The Portland daily press., 1898-07-20
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
RIVERTON PARK.

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There are SO many excellent things
about the performance of Germans Cos
mopolitans that one hestitates as to where
the best place is to begin to tell about
them. The company is most admirably
made up There is no clashing of talent
there. Every members turn is of a
superior kind and none Is at all like that
done by anyone else. With some the
trained birds, SO cleverly exhibited by
Miss Mile Oracle will be reckoned as the
finest thing on the programme. Those
who think SO will be those who appreciate
the never ending patience that must have
been utilized in bringing these birds to
their present state Of excellence There
will be others who will applaud loudest
the very fine facial acts of Miss Belle
in the world. She is capable of represent
ing, by the small aids which she employs
all the noted men in history, and the
most familiar faces of the theatrical
world, one moment presenting perfect
likeness of Henry Irving the next of Joe
of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington,
AdmiraIs Sampson and Dewey. There
will be others, and there will be large
number of them, who will take interest
in the Marshall children. They are
wonderful artists. Though they are
nothing but children Gertrude plays the
violin like master, kand she Is accom-
panied by her sister Ethel in manner
that would do credit to an old performer.
Their parents had not the means to pur-
sue their education along these lines as
they wished. Boston people began early
to notice their talent, and gradually they
began to employ them for chlidren's
parties, five o'clock teas and like affairs.
Then the church fairs and concerts and
school exhibitions began to take them up
and at last the management at Keith's
learned of them and made an engage.
ment. The society for the prevention of
cruelty to children .interfered and pre-
vented their performing there, but their
mother had conceived the idea of allow
ing them to help earn the money for their
own education, believing that they would
better appreciate it If secured by their
own efforts, and realizing also that the
chances for success were greater if more
money could be earned, and so the chill
dren appear in public and are great
favorites.
Derenda and Breen will please some OF
the public better than the others in their
,fr11 Tnd Int ov1iv Jo+
while Adams and Goss will create no end
of laughter, supplemented by that pro-
duced by Higgins and Leslie and the in
terest taken in John Goss's bone solos,
Still there are other featu res, notably the
great ventriloq uist net by Bingham, and
phone. the latter being so perfect. that II
an auditor. closed his eyes he could not be
made to believe that 1t is vocal 1mita-
tion. The whole entertainment is a
superior one, and deserves full houses.
The Fadettes concerts are taking a great
many people to the park, but they all
should stop to see and hear the Cosmo
politans.
THE GEM THEATRE.
Now that summer is with us the seat
ing capacity of the beautiful little Gem
is taxed to the utmost by the great
crowds that wish to see Mr.. Douglas
and his great company in this great
society play. Mr.. Carleton's play is a
take-otf on the would-be aristocrats.
Mr.. Douglas is a happy -go-lucky fellow
in the play, taking the world as it comes,
spending his money freely until he is re-
minded that all he has left of his estate
is the sum of forty-fve hundred dollars.
Mr.. Bilser, a collector of bad bills, fol-
lows him to Florida to collect a large
amount due his tailor. He is in love
with a young lady whose mother refuses
to let her speak to him as she considers
him too poor to be husband for her
daughter. 1t seems that MIR. Bilser has
a bill to collect Of the mother, and rather
than have it known that the mother of
the girl he loves is in such financial
straits he takes thu check for the balance
of his fortune and settles not only his
own debts, but those of his future moth
er-in-law. The audience show their
appreciation of this generous act by
tremendous applause.
The play has delightful ending and
the audience go home with smiling faces.
The old adage that it is better to laugh
than to cry is true. The people that
attend the performance at the Gem this
week will 60 home happy and contsnted.
EsTickets can be secured at the Casco Bay
office for all performances. Matinees
every afternoon this week.
MIXED PICKLES
Waves of laughter in rapid succession
followed one another across the audi
torium of McCullum's theatre yesterday
at matinee and evening performances