The Portland daily press., 1886-03-25
MUSIC AND DRAMA,
OLD FOLKS CONCERT.


Tonight ''ye big choire," assisted by the
Ladies Orchestra and Banjo Quartette, will
give concert at City Hall. There are TWEEN
ty-nine numbers ON the programme, enough
one would imagine to allay the worst en-
core-fend in existence. There will be solos
by Miss Lula G. Doten, Miss l.. Chase, Miss
Eta G. Sterling, Mrs. Nettie Smith, and Mr..
G. A. Themes and a quartette by Misses
Pierce and Clark, Messrs. Pierce and Nick
erson. There is no doubt there will be a
crowded house. Mr.. NJ. T. Doten the direc-
tor has recently moved here from Boston
where he has had extended experience in
conducting large choruSes.
The proceeds will be applied to defraying
the expenses of rising the pew backs and of
the new heating apparatus Of the Pine street
church.
woMEN's AUXILIARY CONCERT.
There will be great interest eviaced in the
concerto be given tonighta Y. Nj. G. A. Hall.
The Boys Band which has been rehearsing
for some time past, will appear, the enter
tanning Peaks Family from Free street choir,
and delightful quartette composed of Mrs.
Chase, Miss Annabel Shaw, Alessrs. Thurs
ton and Coyle. The following will be the
programme:
Nearer My God to Thee. .Legaut's Boys Band
OOIU SVJAS
Piano Solo. ................ Miss Annabelle Shaw
Song-My Heart is on the Rine.
Samuel ThurSt0n.
Peak Family. .............:. By ten young ladies
Marching Through Georgia.
Legault's Boys Band
SKIPPED BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.
Next Monday and Tuesday this farcieal
extravaganza will be presented at Portland
Theatre. The sale of seats will begin to-
morrow The action is based upon the
adventures of Felix Craekle and Obadiah
Dingle, two fellow clerks, who leave home
ostensibly to attend a Connecticut camp
meeting, but really to have jolly good thine
at Saratoga, from which one of them writes
a letter to his wife, directed to a friend in
Connecticut to be RENTED to their home in
Philadelphia, inclosng by mistake the pho
tograph of ballet girl instead of a picture
of the camp meeting. Their attempts to re-
cover the letter from the letter box, the ar
rival of their wives in Saratoga, the loss of
Mrs. Dingle's baby, with $500 of Mrs.
Crackle's money, which was sewed up in the
baby's clothing forlsafe keeping; the mistake
of detective who takes them for hotel
thieves, affords an opportunity. for series
of DISCUSSES and amusing situations.
NOTES.
Two more very large audiences patronized
"The Mikado" at City Hall, yesterday after
:sAlone in London" is doing good bust
ness in Boston. 1t will be at Portland Thea
tire the end of next week.
The Kiralfys introduced bits of 1.-THE Mi
kado" in ''The Black Crook at Chicago, in
ballet, by using Sullivan's music and Gil
bert's characters, wha acted in dumb show,
expressing in pantomine the meaning OF the
song
Truth, in describing the collapse Of Italian
opera in London on the fourth night of the
season, says: 1.-THE audience cheerily sang
wait till the clouds roll by,' when the stage
manager announced that the performance
could not be finished, and few minutes af-
terward, when the Italians ran up the cur
tain and appealed for charity, plenty of
clutched on the ground for pennies, and
three men rolled over the footlights in the
fight for the coins which fell into the orches-
ira The whole affair was scandal and
disgrace"
to Reform Him. and "We'er All Teetotal-
ers;" also singing and Rotations will be
given at the temperance concert, at the Mis-
sion this evening.