The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-12-20
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
THE TOURISTS.

THE TOURISTS.
Messrs. Smith & Messenger Tourists in q
Pullman Palace Car, whose laughabie perform
ance was first presented to our public last JAN
uary, will again be with us this week at the
New Portland Theatre, playing Friday ano
Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee
THE sTRATEGIsTs.
The Strategists, who will appear for the
first time this season at Portland Theatre next
Monday and Tuesday, are under the manage
ment of Mr.. j. H. Haverly. The company in
cludes the popular artists, j. b. Polk, Frank
L. Aiken. Kate Gilbert, Marie Bates and 9TH
ers, and will be put on with full scenic effect.
The plot of the piece is simply of two young
people, who are matrimonially inclined end
whose parents are opposed to the match. They
resort to little strategy, and in the disguise
assumed by the young lover he becomes in
volved in some absurd situations, but accom-
plishes his purpose after involving both his
and his sweetheart's parents in a lively quar-
rel.
NOTES.
The Hutchinson Family has been engaged to
give another concert at City Hall, Wednesday
evening, Dec. %, under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Next Sunday the State street choir, in the
afternoon at the Second Parish church, will
sing selection from Handels messiah" with
cornet obligato.
Grimmer's orchestra furnished the music for
the grand ball of Oriental Lodge, South
Windham, and at Lewis Hall, Woodford's.
1t is reported that project is on foot for the
formation of first-class orchestra OF about
forty pieces in this city. Kotzschmar is named
for conductor, and the players will be the very
best in Portlond.
Miss Clara Morris will appear at a series of
matinee performances of 1.-THE New Magda-
len" at the Union Square Theatre during jan
uary.
1t is said that Frank L. Gardiner of the
Legion of Honor" company, lost nearly
Gunter's new play "The Journalist" in Chi
cago, although the receipts for the perform
ance were over $500.
The New York Evening Post says: "Patti
may travel about the country with her para
mour Nicolini as much as she pleases, but
she has no right to make every concert she APP
pears in unbearable to refined musician by
continually dragging him on the stage and
making nauseating exhibition of his hideous
information and vocal delirium tremens."
Mr.. j. III. Hackett is announced to appear as
Lady Macbeth in the Academy of Music, New
York, on Thursday evening next, when she
will have the support of Barton Hill as Mac
beth and Edwin Il. Thorne as MacduH. The
music will be rendered by full chorus to
the accompaniment of the Seventy first Regi-
ment band.
Mr. Dan Frohman, the right hand man of
Manager Mallory of the Madison Square Thea
tire, says he considers ''that the road to wealth
runs directly through the most expensive col
umns of the most expensive daily newspapers"
The excessive demands of the persuasive adj
vance agent of the theatrical travellers has
brought about state of affairs in Hartford
that the whole newspaper world will beam up
on, to wit-the office buys its tickets to the
theatres and the theatres pay for their advance
notices like other folks There never has been
any reason yet discovered why every paper in
a threatened city should give the coming play
ers hundred or two dollars Of dead-head adj
vertising, but the persuasive advance agent
generally sees that they get it.