The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-20
MUSIC AND DRAMA
Herrmanns.

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Last evening Hermann, assisted by
Nine. Hermann and a talented company
OF assistants gave the last entertainment
IN the Stockbridge regular course at
City Hall, before one of the largest and
most pleased audiences of the season.
Hermann a L has for several years been Civ
ing an exhibition of necromancy that is
as fascinating as it is battling. The
Spiritualists have averred that he is pos
sessed of mediumistic powers, and the
suspicious ones have limited that he is al
lied with the gentleman with the horns,
the tail and the cloven foot. But Herr
mann insists that he is but common
mortal and that his marvellous illusions
are but the results of natural means He
certainly ought to know; and that settles
it. He gives most wonderful exhibit
ton, including number of startling il
lusions and sensations. One of these is
his latest and greatest effort, ''Shobei-
ka," which is based upon Russian ro-
nance, one of the salient features of
which is the escape from prison of a
young officer of the guard, Ivan Ivan
hoff, through the ingenuity of his fiancee
''Strobeika,' who, in some manner, OBJ
tanned admission to his cell, loosed- his
shackles and chains, and herself assumed
them, keeping up the delusion till Ivan
was safely away. In Professor Herr
mann's illusion. the substitution of
''Suobeika'' for the manacled prisoner,
chained to the plank by the committee
from the audience, is much more difficult
than was the original ''Strobeika's" brave
and ingenious trick. Among the many
other novelties may be mentioned his
clever sleight-of-hand and palming per-
Torrance, New Black Art and ga
Slave Girls Dream But it is in the
first and fourth parts of the entertain
ment, the sleght-of-hand tricks, that the
great necromancer is most fascinating,
and everybody who was not present last
evening should not fail to see him to-
night and try to find out how he does
them.
Portland Theatre.
Mr.. F. G. Chace has leased Portland
Theatre for the summer season, and con-
templates running light vaudeville com
panies of high class. He will put in a
machine to blow cool air into the house,
but if we have such summer as the
past two or three have been it's more
likely he will want to start the furnace.
Popular prices will rule.
Notes.
Mr.. Frank WEIGH, of this city, has
closed a very successful season with the
Lothrop stock company.
AT Peaks Island this summer, P. J..
McCallum will manage the Pavilion, and
Howard Knowlton and Thomas & Wat
son the Greenwood Garden theatre.
The summer season of light opera at
fremont Theatre, Boston, is to be very
attractive. Not only has good compa-
ny been secured, but the comfort as we'll
as pleasure of the audience is to be con-
suited by the substitution of light sum
mer chairs for the warmer seats, and by
new arrangements for cooling the house.
Miss Mazda Craigen is suing Margaret
Mather, the actress, in the Supreme
Court, New York city, for $4,000 for an
alleged breach of a theatrical contract.
She alleges that in September, 1890, she
was engaged by Miss Mather for 80
weeks at salary of 500 week. The
season was begun in Montreal, and few
days after the first performance the
plaintiff was discharged. Then she
brought this suit The defence was that
the contract under which the plaintiff
was engaged was one by which she could
be discharged on a notice of two weeks.