The Portland daily press., 1881-05-17
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA
UNCLE TOM.

UNCLE TOM.
The Uncle Tom performances, to be given at
Portland Theatre Friday and Saturday, will
probably crowd the house. Minnie Foster is
called an excellent Topsey, the Memphis Uni
versity Students will sing, and pack of blood
hounds and two donkeys take part in the show
Tickets will be ready Wednesday.
NOTES
Maggie Mitchell, in Fanchon, will draw an
immense audience to Portland Theatre the
24th inst. There is constantly increasing
number OF theatre goers who desire to see
this celebrated actress in part she has made
famous.
Lolita on the 9th and 2Sth at Portland The
atre will be greeted with packed houses as
she always is in this city. Her new character,
May Wildrose in "Heartse ase," is said to be
very taking, while her Musette is always
drawing card. The tickets will be ready at
Stockbridge's at popular prices on Wednesday.
We hope Janauschek will appear here in
the dual character of Lady Dedlock and Mile.
Hortense. She is unapproachahle Ia these
characters.
The Young Mems Christian Association.
The present season is full OF interest to the
friends of Young Mems Christian Associations
and the important work they are doing, not in
this country only but also on the other side of
the sea- For this month, May 25-2Qs viii. as
semble at Cleveland the representatives of the
American Y. NJ. G. A., and later. July 3O-Aug-
ust 6, at London in Exeter Hall, delegates
from the associations of all lands will hold
their ninth triennial meeting. Both conven-
tions will receive reports of rapid progress in
all departments since their last meeting, two
years ago at Baltimore and three years ago at
Geneva, Switzerland.
The conference at London will be attended
by large American delegation which is to sail
from New York on July 16. Tne conven ion
at Cleveland will be one of extraordinary iu-
terest for several reasons.
Tho associations in the United States and
Canada now number about 1000, with 100000
members The late census shows that in this
country there are 800 cities, each of which
should have an association vigorous and active
enough to employ competent young man as
managing secretary, to organize and develop
an aggressive work for young men. About 100
of these cities are maintaining this important
branch of Christian work. To place the inter
national committee in condition to extend it
to others will be one of the objects of the con-
vention.
Delegates will be present from not few Of
the 1O7 college associations representing many
thousand college students. From 80 railroad
centres delegates will come to report progress
in the work among railroad men and to coop
crate in the extension of this work to many
other points along the $4,000 miles of Ameri-
can railroads and among the 100000 employees
on the pay-rolls of American railroad COM
panies.
German-speaking delegates from score Of
German-speaking centers of population will be
there to report progress unprecedented in
tins branch of work for young men, and to
take means to still further extend it under the
leadership OF the German secretary of the
committee. The associations in Canada will
also send large delegation across the lakes.
Another interesting group OF delegates will
| consist of Christian commercial travellers who
have been organizing of late years an efficient
work among young men of this class in con-
nection with the Y NJ c. A. A few such
delegates attended the Baltimore convention
two years ago, but since then the work has
widely extended and measures will be taken at
Cleveland to give it new impulse. A work
among colored young men at the South, full
of interest and promise, will be reported. The
international committee has also received
word that the associations on the other side of
the Atlantic will be represented.
| Among all the classes of American young
| men above enumerated the international com
mittee, under instructions from the conven.
| ton, is conducting vigorous and aggressi We
work, visiting secretary being in charge Of
each department The report of the commit
tee will bring the whole subject before the
convention, and leading Christian young men
from all parts of the country will be there to
deliberate upon the good results already secur-
| ed, and to devise how this interesting work in
| all its departments may be extended SO as tC
reach the vast and growing multitude Of young
men who need the fellowship and sympathy
| and mutual cooperation and help which have
| aIn iatIn xu1n f1lAxy how
been widely administered a blessing to the
communities among which they have been or
| eanized
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