The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-03
JOHN MAGUIRE'S PLAN
He Will Have Comic Opera Company
Of His Own.
GOOD TROUPES COMING
The Veteran Manager Has His
Hands Full of Business as Usual
Butte VIII Profit by II All In
the Way of Amusement.

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BUTTE, March John Mcguire has
taken n new tack in his theatrical career
| according to private letters from San
Francisco and a special dispatch to the
| STANDARD. John Mcguire has had a
thorough and varied experience in the
| theatrical business, but that experience is
not fully rounded out until he has had a
| comic opera company under his manage
ment for a while. He is now making ar
| rangements to put those finishing touches
on his experience. If the trials of other
comic opera managers 60 for anything
| two very necessary things are required in
the successful management of an opera
company-the Bank of England as a
hacker and the patience of Job. An opera
company is not a Sunday school, and one
who has been there thinks that about
three weeks will make Mr.. Mcguire wish
he had never heard of q comic opera or
ganization. Tho Pyke company. which
he has taken hold of, has had rocky"
career along the coast and suspended
business at Portland a few weeks ago.
Mr.. Mcguire also has n few other irons
in the lire, according to the following
from San Francisco paper:
John Mcguire, the popular Montana
manager, arrived in the city last Friday
with the expectation of meeting the clever
Coincidence, Maggie Mo ere Williamson.
who was expected from Austr ALA, and
who, it is likely, will make a tour of the
coast and thence east under Mr.. Ma
CURES managem ent. Circumstances I'M
forseen delayed her departure from Aus
tralia, and the California favorite will not
arrive until next month. Manager Ma
guire is also negotiating for a tour of the
Northern Pacific and Montana circuit
with the Pyke Opera company, and may
also arrange bookings for Maud Gran
ger over his territory"
Mr.. Mcguire will bring all his attrac-
tons to Butte at an early date.
A number of attractions booked at Ma
CURES opera house have dropped out and
several of them did not as much as give
notice to the house that they would not be
here. Professor Hermann was one of
them. John l.. Sullivan was another, but
then he couldn't help it, for he got drunk
down in Florida last week and his COM
pany gave him the shake. However, there
will be show at the opera house on FRI
day and Saturday nights of this week that |
VIII fully compensate for he loss of Herr |
mann and sullivan. Ernest Hogan, the |
colored comedian, will occupy |
the house on those nights with his south |
eru drama, cake walk and startling living |
pictures. There Will be living pictures |
that are living pictures and there'll be a |
cake walk such as has never been seen on |
earth before. There will he marvels and |
mysteries with which the best efforts of |
Herrmann's magic cannot compare.
Wait for the cake walk.
Wait for Hogan's living pictures.
Those papers that always laud even the |
very worst performances, and praise each |
performer, will now find good excuse for
not adversely critIcIsing any actor or
actress. A suit for 5000 damages was |
the other day instituted against an Indian
apolls paper by Julia Marlowe-Taber for
alleged libelous criticisms, and all the
paper said was that MRS. Taber's sup
porting company has ever been selected |
with a view to IN sleading the public Her
talents only shine by contrast with a few
only fair and n great number absolutely
poor people. The bulk of them have been
playing My lord, the carriage waits parts
In hrst-class companies for years. The
real truth is Mrs. Taber has been triflinp
With the good will of the public aud her
Mrs. Marlowe-Taber claims that the
MY lord, the carriage waits"
parts is everywhere understood to mean |
hose inferior parts in plays which are
assigned TO mere apprentices in the
profes sion, or to those who have
10 natural or acquired fitness, and as
she was supported by company of ex-
actors this statement has dam
lged her business to the amount above
stated.
The Calhoun Opera company is making
/ tour of Southern California and it's big
business continues, and is due 10 excel
ent management and good talent i'm the
organization. Walter 5. Moss, business
manager for the Calhouns, will leave the
company at the close of the Pacific coast
our, and viii go east to take out lola
'omeroy, daughter of old Brick" Pom
roy, the one-time famous newspaper
writer and humorist. lola is one of the
most excellent soubrettes on the stage NJ
east that is what her admirers claim for
Ter. No doubt the little girl is very clever.
or the newspaper have said some very
lice things of her and none have said al
7ord against her.
Nearly every other town in the state sun.
orts one or two respectable variety thea
ers, but IN Butte such n place of enter
alnment is out OF the question as long as |
he disreputable beer and concert halls
re allowed to run in violation of law.
On Thursday evening Schaefer and
yes, the great blliardists, will be at the
pera house. Butte will be the only place
4 the state where they will appear.
The Conservatory.
rom the New York Herald.
Mrs. O'Hooligan-Phwat's yer daughter
iinnie doin' down town every day? Is
ne workn'?'' I
Mrs. McGubbon-Oh, no; she's havin' Z
er voice cultivated in a musical green =
ouse down near Union square.
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