The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-20
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Katherine Roher.

strong and pleasin g in the scene where
hhe reproaches Claude for the base de-
ception he has practiced upon her. AT
the evening performance little Pauline
Madison danced a skirt dance very pref.
tily between the first and second acts.
The weeks performance will close to
day with the beautiful Irish drama of
Kathleen Mavourneen, Pauline Madi-
son will dance, and the "Clemencau
Case" will be given in the evening.
Return of Pauline Hall.
Next Monday night Pauline Hall with
her fine company will repeat "Dorcas"
at Portland Theatre, the musical COM
edy that gave SO much delight few
weeks ago. !
.'Trilby."
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, Mr.. W.
A Brady's company will be seen in
"Trilby" at Portland Theatre. There has
been the greatest enthusiasm over the
dramatizatiun of Du Maurier's novel and
everyb body will want to see the piece.
"Hawaii' ON Fast Day.
The original cast is to appear in the
presentations of Hawaii by the Portland
Athletic Club at the Portland Theatre
Fast day afternoon and evening and
Friday evening. John WEIGH, Elliott
G. Mitchell, Harry Rounds, Carroll War
rem, John Calvin Stevens, Charles Bar
rows, George Orr and all the rest will
bn ho hot
created, and for the last times. Those
who wish choice seats should bear the
fact in mind that Fast day is the best
theatrical day in the year in this city
and that the demand for tickets will
therefore be large.
The Jeffersonians.
The Jeffersonians gave an excellent en-
tertainment at Congress Square vestry,
last evening. under the auspices of the
Annex. There was large. adience pres
ent and the actors were warmly APP
plauded. This was the cast of Bar
bara:"
Barbara, Miss Florence F. Eaton
Lille Leland,
Miss Augusta FL. Schumacher
Cecil Norton, AL. Douglass
NATL Finnioum. M. D., an old coun-
try doctor, H.A. P1ngree
And this was the cast of "When Greek
Meets Greek:n
Mr. Schoefield, &c. Prin ce
Tom Akland, Ftp. Malone
Mrs. Schoeheld,
Miss Mary E. Thompson
Eta Winningham. Mrs. Schoefield's
sister, Miss Beatrice W. Robinson
Actors Sa laries Will Come Down.
When William Terris was about to sail
for England at the conclusion of the
tour of Henry Irving in this country
early last year, he said: @The great DAN
ger threatening the drama in this country
is the com bination of speculative man
ayers who have formed what is practi-
cally theatrical trust, and who will
soon control all your leading theatres,
as they now practically controf all the
plays worth producing. Tbs result of
this trust must necessarily be the gradu-
al reduction OF the salaries of actors, and
business in the country IN the hands of
this cooperation. The independent
manager will disappear, because he will
be unable to secure the theatres, which
the trust controls in circuits, and with
his disappearance competition will cease
and the actor will be forced to accept
the salary offered him by managers in
the com bination or remain idle"
One of the leading exchanges says: One
thir,c, g pArfain that after what
may be the outcome of the case, whether
Wilde goes free or is sent to prison, the
death knell of Wildeism has been rung.
The purient plays of Wilde and the cog
nate productions, "The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray" and the Notorious Mrs.
Smith, are doomed, and there is a
strong reaction toward healthier treat
ment of stage representations, while the
current decadent literature will also get
a set back.
Mr.. Charles A. Donovan, treasurer of
the Pavilion theatre, received despatch
from Mr.. McCallum, instueting him to
join him Immediately at Philadelphia
Mr.. Donovan left on the Bay State
Thursday evening.
"The Outlaw" the Italian tragedy in
which Tomasso Salvini made one of his
greatest hits, both in Europe and this
country, has been adapted to the Eng
ISL Stage Wy l.. II. anu WILL p0
presented by Alexander Salylnl for the
first time at the Hollis srteet Theatre,
Boston, May Is.
1.-THE Lady of the Sea- which was pro-
duoed at the Colum bia Theatre, Boston.
under the direction Of Mrs. Erving Wins
low. Thursday afternoon, before a good
sized audience. is, by all odds, the most
interesting and agreeable of Henrick
Ibsen's plays yet witnessed IN Boston. 1t
possesses poetic value, and is an ele-
ment of novelty not shown in The Pill
lars of Society,"" and is SO far removed
in point OF decency and refinement from
either the "Doil's House, or the
"Ghosts," that one really wonders how
the same man could have written all of
them. 1t was an. agreeable surprise, and
will go far toward reconciling people to
the Ibsen cult.
Spring Underwear. "A. F.. Hill & Co.