The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26
MUSIC AND DRAMA,
Shore Acres.


Shore Acres.
1t happens all too rarely that the thea
tire goer is afforded an opportunity OF
witnessing SO good play as "Shore
Aeres.n This beautiful drama OF New
England life, which our ablest literary
men have idealized, was the outcome OF
years of thought and labor and not
until Mr., Herne had spent seven months
of his life in daily intercourse with the
characters he has drawn. did he think
the play suitable for production. In Bos-
ton. where it ran for one hundred and
consecutive nights, it was edi-
torially commented upon by nearly all
the leading dailies. The Boston Trans
cript ina lengthy editorial says: Its
triumph with the public has much Sig
nificance, and it may fairly enough be
counted as the great event of the dra-
matte year in America" A costly pre-
sentation of "Shore Acres with Mr..
Horne as Uncle Nat is announced at the
Portland Theatre next Thursday even
ing.
Gentleman Jack.
The play in which Champion James
j. Corbett will appear at the Portland
Theatre next Friday evening, "Gentle-
man Jack, deals with incidents in his
life from the time he was college boy
until his meeting with Sullivan. The
first scene shows the campus of Payne
College; the second. the interior of the
Halliday National Bank, New York:
the third, the Madison Square Roof
Garden; the fourth the training quarters
at Loeb Arbour; the last, the arena of
the Olympic Club, New Orleans, from
a photograph taken the day of the Cor
bett-SuIliyan contest. Seats went on sale
Saturday morning and there was brisk
demand for them.
Dockstader's Minstrels.
Lew Dockstader has surrounded him.
self with thea brightest members of. the
minstrel profession, and the consequence
is an entertainment without flaw.
performance without blemish. Lew
has several humorous songs, notably,
What Will the Congregation Say?" "on
the Other Side" "Installments," "The
Actor up to date" That Little Word IT.
"That Tired Feeling This is min
strel show, pure and simple. Laughter
reigns from the rise to the fall of the
curtain. The newest of songs are intro
uuced and the comedians are bubbling
over with merrinent. They will be
seen at Portland Theatre Saturday even
ing.
Woolson Morse, the, composer of
"Wang,p personally superintendent the
rehearsals of that opera. Some years
ago he studied painting at the Ecole Des
Beaux Arts, Paris, under Gerome, and
he used the knowledge gained there in
designing the costumes for Wang"
These costumes, although slightly exag-
eerated, are in the main, faithful repro
auctions of Siamese dress. Wang" the
long anticipated operate event of the
season will be given on Tuesday next at
City Hall. The character of Mataya,
the crown prince of Siam, assumed by
pretty Virginia Earl, in the comic opera
"Wang", is take-off on the present
king of Siam when under the guardian
ship of the regent. The real crown
1rince was crowned as Chulalonkorn |.
Having had an English governess he
speaks English perfectly. In the opera
his European proclivities are expressed
largely by the cigarette habit. In reali-
ty these proclivities had led him to such
great deeds as the granting of religious
federation and the emancipation of the
slaves. He could not, however, find
fault with the pretty picture of his boy
hood as impersonated by Miss Earl.
Stockbridge has the tickets.
pavy Jones.
"Davy JONES'" Miller's new opera, the
latest Boston Museum success, will be
seen here with the same company, seem
cry and orchestra, at City Hall shortly.
The Boston critics pronounce the music
particularly catchy. The song, Don't
Get Gay with Shay" nightly receives en-
cores, and its melodious air is ssbeing
whistled and hummed by everybody.
The action of the opera begins in Sims
port Hay, where lives Commodore Shay,
the millionaire father of nine unmarried
daughters. whom he desires to join in
matrimony with titled husbands, and
accordingly builds ship to- take them
to Europe, where such husbands can be
procured. He starts on his voyage, but
is shipwrecked in the South seas, upon
an island belonging 10 Tim Tum
Foo, who makes them his prisoners. The
King has nine sons who are little less