The Portland daily press., 1895-03-26

Tonight will be the last performance
of "Dorcas." Last night the ladies in
the audience received beautiful floral
gifts and autographs of Miss Hall as
mementos.
The Still Alarm.
Joseph Arthur's famous New York
comedy drama, "The Still Alarm" will
be presented at the Portland Theatre
Friday and Saturday evenings and a
special popular matinee Saturday after
noon of this week. The play, which
maintains its position as one of the great
est popular successes of recent years, will
be presented this season by the best cast
that has ever appeared in it, headed by
Edwin Mayo and Mary Anderson. It's
story tells the tale of heroic fireman's
life, with it's many stirring incidents
The great fire engine house scene is one
of the most spirited, thrilling and origi-
nal bits of stage realism ever attempted
Tickets are now on sale at the box
Office.
Joseph Haworth.
Monday and Tuesday evenings of next
week Joseph Haworth, one of Portland's
favorite actors. will appear at the Port
land Theatre. Monday evening he is to
present Shakespeare's immortal "Ham-
let," Tuesday evening Richelieu". He
has recently scored great success in Bos-
ton in both of these famous dramas. The
sale of tickets commences at the box
office tomorrow morning at $50.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall.
The Kendals are rated among the great
actors. Certainly they have been very
successful in this country, ranking in
popularity, with Irving and Terry. Their
first and only visit to Maine, at the City
Hall, next Saturday evening, will there
fore, he the theatrical event OF the seas
on. They open with their late success,
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." This is a
notably strong play, full of human inter
est, and presented in the highest stye of
stage art. From the beginning it seizes
the audience and holds their attention
until the fall of the final curtain.
1t tells an interesting story, is curious
II rich in shades of character, and pro-
vides Mrs. Kendall with an opportunity
for the display of her artistic power. In
this the playwright has creates and elab-
GRATED part of exceptional difficulty,
and which at the same time, as protray ed
by Mrs. Kendall, is one of the most SUBJ
tie analyses of the human mind and
human action which the modern stage
can show. For two decades Mr.. and Mrs.
Kendall have occupied position in Lon
don society not less eminent than that
held by them in the dramatic profession.
Their acting furnishes a most satisfac-
tory example of what may be expected
from the stage in it's best estate. 1t is
the finished results of fine natural apt:-
tude, developed by years of conscientious
study and arduous practice. The sale of
seats opened at Centre & McDowell's,
Congress street, yesterday morning and
there was Il large demand. The earlier
the call is made for tickets the better
seats will be obtained.
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Speaking of the late concert given by
the Boston Symphony orchestra the Bos-
ton Advertiser said:
"The orchestral numbers were spleu-
didly played, under Mr.. Paur's intelligent
direction. The overture of Mozart's
masterpiece, Don Giovanni" was given
fine performance, and proved a very
was listened to with much pleasure.
The first movement is not particularly
interesting. but the third, with it's score
of brilliant variations and it's exquisite
march, is an uncommonly entertaining
writing. The playing of the violins was
exceptionally good in the long and ex-
acting fugue of the last movement. The
performance of the Mendelssohn rsym-
phony was generally praiseworthy"
The tickets for the concert to be given
here April 10th are on sale at Stock
BRIDGES.
The Chandler Concert.
The sale of reserved seats for the
grand testimonial concert to D. Fl Chan
dler will commence at Cbandler's music
store this morning at 8 O'Clock. The full
programme will be announced the mid
die of this week. Among the talent will
be Chambers band, Lewiston Brigade
band, American Cadet band, who will
play consolidated, and male chorus of
twenty picked voices under the direction
of Mr.. J ohm Morgan. This chorus has
been in training month especially for
this concert and will be the best chorus
ever heard in City hall. The band will
number from sixty to seventy men. The
programme will consist of solos, both
vocal and instrumental choruses and con-
certed music.
Notes.
The Haydn association, at rehearsal
last evening, took up the new music fol
the concert to be given the second week
in April.
Niblo's, SO long the fashionable thea
tire of New York; the theatre where years
| ago the famed Ravel Family held their
revels and brought out their pan,o-
mines; the theatre where the "Black
Crook" was first produced and made for
tunes for its owners, is no more ii thea
tire. The last performance within its
| walls was given last Saturday night.
Maurice Strakosch, IN his souvenirs
dun lmpresario." says that Patti, who
was then eight years old, made her first