The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-31
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The Ivy Leaf.


Leaf" comes to the Portland Theatre
Saturday evening of this week. The
play gets its name from tine fact that
an ivy leaf is used to lure the heroine
into trouble. There are m any hig hly
novel and interesting features in the
piece while the company is one of the
best that ever appeared IN play of the
kind. Mr. Smith O'Brien, who plays the
leading role, has handsome stage pres
eDce and is clever vocalist and dancer
Still another attractive feature is the
Ivy Leaf cuartette
Rosedale.
Lester Wailack's beautiful co medy
drama Rosedale, when properly cast aud
staged, is one of the most attractive
plays ever put upon the boards. In New
York at the old Wallack's Theatre, when
first produced some thirty years ago,
with Wallack himself, in the principal
role, the play captured critics and
public alike, and it enjoyed very long
run. In later days it has been equally
successful, showing that merit in the
drama is appreciated by the theatre
goers of every generation. .Rosedale"
with Mr.. Joseph Harworth and Miss
Belle Everson in the leading parts, sup
ported by strong company that has
earned the plaudts Of New York audi
ences, will be seen in the Mitchell course
next Friday evening at City Hail. Fur
thermore the new ana comfortable opera
chairs will be used for the first time on
this occasion. There has been an excel
lent demand for tickets. In order to
obtain choice of seats those who have
not yet procured them should call at
Mitchell's ticket office, No. 542 Congress
street, at once.
Wash burns company, composed of
forty people, will present Uncle Toms
Cabin" at the Portland Theatre Tuesday
evening of next week. Following them
comes "Fabio Romani" on Wednesday
evening.
Grau's Opera Co. is on the way from
Canada to Maine. Alice earle is said to
be member.
So7sa's Band, the Stoddard lecture
course, and the Boston Symphony Or
chestra concert, which will come later
in the season, are all under the personal
direction of Ira Stock bridge.
AC 5O6SOl VI bAC l)OGUoA Ny PhOhJ
orchestra in Philadelphia opened Mon
day night most brilliantly. There was
an audience of $500. Mr.. Paur was re-
called three times after the "Tannhaus-
err overture. The symphony was Schu-
mann's c major. Goldnark's overture
to "Sappho" was played there for the
first time. Mrs. Julie Wyman was the
soloist. She sang airs by Bemberg and
Masse.
nThat the late Hans Won Bulow was
an irritable and arbitrary parsonage
enough is still remem bered. The won
der now is that he was not much more
SO. In his brain, recently prepared in
Egypt, for examination, there has been
discovered the cicatrix of an internal
lesion, resulting from an accident in
childhood. In the cicatrix the ends of
two, nerves had got partially pinched.
That this would be fatal to mans
let alone a musician s-equanimity will
be readily understood
An excellent example of really good
play is "The Cotton King which is
playing to crowded houses at the Bow
dom Square Theatre, Boston; There is
no sentlmentality run wild, but vigcr-
GUS exposfti on Of ordinary characters.
who speak and act as ordinary individ-
uals, according to the class in which
their lot is cast. 1t is the very absence
of artiticiality that gives this drama
its charm, and accounts Tor the interest
with W hich every incident is followed.
.The Cotton King" will be seen in Port
land later.
Sydney Grundy's clever play, Sowing
the Wind" entered on it's second week at
the Columbia, in Boston,D Monday eve
ming, with every indication of continued
prosperity. The sentiment of the play is
calculated to meet quick response in
the hearts of the average theatre-goer,
and the literary merit of the piece is
sufficient to please a critical audience.
The company is an unusually strong one.
Miss Mary Hampton is a loveable, win
some girl, Mr.. Whiffen is an unusually
clever character actor, and M. Gilmour
gives fine representation of tie digni-
fed, kindly man of the world. The play
will be seen at City Hall later.
"Rory of the Hill," new Irish drama.
written by Mr.. James c. Roach, with the
stellar part assumed by that gentleman
himself, was brought out at the Grand
Museum in Boston, Monday. The piece
is one that deals with tie Irish land
situation as it exists today, with pref
ty thread of love and remahee cleyerly
interviewer. The dialogue is strong and
breezy, the epigrams pungent, and the
dramatic situation well led up to. That
the piece is success was evidenced by
the reception given Mr.. Roach and his
excellent company in Boston Monday
evening, when the principals in the play
received vociferous applause. 1t will be
seem at Portland Theatre later.