The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-08
NO LIMIT TO THE SHOWS.
Attractions Which Will Be at Mipg'S
Opera House During the
-. .-, Season.
Not q Blank Week From Now
to the End of Sep
tembor.
From Corinne to Sol Smith RussolI-Fsast
for tho Visitors to Helena ~
This Summer.

| THIS Summer.
The theatrical loving people Of Helena,
from now until tho close of the summer
season. will have an opportunity Of seeing
Mt Mlng's opera house succession of the
best attractions ON the road. From this
time until the end OF the summer there In
not bunk week. With one exception
there will be two shows in the house during
each week. The single exception is whsro
the samo attraction holds tho boards the
entire week. Manager Remington. in ar
ranging his dates, has endeayored so far a.
possible to SEQ that the attractions at his
houae during the conventions in Helena
shall be such as to give satisfaction to the
visitors as we'll az to the home patrons. In
this he has been very successful, as
peruaal of tho list Of what ig to come will
show.
Corinne opens Monday night for three
performances of Carmen Up to Date"
She IS followed by w. II. Powsrs' 'Ivy
Leaf" company for the balance OF the
week. The Ivy Leaf" s an Irish play and
| abonnds in startling situations; live eagle
flies across tho stage with child in its
talons; the hero makes a leap from a
tower; and the Lakes Of Killarney are
shown by moonlight. An Irish piper fur
nishes the real old music for the iigs and
reels. On May % and "a will come Hallen
and Hart IN their New Later On" said to be
this year the best farce comedy ON the road.
With them is John McWade, the one
armed baritone and his wife, Ada Somers,
who made many friends in Helena duriag
the stay of 'Said Pasha" opera company,
two years since. Rhea will be here May 27
and %. in her new play, "La Czarina."
Rhea has met with much success in this
play. and it is acknowledged to be much
| stronger than her famous 'tJosephine,' -
presented here previous season. Rhea
will. on her second evening, give q comedy
entitled "Conceit." As Rhea always car
ries excellent support. this engagement will
be noteworthy. On May 30 and 81 Gorton's
New Orleans Minstrels will please the
lovers Of burnt cork entertainments. They
will give the usual brass band parade and
the concert at the foot OF Broadway.
The Agnes Huntington opera company
will be here June and in two new operas,
Huntington is an American girl who made
y Wondaifnl bit ia London, playing the
leading roles in light opera for four CON
secutiva years. Miss Huntington's forte ID
in male parts. The company is composed
of sixty-tive people. On June and comes
Gus Williams in his own play, "Ksprlsr's
Fortunes" MIR. Williams needs little COM
ment as he is we'll known here, and as
dialect comedian has NO equal. On June
l3 IA and l5 the public will zee ship
Ahoy." nautical opera composed by Fred
Miller. Jr., and managed BY Arthur Z.
deln n" who married Harrison Grey Fisk, Of
the Mirror" and retired from the stage.
ship Ahoy" was an instantaneous success
from the opening night, and is what is
termed an operatic novelty. Sam L. Jacks
and 1s. The Louisiana creole has received
much attention from Henry w. Gable
and it remained for Manager Jack to
conceive and carry out one of the most
successful theatrical ventures in the annals
of the stage. The amusement loving
novel. THE Creoles' hit the popular
fancy. This company travel in their own
private cars and number forty people, On
June %. "a and % will be presented.
THE Power of the Press" II is an or
thirteen scenes written BY Augustus Piton
and Geo. Il. Jessop. 1t was ono OF the
greatest successes in New York last spring,
PLAYING fifty nights at the Star theatre.
The play illustrates the immense influence
welded by the newspaper press in this day
0uSS6H6
play is owing to tho magnitcent scenery
carried. James Fl. Wallook will appear
June q and % in the Bandit King" Mr..
Wallook carries two white chargers and no
one act is complete without q proper
amount of bloodshed. In other words, the
gallery will 90 wild, dream of Jesse James
all night and buy revolver and bowie
knife in tho morning.
July Charles Frohman's Stock company
appears in Jane" Mr.. Frohman's COM
pany will be, in point of Numbers. and ar
tistic excellence and finish, tho most per-
Jane" is II comedy something after the
type of Stuart Robson's Henrietta" On
July I. s and 8 Carroll johnson comes in a
now Irish play called "Tha Gassoon." Mr..
johnson is singing comedian, and is t he
only man left capable of filling the places
made vacant by the death of Emmett, and
the loss of poor Scanlon, who il tho in
mate of an asylum. For July II, IL and
13 .'The Fairy Well' is booked. This ID
another of the companies of W. II. Powers.
who also owns the ivy Leaf" 1t il like
its predecessor. Irish in it's make up. On
July 81 and % ''The Fast Mail'' will rum
ble into the opera house. The realistic
train will be shown to the aud
ience, and sensationalism will pack the
house. For July %, 26 and 27 there is
Blue deans,na play drawing its name
from the country III which the interest OF
the piece is conferred, Indians. Blue Joans
has been II tremendous hit, and carries a
saw mill, and the steam power to run it.
Laura Burt takes tho part of June, and
Lawrence Hanly is the Harry Basoon.
nonnelly and GlrRrd are here Aug. 4 and
5 in Natural Gas" Patrons of Minp's
have not forgotten these two comedians,
nor Millie Price, who married Dow the son
Of rich banker in Denver, shortly before
her engagement here, and from WHOM sho
s trying to secure Il divorce. On Aug. 8
and "McCarthv's Mishaps," FARGO oom-
sdy for laughing purposes only. is billed.
Beginning Aug. 1b, for all of fair week.
Dan Sully will be the attraction. Mr..
Sully will produce, besides his "Million-
sire, three new plays. Mr.. Sully is = fa-
vorite in Helena personally and as an actor.
and no better selection for that week ooul d
DO made. August ~, % and "a the play
will be "Cruiskeen Lawn" August 70 and
10 "Ihe Stowaway" company comes. or
course Spike Hennesy and Kid Maooy are
he features. as we'll Az the teal safe blow
ng oontest between these worthies.
Sept. s, 8 and 7 the pubic will see Charlie
Reed and Willie Collier in "Hoss and
doss." This company 10 composed OF the
eading comedians formerly with Kussell's
City Directory" one of the best farce
ever seen in the west. On Sept.
2, ID and IA Marie Hubert Fsohman will
appear in ",rhs Witoh," u play founded OH
he Puritanicnl days, with scene at Salem.
L is q very strong emotional production.
Mather il here Sept. 20 and II iu
,he legitimate. Miss Mather stands alone