The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-04-15
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
A Royal Pass.
Trains Across TIE Kennebec.


Last night Mr.. George G. Staley made
his appearance for the first time this sea-
son at Portland Theatre, in "a Royal
Pass which always gives the greatest
! pleasure to an audience. This play CON
tains a touching story, bright comedy
and delightful singing. The company is
a strong one. The latest and most sue
cessful scene is locomotive race, which
is given by engines on a double track.
These machines are regularly built, with
boilers, whistles, bells and all fittings be-
longing to a locomotive. The escaping
steam, glazing headlights, changing bells,
the engine men in their places, and the
peculiar rumbling noise of an engine are
brought out with startling clearness, and
aroused the audience to high pitch of
enthusiasm. Mr.. Staley is very attract
i've in the character of Andrews, and the
audience applauded him heartily. The
play will be given at the matinee today
and the evening performance tonight.
Mr.. Staley's little daughter is a bright
lCdtulO VI UAC pldy.
An Evening of Old English Ballads.
Tickets can be procured today at
Stockbridge's or Chambers and tonight
at the door, for the Evening of Old En-
glish Ballads" to be given tonight at
Kotzschmar Hall under the auspices of
the Rossini Club. An exchange says:
De- IL
prepared review of English ballad music
from earliest times to the present day.
The lecture alone would have afforded a
pleasant and profitable evenings enter
tainment, but Mr.. Bancroft gave his
hearers an additional pleasure in the
form of delightful concert"
A Trip to Chinatown
Hoyt's farce comedies are among the
best known plays and the most amusing.
"a Trip to Chinatown crowds Madison
Square Theatre, New York, every night.
The company that will present the come
dy at Portland Theatre next Monday eve
ming has been carefully selected and
ELECTS roars of laughter.
The Hustler.
''The Hustler will be seen at Portland
Theatre next Wednesday evening. The
story in itself is very funny, and the in
cidents that surround it are enough to
provoke the heartiest of laughter; so it
will be seen that anyone who witnesses
the performance hasn't a single moment
for serious thought even if he felt that
way. McFadden, the Hustler, is bank
rupt Irishman, with plenty of nerve, who
is full of schems for getting money with
| out the trouble of working for it. The
other characters are all strong in their
way, and fit into the story nicely, aiding
and abetting in the merry-making. The
rivalry between McFadden and Busch.
| who love their landlady, is very ludicrous
This forms but one of the numerous
side-splitting features Of "rhe Hustler"
Gilmore's Eeu.l.
The tickets for the cejs ts to be given
at City Hall, on the -s,A inst, by Gil
more's Band, will be on sale at Stock
| BRIDGES next Monday. Half fare will be
| given to all out-ot-toWn buyers OF con-
| cert tickets.
Notes.
A delightful long distance telephone
concert was given in this city at the Tel
| ephone Exchange on Wednesday even
| ing. Parties in Maiden, Mass, (for
whom the concert was given), Chicago,
Buffalo and Portland, all took part. The
selections were we'll renderedsand per-
| fectly heard.
Louis Aldrich has made hit in s'The
Senator which he is playing through
New England. On the completion of his
tour, banquet is to be rendered to him
| by the Actors Order of Friendship.
Young Salvini's remarkable success at
the New York Manhattan Opera House
marks the triumph of careful, persist
ent, studious and talented actor, whose
fame has grown rapidly and steadily.
| Mems suits at Atkinson's, SIS.