The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-08

g0sh from the Deer Lodge and Helena papers,
made her first appearance before q Butte
last Tuesday evening. On that
We were prevented by other duties
from attending but onthe following evenings
ticket reaching our sanctum with the lady's
was received with the most
gallant expression of thanks our feelings left
us master OF, and an hour or two later found
us numbered among the rather slim audience
collected in school hall. We went fully pre-
pared to have our emotions captured at the
very first onslaught, and mentally we forecast
the expression in which we could indorse that
complimentary judgment, /" the very best
entertainment Of the kind that has ever visited
Deer Lodge For some reason this formula
kept running through our mind as If we had
heard it once or twice sometime back in the
past /: and our only trouble was to decide how
we could improve upon it,, Bur alasl all
those preparations were unnecessary, for we
didn't gush a bit. Our artistic perceptions,
we fear, have been less carefully cultivated
than those Of the more highly favored indi-
viduaIs who speak by the book from the
tripods of Helena or Deer Lodge, and accord
ingly we could only admire within bounds
where their raphsodies instead Of describing
had left: us rather to guess at their feelings.
Well; we entered the ball and at the first
glance we saw what all those gushing descrip-
lions had failed to describe-we saw a very
handsome young lady, gifted with a sweet,
well-cuItivated voice and refined taste the
latter attribute being evident from the quiet
elegance OF her. attire. 1t is quite possible
that our perceptions are less obtuse in this
direction than in the direction Of art, but at
all events we cannot escape the conviction
that the woman is more charming than the
artist accomplished. Her voice is sweet and
well-cultivated, but its tones are never those
of another. In the school class she succeeded
admirably in her rendition Of the smart boy
Of the school because the deeper tones of a
woman's voice very closely resemble those of
the twelve-yearrold boy but in the /" Dodge
Club" how widely she fell short of the
ventriloquist's mastery of the voice when she
undertook TO minnie the speech OF the gruff
American Senator, that individual who is
supposed to have been the last representative
on earth Of Potiphar's, the Egyptians pris-
oner. The pieces she presented were nearly
all comic selections, and in these she sue
ceeded admirably, bnt more powerful feelings
than those to be expressed in light comedy
must be portrayed before we can admit an
artists claim to know the human heart by
haart and IN ha AHA fn dolinoota oil tic
emotions. Besides the comic aspects Of life
or society there are the deeper emotions and
darker passions by which the human soul is
swayed, su.h as love, hate, anger, fear, re-
morse, despair, faith, resignation, revenge,
and SO on, and the strings played upon by
those emotions must be skillfully swept before
we can acknowledge the hand touching them
to be that of a master. The DULY piece, pre-
sented wednesdays entertainment that
was at all pathetic was the closing part OF
the {. May Queen" and in this in the pathos
OF the last scene the artist was very much
less successful than in her impersonation o.
the joyous, hght-hearted young beauty whose
first appearance was in a carroll Of song ovel
her election as queen OF the May-day festivi
ties. In entertainments of this character by
professionals We not u~nleasonably expec
that a natural taste and talent for the brancl
of art selected will have been Improved BY
study, cultivation and long practice until thu
performance by far exceeds that of the bes
amateurs. This expectation is quite fair
but if our readers will try to forget all abou
the lady's attractiveness of person and viii
confine their examination strictly to he
artistic execution they can see for themselve
by comparing her rendition of the :. Fiyin,
Machine +" with that Of a young gentleman
amateur at the Episcopal entertainment of
month ago thai the professional is not so Yer.
far ahead of the amateur, after all. Is 70
the extravagant need of praise given ST
lavishly by the Helena and Deer Lodge sheet
we suspect their Benedict editors took tina
method Of saying that Miss Monroe is gifte'
with graces of mind and person which max
her o most charming m Restrained
from making sucl, remarks by a wholesom
respect for the curtain lecture as a reform
atory institution they adopted the subterfug
of concealing their pretty compliments unde
the thin disguise of praise to the artist.
On the Fourth work In all the mills an,
mines about Butte, without IA single excef
lion, was suspended in honor Of the day.
wide Awake Might 1amp..
DOUBLE STUDENT LAMPS,