The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-06
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
MISUNDERSTANDING Company.
GEORGE o. GossE.

Miss Belle Botsford has been winning
much favor in the western concert tour
of the MISUNDERSTANDING Company.
Wherever her violin playing is heard,
public and press are enthusiastic in
praise of its brilliancy and refinement.
The San Antonio Daily Light awards to
this young artistic the chief success of
the concerts given there last week. The
Whitney Woodbridge Company, compris-
ing Mrs. Mayo-Rhodes, Mr.. Arthur
Beresford Mr. Woodbridge, Miss Rots-
ford and Miss Woodbridge, will give the
fifth entertainment in the regular Stock
bridge course this evening.
The programme for the concert will be
as follows:
Duet-"I feel Thy Angel Spirit' -. Hoffman
Miss Nickels and Mr. .Beresford.
ar Miss Belle Warner Botsfcrd. = -
30 Vision Embracing" ...... Goring Thomas
Mr.. Whitney Mockridge.
: ~ 40 Miss Nickeiis. A''''''' '0A'
Solo-"The Creole Lovers Song. ...... Buck
Mr.. Arthur Beresford.
Miss Belle Warner Botsford. 90 ~
Co. j. Miss gickeis and Mr.. Mockridge. ' 1
D'p - ''' Mr. iii Arthur Beresford. 'uOso
a. "Thou'rt Like Unto Flower. Rubinstein
D. "Entreaty". Carl Bonn
: fasu,o.+, o,,4,, Miss Nickels. 100
B. "Ladonna Mobile. ..............V Verdi
Whitney Mockridge.
az0urka Miss Belle Warner Botsfor GieniaWSki
Trio-Ernm 1T Tomhardiv
Miss Nickels, Mr.. Mockridge, Mr. Arthur
Beresford.
Miss Henrietta Woodbridge, Accompanies
AS viii be noticed by the programme,
new soprano, Miss Agnes Dodge Nick
els, has been added to the company.
The Hustler.
'sThe Hustler will be at Portland
Theatre next Friday and Saturday. The
great shining light of the brilliant ga
laxy of artists is John Kernell, the most
natural Irish comedian and vocalist on
the stage. Among the other entertain
ers are such popular fun-makers as Bar
ney Reynolds, Gus Mills, John S. Mari,
Lee Harrison, Leonard Somers, Mack
Menter, and the inimitable Hustler Male
Quartette. The feminine persuasion is
represent ed by Mellie Thompson, Zelm
Rawlston, Agnes Howard, Vesta Stew
ems, Carrie Norton. Lille Raymond and
the famous Laporte Sisters Staccione,
the celebrated Spanish dancing beauty,
is also with the company, together with
a bevy of Partisan Buster Dancers.
The Mountebank.
Gilbert and Cellier's new opera, "The
Mountebank, I" which had it's first pro-
duction at the Lyric Theatre, London,
Monday night, was performed without
hitch, and scored an immediate success
with a crowded and critical audience.
The music is charming and catchy and
the libretto extremely funny. Roars of
laughter greeted Gilbert's characteristic
humor, and unstinted applause was Civ
en- the mnsic into which Cellier had
breathed his last inspiration. Geraldine
Ulmar, who grows more and more a
favorite with the public, sang in her best
voice, and was as pretty as ever, albeit a
shade stouter and more matronly than at
her last previous appearance.
Paul b. Du ChaiIIu.
Paul B. Du Chaillu will lecture in the
Popular course next Friday evening on
his travels in Equatorial Africa. OF his
lecture an exchange says:
The charm of animated conversation
which has made Mr.sDu Chaillu such a
delightful companion, and earned for
him the name of 'sPrince Pauln among
his friends, did not forsake him on the
platform. His talk, at all times interest
ing, was intensely dramatic when the
lecturer described his first sight of a 90
rilla, and the killing of that giant of the
forest-the first time a white man had
accomplished that feat He held his
audience spell-bound by the magic of his
words, and when the climax was
reached there was hearty round of APP
plause.
At the Du Chaillu lecture, January s,
children and pupils of the schools may
secure reserved seats for rs and 35 cents.