The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-23
MU1o AND THE DRAMA.
THE TOURISTS.

THE TOURISTS
Tonight the Tourists" who gave so much
pleasure to theatre-goers last season will ap-
pear at Portland Theatre in their Pullman
palace car. The New York Express says:
nThe present season of "The Tourists" at
Hayerly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, is one OF the
most successful engagements played IN tnis
theatre for many years. The reason Ior TINS
IL obvious. The entertainment is clean and
wholesome. The many limitations which have
followed "The Tourists" order OF entertain
ment have mistaken vulgarity for fun and
coarseness for humor. "The Tourists are
originators: their songs are new, and, in some
cases, specially adapted. They have STRUCK
the popular fancy in the presentation OF tune
full melodies and spirited refrains, and the
eopgIomeration of absurdities which make
up the entertainment are original, irreslstlDly
grotesque, aud uproariously funny"
THE sTRATEGIsTs.
Next Monday and Tuesday the "Strategists''
will present their farcical comedy at Portland
Theatre. The company will include Messrs.
Joe Polk, f. e. Aiken, Henry Linden, Sam
Ryan, Harry Bell, L. F. Howard, f. Jordan,
L. f. Terriss, Misses Kate Gilbert, Marie
Bates and Lizzie Hight. The play. is full OF
fun, and the situations are intensely amusing
PATIENCE.
The most charming of Messrs. Gilbert and
Sulliyan's musical eccentricity," the clever
satire on the aesthetic craze known as IA
tience," has occupied the attention OF Boston
theatre-goers SO exclusively that its perform
ances at the Boston Museum have taken up
about three months of the season, and the
piece has been withdrawn only because other
engagements cannot be postponed patience"
is bright, witty and amusing enough to insure
its popularity under almost any conditions,
Init the Museum representation is exceptional
ly brilliant. The excellence of this represen-
tation has been so readily acknowledged that
for the opening night to its closing, and one
hundredth, performance the Museum has
been crowded. It is seldom that Boston thea
tire goers grow so enthusiastic over anything
theatrical. The sale of seats for perform ances
in this city will commence at Stockbridges,
Monday.
MICHAEL sTRoGoFF.
Mr. Stinson, agent for the Boston Theatre
company, was in town yesterday. He says
michael Strogoff" will be put on the boards
at Portland Theatre in splendid style. sScenery
will be produced prepared expressly for the
occasion, there will bes a ballet OF forty-flye
led by Mile. Leppri, and the cast Will be the
same as in Boston. A matinee Will DC gwen
Saturday, the 31st.
Mile. Rhea is doing some of the New Eng
land cities.
Miss Jenniebelle Neal intends to play
"Juliet'' in "Romeo and Juliet" in New York
after her engagement with tn Hutchinsons.
The Order of Knights of Pythias are to
have the first of their entertainments at Castle
hall, next Wednesday, the 28th inst. The
Cecilia uuartette and Miss BERTHE Webb will
be the chief attractions.
tParting is a sweet SORROW" whispered
bald-headed Romeo under the balcony. II
should smile,' murmured the gentle juliet, IN
tender response.
Johann Strauss has produced new operetta
in Vienna which, unless the critics are mis-
taken, is superior in every way to his other
attempts in this line. Il is entitled Der LUIS
tige Krieg' (The Merry War;, and, besides
considerable bright 1dance music, is said to
contain number Of expressive bits of senti-
mental writing. Hanslick, in the Neue Freie
Presse, lauds its style Of writing, to the dis
paragement of the other Viennese operetta
writers.
The latest triumph of scene painting is re-
corded by the veracious Paris newspapers.
The manager of Paris theatre recently I'M
ported an elephant from Persia to figure In an
Asiatic spectacle. When the animal was
first brought upon the stage it astonished the
company by making demonstrations OF ex-
treme delight. Everybody was puzzled till ID
was discovered that the scenery represented
the public square in Ispahan. Then all was
clear The scene was so true to nature that
the elephant fancied himself back at home and
reioced accordingly.