The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-15
MUSIC AND DRAMA,
Rob Eox.


the smoothness and finish afforded by
the thorough rest the company had after
the hard work of Tuesday. In fact the
company had little rest from the close of
the engagement at Manchester, Monday
evening until their arrival in Portland
Just before the time for the curtain to
ring up on Tuesday night.
After one has listened to a popular
price opera company it is great treat to
listen to an organization like the Whit
ney company, composed OF trained sing
ers who can sing their music as 1t is
intended to be sung. Last night the
enoorss were numerous. Miss Mittie
Atherton-Flora McDonald-has a solo
In the second act that she sings delight
fully. The drinking chorus in the same
act, with the following ensembls. is an
inspiration. But it is useless to enumer-
ate all the good things Those who were
present know all about and those who
didn't 60 lost one of tie most agreeable
entertainments of the season.
The Calve Concert.
The great CalYe concert will tie given
at City hall on the Goth inst. The sale of
seats will begin at Stock bridges Monday
and there will tie a rush for tickets from
all over the state. Orders are piling in
from towns all the way to Bangor. The
Boston Transcript says:
''Calye draws in Boston, there is no
doubt of that. This Is the greatest show
town in the country, according to stage
E1v, J, ~ 30,
q show! People can afford to go to see
q piece or a singer or an actor if they
choose here. Banks are not breaking
daily in Boston MS in Chicago aud the
little surplus of spare change to be
counted upon here If people are genuinely
pleased shows it's golden face when AN
opera of the attraction of Calye as Mar
guerite is given before he- thousands.
For it was Calve as Marguerite, ut least
as much as Jean de Rsske, as Faust Ito
put it mildly, which packed Mechanics
Hall to the ratters. The device of hang
ing ham mocks In the roof was not adopt |
ed, else the cheerful old barn might have
held few hundreds more. Calye in
concart In Music Hall will fairly expand
the walls of that gray temple Of the
Muses.. 1t is pity that the Common is
too noisy now for a concert. People
would be standing about in charles and
Beacon and fremont streets in the over
flow, otherwise.
Twelve Temptations,
The great spectacle "Twelve Tempta-
tions'' huge dramatic, pantomimic,
ballet and speciality combination Will be
seen at Portland theatre Saturday. rhere
will be special matinee at 2 0. IN. and
the regular evening performance. The
ballet par excellence in Chas. H. Yale's
magnificent production "The Twelve
Temptations is the ballet CT the four
seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and
Winter, and calls for the complete corps
de ballet of 80 dancers. Each series of
costumes represent in their designing and
oolors one of the seasons, while the back
ground is formed of special scene appro-
pirate to the month. AS ballet
diver tissement it is conceded to be the
most impressive and elaborate dance
ever arranged. TIE costumes alone rep
resent the expenditure of considerable
money.
Josie Sissou, well and faVorably known
as one of the most accomplished
sou brettes On tho American stage is with
this magnificent production and in the
character of "B-ight Eyes, has I'M
limited scope for the display of he. hand
some form. Miss Sisson sings sweetly
and dances exquisitely.
My Friend From India.o5s
If the nightly scenes of enthusiasm, the
shouts of laughter aud the side splitting
aches OF the average auditor can be
taken as criterion for the success oftIa
play, then ''My Friend from India to-
benefit, Monday and Tuesday evenings
April 10 and 20, deserves the distinction
of being crowned the most excruoiat-
ingly funny farce that has ever been
produced. To do "My Friend from
India" justice would require the pen of
a Poe Or the rhetoric of Hawthorne
In fact, it makes one laugh TO write
about this pi CO, and it is not surprising
that an effort is now icing made to pre-
sent H. A. Du 5ouchet, the author, with
a testimonial for having at last given tie
public an antidote that will drive away
all care and make one feel that life was
worth living after all. Before the cur
tain goes up in the first act you CON-
mence smiling already, just BY reading
the programme, while the curtain no
sooner descends before one is compelled |
to laugh in manner that is embarrasg- |
ing to say the least. Donnel and Girard |
were never better cast ana their com pany |
includes Miss MaudesGranger.
Bowdoin Glee Club.
One of the pleasantest musical events |
of the season will be the concert of the |
Bowdoin Cleo, Mandolin, and Guitar
clubs in Kotzgchma, FALL ON Saturday |
evening April s4th. For several years
these clubs have not bean heard in Port
land, and the large number of Bowdoin |
men and Bowdoin friends in the city are |
of the present oppoE tunity |
and will gee that the boys have a large |
audience. The concert is under the aus
pices Of tre young Indies of Willistou |