The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-05
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
THE IDEALS.

The Ideal Opera Company will open the
Stockbridge course in ''Victor the Blue
Stocking at City Hall tomorrow evening
A sketch of the argument of the opera has
already been published in the PRESS. The
opera was one of the greatest successes of
the Ideals last season. The dialogue is
amusing and the music is said to be charm
ing. Many of the old favOrites will appear
in the principal roles That one of the most
brilliant audiences ever assembled in City
Hall will be present tomorrow evening is
fOregone conclusion. a few good seats still
remain unsold at Stockbridge's.
THE sToCKBRIDGE COURSE.
The Stockbridge course opens this week,
and the list of artists and combinations is
very attractive. There are three symphony
concerts, three Stoddard lectures, number
of foreign novelties, lectures by Henry M.
Stanley, the African explorer, Justin Nc
Carthy, NJ. p, such singers as Fursch Madi,
prima donna Of the American Opera Compa-
ny, Fraulein Lii Lehman, prima donna of
tine German Opera Company, Myron W..
Whitney and W. H. Fessenden. such instru-
mentalists as lnnes,. the finest trombone
Lichtenberg, viOlinist, Giesser, cello, Jessie
Coutboui, reader, George w. Cable, Leland
Powers, and Bill Nye, lecturers.
sHAMUs o'BRIEN.
Mr.. Charles Werner, supported by that
charming little soubrette, Miss Annie Lewis,
will appear at Portland Theatre Friday and
Saturday in "Shamus O'Brien." The New
York Times says: 'It is not necessary to
enlarge upon the peculiar qualities that have
recommended this drama to the popularity
it seems to enjoy Its merits were recos-
nized upon the original production OF the
piece and it is only needful to state now that
the very picturesque scenery, the intelligent
realities" and all those minor details which
formerly lent it much effectiveness are re-
vived to give color and interest TO current
representations"
NOTES.
Mr.. and Mrs Erving Winslow are settled
for the winter in their charming rooms at
the Benedict Chambers, Boston. Mrs.
Winslow is making arrangements to read in
large number of cities and towns during
the fall and winter season. ThlS lady mas
lost none of the old charm which fascinated
Boston, when as Kate Reynolds she was the
popular leading lady of the Boston Museum,
and rival in public favor of Agnes Robert
son.
One of the most remarkable successes up
on the concert stage was that achieved by
Mr. Ivan MOrawski, the new baSSO OF the
Ideal Opera Company, last Sunday evening,
at the Boston Theatre.
George Dolby. who was for time business
manager for Charles Dickens, is now old and
very poor and an inmate of Charing Cross
Hospital London.
OF the principal singers in the American
Opera Company last year only the following
have been engaged for the present season:
Mime. L'Allemand, Misses Juch and Phil
lips and Messrs. Candidus, Stoddard, Hamil-
ton and Whitney. Mr. John E. Brand, BARI
tone, has been added toIthe list of principals.
The leaders in the ballet will be Miles. Giuri,
De Gillert and CarrozZi and M. Camarano.
The ballet will number Sc.
Clara Ellison has been engaged for Nine.
Modjeska's company in place of Marie Ney-
ins, who was recently married to James q.
Blaine, Jr.
Percy Winter, the son of William Winter,
the dramatic critic of the New York Tribune,
is member of Genevieve Wards company