The Portland daily press., 1897-11-23
thatEmay be-said. There will be special
argain matinee Saturday.
BANDA ROSA CONCERT.

BANDA ROSA CONCERT.
Europe's first concert band and
Americas latest musical novelty and
sensation will be heard here next Satur-
day afternoon and evening, Nov. q, at
The Jefferson theatre. The fattering re-
ports of its great success at the concerts
In New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington have been fully con-
firmed and even added to by the Boston
critics, the series of concerts the band
has been giving in Music hall having
struck a popular chord and the house. was
nightly filled with delighted and enthusl-
IN GAYEST MANHATTAN.
Undor the management of Messrs
Harley and Lytell, "Gayest Manhattan
will be presented Thanksgiving matinee
and evening at the Portland theatre. LII
was originally produced at Roster "
Balls Music hall, New York city, last
winter, and SO great was the hit it made
that it continued the main attraction
there throughout the season. 1t is one Oh
those elastic fantasies capable OF being
stretched to any tension and susceptible
of all kinds of novelties and speclalbles,
which seem rather to enhance than to
diminish the plot. The fact that 'Gay-
est Manhattan was played at Roster q
Balls is reasonable q surance thai lts
production was attended with stage ac-
cessories and cast of exceptional excel
lence. The same scenery and costumes
and 1v ba epGt Will De
presented III Philadelphia. Besides a
chorus of sixty voices, the following well
known vaudeville performers will appear
in their speciality performances: Richard
German, Gertie Reynolds, Thomas
Kiernan, Matt Alexander. Grace Sher-
wood, Gus Pixie and Robert Watson.
astic auditors. The wonderful playing OF
the band, the popularity of the leader,
Sorrentino, and the excellence of little
Carlotta Stubenrauch, the violinist, have
been the subject of the greatest praise
from the press, and the freshness and
novelty of the programmes rendered serve
to show that at least we have something
new and attractive in band music, which
should serve to draw a crowded and APP
preciative house in this city Seats on sale
next Thursday at O'Clock. regular prices
prevailing.
THE TARRYTOWN WIDOW.
.s"The Tarrytown Widow will be the
| attaction at The Jefferson, Wednesday
and Thanksgiving nights, and Thanks
giving matinee. Its sole purpose is to
| create laugh, a digestor to a Thanks
giving dinner. A good story of Mr..
Joseph Hart of the company is told :
Mr.. Joseph Hart was standing in the
lobby of the Chestnut lstreet theatre,
Philadelphia, with Mr.. Fred thinner
man, Jr., and few Iother friends and
was telling about an experience he had
in the Adirondack mountains. aIt was
about ten o'clock in the morning, when
1 started up the river for a fishing trip
and just as l got around q bend in the
river I saw something moving in amongst
| the trees. / yelled and / saw pair OF
horns sticking up between the elder bush
and the left bank of the river. / had
nothing but my fly rod and l do mot
know how it occurred but cast and the
line wound itself around the head Of the
young deer and as my guide rolled along
l knew it had caught SO held fast. was
| nearly pulled out of the boat, but dc
you know, by ssgiving it such sudden
| jerk, we.landed the deer in the water and
before we could release the poor thing ii
had drowned I" Seats are now on sale.
THE GAIETY.
The bill at the Gaiety this week "Opens
and closes with comedy bitsSandibetween
them is the olio which has many pleas.
ing features.
There are songs and dances in which
Miss Alice, Raines figures to good advan-
tage, while Fraser and Hennessy give an
| up-to-date sparring bout. The Walshs
and Thorn are clever travesty artists and
Lang and Sharpe, the transatlantic
sketch artists, did good piece of acting.
Perhaps the best turn is the musical
act by Carmenelli and Luille. They play
on the most grotesque instruments and
get good music from the violin, using
an emery wheel in motion for bow.