The Portland daily press., 1894-04-26
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
A Tenperance Town.


seen in this city before, where it has
many admirers. 1t deals of course with
the prohibitory law in Vermont, which
differs somewhat from the law in Maine
but embles the latter sufficiently to
be thoroughly understood by the audi
ence. There are several amusing scenes
in the piece and when the drama is seen
at the Portland Theatre next Monday
evening it will be presented by COM
pany containing all but two or three of
those making such a success when it
was presented for the first time last
season. Seats are now on sale at the
box Office.
A Queen of Hearts.
The Mason-Manola company appeared
at City Hall yesterday, afternoon and
evening, in "a Queen of Hearts," to
two large s.audiences, for the benefit of
the lodge of Elks. The story of the play
is this:
La PetronelIa, Spanish prima donna
of great popularity, the reigning favor
tie in all the capitals of Europe. is, at
the opening of the play, supposed to be
singing in Naples at the time of the car
nival, and to have become idolized by
the populace to such an extent that they
have christened her "a Queen of
Hearts" She has four suitors for her
heart and hand-an Englishman, Irish
man, Frenchman, and an American
John Mason). The plot deals with the
efforts of these tour suitors to win the
hand of La Petronella. OF course the
principal interest centres in the fact Of
who wins her. This narrative is liner,
spersed with catchy music and bits of
burlesque, all tremendously blended,
so as to aid the telling rather than in
terrupt the sequence of the story.
Of course the weight of the play sis
borne by Mr.. Mason as Colonel Poynter.
an American, and Miss Manola as Pet
ronella, the latter during the course of
the piece assuming the different charac-
tiers of prima donna, a midshipman
and buriesque queen. The scenes are
laid on shore at Naples. afloat on Coll
onel Poynter's yacht, and ashore again
at the MOTEL. The audiences were quite
enthusiastic over the rendering of the
music by Mr.. Mason, Miss Manola and
company, called the curtain at the end
of the second act, and then insisted on
Mr.. Mason and Miss Manola appearing
before the curtain, and presented the
lady beautiful cluster of roses.
Haydn Concert.
Not only will the grand chorus of
eighty voices prove an immense attrac-
ton at Kotzschmar Hall Monday even
ing when the Haydns produce Gounod's
Mass in E fiat, but the tact that Mr..
Arthur Berenford, the great English
baritone, will take solo part should
alone crowd the house. Mrs. Helen
Winslow Potter, Miss Minnie Burke,
Messrs. Barnard and Pierce will also be
heard to great acceptance. Those who
wish to hear the concert will have to
get seats at Stockbridge's at once, or
they will be left, as they were at the
last concert, when the hall was packed.
Emma Eames Concert Co.
Nine. Emma Eames Story, the great
American prima donna, will give con-
cert at City Hall, under the manage
menu of C. A. Ellis, so long manager of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, May Z.
Nine. Emma Story is fresh from her
great triumphs as one of the leading
prima donnas of the Abbey, Schoefiel,
Graw Opera Co.. is a Maine woman,
passed several years of her young girl
hood in this city, where she has many
4, he cd hx-o
audience only limited By the capacity
of the hall. Her Juliet in the opera of
"Romeo and Juliet" is probably the
most perfectly rounded representation of
the character now known to the operatic
stage, while her Marguerite in Faust"
has earned the plaudits of the best must
cal judges in both hemispheres. Nine.
Eames will be assisted by Miss Gertrude
Edmunds, the eminent contralto-who
has been heard in Portland before-by
Mr.. Ben Davis, famous Enlgish tenor,
and the Adamouski quartette, composed
of four of the most brilliant players in
the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr..
Victor Howes will be the pianist. The
sale of seats will open at Stockbridge's
next Monday morning at 9 O'Clock,
and half fare will be given on the rail-
roads to all holding concert tickets.
This will be Nine. Story's ouly appearance
in Maine.
A Day in the Woods.
The annual carnival of Bosworth Re-
lief Corps will take place May first at
City Hall, when the beautiful operetta
of A Day in the Woods" will be pro-
duced by chorus Of one hundred well
drilled voices under the dictatorship of
Will E. Chandler. The ssoperetta is full
of vivacious music, interesting speciality
features, including attractive drills, and
these will be illuminatedby calcium lights
and heightened by stage mechanism. The
performances will take place at 2 and s
D. m. The reserved seats for the evening
are on sale at Chandler's in Harrington
block.
Notes.
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