The Portland daily press., 1886-02-16
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
LESTER & ALIENS M1NsrRELs.


Lester & Aliens MINISTRIES will appear at
City Hall next Saturday night. The st.
Louis Post-Despatch says: "At Pope's,
Lester & Aliens minstrels opened to a full
house, and the entertainment went to i'm
mese appreciation. The company gave a
genuine minstrel performance ON the old
time order, with exceptionally good music
and specially features throughout. The
first part was full OF attractive novelties and
surprises and every feature of the olio was
excellent. The o'Brien Bros. opened the
olio with an acrobatic act which was new
and strikingly fine. 1t was remarkable as an
exhibition of acrobatic skill. Shelter and
Blakely, the negro dialect team, Lester and
Allen, in black-face sketches, and Sheppard
and Hallam in. musical specialties were all
very fine.
Tickets should be secured at once at Stock
bridges.
NoRDECK.
Last evening Mr.. Frank Mayo, appeared
at Portland Theatre in his new play Nor
deck an intensely interesting dramatization
of that strong novel Vineta, in which the
old-time struggles between the Prussians and
Poles are vigorously handled. The story is
full of romantieism, and the drama is colored
throughout with it. 1t is therefore easily IN
derstood that Mr.. Mayo. who is romantic
actor of high order,-as witness his Davy
Crockett-fnds himself fully at home in the
character of Waldemar. He gives it breadth
and vigor, that at times, almost takes away
the breath, and yet he does not overdo.
Throughout, in his half civilized state and
when he has attained the highest polish,
training and education can give, it is evident
that the man is made of that material which
moves nations to their destinies. Of the
support Miss Kathryn Kidder should be
praised for her Wanda, for it was a bright,
girlish, spirited effort, full of the poesy of
the character and yet not lacking at the
proper time in dignity and gravity, Miss
Fischer was proud and effective Princess !;
Mr. Taylor strong, as the bluff, blunt Herr
Withhold: Miss Lorimer and Mr.. Murdoch
agreeable as Fabian and Margaret; Mr.. Ed
win MayO-the stars Son-ShoWed dramatic
instincts and considerable strength, and the
other characters were well taken. The
piece was well mounted, and the curtain was
freqently called, and the actors loudly
applauded. Lovers OF the drama must not
fail to see ''Nordeck."
NEVADA OPERA co.
The Nevada Opera Company, who will ap-
pear at City Hall in grand concert on the
25th inst, will embrace Mile. Nevada, Mons
Edmond Vergnet, tenor; Signor Carlo Butt,
baritone; Signor Luigi Casati, violin virtuo-
so; Mons. Gustave Leuita, pianist, and Sig
nor Paolo GLORIA, conductor. The tickets
will be sold at Stockbridge's Saturday next.
NOTES.
Madame Nevada en- route from Worcester
to Fall River in her car the 'sNavada," is de-
tanned at South birmingham by trouble on
the Old Colony Railroad.
The report that Miss Lizzie May Ulmer
has recently lost her eyesight is untrue. She
has been iii, but her sight has not yet gone
and she resumed acting in dads Girl, at
Montreal last Monday, after two weeks
rest
Mr.. Frank Curtis has resigned the man
agement of his brother, M BIS '.Sam1 of
P0sen" com pany, land his place has been tax
en- by Mr.. Lorraine Rogers.