The Portland daily press., 1883-11-02
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
WILLY REILLY.

WILLY REILLY.
Tonight, Dan Maguinniss, late of the Bos.
ton Theatre, will appear at Portland Theatre
as willy Reilly" in his play of that name.
The Fall River leading paper thus speaks of
Dams debut as star in that city:
'The play in which he made his first bow as
star, Willy Reilly was originally written
for Barney Williams and is one of the old
time, lovable Irish plays, which, il it does deal
IN lmprobabilities and is not exactly true to
nature, at least awakens responsive feeling
IN the heart, as the fortunes of a light-hearted
gossoon, played only as Dan Maguinniss can
play such part, are followed to a happy end
ing. The piece ran unusually smooth for u
first night, and both piece and star were re-
celVed with great favor, every song being en-
cored, and the curtain raised on every act.
Grimmer's orchestra will play the following
programme during the engagement OF Dan
Maguinniss:
WaitzesLoves Confession new Belssig
Selection-Fra Davalo first time) .......,.. Ayber
uahop-nelga-ho. .......-........ Weingarten
BAIRD's MINsTRELs.
An audience which nearly filed City Hail.
greeted l. w. Baird's Minstrels last night
This is one of the troupes which always per-
form the whole bill, and does it SO well as to
make one DESTROYS of seeing them second
time. In the first part were many songs by
olferent members OF the company-Mr. /.
t>v1y ssties r1arry zy-fsvH vunffst rurpruurnrry
with the audience-and good orchestral ac-
compartment. The end men, Joe Hart and
Lew Benedict, were first-class, the interlocutor
was good. and the jokes were the Jokes Of min
strels. very amusing operatic burlesque act
concluded the bill. In the remainder of the
ron rnF NINA ~:
with the audience. OF course Lew Benedict
was original and funny, and the contortions of
Prince. Pharaoh were very good The bell
ringers most acceptably performed their part.
as did Messrs. Cline and Levick, in the cornet
duets duets Messrs Conway, Mack, Kennedy and
Clark did splendid work with the clogs. and
were plainly appreciated by the audience. The
entertainment was good one, and worthy the
generous patronage it received.
NOTES.
The sale of seats for '.McSorley's Imitation,
will begin at Portland Theatre this morning.
Remember the matinee at the Lyceum to-
morrow
Nine. Jenny Lind still suffers much from a
neuralgia affection of the throat and chest
the same which years ago used to cause her an
agonlzing headache after every appearance on
the stage.
Mr.. Irying's plays for next week at the Star
Theatre, New York, are 'Louis XIu and tba
Merchant of Venice W.
The Twenty-third street Theatre, New York
is closed, and will remain closed until next
Monday night,-at least, SO the management
announces-when Miss Marie Prescott will
produce new play there.
5, Mr.: r, Roland Reed began an engagement at
the Third Avenue Theatre, Monday night in
his play, Cheek" Miss Fife Elsier will ap-
pear pea a. Ct! the theatre next week, in drama, en-
titled Courage
Carrie Turner has grown weary of the stage.
and leaves the Madison Square COMPANY to
enjoy domestic bliss. She was married secret.
ly to young Swede, nearly year ago.
Madame Patti, who is to sing under Mr..
Mapeson's auspices at the Academy of Music.
IS expected to arrive in New York, next Mon.
DAY. Mr. Mapleson said Wednesday th at he
had engaged ONE of Mr.. John III. Starin's
steamers and 16 tugs to go down the bay to
meet the prima donna. The steamer will
come up to the city with eight tugs on each
side, footing their whistles, and Mr.. Mapleson
says the effect will be grand. Arditi has writ
ten hymn for the occasion, and the entire
chorus and orchestra will go down to meet
Patti.