The Portland daily press., 1886-02-06


The next entertainment in the Stockbridgt
Course will be grand concert by Miss Emma
Hayden Eames, soprano; Mr.. Leopold Lichten.
berg, yiolinist, and the Germania Quartette-
Messrs. BagIey, Strasser, Bowman and Stewart
This concert company are favorites here and are
sure to give one of the best concerts of the season
THE MIKADo.
Gilbert's NIikado Company will be at City Hal
next week. The company is small but good
one with 16 people, and the opera will be giver
with piano only. James Gilbert will be Ko Ko
Miss Helen Adelaide Russell, Katisha; Miss Har
ret Ernst, Miss Florence Bates and Miss Mabel
St. George, the three little misses; MesSrs. s. III.
Cutter, j. "A Osgood, John Ramsey ana +. w
Soule VIII take the other parts
LESTER & SULLIVAN.
Lester s. Aliens big minstrel company, witt
John L. Sullivan, the champion pugilist of the
world, have with them Billy Lester, Frank Bell,
Harry Blakely and Thomas OBrien, Paul Allen
Charles Shelter, Frank Sheppard and Charles
O'Brien, all end men, who play the bones and
tambourine. Mr.. Albert Hart will be interloc
utor The vocal music will be furnished by Sid
ney Shelter Bell and McIntire; Lester and AlleI
will appear in speciaities, the Adelphia Male
Quartette will be present. ?. c.. Shorts will ap
pear in a musical act, Senator Frank Bell in Z
stump speech and the O'Briens in an acrobatiC
act. There will be a lively afterpiece, and John
I. Sullivan viii give representations OF ancient
appear at City Hall the Goth inst.
MARTHA.
Ii Martha" had been given by the Boston
English Opera Company in the Stockbridge
Course instead of the "Rose of Castile,' there is
no doubt the impression created would have been
much more favorable to them. Although theil
representation of the latter opera was fair one
it was not to be compared with that of the former
Principals and chorus were evidently much more
familiar with Martha" and they not only sang
the music with good effect but acted with consd.
cradle spirit. Mr.. Bartett's sweet tenor appeared
to good advantage in "M'appari," in the duet
with Miss Kileski in the s'Last Rose of Summer, .
which was encored,-and in the duet with Mr.
Cornell, which is more generally known by the
title, Guide me- OH thou great Jehovah" The
various numbers allotted to Miss Kileski and Miss
Edmands were excellently given. Miss Kileski
acted with much abandon and the fiexibility Of
her voice was specially shown i'll her many runs
and trills. Miss Edmands not only possesses a
good contralto voice but sings conscfentiOusly
The other parts were well taken, and the orches-
ira under Mr. Reach did very fair work. There
was a large audience in attendance.
NOTES.
There should be good attendance at the con
cert at st. Lawrence Street Church Monday
night. A fine programme will be presented.
Joseph Tichatschek, the once celebrated Ger
man tenor, who created the principal parts in
Wagner's works at Dresden, from "Rienzi' to
"De Meistersinger," is dead. Tichatschek pre-
served his voice to late age, and was considera-
bly, past sixty when be finally quilted the boards
Nine Gerster is SO i'll from nervous prostration
that she has been obliged to cancel all her en-.
gagements forneXt fall
The reports that Miss Geraldine Timer is to
marry Boston millionaire, or that she gave the
mitten to Sir Arthur Sullivan, are said by heI
friends to be bits of idle gossip.
Ten young ladies of the Free Street Church,
uniformed as the "Peake Family from Alasky,'
and aided by a boys orchestra, entertained a
day night Their peaked caps and collars were
spfck-and-span, and their family discipline was
carried to high state of perfection Most OF
the performers were musical, and all of them
very funny.