The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-14
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT.

There will be concert at City Hall, Jan.
18th, complimentary to Mr.. Charles Grimmer.
On this occasion very attractive programme
will be offered. Grimmer's orchestra, aug
mented will furnish the instrumental music,
assisted by Miss Belle Bartlett, soprano, Miss
Ada Cary, contralto, Miss Annie Louise Davis,
solo violinist, Mr.. Will Stockbridge, tenor, and
Mr.. j. B. Coyle, Jr., bass. The tickets will
soon be for sale and will be very rapidly sold
NOTES
The tickets for "7-20-8" will be sold at Port
land Theatre to-day.
Mr.. Cady, architect OF the new Metropolitan
Opera House, says: when the house has
been crowded there has been by thermometer
only - difference between the temperature at
the parquet and at the very top of the family
circle, or gallery. Certainly this is rather ex.
traordir airy. One of the directors said to me
yesterday: have never been able before to
lake my family and spend the evening at such
place without the ladies having more or less
headache afterward; here the air is SO pure we
feel nothing OF the Sort / have just received
letter from the committee of q large church
saying That they regard the ventilation of the
Opera House SO successful that they wish me
to take their ill-ventiated church in hand"
Mr.. Stetson, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre
New York, has laid aside "The Dukes Motto,'
and his stage is TO be, for while, devoted to
the military comic opera called Lieutenant
Helene of the Guards
THE Strangers of Paris was produced at
the new Park Theatre, New York, on Satur
day evening. 1t is sensation piece, en-
| bellished with snowy scenery, and the chief
characters in it are represented by Agnes
Booth, Charles Wheatleigh Henry Lee aud
| Weldon Ramsey.
Mr.. Irving's engagement is in its third week
| IL will end on the oath inst. On the 26th inst
| Mr.. Irving will appear in Philadelphia. On
December 10th he will begin an engagement
| of two weeks in Boston. Christmas week he
passes in Baltimore, and the first week OF the
new year in Brooklyn. Mr.. Winter in the
Tribune, speaks of him as follows: "We are
perhaps, expressing only an individual fancy
In reference to methods of expression, and
this it has been our desire to avoid, from the
first, in all discussion of Mr. Irvings art. He
is, beyond all doubt, most accomplished
actor, and one who has distinct reasons for
everything that he does. No thoughtful OF
serverscan deny that his Sbylock is consistent,
harmonious, and NATURAL and, as already re-
marked, it has impressed many judges as
superlatively fire. To us it will be memoir
able Tor attributes distinotively intellectual;
whereas his Matthias and Louis XII. must live
| in memory as works of splendid Imagination,
! executed with strong and fluent emotion and
consummate art His Charles T. is an ideal
| OF perfect majesty and il has the mellow
coloring and sombre richness of an old historic
| painting. Miss Terry's brilliant hit, in por-
tia, has already been recorded. This week our
| public is to see Mr.. Irving, on two nights, in
1.-THE Lyons Mall" in which he personates
two characters Lesurques aud Dubosc-and
Miss Terry and Mr.. Irving in "The Merchant
OF Venice" which will be repeated through
! played again on Saturday afternoon
| John Stetson is going to leave New York
| and have Chicago Theatre. He says 'sno
more New York in his.'