The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-15
MUaEMENTs

A-MUsEMENTs
Atkinson's Comedy Company 10 Peck
Bad Boy played a very successful engage
ment at Renshaw's Hall for the first three
daya Of last week. The company is an ex'
cellent one and gave a pleasing performance
There is nothing in the alleged play, eitnel
Of plot or cohesion, being simply a jumbo
n absurdities. It is fun and laugh-provok'
ing affair and il. making money for tint
manager and for George Peck.
PECK is an instance OF sheer luck. lit
sprang from an obscureposition in journal
ism into prominence and wealth within q
marvelously short time. His paper, Peck
Sun, is a very thin affair, outside OF the
"Bad Boy and "Freckled Girl columns
and the fun in these is of a low order, writ
ten in bad English, yet it has netted him IN
the neighborhood of $1,000 O0 in fiveyears
The dramatization OF his absurdities brings
him additional wealth. All the gang re
ioice in Georges success.
This week, beginning on Wednesday eve
ming, we are to have the Baldwin Theatel
Company of San Francisco in their latest
success, 1.-The Shadows of Great City,
which had a most successful run in Sar
Francisco, and is pronounced by the press
of that city one of the strongest melo
dramas OF the day. The company con
tains such well known names as Lewl1
Morrison, George Osbourne, L. 4. Stock
well. Ada Deaves and Annie Adams, and II
under the business management OF Mr.
Louis A. M~orgenstern.. The following II
the plot of the play, the scenes Of which
are laid in New York City: Thomas Ben
son a rich banker. has a family consisting
of Annie, an nlydaughter, George Benson
a dissolute nephew, and Tom Cooper, or
phan son of an old attache OF Bens0ni
bank, whom he has educated. The actor
of the play hinges on George Benson's reck
less vices and his efforts to obtain money
to crafty them. He determines to ruiz
Cooper and get him out OF the way Tor IN
terfering with mis- plans to rob his uncle
and to carry out his design he steals 6
pocket-book containing a large sum which
he ~secretes in CO0per's room, where 1t i
found. Cooper is accused OF theft and Ii
driven from the house. The daughter Ann1
who, against her fathers will. has mar
ried a man she loves, is disinherlted anC
also driven forth. Geo. Benson then OBJ
tains control of his uncle's estate. and Ii
made his sole heir. Unable to obtain sui
fcient money to crafty his vices, he fall
into the tolls of a p%awnbroker named
Nathan, who induces him to steal a casket
of diamonds from his fathers house ant
bring it to him. While at Nathan'S store
u sailor enters to pawn his clothes, who il
recognized by Benson as Tom Cooper. 4
detective enters at the same time searchin!
for the diamonds. Benson and Nathan
fearing detection, slip the diamonds int,
C0oper's bundle, and then declare him tt
be the thief. He is arrested, tried and sen
fenced to a long term on Blackwell's Island
Annie Standish, the discarded daughter
meets Benson in the p~awnbroker's store
and, recognizing him, asks concerning he
father, and being told he is dying witt
nothing but curses for her, she faints ant
is taken to a pauper hospital accompanies
by a neighbor, a good-heartedIrish womal
named Biddy Roman. Soon after Anni
Standish dies at the hospitalleavinga chilt
5 years old. The same night she dies Ton
Cooper, in company with Tim Farren,
sneak thief and cousin Of Bidd..
Roman, escapes from Blackwell's Islam.
through the connivance OF Benson
and Nathan for the escape ofssFarren
whom they have bribed to steal and drow1
Annie's child. Cooper prevents Farre1
from drowning the child, and after a DIES
perate struggle throws him in the river
thinking he has drowned him. A lapse @
fifteen years ensues. Cooper has reared tn
child, Nellie. into a handsome young VIC
man, and they live at the boat house
where the faithful Biddy Roman is hi
housekeeper, and shares the GUARDIANSHIP
OF the girl. One day a tramp enters VIII
| proves to be Jim Farren. He recognize
Cooper, informs IN him, and he is real
rested and sent back to prison. The
comes the discovery that Nellie is the heil
eSs OF old Thomas Benson and that tn
villain George Benson is her guardian. Hi
~endeavors to marry the girl, which she bal
f1es, his attempt on her life by locking he
in a vault, the escape again from prison c
Cooper, the establishment OF his %innocenc
by the confession of Nathan, the marriag
Of Cooper and Nellie and the punishment
of Benson and Nathan all follow in rapi
succession and make up a series OF dra
matte pictures hard to surpass. The pla,
will be produced with all the mechanics
and scenic effects that contributed to it
I great success in San Francisco.
Butte at an early day, as the leading lad
of "a Mountain Pink" company. The pla
is located in the mountains of Tennessee
| and Miss Dainty impersonated the charat
ter OF a charming naivete country girl. Sh
is a clever actress and an elocutionist c
and the play has been SO constructed as t
give her ample scope in her peculiar forte.
= . =
DAN FROHMAN, one Of the foremost mar
ayers of the country, has been on a visit t
San Francisco and is now at his countr
home, Stamford, Connecticut. He is takin
/ his first real vacation for ten years and tn
business being very risky and depresse
now, rather enjoys it. He makes the gal
/ den, milks the COW and declares that tn
busy world will see very little OF him unit
the leaves cover Central Park. In Califo1
MIA he made money on Fedora an
MAY Blossom" but lost on Impulse.
He left the Golden State a net gamer b
| $4,000. We hope to see Mr.. Frohman t
the fore again at an early day, in some er
/ terprise in which his abilities may find flu
| swing.
CHARLES EVANS, OF Evans & Hoey, c
1.-THE Meteors," has fallen heir to $50, 90
by the death of his father, Evan Evans, {
Rochester, New York. Charlie is a cleve
artist, has been coming shekels and spenG
ing them literally for some time and hi
friends are pleased at his wind fall.