The Portland daily press., 1881-11-07
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
GRAYsoN OPERA COMPANY.

GRAYsoN OPERA COMPANY.
Patience" was repeated by the Grayson
Opera Company to q small audience at the
matinee at Portland Theatre Saturday. In
the evening the "Mascotte'' was presented in
excellent style. Mrs. Carter not only sang the
music OF her part admirably especially the
song, "The sun is in the morning sky" in
which her runs and trills were very brilliant,
and her stdccato notes very clear and effective,
but acted with much chic Messrs. Allen
and Smith were excellent as Lorenzo and Roc
co, and Messrs Molten and Dalton good as
Frederick and Pippo. Miss Grayson was an
acceptable Fiametta, and the other parts were
we'll taken. The "Ourang Outang" song was
do ubly encored, and the song of the Mascotte,
of course, had to be repeated Lots OF new
and funny business was introduced, and one
eat feature was the little page who bore Bet
tinas train Ill the second act. Mr.. Matiin gave
jig in manner that brought down the
house. What the company lacked vocally
they made up in acting. The piece was hand
somely costumed.
UNCLE DAN'L.
Tonight Barney McAuley will appear in
"Uncle DAMP at Portland Theatre. The
Montreal Star says:
The Messenger of Jarvis Section" is one
of those grand characters that make US love
and reverence human nature; and with those
who know how to profit by the high teachings
which it is in the power of the drama to con-
vey so efficiently. Mr.. McAuley's excellent per-
sonation will remain as one of those sermons in
action, OF which the vivid remembrance does
the soul good long after the curtain has
dropped between the audience and the actor.
The plot, if not new, is novel and original in
its working ont The blending of the tragic and
comic elements, typical of the romantic school
OF art and no easy point to succeed In, IS well
managed; and the triumph OF right over
wrong, another requisite of true dramatic art,
is brought about without any of the clumsi-
ness too frequent even in otherwise good plays.
FELICIA
Friday and Saturday Rose Eytinge will pro-
duce Felicia" at Portland Theatre. The
story is that of queen of the demi-monde in
Paris, who, having run her race and made
herself notoriously infamous by her vices, re-
tires to . life Of seclusion, virtue and indepsnd-
ence in the country. Her illegitimate son she
alleges is the child of her dead sister, and in
this belief the son himself is sharer. He falls
in love with young girl. pure and chaste as
the young girls in French dramas usually are,
and after manfully avowing his illegitimacy
finds that to be no barrier to his union. But
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pears in the role of his aunt is his mother, and
no other than the notorious Felicia, with
whose infamy all France is familiar. This, of
course, is an insuperable barrier to marriage,
but finally Felicia herself proves that the de-
stroyer of her happiness and the father of her
son, was none other than the uncle Of the
young girl with whom her son is so madly in
love- And then in the most original French
style we have the denouement. The young
people, all Felicias past being evidently for
gotten, are to marry each other, the trifing
matter of their being full cousins being ig-
nored. Felicia goes into convent to ''seek
that forgiveness of heaven which man sternly
denies her on earth," and the curtain drops.
These are the materials from which this piece
is constructed.
CENTENNIAL JUBILEE SINGERS.
The Centennial Jubilee Singers will give q
concert at Reception Hall tonight. Those
who heard them at Congress Hall last night
were very much pleased with their singing.
They should have full house.