The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-11
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
she Couldn't Marry Three.

company gave an eAPo'A'ioA
aShe Couldn't Marry Three" at the
Portland Theatre last evening, IN
manner that afforded great amusement
to an extremely large audience. The
NAV has been rewritten since last seen
here, and greatly improved. 1t is very
entertaining comedy-drama in its pres
emit form, full of both humor and senti-
msnt, with well worked up climaxes and
an interesting plot. Miss Kennedy is
remarkably pretty woman, and an act
ress of much ability. She is extremely
yersati .e, her songs and dances being a
among the most pleasurable features of
the performance. All of the vaudeville
portion Of the programme had de-
lightfully refreshing novelty about it,
there being q noticeable lack of "chest-
nuts.n The company afforded the star
satisfactory support in every role.
This evening and tomorrow afternoon
"a Daughter of Dixie" will be present
ed. with Miss Kennedy as Glen Cay
borne. "She Couldn't Marry Three is
to be repeated on Saturday evening.
In Old Kentucky.
No play given on the Boston stage this
season has made such tremendous hit
as In Old Kentucky" which has just
closed great engagement of ten weeks
at the Boston Theatre and which will be
given at the Portland Theatre next Mon
day and Tuesday evenings. by the full
Boston company. Night after night 1t
filed this immense theatre to the doors.
The Boston Herald said of it: in Old
Kentucky is dramatic festival full OF
action, of light, Of merriment, OF roman-
tic interest. of picturesqueness. Its
comedy is delightful because fresh AID
novel: it's life is of the fascinating,
healthy sort; its broadly farcical periods
clean cut and robust; it's atmosphere
charmingly American; it's construction
admirabIe: it's book well written-in
short, one of the very best productions
Boston has ever had the pleasure of
witnessing"
Freddy's Aunt.
Judging by the rehearsals, the JEFF err
sonians are sure TO be heartily received
at their first production tonight at the
vestry of the New Church on High
Street. All the members are up i'll their
parts, and they have been carefully re-
hearssd by them. Remem Der the place and
1,e sure to be in attendance. Proceeds for
charity. 4.s2s.s.
The Tornado.
Wednesday and Thursday evenings OF
next week lovers of sensational stage
effects have a great treat in store for
them, those being the evenings when
Lincoln j. Carter's celebrated production
sThe Tornado will be presented al the
Portland Theatre. The play is novelty
in every sense that the word can be ap-
n1ied to theatrical attraction. 1t takes
it's name from the representation given
at the close of the first act of Western
tornado. from it's inception until 1t
bursts in all its fury. sweeping every
thing before it. AS a stage spectacle
this scene has never been exceIled. The
sale of seats commences this morning.
sousa's Remarkable Tour.
Souss' g great Concert Band has just
concluded tour unprecedented ID point
of tims, of travel, of musical achieve
meut, and physical endurance. This tour
embraced an uninterrupted daily series
of concerts Of ten months. or over three
hundred days. in which, inc udlng NATL
neex. over 1873 concerts were given to
audiences numbering nearly one million
Of people. The territory covered,
stretched from the Atlantic to- the Pa-
cif]r cnast, and from the Great Lakes to
tne au1f of California. What is more
remarkable, during this long time and
attended travel, not a member of Sousa's
6fry musicians was injured, not a piece
of baggage went astray, not railroad
connection was missed. not single con-
cert failed to be given, and no advertised
promise of the management failed OF
fnlfIlment. Director Sousa and man
aeer Blakely wed with each other in
making this tour the greatest success
both musically and financially, ever
achieved by any like organization. And
the result, it is needless to say, amply
justified their efforts. The new year
opens with still greater promise for this
peerless organization. Brief concert
tours in January and February will be
followed by a series of longer tours
through the South and West beginning
in March and reaching as before up to
the winter holidays; and including, of
course, the regular Manhattan Beach
and St. Louis Exposition engagements.
Meanwhile, the sales of Sousa's music
have netted him unprecedented returns,
and his title of March King" may we'll
be supplemented by that of the king OF
Band masters" The gifted conductor
richly deserves his accommodating honors.
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