The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-08
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Wilbur Opera Company.


wars been noted for the strength OF It's
principal artists and its superb chofus.
This season 1t is said to be improved In
both of these branches. Among those
who will sing the leading roles in the
operas to be presented at the Portland
Theatre next week are the Misses Elolse
Mortimer, Belle Hamilton, Helen Yorke,
Hattie Richardson. Lilly Taylor and
Laura Kurtz, and Messrs. ". FL. Kohnle,
E.A. Clark, e. Conley, Claude Amsaen
and Emmett Drew. Several of these,
notably Miss Hamilton and Messrs.
Clark, Kohhle and Conley are old favor
ties with our theatre goers. Besides the
principals, the company includes thirty
chorus people, 90 ladies and 10 men, and
several models. who are used simply for
posing in the Living Pictures. Eleven
performances in all are to be given next
week, the popular matinees commencing
on Tuesday afternoon.
Kellar.
The only Kellar comes to Portland To-
night, and he will be seen IN City han
direct from a season of marvellous frul5-
ful research in the old world His in
vestigations of the latest products OF
magic in the Far East enable him now TO
show to American audiences for the first
time such startling novelties as "The
Shrine of Koomra Sami. "The Mystic
Light of Bala," and "The Talking Inn
aoe.n each one of which absolutely
naffIed such scientific Investigators as
Prof. Heinrich Hensoldt of Germany ana
now defy the scrutiny of American audi
ences, the most original and lntelilgent
in the world. Take the children TO see
this rare exhi bition of those marvels
which they read of in the Arabian
Nights and the fairy tales OF the proth-
ers Grimm and Hans Andersen. Inelr
elders should accompany. them to lnstl-
tute a comparison between the marvels
of this greatest of modern magiclans and
the feats of the sore erers described In sh
Bible as having been performed before
King Pharaoh. The conversion of
cane into a snake, of a serpent back into
a rod. is a trifie compared with such
of Bala." But these are not all the
novelties. Mr.. and Mrs. Kellar have new
mathematical seance which makes
Inaudi's feats seem child's play. They
also continue "Out Of Sight," "The
Cassadaga Propaganda" "Flyto," and
aThe Mysterious Cabinet" Tickets at
Stockbridge's.
Manola- Mason.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening, Jack
Mason and Marion Manola will be seen
at City Hall in that charming pastoral
"Friend Fritz" one of the most sue
cessful and delightful plays that has
been seen on the stage for many seasons.
Marian. Manola has fully recovered from
her late illness. and she has many friends
in Portland who will gladly throng to
City Hall to welcome her return to
health. Jack Mason always was fav-
orite. The tickets are selling well at
Chandeliers music store in Harrington
block. This will be the cast:
Fritz Kobus, landed proprietor.
David Sichel, a Jewish Rabbi.
Frederick, land surveyor,
Hanezo, tax collector,
Henry Longsdale
Christol, Father of Suzel,
"'-''- '--0' Georgia Dickson
Lisbeth. village girl, -
Suzel. Marion Manola-Mason
Rossini Club Concert.
The Rossipi Club concerts have come
to be considered among the marked
musical events of the city, and that OF
last night proved no exception to the
rnle. The musical audience in atten-
dance at Kotzschmar Hall showed their
appreciation of the various numbers
by liberal applause. This was the pro-
gramme:
Piano Quartette-Overture to the
opera 1.-THE Escape from the Ser
aglio.n MoIart
Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. johnson.
Piano Solo (a) Erotik. op. 43, No:
S; Oh Anden Fruhling, No. =. drleg
Miss Marion Fobes.
Vocal Subdivisions, Vannuclnl
Miss Martha g B. Hawes
Amerikanische Plantsgentanze,
Maurice Arnold
Miss May Florence Cheney, Miss Bern
ice Mahalah Preston.
Vocal Solo" IS the Dawn" Otto Cantor
Mrs. Henry St.John Smith,
Polonaise. Op.11. Moszkowski
Miss Mary Gertrude Jordan.
Piano Quartette-Ballet Music from
"Don Caesar Bazan," Massene1
Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. A lien, Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. johnson.
Vocal Solo-'Twas April, NeVlns
Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse.
w in "a No Grieg
Miss Eliza Slator Lowell.
III Chiesa. Stradella
Miss Henrietta bennett Rlce.
Concerto Minor. Allegro con Brio,
Beethoven
Miss Alice Linwood Philbrook.
The orchestral parts on the second
piano were perform ed by Mrs. A biel M.
Smith most excellently.