The Portland daily press., 1898-02-28
MUSIC AND DRAMA
PORTLAND THEATRE.

ita Miss Ethel Tucker. Will COM
commence a week engagement, opening
in her great society comedy drama,
"Oueena." beautiful love story, depict
ing scenes of love and emotion most real
istio and true to nature.
Miss Tucker has decided TO play "Leah
The Forsaken, for Tuesday matinee, and
p "Soidier OF Fortune on Tuesday even
ing. Lovers of fine music will ENJOY the
fine selections by the famous premium
Lady Orchestra at each performance
next week, each a fine solo player.
Among the members of the above COM
pany we recognize the name of well
known Portland young lady, Miss Mar
guerite Fisher, whose many friends here
will give her a warm reception. The sale
OF seats is now open and they may be OBJ
tanned for any performance.
GRAND OPERA.
1t has been finally decided that the
Damrosch- Ellis Opera Company will pre-
sent Wagner's Tannhsuser" at the jeff
erson on Tuesday evening, March 6th,
with exactly the same cast as was seen on
Wednesday evening at the Boston theatre
and was called by all of the Boston critics
one of the best performances of the work
ever seen there. MIR. Fay has the positive
assurance of Mr.. Ellis that thu rendition
here will be the finest Portland has ever
witnessed, as he will bring every bit OF
scenery, properties, costumes, the entire
ballet, chorus, the grand symphony or
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ing in no respect from the performances
given in New York and Boston. Inc
cast also will be an exceptionally strong
one. Mime. Johanna Gadski, for the past
three seasons one of the leading pr1ma
,lcnnas of Mr.. Damrosch's company, will
be the Elizabeth. Not only in opera has
she been general favorite i'll Boston and
New York, but in concert at the Worces-
ter Festival, and with the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra she has proved to be one
of the greatest artists ever seen il this
country. Mr.. David Bispham. onesof the
best known concert and oratorio Gas we'll
as operatio) singers, is the leading BARI
tone, and the title role is assumed by
Ernest Kraus, the principal German
tenor of the organization, handsome
young singer who has become universal
favorite and is everywhere allotted the
place in musical work formerly SO we'll
filled By Max Alvary. That sterling
favorite, Emil Fischer, is also in the cast,
a d all in ell twill be performance long
TO be remembered in musical circles.
While the expense of giving perform
anoe here is even greaterSthan, in Boston,
the terms will not be higher. in fact a
shade lower, ranging from 81. 80 to $3.50,
and the seats will go on sale Thursday
morning March 3rd.
NEVER AGAIN.
Charles Frohman's most successful and
funniest comedy is said to be Never
Again. 1t will Represented at The Jeffer-
son Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1st
aatl I'd.
No comedy of late issue has had great
or variety of characters, all typical too,
than has "Never Again. nor has any
play of its class proven more fertile in
amusing situations. The English version
has been oleyerly and cIeanly made, pre-
eerving all the fun of the original with
cut using anything not thoroughly accept
able to good taste.
DR.. BOWKER.
The lecture on Hawaii, the Paradise of
the Nacifo, is a top of unusual interest at
the presentStime. DR.. Bowker enjoyed
special advantages there, both among
Republicans and RoyalIsts, and Is there
fore able to make impartial statements
on this vital subject from knowing both
allies of the question. This concluding
lecture takes place at The Jefferson
evening, and seats are now on sale.
SOWING THE WIND.
ssSowing the Wind will be at The jeff
ercon on Friday and Saturday of next
week. The story is very dramatic. The
woman has been thrust into the world
without the boon of lawful parentage and
through the irony of fate the man respon-
eible for her situation is now the guardian
of her lover, standing between her and
the only happiness of which she has ever
dreamed, obiecting to her because Of the
very conditions that have resulted from
his own youthful perversity, though his
relationship to her is not made known to
him until the denouement of the play.
TIE woman, stung and maddened by the
terrible injustice that rests upon her, and
vet unconscious that she is speaking to
the author of her first great wrong, burst
upon him in moment of wild emotion
with almost fearful arraignment to the
sterner sex for its pitiless treatment OF
womanhood. The man, wounded by the
truthfuluess OF the charge, and writing
IN the secret consciousness of his own
guilt, rallies from tho staggering effects
of the assaults and rushes to desperate
defense. The contest is on. the battle
cry is "Sex against Sex" Man and
woman were never moro splenololy
matched against each other and no en-
counter of the kind was ever more SKILL
fully conducted. The final scene between
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