The Portland daily press., 1892-10-14
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Cyrene.


theatre last evening in connection with
Al Haynes's company, who presented the
familiar melodrama ''Pert," with Miss
Redmund in the title role, character in
which Katherine Rober made many adj
mirers.
The appearance of Cyrene was for a
time doubtful. One has often heard of
actors who appeared before their au-
diences with smiling faces when their
hearts were breaking. The audience little
knew last night that such case existed
| in Cyrene. A telegram came to her from
New York bearing the three words,
'sMother is dead' The anguish of the
danseuse in her dressing room was some
thing terrible to witness, but when the
moment came for her dances and the call
boy announced that the stage was wait
ing, Cyrene drew herself together with a
great effort, and in the next moment
was before her audience, her 1.-THE figure
swinging hither and thither, and her
drapery floating in great pillows about
her, while her eyes sparkled and
her lips were wreathed in smiles, and
her audience applauded and encored, and
encored and applauded, and three times
she was recalled. This morning she left
for New York on the 2 o'clock train to
attend the funeral.
The actors who appeared in 'Pert"
were all we'll received, for many were old
favorites. Messrs. Haynes, Garfield and
Sullivan, Misses Redmund, Taylor and
Ferrin, were all good. Miss Redmuad
danced we'll and her first song was archly
sung and the excellent piano accompani-
ment added no little to the effect.
Mr. Haynes's banjo solos and songs were,
like Miss Redmund's, encored To-
night and Saturday the play will be re-
peated.
To those who have purchased tickets
with the expectation of seeing Cyrene,
the management of the theatre wish to
state that money for tickets to perform
ances at which the famous dancer does
not appear will be returned if requested.
The Face in the Moonlight
When Nature invested Robert Mantell
with his special advantages OF figure, face
and voice, she might have had in view his
adaptation to such an impersonation as
that of the handsome, chivalric soldier in
the melodrama of 1.-THE Face in the Moon
light" which was given at the Bowdoin
square theatre last evening for the
first time in Boston. The play, which is
by Mr.. Charles Osborne, is of the roman
tic, historic order, and has to do with
events in France from the time when Ma
poleon escaped from Elba to that in
which he met ruin at Waterloo. The
pivot of the plot turns on the extraordi-
nary resemblance between the gallant
young officer, Victor Ambrose, and the
murAerer, Jacques Ferrand. The newly
welded wife of the former, Lucille Mu-
MGR, is possessed with a feeling of hor-
ror for the husband that she once loved,
as on account of the resemblance the
odium of the murder committed by Fer
rand falls on him. The subsequent con-
fession and suicide of the real murderer
unravels the difficulty and gives felicit-
Gus ending Mr.. Mantell impersonates
both characters and his wide range of
dramatic capacity is seen in the rapid
transitions between two parts that stand
at opposite poles of human nature
Boston journal.
Mr.. Mantell will be seen at Portland
theatre next week.
Stockbridge Courses.
Mr.. Stockbridge has decided to change
the date of the opening of the Popular
course from October Goth to October 9th,
in order to accommodate the Lady Min
strels, who have met with such success
in Boston and vicinity. They give, the
Boston Globe says, remarkably bright
and attractive entertainment.
A Trip to the Moon.
Those singularly effective spectacles, "a
Trip to the Noon and ''From Chaos to
Man," which were given with upexam-
pied success in the Carnegie Music Hall
in New York last season, and the former
of which is-to be presented at City Hall
October Goth, appeal to the public of this
city in many ways. They combine in an
indescribable and delightful manner all
that is most interesting and attractive in
the highest class of illustrated lectures,
with the beauty and perfection of the
highest scenic art Electricity has never
shown itself a more obedient and more
wonder working servant of man than in
its application to these novel ''Urania'
entertainments, Here are some of the
daily multiplying wonders of astronomy,
and of the science that teaches how
worlds are made, presented more elo-
quently and more realistically than one
could ever have imagined it possible that
they could be presented. A new and
most fascinating means of intellectual en-
ioyment and entertainment is here spread
before both old and young, before the
learned and the unlearned alike. "A Trip
to the Noon will open the Stoekbridge
regular course and tickets should now be
secured at Stockbridge's.
The Ryan Concert.
For his annual concert this year Mr..
Ryan has secured the services of the pop
ular Boston Elysian Concert Company
(colored), every member of which is