stream to get water
the other partner appears on the scene, and
while Joe listens, the story of the girls wrongs
is made known to him. Sitting the expression
of his own love for Mary, he sternly exacts
from his partner the solemn oath that within
three days he will make the woman he has
injured his wife. This ends the first act.
The curtain of the second act rises on the
scene of the cabin of the partner. He up.
braidS Ned for his conduct (being heard by
Scraggs, unseen,) and parts from him refusing
to shake his hand in friendship. The mo-
ment after, Scraggs enters the cabin; after
some parley with Ned, he makes an infamous
proposal, which is at once resented, and in the
struggle which follows Scraggs murders Sim
gleton who falls with his head on his hands,
just as his partner had left him. In the mean
time Joe, who has come to relent little,
returns to the cabin, and enters just as the un-
known murderer escapes by the window. Here
occurs the most powerful scene in the drama,
when the loving partner discovers the muir
dered man and lifts him up, only to be met
with the CLASSY stare of death. Joe, on being
found in the cabin with the murdered man, is
accused by Scraggs as guilty, and be is ar
raigned and tried. While awaiting the
verdict of the jury Degrading which there is
little hope for the prisoner. Joe is brought to
the house of Mary's father. The daughter
returns in shame; and to save her from the
disgrace which the story of seduction which
he declares himself her husband.
The father demands proof of the
legal marriage, but none can be given At
last Major Henry Clay Brett, politician and
magistrate offers to perform the ceremony
again. and this is done. The closing act, as
the reader may suppose, is devoted to the
clearing of the innocent man from the suspi-
ciou of guilt, and the condign punishment of
the villain is supposed to take place before the
green curtain descends.
RAINBOW REvELs.
Next week the Stewarts will appear at New
Portland Theatre in "Rainbow Revels" The
company have made an immense hit in Boston
and elsewhere. The critics are all charmed
with them, and with the piece, and say they
are the nearest to the Vokes Family of any
troupe on the stage They will give three per-
formances Oct. 4th, 9th and 9th.