The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-14
1T is FEAST OR FAMINE
Abundance Of Theatrical Pleasure in
Butte These Days.
WARDE AND JAMES ARE NEXT
The Pyke Opera Company-Ma-
hara's Minstreis Not Coming
she Lay Her Head on
His Manly Bosom.

tons. For q month there was nothing on
the boards, but beginning with the
Granger engagement the city will for sew
eral months have n surfeit OF theatrical
attractions. Under ordinary conditions
Miss Granger should have had q big bust
ness in Butte, but the Pyke Opera com
pany following so closely evidently had
its effect on her engagement.
Frederick warde and Louis Jamos come
next and their visit to Butte this season
will be notable ono inasmuch as it will
be the last opportunity of seeing these
great tragedians together, for after this
season they will separate.
IL is stated that Maggie Moore William
son. also under the management of Mr..
Mcguire, will follow Warde and James,
and then the local opera organization will
hold the boards for several nights.
The lovers of good music and light OPP
era have a treat in store at the opera
house for every night the coming week,
during which time the Pyke Opera COM
pany, reorganized and with an excellent
company of 80 people under the manager
inent of John Mcguire, will render three
of the best and most popular operas of
the known light operas.
Opening Monday night the company
will present "The Black Nantes, a
beautiful comic opera in three acts by
Bucaloss, in which the full strength Of
the company will appear. This will in
troduce a lot of new faces, whose reputa-
ton as singers in light and comic opera
is well established. Among these will be
Miss Daisy Thorne. the soprano, was for.
mcrly of the Duff Opera company; Miss
Lena Salinger, mezzo soprano, an English
artist of great talent from Australia;
Winfield Blake. a splendid basso of great
promise; Moro del la Motta, baritone,
and Arthur Boyce, tenor. Miss Louise
Tanfred, the pleasing prima donna SOU
brette, has been heard before and is well
remembered. The comedians, AL Leech
and George Bird, have national rsputa-
tons and will receive a warm welcome.
"The Black Mantle" win be given for
two nights, namely. Monday and Friday;
for Tuesday and Wednesday the popular
comic opera "Falka" will occupy the
boards, and Thursday and Saturday even
ings "Prince Mathusalem." Matinees
Wednesday and Saturday.
Manager Mcguire has spared no ex-
pense to make this engagement q success
and grand effects and rich costumes will
form striking features of each perform
ance. The chorus and ballet are made up
of not only good voices, but handsome,
shapely young girls, the whole being we'll
trained. A number of specialties will be
introduced on Monday night, namely, the
Sappho dance by Lena Sahnger, the latest
fad in skirt dancing, and a beautiful
Spanish dance by four handsome young
girls.
1.-THE Black Mantle" has its scene laid
in Spanish village. The argument is as
follows: Arrangements are being made
r. Il. n
las Bodega, q farmer, to a miller named
Dromes. AS the wedding approaches sur
prise is occasioned by the arrival of Don
Jose de Mdniile. grand chamberlain to
Queen Isabelle of CASTLE and king consort
Don Philip of Arragon. In the meantime
Giroia avows her dislike for her sutton
and declares her love for a young officer
whom she had never seen, but who RESI-
cued her one night from robbers and who,
she. declared, she would recognize on
hearing his voice. The officer proves to
be Don Luis de RosdDaonte, and the queen
has selected the chamberlain's own wife
for him. But Luis is attached to Girold,
whom he afterwards meets. Luis brides
DroBaez ON the day of the wedding to re-
sign his place, aud the hero, suitably dis
guised, leads Giroid to the altar and the
marriage is solemnized i'm the presence of
the queen and courtiers.
AS can easily be imagined, serious coru-
plications arise. and the poor bride, who
really does not know whom she has mar
ried, is almost distracted, but in the last
act Dromez explains every thing and the
brave officer and his pretty wife live hap
PLY ever afterward. Tho cast is as fol-
lows:
Don LUIS ..............-......M Moro del la Motta
ID Ia
Otolntl.. ..................... Al Leech
Don fhlnp... Arthur Boyce
Nlchoias' farmer. .......... 49,. George Bird
Lazarillo. a tailors boy .......... Henry Hanlon
Manuel tailor ......... Harry James
Glrola. ................L Louise Manfred Pyke
Isabella. queen of CASTLE. Daisy Thorne
Gomez, the queens page ........ Mnlicent Locke
Bridesmaids. Rose southern, Hortense Nelson
II was in St. Louis short time ago.
writes Walter 5. Moss of tho Calhoun
company, land stroIled down town to
witness a fire that was raging within a
few blocks of my hotel. AS usual got
well TO the front and was gazing about,
deeply interested in the manner in which
the ST. Louis fire department handled a
fire. moment later rather
pretty woman came rushing down the
stairway of the burning Office building
and threw herself into my arms, implor-
ing me to save her. She appeared nearly
crazed by excitement, and l allowed her
TO repose on my manly shirt front while /
strovc to sooth her. She moaned and
sobbed like stricken child, and protested
that she had lost everything she had in
the world. / could not help wondering
what property she could have in an office
building, but as she was rather pretty
was willing to take her word for it that
her fortune was going up in smoke before
my eyes. She soon caught sight of some
one she said she knew and with profuse
apologies for disturbing me was soon lost
in the crowd. Shortly after her departure
a bootblack at my elbow exclaimed, Say.
mister, yer watch chains broke Then
! began TO take stock. My watch and
diamond sparkler were gone. likewise a
small roll of bills from my vest POI ket. /
tried TO find the maid all forlorn, who left
rr,v forftna so fatfaral and torn hnf ha