The Portland daily press., 1894-01-16
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The voodoo.

The balcony and gallery at Portland
theatre were crowded last evening. and
there was very fair sized audience oc-
cupying the orchestra and parquet,
gathered 60 witness the farce-com ady Gas
the authors term the strings nowadays
on which variety business is strung to-
gether) of the Voodoo. AS is well, known
the ,Voodoo is supposed to be spell laid
upon people that enables the "voodooist"
to accomplish certain results. The
audience last night laughed and ap-
calling the curtain at the close of the
second act. Messrs. Thomas E. Murray
and Charles M. Mcdonald did some very
clever song and dance business and
Bothner executed skirt dance
Genevieve Clafton sang a song "Twas
All Dream that brought an encore,
Kitty Wolfe was sprightly skid" and
the other characters did well enough,
the little they had to do.
The House on the Marsh.
Every one remembers the sensa-
ton that Florence Harden's famous
novel by this name created when it was
published several years ago AT the time
of its appearance attention was called to
it's strong dramatic character, and it was
not long before Merwyn Dallas fam Gus
English melo-dramatic actor produced a
successful dramatization. Dallas ssadap-
tation run over 1900 nights in London
and the English provincial theatres, was
brought to this country two years ago
and made aHgreat nit when first produced
in Boston. The past two seasons it has
been played in all the large cities and
this season will be produced in the
smaller cities. Next Monday .Janua ry %,
will see the first performance in this city
at the Portland theatre. Mr.. Dallas plays
the leading dual role of Gervais Rayner
alias James Hoodfall and is supported by
a strong company.
Harvard G1ee Club Concert.
The coming concert of the Harvard
Musical Clubs is anticipated with great
pleasure by the lovers of college music
has always stood among the first in the
country, and is in unusually fine condi-
ton this year. The Harvard Mandolin
Club was trained by Louis S. Romero
the original trainer of the Spanish Stu
dents. The work of the Club is there
fore Spanish and unique and the Club
has earned the reputation of being the
very best college organization of it's
kind &f
The Beethoven Club.
The Newport. RI, News says: "The
concert OF the Beethoven Club Thursday
evening was the best attended of any of
the Unity Club entertainments. The
concerted playing of the Club was as
usual highly satisfactory. The num-
bers which gave most pleasure were the
Tschalkowski andante, with its sombre
harmonies, the Sphaerenmusik of Ru bin
stein, tender and beautiful compost
tion, in which the almost human tones
of t. violin were very effective, and two
movementsssfrom Rubinstein's Quartette,
No.17, full4of brilliancy. and fire and an
almost orchestral fullness of tone" The
club will be heard tomorrow evening in
the Gilbert Lyceum course at Kotzsch-
mar Hall.
Slivinski
We would, suggest to all who desire
good seats for the grand concerts to be
given by Slivinski, the Polish pianist,
to secure them at once at ockbridge's.
The New York Sun says of him:
He was at his best in the two enor-
mously difficult concertos of Tschaikow-
-, H.
beautiful enough to excite boundIess
enthusiasm in an artist who can cope
with their trying exactions, and Mr..
Slivinski seems to be made of the stuff
which, far from being discouraged by
obstacles, is reused by them to renewed
battles and fresh victories. His power
in passages where piano and orchestra
were crashing fortissimo was immense,
his fingers and arms apparently being
made of steel instead of flesh and blood
aR4 bone and muscle
Nye and kSmith
AT this late day it is unnecessary to
Say much in advance about Bill Nye.
He is known from the one end of the
country to the other. He will appear
with William Hawley Smith at Kotzsch-
mar Hall January Goth. and the tickets
will be for sale at Stock BRIDGES next
Saturday morning.
Side Tracked
Next Saturday the big comedy attract
tionssSide Tracked will be seen in Port
land Theatre, and with it great mechani-
cal effects and realistic novelties.
Notes.
The concert which was to have been
given next Wednesday evening by the
Manatoqua Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar
club. has been Indefinitely postponed
Not Authorized to Keep Gunpowder
George H. Scanlon, manager of the
store in Monument Square, IN which the
explosion occurred Friday, was before
the Municipal Court yesterday morning,
waived examination and was fined 500
and costs for keeping gunpower without
0 license.
x. John Little g. Co.
hold their annual yellow tag'' sale to-
day. Great bargains will be offered in