The Portland daily press., 1894-01-02
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
jacks Creole Co.

The flaming posters and advertise
ments of Jacks Creole company, served
to pack Portland theatre last evening.
The announcement also that the
Ministers Association had called on the
marshal and requested him to put a stop
to Mile. Fatima's dancing, as published
in the Advertiser, served as an addition
al card for the management, as many
evidently thought there was chance to
bought tickets to be in at the DEATH
Like all sensationally advertised shows
the sensation was evidently in the adver-
tisements. "The Dimpled Daughters of
the Noiseless Nile" and the Merry Mem
phian Maidens" were very ordinary APP
pearing women. and ii Mile. Fatima-
who was introduced to the audience
was the original Mile. Fatima whose
picture adorns the pages of the Illus
trated American, then her picture must
have been idealized to a great extent
The show was fair variety show, and
that was all there was to it. Some of
the features were very good and some
very ordinary.
Rosedale.
Next Friday and Saturday Lester Wal
LACKS charming play of Rosedale will be
seen at Portland Theatre, presented
with the same completeness of detail
that marked its presentation at the
Grand Opera House, Boston, and with
the same strong cast. There are many
readers of the PRESS who have seen
Rosedale admirably produced at the
old Portland Theatre, both in the beau
tiful stage mounting and the ability of
the actors, and they will
be all the more interested to see Annie
Clarke, Isabelle Emerson, Helen Dayne,
Joseph Haworth, William Messenger,
Mark Price, Frank keenan, and the other
well known artists in the chief role.
Apply for tickets at once.
or Notes.
Lewis e. Smith, baritone, with Charles
Lewis aud Harry Emery are making a
number of engagements. They give fine
entertainments, embracing songs by Mr..
Smith and - trios with guitar, banjo,
banjourine and autosharp.
ME. Ileufy irving ana MISS Ellen cry,
accompanied by Manager Abbey, arrived
in Boston Sunday evening.
A biography of Joseph Jefferson is
now in course of preparation by Mr.
William Winter Actor and author have
been friends for lifetime. and the work
will show the value of intimate
knowledge. 1t is to be published by
Macmillan in style uniform with that
of Mr.. Winters biography of Booth. The
latter book, by the way, has gone into
the third edition.
The most delightful little episode, of
which Ellen Terry is the central figure,
has just reached Boston from London in
a private letter. 1t seems that when
to the matinee to see her play After the
performance Miss Terry returned, post
haste, to the Lyceum, and, bursting into
Irving's dressing room, she calculated,
with tears streaming down her cheeks,
"Oh, Henry, she is greater than I am"
(sobs). a.sOh, Henry, she is greater than
you are"
The leading woman of well estab-
lished New York company, which, in
past years, was a sure drawing card,
and is now, en- route, recently wrote
friend: You have no idea of the struggle
we are. having to keep out. Why, one
stormy nightsrecently we played to three
people in the orchestra, a man and his
wife and little child. Another evening
when we had very small house, right
in the middle of the act a sound of
weeping and wailing came from the
upper gallery, and, on investigation, a
small boy was found up there in the dark
all alone; he had been SO frightened at
his isolation that he cried with fear"