The Portland daily press., 1893-04-17
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
A Trim to Chinatown.


OF course Portland Theatre will be
filled to overt1owing tonight and tomor-
row evening owing to the great desire to
see Hoyt's funny play, "a Trip to China
town. This is the thread ON which the
play is spun:
Ben Cav, retired San Francisco bach
elor. an admi er of comely widows, is
smitten with the charms of Mrs. Guyer
Cav has a number of fiirtatiously in
clined nieces under his guardianship
These nieces want to go to masked
ball. and in order to throw the old man
off beg him to let them go to Chinatown
on a pleasure trip. He refuses at first
but when he gets note supposedly from
Mrs. Guyer, asking him TO meet her at
the masked ball, he very quickly gives
his consent to his nieces' outing in or
der to meet the widow without the
knowledge of his relatives. Of course
the note he gets is only a trick played
upon the old man by his nieces' beaux.
lie goes to the restaurant and meets no.
body, while the others have q glorious
time in the same building. ssb aaza sessSSS
The cast is strong one. and includes
q number of the New York company,
notably, George A. Became, Jr., as Ben
Gay, his original character. Harry Gill
foil as Noah Heap, with his whistling
speciality and limitations, Patience, the
French maid; Bert Haverly, as WelIand
Strong, and Miss Laura Biggar, as the
gushing widow, are the principals Of the
cast
The Hustler.
Some new features are introduced in
THE Hustler, (which will appear atPort-
land Theatre next Wednesday evening.
Miss Kirby, the pretty soubrette, gives
the latest New York rage, the s'serpen-
tine" dance, claimed by Loie Fuller to
have been her particular invention. 1t
will be remembered that the matter was
taken into the courts and legal snarl
still exists with regard to the degree of
accuracy with which one dancer may
copy another. Another late dance is
aThe Widows Dance,' where six young
ladies in sober widows weeds come out
and sing dolorously, then suddenly
break into wild tumult to 'sboom-ta-ra-
IA, boom-de-aye." Another great hit is
the song and dance by six ladies and six
gentlemen, a refined imitation of the old
San Francisco Minstrel breakdown.
An Evening of Ballads.
Mr.. Bancroft's ballad evening at
Kotzschmar Hall Saturday evening
proved that Mr.. Bancroft is thoroughly
imbued with a love for his subject. It
was wonderful thing that the gentle
man should talk and sing necessarily and
play his own accompaniment for so
many songs and do it all so well and so
interestingly. He has a clear, sweet,
strong tenor particularly adapted to the
ballads. The audience showed their APP
probation by hearty applause. This
was the list of ballads given:
Summer is icumen i'm. 1880
The Three Ravens. enry v III
We Be Three Poor Mariners Hsa enyry
Ihe Baiiiffs Daaehton Of Isiington Elizabeth
You W1llS GentIe og Of England hhz mss
When the King Enjoys His Own Again.
-....:.............. Commonwealth
The Leather Bottel. -. Charles II
L.
ames IL
A Hunting We VIII Go. Anne
Why, Soldiers, Why. George III
Tom bowling. .....-..--........ George LII
Wrapping Old Stairs. George III
TW1ckenham Ferry. Modern
Katharine Rober.
Miss Katharine Rober, great favor
tie here, will appear at Portland Theatre
Thursday, Fast Day, in 'sFanchon," sup
ported by good company. Miss Rober
has been starring to great audiences
South and West.
Notes.
Get tickets at Stockbridge's for Gil
more's concerts.
The great harper, Aptommas, assisted
by his wife, and Miss Cornie G.. Clarkson
of Boston, whose glorious soprano ySice
was heard tossuclr acceptance in the CON
certs with Miss Hattie Shaw at Kotzsch-
mar and Congress halls, will give con-
cert at Kotzschmar Hall May 3.
For the week beginning April rs at
Portland Theatre will be seen Stuart
Robson in Henrietta" Cherries Dickson
in "Incog,'' and Denman Thompson in
"The Old Homestead
"Tom'' Harper will not run
this election. u Your Eyote will be