Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-13
THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Attractions Which Manager Ma
guire has Booked for this City.
MONMOUTH PARE RACES.

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Manager John Mcguire will soon begin
the regular season at the opera house. His
list OF attractions are among the best that
are to be had. while there is variety to
please all classes Of theater-goers. The bali
opens tonight with the welcome Goodyear.
Cook & Dillon's minstrels who since their
last appearances here, have played all the
principal towns Of the coast, going south as
far as San Diego, and met with their usual
success everywhere. al .# .a
Ida Gardner's Mastodons and the Gar:
retta Novelty Co., will follow the minstrels,
appearing three nights, beginning Tuesday
next. This company will the week follow
ing be succeeded by Matte Vickers and her
clever company OF comedians. Miss Vick-
ers is without any equal on the American
stage in her line OF business, that OF a Ger
man soubrette, her dialect, singing and
dancing being inimitable. Her recent en-.
gagement at the Alcazar theater was the
biggeet OF the entire season.
1.-THE Twelve Temptations" the great
spectacular play now packing the Grand
Opera house in San Francisco, will be here
early in August. This company carries
sixty people. and is in point OF numbers
the biggest organization Mr.. Mcguire has
booked.
Charley Reed, who is known all over the
United States as the "plain comedian" !"
is booked for an early date, and the popu.
lar artists, Joseph Grismer and Phoebe
Davies, will come again with new plays.
The Grismers and Katie Putnam are big
winners always in Montana.
The American Opera company, Maggie
Mitchell, Duncan Harrison's "Paymaster"
company, Aronson's Casino company,
John A. Stevens, Milton Mobiles, James A.
Herne, in Hearts OF Oak" and Drifting
Apart" Said Pasha" Comic Opera COM
pany, Wallack's "Cattle King" Frank
Daniels, in Little Puck" Sol Smith Rus
sell return engagement), and Chanfrau, in
kit" are all booked for Butte, Ana
conda and Helena. Few of these compa-
MES play the small towns. Mr.. Mcguire,
with the shortening of the evenings, looks
forward to having the best dramatic sea-.
son he has ever had; certainly his attrac'
tions are numbered among the very best.
Modieska opened in Denver Monday
evening to standing room. The week prom
ises to be big and Mr.. Mcguire hopes to,
get even there for his losses here. Modies-
ka is under his management Tor three
weeks more.
A wing OF the new Exposition building at
Portland, Oregon, is to be converted into
q theater with a seating capacity OF fifteen
hundred. The management has been Of
fered to John Mcguire who will accept it.
Manager Mcguire opens his season at the
Grand Opera house, San Francisco, with
the production first time in America) Of
the great scenic melodrama "The New
Babylon" which will run for four weeks.
This will be followed by combinations until
the holidays when he will produce grand
spectacular comic opera which will run up
to the third of February when Patti begins
q three week q engagement in grand opera.
jay Rial, one Of the best business men
in theatrical circles, an educated gentle
man, and o. unb undcd popularity will
represent Mr.. Mcguire at the Grand
Opera house, San Francisco. He
is at the present time together,
with Klaw and Belanger, Maguire's New
York agents, attending to bookings in that
city for the coming season. As manager OF
the Graud Opera house, San Francisco.
John Mcguire will greatly enhance the
value of his circuit here, which he says
will be confined only to the large towns,
as the companys in general will in numbers
and expense be ahead of the average.
s'Instead OF hunting up companies to fill
time here, they will be seeking me-" John
ayss. II can now giveany company an en-
gagement for nearly an entire season. Ibook
for Manager Hayward Of Spokane. and
Manager Junett Of 7 acoma, Manager Hay.
cock Of Duluth, and at Portland | will have
theater before snow flies. You see, in.
stead of companies dealing with dozen
different managers do the entire booking
from ocean to ocean. have been working
out this scheme for some time, but o house
in San Francisco was absolutely necessary
to bring it to successful issue. and sue
ceeded in getting the management OF wha,
is considered by most people the finest
theater in America, and the only thsatel
in San Francisco where grand opera ane
spectacular plays can be produced witt
proper effect" -... r..