The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-10
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The Runaway Wife.

Last evening Mckee Rankin's five act
play of 1.-THE Runaway Wife, was pre-
sented at Portland theatre. The audi
ence was not large owing to the storm.
The plot of the piece was published yes
terday. Miss Louise Aydelle as Lady
Alice and Mr.. E. P. Sullivan as the blind
artist Arthur Eastman, seemed to please
the audience greatly. Bebe Riel as Lillian
was very agile and effective in her fan
and serpentine dances, and Mel Lewis as
Bob, pleased with his songs. The play
will be repeated tonight and tomorrow
night.
She Couldn't Marry Three.
In the new comedy-drama, ssShe
Couldn't Marry Three" Miss Lillian
Kennedy is said to have struck a rich
vein of pure sentiment, Miss Kennedy,
brings her new play ''She Couldn't Mar
ry Three to Portland theatre next
Thursday and Friday evenings. In this
play Miss Kennedy impersonates. a sim
pie fisher girl who is confronted with the
perplexing problem of how to dispose of
a surplus of lovers. Three men are
counting her at once, and she can only
marry one. She chooses the man with
the rare combination of good looks, hon
esty and big bank account. One of the
other fellows she is iobliged to reject is a
rascal. The plot of the play is built
upon this villains attempt to tear away
the little fisher maiden from her lawful
husband.
Paderewski
Mr.. Stockbridge had another big day
for Paderewski orders. They came from
Rockland, Bangor, Waterville and a par
tyof college boys from Brunswick
There was also-a large city sale. The
Boston Herald says:
There is, apparently, no limit to the
interest in the series of piano recitals an
nounced by Paderewski in New York
and Boston. In the former city it is
well nigh impossible to secure desira-
BILE seat for either of the remaining re-
citals and the demand at Music hall indi-
Gates that the same result will be had
here at an early day.
Priscilla.
This opera, which has been given in
the principal cities of New England dur
ing the past four years, will be seen in
Portland next week. From the day of
her birth and christening Priscilla" has
been exclusive; the libretto remains in
manuscript SO that unauthorized perfor-
mances may be prevented.
Notes.
The interest in the Boston recitals by
Paderewski increases daily, and the au-
dience at the second of the series, next
Thursday afternoon, will be limited only
b. the capacity of Music hall. The pro-
gramme for the second recital will soon
be made public, and it will be found to
include many of the great pianist's most
notable successes. Paderewski tickets
are selling well at Stockbridge's.
The small theatre hat or bonnet or I'M
covered heads formed the rule for the
majority of the lady patrons of the Bos-.
tonians' engagement at the fremont.
Boston, and the shat monumental was
seldom noticeable.
1t is announced that new theatre will
be built in New York for Hoyt & Thorn
as in case the lease of the Madison
Square, which expires in little less than
two years, cannot be renewed. 1t is
limited, as it has been many time before
that the site of the Madison Square Thea
tire will after that time be used for an
addition to the Fifth Avenue hotel.