The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-06
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Uncle Toms Cabin.

6eHG Cnclo ION SECaDln" at the Port
land Theatre this evening is the largest
and best Uncle Tom" company now on
the road, comprising forty people in all.
So complete is the equipment the play
could be produced in barn in better
style by them than would be posi- BILE
for an ordinary company in a regular
theatre. A double band and an orches-
ira is carried by the company. Other
features include the Lone Star Quartette,
colored mandolin players, two Topsies,
two Marks, jubilee singers, buck and
wing dancers and pack of Siberian
bloodhounds, among them Prince, said
to be the largest dog in the world. This
noon grand street parade will be given,
in which two bands, chariots, ponies,
dogs and number of other features
will be prominent.
Fabio Romani.
"Fabio Romani," the attraction at
Portland Theatre tomorrow evening,
will Introduce to our theatre goers Mr..
Walter Lawrence, one of the best roman
tic actors now on the American stage.
and Miss Engel Sumner. beautiful and
exceptionally talented EN- otional actress.
In the dual role of Fahio Romani and
Conte Caesare Olivia Mr.. Lawrence has
an excellent opportunity to do most
forceful and finished piece of acting.
AS Nina, the heartless beauty and false
wife, Miss Sumner is startlingly intense,
and at the same time natural. The last
act of the play is one of the most thrill
ing power unlike any climax ever before
seen in dramatic representation. The
Living Pictures are sure to prove an
extra feature Of great interest.
Rory of the Hill.
The Boston Transcript, the most con-
servative and critical of all the. Boston
papers. said, in part, of the first perform
Snce in that city of James C.. Roachs
play, "Rory of the Hill:" sit is not of
ten that a more interesting Irish drama
than James c. Roach's new work, Rory
If the Hill is presented.
The Fauthor is leading actor, and upon
him depends much, though not by any
means the whole, of the success OF the
piece. He has surrounded himself with
a large company of skillful players who
make the most of the characters they
represent" Play, star and company will
be the attraction at the Portland Thea
tire next Saturday evening.
Reward.
Tonight Bosworth Post GA. R., will
do themselves the pleasure of presenting
to the Portland public the much talked
of new stage and scenery at City Hall.
MIR. Storey he's over eighty pieces of seem
cry, covering all the usual sets needed
and much more it is said than can be
found in many Eocalled well equipped
theaters.
The play on this occasion will be
sFritz Stein or Reward" the well known
stirring military drama, in which
Charlie Collins, the funny Dutch come
dian, will keep the audience in good
humor, while the other characters will
be taken by we'll known amateur mem
bers of the Post. L he tableaux to be
presented are promised unusually strong,
and better facilities --ill be afforded on
the new stage for their exhi btion by the
be marked feature. The tickets are
selling rapidly at John Williamson's.
corner of Congress and Free streets. The
play will be repeated Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday.
The Elks' Minstrels.
The Portland Lodge of Elks are max
ing great preparations for the minstrel
show to be given by them Monday and
Tuesday, November Goth and 27th. 1t
Is safe to say that it will be one of the
best, if not the best amateur show ever
given in the city. A great many new
features are to be introduced. We pre-
dict full houses at both performances.
Notes.
ESTHER Sandaz," which Lille Langtry is
to offer as one of the novelties of her fourth
tour of this country, is a dramatization by
Sydney Grundy of Adolphe Belot's Fem
me de Glace,' and has had at least two Pro-
auctions in London. 1t was first heard at a
Theatre Tuesday, June Ii. 1889. Amy Ro-
selle then played the title role. with her
husband. Arthur Darce, and Fred Terry in
the supporting company.
Thirty-six years ago last sMonday, Edwin
Booth first played Macbeth in Boston. 1t
was at the Boston Treatre, and the cast
was notable one. In it were Edwin Adams,
who played Macduff; M. V. Lingh am. who
Alayed Malcolm; E. J. Horton, Banquo;
Thomas Barry. Duncan; John II. selwyn,
Rose; ". II. Curtis, as Hecate, and the
witches were done by Dan Setchell, C. p.
Cunningham and Nat Davenport The Lady
Macbeth was Charlotte Champion, with Mrs.
Marshall as the Gentlewoman and Oriana
Marshall as Fleance. John Oxenford's
farce, "unly Half Penny" was played
with it,, with Mary Devlin, afterwara Mrs.
Booth, and Josephine Orion, now Mrs. Ben
E. Wolf. in it. The hill of this pei torrance.
one of the large old fashioned sort, three
quarters of ard long. announces that
the doors are to be opened at half-past 6,
and gives in huge black type a sensational
synopsis of the scenes of the play. of tie
nature now rarely seen even on bills an
nouncing the most lurid of nlelodramas.
Eugene Esperance Oudin is dead. He
died in London of paralysis. aged 80. He