The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-17
GREEN ROOM TALK

BUTTE, Feb. 16.-There is pleasure in
calling attention to the fact that Butte
has minister of the gospel who can see
some good coming from the stage. Rev.
II. L. Shepard of the Congregational
church does not agree with that other
| Butte minister who recently preached
| that everything connected or associated
| with the theater was foul and damned.
Mr.. Shepard sees a great deal in common
between the church and the theatre. at
is the truth that makes the stage
successful" he said in recent
| sermon. Theatrical exhibitions serve
morality in two special senses: They
make vice repulsive and righteousness at
| tractive. Vice and sin ruin the body and
| deprave the spirit. When seen in their
real oolors they repel. The stage is false
to its trust when il makes vice attractive.
1t leaves its work half done. 1t is then
poor art and false playing. 1t is not the
presentation of sin that does the harm,
but leaving it half presented. In this
sense the ideal of the church and the the
ater's ideal in art are one in form and
often in motive, and to this degree the
stage is the church's friend"
Pat Rooney's farce company will pre-
sent at the opera house next Monday
evening, Mr.. Carroll's Lord Rooney
The company comprises Matte, Josie
and Master Pat Rooney and several
others. Lord Rooney" is a successful
comedy attraction. The dialogue is said
| to possess more literary merit than is
usually found in farce comedies. 1t is
sparklingly witty, and without plot or
play would of itself be exceedingly enjoy
able. The story of the skit. though is in
teresting and we'll told. The incidents
follow each other with n rush, and there
is "go" to the piece. The situations are
ludicrous, and there is a whirl of fun ac-
| companying the performance.
The report comes from British Column
bia that the Calhoun Opera company has
been breaking the record of big business
in that country. At Vancouver the re-
ceipts for the first night were 81, 067.55,
and at Victoria the police had to stop the
sale of tickets before the curtain went up,
owing to the crowded condition of the
house. The past week the company APP
peared at the Marquam at Portland,
under that houses new management.
Louise Blaudet, who is best known in
Montana because of her connections with
Herr Bandmann and for the legal fights
she has had with him. is now at the head
of her own opera bouffe company. She is
in Chicago this week, appearing in a new
comic opera, 1.-THE Dragons Daughter"
Daniel Sully has taken to play writing,
and is constructing a comedy in which
Gus Williams and John I. Kelly will star
together. Sully's own new play, "O'Neill,
Washington, ID. C., has proved a failure.
at was too delicate to suit the taste of
the general public" he explained, but
artistically it was a success"
1t is announced that G. n. Hartley, the
genial and able manager of the Bennett
opera house at Missoula, has secured
two years lease on the handsome Great
Falls house and will run il in conjunction
with the Bennett. Mr.. Hartley and the
profession are both to be congratulated.
Frank Daniels and Eleanor Mayo.
daughter of Frank Mayo, of Davy Crockett
fame, are heading the Willard Spencer
Opera company which is at present doing
New York state.
John L. Sullivan still has his nerve with
him. He will soon appear in Butte as "A
True American" and that too without the
knowledge of the man who has heretofore
posed as the only true American in Butte.
The Pike Opera company went to pieces
in Portland last week. and the principals /
left for the east. The chorus remained.
Katie Putnam opened the new Frazer 7
opera house at Peudleton. Oregon. a few F.
weeks ago, ami after the performance I.
was given a reception.
Fanny Rice has e. ucw curtain raiser /
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