The Portland daily press., 1888-12-13
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
THE sroppARp LECTURES.

THE SToDDARD LECTURES.
Tomorrow evening the first of the three
Stoddard lectures will be presented at City
Hall, In the Stockbridge course, on the sub
1ect Of "Old England" These will be the
heads of the lecture: "Land Ho, Transfer
nation Scenes, Reaching Liverpool, English
Railways, Quaint Chester, A Walled City.
The River Dee, The Delights Of Rural Eng
land, Day in Stratford-on Avon, Warwick
and its Old Castle, English as She Is Spoke,
English Cathedrals, Stonehenge, A Sudden
Storm, Teignmouth. English Bathing, Stoke
Pogls, The Poet Gray" M
GoRMAN's MINsTRELs,
Tickets should be secured now for the con-
certs in the Stockbridge Populars to be given
next Monday anG Tuesday tvenings by the
German Spectacular Minstrels. The COM
pany has high reputation in its peculiar
field, and tickets may now be secured at
StockbIidge's. The advertisement gives full
particulars.
POSSIBLE CASE.
Mr.. j. M. Hills Union Square Theatre
Company, of New York, will appear at Port
land Theatre Monday and Tuesday, in "a
Possible Case" with their own scenery, or
iginal properties and costumes. The sale of
seats will begin tomorrow. The play, which
is by Rosenfeld. treats grave things lightly
ana iarcicai situations grayely.. 1t revolu-
skillfully SO as to appeal TO ones intelli-
gence.
THE MCGIBENY FAMILY.
The famous McGibeny family will soon
give concert for the young people at City
Hall They are the largest musical family
in the world, and have grand orchestra,
brilliant band, full chorus, also ladies', male,
string and double quartette. Tickets will be
on sale at Stockbridge's today.
M'NIsH, RAMA AND ARNo.
This comran will be at Portland Theatre
next week. The Albany Journal says They
packed the Leland to the DOME McNish,
RAMA and Amos combination is as good as
the best 1t embraces good many artists,
and their work is of superior kind. 1t is
refined" as claimed on the programme and
bill board, to noticeable degree The old
minstrels are still there, but In rudimentary
form.
RAMA and Arno as pantomine comedians,
Tommie Donnelly in the comedy line, whose
name bellies his color, the we'll known Frank
McNish, the marvellous Kryers, and Matt
Diamond in the dancing line, John Linton,
versatile in his musical ability. and Kissell
the drillist, are splendid combination of
specialists in addition to the regular bones
and tambos.
DANIEL DARCY.
play in which all the truest and best
qualities of the heart triumph is Dan Darcy
presented at Portland Theatre last evening,
and these qualities are made more striking
by the rough and rowdy background of the
slums of New York. There is not much that
is new in the plot. Dan Darcy is Jersey
orator with broad Irish dialect and big
Irish heart. His niece, Abby, is secretly
married to the son of an aristocrat, whose
mother. in order to unite him with a girl of
her own choice, falsely informsAlby that the
marriage was invalid. Abby, nervous, SEN
Sltive young woman, is so wrought upon that
she leaves her home, goes to New York and
becomes the victim of q cheap museum
manager. Her uncle follows her, and rescues
her only after she has been rendered insane
by blow from Joe Wylie, The proprietor Of
the museum. Dan takes her back home.
where her child is later born. and here on
the very day her husband is to marry again
does not take place, but instead there is a
general reconciliation.
The play drags in some places, but the
company is good one, and the comedy, as
whole enjoyable. James G. Roach gives q
strong and vivid representation of the kind
~. warmhearted character of Dan Darcy.
Logan Paul. as Tony IDooley, centenarian
who fought under Hickory jackson, is, per-
haps, the best actor of the support, and the
company averages very we'll. The drama
will be repeated tonight.