The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-28
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il from the box Office window
tho PIXIE Opera company
tour has not been thrilling
)success. company, under
~ whatever management. .na'
will start out under Misrepresentation
can expect nothing else. In artistic nesr
the company is q good average one'Du
i'm other points it Is seriously wanu"k -
the first place It advertised reper'o'r.,
..,.,.,,ng of the "Tar and Tarter.
..Falka. y "Prince Methusalem," "biack
Nantles.n "A Night in Venice, etc..
when the fact was that the company nao
notb;ng but s'Falka" and "Black MAN
,Ie.-r Although other operas were aover
,;.ed 70 he given on certain nights sno
,,.~,r,e we're drawn to the opera house anu
were then given one OF the two operss
mentioned. h..c
The Granger tour, too, has not oeen
hiohlv successful, but from wioey oil
ferent cause. Miss Granger has never
been n better actress than she 10 .o-osy
and she has never been surroundeo ny
better company than she was wnen
.rr;ved in Butte. In tho first place. now
$50 shs suffered from an "overproduc-
,;op " that Is. Butte had too much OF =
Good thing during the past three weeks'
The resuIt was that all companies SUI
fsred- Wartie and James included. Butte
4. moi N town that will long take entnus'
-..s.i,,, 80 serious things. A little OF the
,r.oic or emotional goes o long ways Win
the Butte theater going public. lney
want moro things to laugh at, or they
vant something new and novel, or they
want something different from wna' na.
been dished up to them and forceo upon
them every season from time immemo'
able. They want q change, even ~ 'ns'
har GnmRin1nR
vile "a Mahara's minstrels. People VIII
not nav TO see that which they do NOT
want 10 see, and IL they want Maharas
,ninstrels or n McFadden's Uncle Tom
show they ought to have 1t. Lie 10 too
short to waste II In trying to educate tne
neople to accept what some manager may
imagine IL best for them.
C.. w. Couldock, who celebrated the Sott
anniversary of his birth on April rs. WA
be riyen q testimonial benefit at tns
Fifth Avenue theater, New York, on Ma,
n. "The Rivals" will be acted, with Jos
eph Jefferson, Mrs. John Drew, Nat Good
win. w. III. Crane and Sol Smith Russell
In the cast. In an interview with the vel
.ran actor in q New York paper MIR
Couldock said, regarding his first year
An America: 1--WE sailed for the Unite
States on the Cunard steamer Americ
on Sent. 10, 1s49, and made our first ar
pearance here at the old Broadway ths
alter IN October. Iplayed the Stranger :
Mrs. Cushman's Mrs. Halter. i supporte
her through her season in all the prime
nal American cities, and in the followin
year. when she returned TO England,
became leading man ut the Walnut Stree
tbeater. Philadelphia, then under Il
management of Il. A. Marshall. Pet'
Pichings was stage manager. l mad
my first appearance as stock actor
that theater as Jacques in las fou LII
tn I remained there four seasons. d
occasionally, when not required In &c
tain plays. was allowed to go and star
the principal theaters for week ut
time. In 1852 went to Pittsbure on o.
of these ventures and made great 81
cess in play called the "Willow Copse
which Mime. Celeste had brought TO 7
Walnut Street theater a season preVio'
sIn the panic of 1857 business becar
40 depressed that / concluded to take
stock engagement in New York. JOIN
Laura Keeno's company for the season
1s5s-59 The season began with the w
low. Copse.' which was followed by Lo'
xI.. in which played the title role. So
afterward the American Cousin v
produced. As everybody knows, Jeh
son. Sothern and other excellent act
were in the cast. smile rs i recall !
said the veteran, his eyes twinkling. y
Sothern and 1 objected to playing in
piece ut first. We considered II an
tended Yankee farce and tho parts bel
us. Eventually we gave in. and
quite a little reputation by my playing
Abel Murcott, while Sothern l-well, h'
recalled now as Dundreary. 1t made
famous.
"The following season i signed "
John E. Owens and became leading n
mt his Varieties theater, New Orleans
was there from November, 1853, to Al
1860. when went on the road again, p
ing in all the principal cities until i
when became leading man at the Gi
theater, Boston. In 1872 tho theater
burned, and in the fall of that year v
to Toronto as stage manager Tor \
Morrison in her new theater. The foil
ing season travelled in Henry Abb
company. and afterward played star
gagements, until / Joined tho Mad
Square Theater company in the fal
1873.
ave were announced as the Mad
Square Theater company, but the the
hadn't opened, and we didn't succeed
we'll In February the thcater was at
ready. and The Iron WILL changed
title TO Hazel kirke,' was presented.
first house was crowded, but after
business dropped of, and the mana
became alarmed. A new piece was
prepared, when business began to
prove until IL fiuslly became grea
played Duustan Kirke for five consecr
years during that engagement"
A new association of theatrical q
ayers has been organised in New
the chief object OF which will be, az
member expresses 1t, TO elevate the
fession of the actor, and to add to the
nifty of the theatrical business. Ins
of having a number of managers
pulling n different way, the bus
methods of the calling will be undo
control of n few leading managers