The Portland daily press., 1895-04-12
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The katherine Rober Company.

The Katherine Rober Company.
The Easter Week attraction at the Port.
land Theatre is to be the Katherine
Rober Company and the Imperial Band
and Orchestra. Ten performances are tc
be given in all, matinees being announced
for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons. The scale of prices made SC
popular in this city by the Waite and
SaWtelle companies will rule, although
the productions to be given will be OF a
much better class. Camille is to be the
opening bill on Monday evening. with
Miss Rober in the leading role. An ar
rangement of particular interest to the
ladies has been made re garding the tick
cts for Monday evening.
Al Fields Ministries.
AL FIELDS Minstrels will be heard at
City hall next week as will be seen by
advertisement, playing one evening and
a matinee. The Springfield Journal says:
| 1t was an old time minstrel audience,
| but not an old time minstrel company
| that filled the opera house, front and
stage, last night. The performance con-
! sisted entirely of modern minstrel attrac-
tions. The people went to see a good
thing and they did not have to push it
| along; it went fast enough to keep the
liveliest on the qui vive. Mr.. Field s
advance agents told the truth when they
said the show is even better than the ex-
cellent entertainment it afforded last
season. Tt abounds in new features that
are good, and the audience was kept in
n continual state of hilarity. The music
and singing of the first part. including
Harry Skunk, Arthur Yule, Harry ].
Howard, Will Walling and others, was
| superior to the usual standard. The
specialists which followed, Yule's imita-
tions, the Alvarez family of musicians,
Field and Donnelly, Melville. the equi-
Ilibrist comique, Hall, the banjoist, and
Moore and Beeson, burlesque acrobats,
were all fine and received hearty encores.
"Aladdiin," the spectacular burlesqne,
which concluded the performance, twas
much better than the ordinary termina-
tion."
Chamber Concert,
Reserved seats for the chamb Der con-
cert to be given by Mrs. Helen window
Potter. Miss Harriette Shaw, the Misses
Hale and Miss Nellie 3. McGregor, can
be obtained at tockbridge's. and admis-
sion tickets at Center & MoDowells,
Geo. c. Frye's, and Stockbridge's.
Musical Dumb-bel1s.
Musical dumb bells in the hands OF the
children make very pleasing class drill.
A correspondent from ChautHuqua, after
seeing musical bell drill given by child
rem, says: "In all the comments and
words of praise that came after the
exhibition was over, the first and loud
est was for the musical bells. The bells
were introduced in this city by Mrs. A.
will be feature of the exhi bition to be
given at kotzschmar Hall, April1S.
The American Theatre.
"The American theatre of Today;
Causes of Its Decadence, and Means for
It's Elevation" was the subject of dis
cussion at the April meeting of the I'm
itarian club held at the Vendome, Bos-
ton, Wednesday evening. Mr.. Henry A.
Clapp delivered his address upon the
stage of today. 4,
There is not left in this country to-
day single actor who is competent to
take the tragic part in any drama," was
his opening announcement. "There is
just one man leftJof the old school of
comedians who is competent to take the
high part in comedy. That man is Mr.
Jefferson. The theatre is in miserable
condition today. There has been, there
is, and there always will be, objectiona-
BILE points in theatres, in spite of the
purifying powers of city aldermen" q
Notes
The following press notice speaks
most highly of the Misses Hale who are
to appear IN the concert. Opera Hall
was we'll filled by the admirers of the
Misses Hale who ara SO we'll known to
Boston people as artists of violin and
cello"
Miss Margaret E. McNulty daughter
of DIR. McNulty), the accomplished
young harpist of Boston, will play at the
Easter Monday ball. This is the first op-
portunity the Portland public has ever
had to listen to Miss McNulty's exquisite
performances ON that ancient instru-
ment. Judging from the enconiunls
bestowed on her by the Boston press
there is a rich treat in store for the peo-
pie of Portland.