The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-11
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

Tonight this great spectacular attraction
will be placed on City Hall stage and cannot
fail to crowd the house. If the entertainment
comes mp fully to the promises of the advertise
ment there is no reason why the managers
should not reap substantial pecuDiary reward.
There are sixty people in the company, the
specialists have worldwide reputation the
ballet is said to be the finest ever seen in Port.
land, and with all these facts staring one in
the race there should be an immense sale of
seats: The tickets for reserved seats can be
found at Stockbridge's and there has already
been good demand for them. A matinee
VIII be given Saturday.
DAMON AND PYTHIAs.
Mr.. Joseph Proctor, the veteran tragedian,
Is as familiar to. Portland theatre-goers as
any actor on the stage of to-day, and possibly
more so than the majority of those who have
drawn crowded houses to the old Union street
and Free street theatres, Deering Hall Port.
land "a Museum, Fanny Msreh's Theatre. and
the old and new Portland Theatres Satur-
day night he will produce the beauti-
full drama Of damon and Pythias," supported
by bic daughter and good company. The
tsckets are now ready at the box Office OF Port
land Theatre.
MY PARTNER
Campbell's play of ''My Partner" has had
many representations in Portland and has al
ways aroused the audiences to great enthu-
siasm. This is partly because of the magnetic
acting of Messrs. Aldrich and Parsloe, partly
because the piece itself is full of action, and
partly owing to the vitality of the work and
the healthfulness of sentiment with which it
Is hlled. Mr.. Aldrich's PRESERVATION of Joe
Saunders is remarkable for its manliness while
Mr.. Parsloe has made Wing Lee one of the
most amusing characters known to the stage.
The other parts are all good and assumed with
Skill by the various members of the company.
MRS. RAyMoNDs MUSICAL FARTY.
Yesterdays Tribune says: Since the retire
ment of Mrs. G. M. Raymond Jamie Louise
Cary her voice has seldom been heard in public
Occasionally it has enriched the music at the
West Presbyterian Church, and a week ago it
gave pleasure to an audience of working
women in the hall of the Young Women's
Christian Association. Nevertheless she has
kept up her interest in music and hiss gathered
around her brilliant cotere of singers, some
OF whom assisted her last night at a musical
party given at the Hotel Brunswick. Mrs.
Raymond, dressed in a moonlight green satin,
received her guests in the ballroom, where at
9 o'clock the music began. Two hundred in.
vitatiops had been issued, and among the PEG
pie present were Count Bozsata, the Countess
Bozenta (Mme. Modieska), MIR. and Mrs. Won
Emburgh, Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Morrison, POST
master Pearson, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Oakley,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher H. Bangs, Mr.. aud Mrs.
Wayland Kimball, Mr.. and Mrs. e +. HYDE
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. f. Baker. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Henry Lane, Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Bene-
dict, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Stedman, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. FL. Wickham, the Rev. Robert Col
lyer, the Rev DR.. Charles S. Robinson, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Knox, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
B. Foote. Mr.. and Mrs. Atterbury, Samuel
Elliot, Robertson Rodgers, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
@. Noyes, Mr.. and Mrs. s. L. Burnham Mr..
and Mrs. Amos Getting, VIM. II. Lippincott,
Mrs A. G. Sawyer of Boston, Mr.. and Mrs
Philip H. Brown of Portland, Me. Mrs. Ray
mond sang Lovely Spring." by Coenen, a
duet, "Roma," by Campana. with Miss
Margaret Bryant and the quartet in the last
act OF 'fRigoletto" with Miss Beebe, Theodore
Toedt and W. 81. Beckett. The programme
was unique production of Tiffany's, on an.
tique paper, with the title page hand-painted
In gold.
NOTES.
- Wednesday was PATHS 41st birthday
Frau Materna, Herr Winkemann and Herr
Scaria, the trio of Wagner singers who are to
take part in the grand series of concerts to be
given next week in Mechanics Hall, Boston,
under the direction of Mr.. Theodore Thomas,
arrived in New York on Monday, and will be
in Boston before the end of the week.
The grand benefit to be given Mr.. Henry E.
Abbey at the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York promises to give that gentleman a
handsome sum. Friends in Boston are max
ing up a subscription to take q box, and ex-
pect to make the sum about $500. Mr.. W.
81. Vanderbilt has subscribed $4,000 for box.
The benefit will take place Monday evening,
April 21st.
Suppe, whose comic opera of "a Trim to
Africa has achieved snch brilliant success,
is now at work upon new opera, to be en-
titled "Bellman." which is the name of
popular Swedish poet, celebrated for his BAG
chic verses.
OF the two great singers, Patti and Gerster,
the former may have the finer voice, but the
latter has the warmer heart, judging by the
contributions of the two to the fund of $500
raised among the members of the Mapleson
Opera Company for the widow of the baritone
Lombardelli. Mime. Gerster gave $1,000 and
Nine. Patti $3.50.
A despatch from London says that Mr..
Lawrence Barrett said in an interview Wednes-
day morning that since Garrick's time no one
had exercised 80 powerful an influence upon
the English speaking stage as Mr. Henry
Irving. His manner of producing plays, he
said, will be certain to bear fruit in America.
Mr.. Barrett spoke further In high terms of the
kindness shown him nv English O ntors oinca