The Portland daily press., 1898-02-22
MUSIC AND DRAMA
A RAILROAD TICKET.

One of the biggest successes on the road
today is.Chas. L. Blaney's F" A railroad
Ticket" now touring through New York
State and turning people away nightly.
1t is claimed by both press and public
to be way above the average farce come
DIV of the day; and such clever peo-
nle as Burt Haverly and Laura Biggar In
the company, are assurance enough that ii
will pack the house. To see 1.-THE real
electric car is alone worth the price OF
admission, and many amusing situations
Occur in this car There are twenty clev-
er people to keep things humming for
two and a half hours, including bunch
of pretty and attractive girls, and, with
out doubt. the leading comedians of the
present day. The play will be seen at
the Portland Theatre, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
MY FRIEND FROM INDIA.
There is at least lone touch of nature
in "Ny Friend from India" the comedy
that is acknowledged TO be the one shi-
ming success of the current season, and
that will be presented at the Jefferson
Theatre Feb. 1924. Seats can be OBJ
tanned now at the box office. 1t is the
tragic moment when aunt and niece dis
cover that each has purchased a complete
costume exactly like the other. No play
produced in years has contained a scene
80 fraught with human nature as this.
Men spectators may smile and think it
Ill inEn I,,7t 10 No h1o
that the women of the audience take it
with. positively painful seriousness. No
smiles for them; they recognize the
gravity of the situation, and every face is
tense, every breath. held. 1t is really re-
markable that no playwright has ever
thought of turning such crisis to dra-
matte account before. 1t offers an op-
portunity quite sufficient to hinge an en-
tire melodrama upon. Aside from this
terrible incident, the comedy is a great
side-cracking. iaw-tiring laugh for one
and ALL 1t has taken New York by
storm. 1t is what the circus men would
call ga gigantic, mastodonio. megatherian
hit.' Chief among the players who will
be seen In the comedy here are William
q. Vaudeville, Arthur Vrohman. Agnes
Farnum. Ada Gilman, Margaret Otis,
Loise Arnott and Julia Bachelor.
HAWAII
Hawaii, which is SO much in the public
eye, Is fully discussed In the Bowker
Travel Talk on Hawaii by an
unprecedented observer, and cannot
fail to be OF great interest. DR.. Bowker
spent much time in the fair islands, and
was able to derive much important in
formation both for and against annexa-
tion. His talk is f Ill of reminiscence of
the Stevenson family and their home at
Samoa. lovely group Of islands in the
South Sea two thousand miles from
Hawaii. and the views are in every way
equal to the splendid display shown in
his other lectures, among which this is
said to be the most attractive. Seats for
this are now on sale at The Jefferson.
The date has been changed from Feb. 30
to the 28th.
NORTHERN LIGHTS.
A rousing welcome awaits MIR. William
Calder's Northern Lights company,
which will occupy the boards at the JEFF
ferson Theatre Feb. 1926, and q bargain
matinee Saturday. Northern Lights"
is the most consistently written military
play that has been seen for years. The
action takes pace in the far West during
the Indian uprising Of 1876, and faith
fully portrays the incidents leading up to
the deplorable Custer massacre. The
characters are all in competent hands,
and while the military aspect of the play
lends an atmosphere of heroism to every
scene, the skillful drawing of the charac-
tiers and their careful delineation by the
artists engaged keeps the performance at
all times within the limits of consis-
tency. Nearly 60 people are employed in
the production, which is in every way
creditable and satisfactory. This is a
popular priced attraction. and the sale of
seats will open Wednesday.