The Portland daily press., 1895-11-02
MUSIC AND DRAMA.


with whom this talented ntJle lady
stands in such high favor. The present
season Miss Rober, surrounded by an ex-
cellent company, will visit the principal
cities of New England and the Middle
States, her repertoire being made up of
standard popular pieces. A week will
be put in at Portland Theatre, begin
ming Nov 4th. The list of plays to be
presented will be announced later.
The Drummer Boy.
1t is to be expected that the play named
above will receive the liberal patronage
of all our peope, for it is we'll known as
the leading war drama now extant.
Comrade A. f. Nail its proprietor, has
Justly earned the reputation being one
of the best directors of dramatic.rehears-
ais in the country, and the way in which
he is brushing up the local cast, shows
that he has found in it much promising
material
From dramatic standpoint it is quite
likely to be a most remarkable success.
When it is taken into consideration that
the cast includes many of the most effi-
Gent Portland entertainers, among whom
my be particularly mentioned Miss
Henrietta D. Rice, the contralto, Mrs.
j. H. Pike, the reader, and Mr.. Leroy
S. Sanborn, most popular fayorite IN
amateur drama, it is easy to see reason
for brilliant success. 1t will surely be
policy to procure your seats at once.
Salvini.
Alexander Salvini, on his forthcoming
appearance here will make his bow as the
cunning, adventurous D'Artagnan. the fa-
miliar hero of Dumas novel, ct he Three
Guardsmen. A happier selection could
not have been made, for, besides being
the most elaborate Of his productions, it
strikes the keynote of the school OF
drama, which he so uniquely represents.
1t is play, of course, in which rapidity
of incident limits artistic opportunity,
and there is not much room for dra-
matte fervor or serious acting, but there
is an atmosphere, bravado, fasolnat-
ing chiyalry in the f1ctiens of Dumas,
which nowadays Salvini alone seems ca
pable of assuming with any degree or
naturalness or conviction. Youth, cour-
age and loyalty are their elements and ac-
scarcely a very possible character, accord
ing to modern standards, but he is mag
netio to degree, and his artless effront-
cry imparts q far more pleasant flavor
than the mawkish sentiments put into
the mouths of the modern hero by the
playwrights of today. Tickets are selling
fast at Stockbridge's.
At the opening of the new Park The
atre Monday evening, where speciality bus
mess will hold the stage, there will ap-
pear Gus and frankie DAILY in character
sketches, Fleming the living corkscrew,
VIM Wytie and Kate Sanford, sketch ar
fists, Glenn Sisters, song and dance,
frank Perlot, Irish comedian, and Mil.
-dred Fornest,. eccentric dancer. Popular
prices will prevail with dime Inatinees
Wednesday and Saturday.
The stockbridge Course.
Paderewski viii open the Stockhridge
course Nov. 2lst and play at q matinee
out of the course Nov. 22d. The London
Morning Advertiser says of his playing
til present season:
'fPaderewski is the seer Of the piano
forte, and makes it speak with an almost
nrophetic voice. We hang on the subtle
whisperings OF some mysterious oracle.
You might sit silently listening to him
in darkened room, and the glamour OF
his touch, his personality, would be just
as vivid, just as real And about his
PLAYING there is a lingering, aressing
p pna1ity such as we hear with no on else
This last was clearly shown in. tnes Beeth-
ovens Sonata in A fiat. OPP. ITO, which
Paderewski played yesterday afternoon
at st. James's Hall with perfect mas
terry 1t was a performance of the highest
merit and that judged from the al hig sne,'.
ssSongs without Words were delightful
" played, and the first the we'll known
"Spinnerlied, !" had to be repeated. AT.
ter his own "Cracovienne" Paderewskl
played an encore piece, and tn e recital
concluded with Liszt's "Etude de Con
cert. ), and the Rhapsodie No. IL. We
should have said, fought to have con-
cluded.' as he may still be playing for
aught we know The audience simply
stuck to their seats, and insisted on en-
core after encore. "
Travary Opera Co.
The Tayary Opera company is the one
that will appear in the StUckbrldge course
in grand English opera. There are one
hundred people in the company and
twenty in the orchestra. The sopranl are
Doenhoff, Thea Dorre and Dora Scott ;
tenori. A. L. Guile, Payson. Clark and
William WARREN baritoni, william
Merteus. S. Dudley and f. l. Hill
bassi, VIM. Hamilton, VIM. Schuster,
John Witt; conductor of orchestra, senior
Emerico Morreale of the Italian Opera
no ase, City of Mexico
The Given Concert.
The personel of the class of pupils to ap
pear at Mr. Given's recital, Nov. 18th
is as follows: Mrs. Hattie A. Bean,
Misses K athleen Robinson, Florence
M. Westward. Henrietta Roberts, Lily
p. Alden, Carrie B Manchester Grace
Davis; Messrs. Lockhart Pingree, Fred
Tyler. Henry Goss, F. W. Buckley, Al
bert Turner, F. " Weeks, Chas; Lanton;
Masters Louis Peek, Ralfe y. Hoyey,
Harvey Robbie, Harry Wood, Mr.. Me-
serve, and Albert Gilman.
Resereyd seats tickets on sale at Chan
dler's on and after the 18th OF November.
Notes.