The Portland daily press., 1897-11-16
MUSIC AND DRAMH.
FRIEND FRITZ.

tractive of all the many attractions pre-
sented to theatre goers. 1t is a beautiful
love story and it is interspersed with so
much music and dance thoroughly in &C :
cord with the spirit of the play, that one
comes away with that, metaphoricalIy
speaking, "olean taste in the mouth, -
that comes from sweet wholesome en-
tertaipment.
The story of the dawn of love with
Fritz kobus, the rich young German
bachelor, is too well known to all our
readers to require repetition here. Not
wltkstanding all the viGissitudes that
Jack Mason and Marion Manoia have
passed through since they first produced
Friend Fritz" about five years ago at
City hall, they still retain much OF the
old power to charm. Jack Is easy,
natural. forceful, as Fritz. His voice has
lost something of it's mellowness, but he
is still able to bring out an encore for his
singing of thu Adam and Eve song, while
Marion Manola is the same delightful
Suzel, shy, fresh and sweet as the violets
which she presents Fritz on his birthday
and she sings "The Wedding Ring and
..The Nightingales Song beautifully, re-
ceiving the eneores that are her due. Her
story of Rebecoa, in the second act, is one
of the most perfect artistic touches that
we know Of. 1t is intensely characteristic
in its simplicity. Her grief at the de.
parture of Fritz, at the close of the second
act, is so pathetic as to draw tears from
many an eye.
A feature of last evening was the ap-
pearance Of Adelaide Uldom, Marion
Manola's daughter as Lisbeth. Miss
Uldom passed her early girlhood in Port
land as pupil of MIR. Bellows school,
and has many friends in Portland. Joined
to neat figure she has a naive style,
that is very taking, showing that she in
herits good deal of talent. She was
warmly applauded last evening and pre-
sented large bunchsof chrysanthemums.
Sol AIKEN, as David, was quite good and
the other members of the support were
fairly good. The waltz song and dance
in the second act was one of the best feat
called at the end of the second act. To-
night Friend Fritz" will be repeated.
STAR CORUSE.
The third grand concert in the Star
Course will take place at City hall
Wednesday evening. when the favorite
Apollo Male quartette composed of Wal
ter E. Paine and Sidney Howe, tenors;
Fred E. Kimball baritone. and George
A. Bunton basso, will appear, and, in
addition, the eminent piano virtuoso
nal child cornet player, little Helen Apol-
lonis. Tickets will be on sale at the box
office in City hall today and Wednesday.
WIZARD OF THE NILE.
The Wizard of the Nile will be present.
ed at The Jefferson Saturday, Nov. Goth,
matinee and evening and 1t is safe to
predict personal triumph for Miss Mil
lard. Marie Millard, the prima donna of
T'irke La Shelle's Wizard Of the Nile''
nic opera production and who plays
lie role of the unsophisticated Cleopatra,
is daughter Of the famous song writer
Harrison Millard. She has been on the
stage only few years but superb
voice and unusual ability rs an actress
brought her at once into the rank of sue
cessful prima donnas where she has east
ly remained. In "The Wizard of the
Niln" she has several songs that must add
TO her reputation as an artist.
LILLIAN KENNEDY.
Lillian Kennedy, the well known SOU
brof+o hn ,ac apnoarad in, tho foroo
comedy of "The Deacon's Daughter
several times in Portland, will be seen
again this season, this time at Portland
theatre, next Friday and Saturday, and
the tickets are now on sale. The piece is
full of songs, dances and other specialt1es
and the admirers of Miss Kennedy will
no doubt be on hand on these occasions.
"TESS OF THE DRUMBERVILLES. I"
Mrs. Fiske's first week in Boston was
the most successful, both pecuniarily and
in an artistic sense, to the credit of a
theatrical star this season in that city
and yet the second week of her engage
ment has surpassed the first in every
way, and by common consent she could
crowd theatre in that city in 'fTess of
the D'Urbervilles'' for weeks to come.
So great is the interest evoked by her
acting and play that scores of requests in
the press and by letter have been made
for her return to Boston this season. In
Boston, too, as it happened in New York,
although the newspapers have given
pages of space to Mrs. Fiske and "Tess,''
the more significant of the remarkable
tokens of appreciation showered upon
her have been seen in the unique power
she has upon the emotions of those who
witness her acting and the many letters
she receives from persons who are not
given to writing letters to describe the
effects of acting upon them. 1t is evil
dent that Mrs. Fiske has entered upon a
tour in which she will everywhere win
honors of kind that never before have
been bestowed upon an American actress.
Mrs. Fiske will be seen in Portland at
The jefferson in the play later in the
season.
THE GAIETY.