The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-02-26
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
A Contented Woman.

Charles H. Hoyt has pressed plumbers
hotel keepers, railroad stations, curiosity
hunters, temperance laws, citizens, SOL
diers, and dozen other things into SER
vice for play subjects, and has at last got
round to Woman's Suffrage. His newest
play, which bears the title of "a Con-
tented Woman" and whiuh has just
closed two months run at the Park
Theatre, Boston, will be presented in this
city for the first time next Friday even
ing at the Portland theatre and deals
with the office seeking. vote wanting
woman. 1t is Il broad satire, for that Is
the way Mr.. Hoyt does things, and it is
pretty sure to be amusing, for that is the
way Mr.. Hoyt does things also.
The scene of the play is laid in Color
ado. Briefly. the plot contains the trials
and tribulations OF woman who runs
for an offioe against her husband. There
is plenty of chance for character drawing
and Mr.. Hoyt may be depended upon to
introduce some interesting strong minded
women, and some curious types of male
politicians. Caroline Miskel Hoyt, wife
Of the play wright, has the principal part
She is very beautiful woman and is
surrounded with company that ia
claimed to be the strougest..Mr. Hoyt ever
organized.
Mammoth Banjo Concert,
The programme for the banjo concert
at City Hall next Thursday night is a
varied com bination to delight the audi
ence. Thekfine rendering of the Staccato
Polka by Mrs. Halves will embrace both
brilliancy Of execution and melody, while
the song with concert obligato by Mr..
Hall will be charming. Willie Kimball,
the wonder banjoist, will sndeavor to
electrify the audience. Attentively ex-
anime the programme. Brooks, Hall,
Hatch, Skiilin, Zimmerman, Harding,
Graenz, Varney.
A Romance of Coon Hollow.
Tonight the great Sc MO production
"Romance of Coon Hollow will be pre-.
sented by Miss Lizzie Evans and com.
pnny at Portland theatre. The great
scenic features, the burglary, the burst
ing dam, the steamboat race, the Coon
Hollow serenaders. the jolly plantation
darkies, are all we'll spoken of by ex'
changes. The piece will be presented
both tonight and Thursday night.
Notes.
"An Artists Model will 60 TO the
Hollis street theatre. Boston, next week.
| "The Plunger'' will be the play in the
bill at the Grand Opera house, Boston,
next week
| 'The World goes to the Bowdoir
| Square theatre next week.
| Fanny Davenport will soon bo seen al
the Boston Theatre in "Gismonda.
| On February 26. 1876, just so years ago,
the old Howard Atheneum was destroyed
by fire.
| Yvette has poured her joys and sorrows
into the ear of Figaro and Figaro is Q
sieve. After telling of her trouble with
Bernhart in New York, Yvette said
"A real conflict came with Mime. Melba.
The battle took epic proportions. had
met in New York home a friond OF
Mime. Melba, and this friend said to bel
the next day: "You are to take break.
fast with Yvette Guiltert and me tomor.
row. She rose and said with violent
Indignation: 81 take breakfast with that
singer? You might, at the worst, have
invitei her to come at dessert. and sing
one of her couplets for pay. The friend
related the thing to me, and replied
simply: "Well, that is natural. / an
not of the Orleans family 7 This wa.
one of the occasions on which the eve
n ing stars did not sing together.