The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-02

LIZ ability as Butte. and this
fact. which was admira-
bly demonstrated by the
recent operate produC-
lions. will receive added evidence short
~ when the new local opera organiza-
ton will be seen at Mcguire 5. Ihere
are few singers in the city who are not
members of the new company ana the
promise is made that "Pinafore ana
the Pirates" will be given as perfect
" as any amateur opera ever produced
anywhere. The operas are being re-
hearsed and will be given under the
direction of Professor Gruendler. one
of the best instructors in the country.
Walter s. Moss. who was in Butte
q few months ago as advance agent
of the Calhoun Opera company, and who
IS known from the Atlantic TO the Pa
ciflc as a most capable manager and
splendid fellow, writes from Lowell.
Mass, to the Standard as follows: Il
have just Joined Miss lola Pomeroy
and from the press notices / send you
YOU can form an idea as 10 what kind
OF a favorite she is here. She is very
promising and / think fully as good.
If not superior. to Annie Pixley or Lot
ia Crabtree. The people on the New
England circuit are frantic over her.
When the train rolled in at Worcester
a thousand people TO welcome her. The
depot. which is a large union one, was
crowded in every direction, and as she
got off the car cheer after cheer went
up l must confess / never saw any
thing like il during all my experience
in the show business. II was more like
welcoming a politician or man who
had achieved greatness than anything
else. AS we passed through the depot
a squad of police had TO clear the way
in order to get her TO carriage, and
after she was seated. bowling and smil-
ing in every direction, the throng was
so large that the driver had difficulty
in getting started. The chief of police
knew what he had to contend with
when she last visited Worcester and
had detailed a squad of six officers to
clear the way for her TO pass through
the depot Just imagine an actress en-
tering a town and six big. burly men
forming in line to clear the way for
her TO get out Of the depot Ii was
certainly a Knockout TO me. / have
seen Mary Anderson, Parepa Rosa
when in her prime. Edwin Booth. Ed
win Forest. and in fact all the great
actors and actresses enter a city, but
never before have seen such a throng
to welcome a star and the strangest
part of ii is that IL occurs every time
she plays in this section. When she |
reached the hotel l supposed the agony
was over Out on arrival Ineie dozens |
of people were i'm waiting for her. from |
old men and women down to the aver |
age little girl and street arab. After !
the matinee a special officer is de- |
tailed to keep the lobby clear. and as |
she passes down to her hotel a mob of |
women and children follow her to the |
hotel steps and cheer and yell as long /
as she is in sight. Were she a beauty |
II would not be so surprising. but she |
Is only a modest looking little girl |
and what the charm is cannot under |
stand, unless 1t is hypnotism. She i'm |
proves most wonderfully on acquaint-
ance, and. being a clever actress, ap-
pears to be a human being of whom
the public never tire. Ii was my in |
tention TO start at once for the coast /
with her and expected to be in Butte
during the month Of June or July, but |
i learn that times are not so good as
they should be. and have decided to
wait until the regular season. and If
remain with her will put in an appear
ance in September or October"
Managers have been recently cry
Ing out about bad business" said VIII
son Barrett to Kate Field. They at
tribute ii to hard times. In this they
are only partially right. Times have
been hard. money is scarce and a man
with large family may pause before
putting spare dollars into theater tick
cts, but there is a more potent cause
for lessened receipts at the box office.
rms cause has been produced by man
ayers themselves. There is a very |
large class of the public who have
been driven out Of the theaters by |
plays in vogue for several years. |
have been told over and over again by |
people OF culture that they have got
out OF the habit of going 10 the thea
Ter not because they no longer care
for acting hut |
by managers contain nothing which TO
them Is either amusing or elevating.
AGAIN ana again men have said to me. /
Mr.. Barrett, / do not care to take my |
wife and daughters to a place where
their sense Of propriety and even de-
Gehcy Is hkely TO be outraged. nor do
1 myself care 20 waste three hours of
my time in watching q lot OF course
morse play or listening 10 the more or
less lnane comic songs that too often
form the pabulum Of an evenings on
tertainment. | have learned To doubt
EMBELLISHMENTS, and rather than run |
the risk Of a wasted evening I shut
myself up IN the library with a good
DOCK mat l know will help me. or [
pass the time with my family and
friends"
\ wen known leading lady. writing
about the difficulty Of giving empbasis
10 her work under certain circum-
stances raps the comedian and heavy
man thus:
"Oh dear II is perfectly dreadful
just as ] am trying 70 impress the nub-
lie with the sentiment Of the PLAY the
comedian. whose head is several times
too large for his hat. feels narticuiarIv
jolly, introduces his Internal horse |
play at the end OF my pathetic
speeches, and all the applause-of
course only from the rabble-but the
these monkey comedians have about
as much art in them as there is sap in
a brlck. Their foreheads are too low
10 understand the text Of their mart.
and 70 convince an equally Unbalanced
manager mat they are cards. in
dulge In gags, mumInery and mugging,
which Of course elicit yells md cat.
calls from the aforesaid gallery "a bbIe
Why don't those fellows stay where
they beiong-on railroads and in brick-