The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-06
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Waite Comedy Co.

IIl6r6 Will be I0ur more perform an Ces
by the Waite Comedy Go. and if the at.
tendance continues as large as it has been
up to the present, and it certainly prom
ises to do so, Manager Waite will have
another record breaker to his credit.
When the company departs this season. it
will be to return not until year from
the coming March. Yesterday afternoon,
at the matinee, there was good audience
to enjoy "Young America and the
specialties, and last night the Elmores
repeated their successes in 'sThe Two
Kids" The prince of Liarsn will be
given at the matinee today and ssThe
Circus Girl in the evening.
McCarthy's Mishaps.
The above successful vaudeville comedy
will be presented at the Portland theatre
next Monday. The piece is perhaps one
of the funniest comedies ever written and
has, 1T is claimed, played to enormous
business continually for the past five
years Comedian Barney II Ferguson,
Familiarity known as THAT funny little
man" will play his original character
while the other members of the company
are sand to be exceptionally good, inolud
ing Miss St. George Hussey, clever Irish
character singer and dancer; Miss Mar
guerite Ferguson who will be remem-
bered for her dancing specialties; Hafford
and Mantell in bright and catchy charao-
ter songs: the Rhea sisters who are said
to play on a score or more of musical in
stpII1naDtc and MANY atborS
Northern Lig hts.
Charles +. Atkinson's great production
of Harkins' and Barbour's typical Ameri-
can melodrama, Northern Lights, y will
be seen at Portland Theatre, December
26, ~ and 2S This play has had phe-
nomenally successful run of four weeks
at the Bowdoln Square Theatre Boston,
and will be given here with the same cast,
scenery. costumes and other properties.
Tie title, Northern Lights,'' is derived
from the fact that the Indians, deeply
impressed by the shining of these signs
in the sky at so unusual period as June,
took the appearance of the Northern
Lights" as signal for uprising. The
play deals incidentally with the subject
of prenatalism and the Indian chFacter
figures largely in it, giving excellent
object lessons of the trf It's and the life of
the redman. John Swiftwind, full
blooded Sioux Indian, but thoroughly
educated in Eastern seohols, goes back to
Montana as the assistant surgeon of an
army post. His loyalty to his adopted
country and calling; his isolation of
soul in the midst of those who mean him
not unkindly; his return to the tents of
his people to find himself an alien there
as surely as under the white mans roof
Lis lonely, heroic death, with it's impas-
stoned cry that has he neither people nor
country, since he cannot believe in
the whitec, and the Indians cannot be-
lieve III him." are pictured with most
honest fidelity to pathetic, reiterated fact,
and bring home with rare power a very
living problem to the public heart and
conscience. The piece is full of love, ro-
nance and comedy, and most enjoyable
from beginning to end.
The Fatal Card.
The Fatal Gard will soon be seen here.
The Boston Heard says: 'tThe Boston
Museum has seldom been so jammed as it
was Monday night From the moment
the curtain rose till it fell on as original
last act as has been written, it lswas
night not to be forgotten. No wonder
THE Fatal Card has drawn a for
tune. Fatal it may be, but it is trump
for all that People sodden with shilling
thrillers, and others who continue to pin
their admiration on Bret Harte and his
imitators in that class of fiotionaI liter
allure, may find nothing new in these
authors melodrama, but Messrs. Cham
bers and Stephenson have hit the popular
taste by force of novel situations, the
deepest dyed crime, and some comedy
business of the brightest that has ever
been introduced in lnelodramas %
The Park.
Our readers must bear in mind that
only few more chances will be afforded
to see those excellent vaudeville artists
the Learys, Gus Huse, Phil Russell and
the others at the Park theatre There
will be the usual nickel matinee toInor-
row afternoon for the children The
children fully appreciate the. opportunity
as the crowds that attend testify