The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-10
At THE OPERA HOUSE
First-ClasS Attractions Billed for This
Week.
MURRAY AND MACK FIRST
Then Comes Corinne the Charmer
on Thursday-Saturd Night
Louis James VIII Appear
in "A amlet."
iURRAY AND MACK FIRST

Anaconda is TO be wen provided for in
the amusement line this week. The sea-
son of drama given by the excellent COM
panies of Marie Wainwright and the
Frawleys is followed by two nights of fun
and frolic and then the week closes with
Hamlet" Manager Mcguire has added
several new sets of scenery and made
various improvements behind the foot
lights but not so extensive that his de-
sire for a new opera house is any way ap-
peased. He wants that new opera house
and won't be happy till he gets II. A
meeting of Anaconda people Will be call
ed for an early date and with statement
of expense to be incurred, the income
that may be expected before them, def
mite action is anticipated.
ITO resume" however, the bill for this
week contains unusual attractions. Muir
ray and Mack, on their first trip west of
Mississippi: Corinne. perennial, and
Louis James in his latest triumph, Ham,
let"
Murray and Mack are graduates from
the vaudeville stage, and will be seen on
Wednesday night. March IL, in their hi
larious farce-comedy, "Finnigan's Ball"
1t is of the usual order of farce-comedies
so far as any literary merit is concerned,
and the story merely serves for the intro
duction of a mass of side-splitting situa-
tons, funny dialogue and an unusual lot
of good specialties, for the bali boasts
of q distinct speciality acts scattered
through it's three acts, with especial at
tention paid to the catchy musical fea-
lures. medleys etc. The company is a
very large one, including Charles Murray,
Ollie Mack, George limerick, Bert Leslie,
Clayton L. White, the Loring Sisters.
Nina GenneI. Fracie Cummings. Edith
Newton, Winifred Stewart, Vincent Min
nelli and others. Manager Frank Merritt
seems to be an excellent connoisseur of
soubrette loneliness, for "Finnigan's
Ball. contains eight of the most bewitch-
ing specimens of femininity that ever
graced single farce-comedy organization,
and what is still better, every one of
them contributes materially to the lively
programme.
The Kimball Opera Comique organiza-
ton, numbering 60 people, headed by the
peerless prima donna danseuse, Corinne,
present the up-to-date and second edition
of Frazer & Gills big operate extrava-
ganza, Hendrix Hudson, Jr." at Evans
opera house Thursday night. 1t is said
that nothing on a small scale, from an
artist to a dress, has been accepted by
Mrs. Kimball. manageress of this sue
cessful organization. The costumes have
been most lavlshly supplied, the materials
are of the finest and richest qualities and
the colors such as blend tremendously
and picturesquely. The scenery is rem
transformations Every scene is a kaled-
oscope of rare beauty. a grand scenic eff
| feet is followed by artistic specialties,
] then a song is succeeded by a grand char
/ acter ballet. in which beautiful young la
| dies, dressed in gorgeous costumes, per-
form intricate marches and evolutions.
Louis James. the representative actor
of the noble school of tragedians of the
native stage, will be seen Saturday night
Mr.. James will present Hamlet a role In
which he has recently scored a most
emphatic and undeniable triumph. 1t is a
| triumph of which even as great an actor
as Mr. James may be justly proud. for II
was chieved in the face of almost dis
heartening circumstances. Mr.. James
in his proposed appearance in this role
whose traditions Mr.. James, by physical
qualities and by the powerful virility oil
his work, seemed to irretrievably violate
| Strong in his conviction. however, Mr.
James persevered in his resolve and now
even his detractors, and what successful
actor is without them. admit that he ha!
added a most brilliant gem to his crown
of achievement. Mr.. James has not only
overcome physical unfltness in his char
acterization of the Dane, but he givei
him an individuality, a depth of human
meaning and a spirituality that is as cen
| vncing as IL was unlocked for in thi
actor, who had so far given the poetic
tragedy no public Interpretation. Mr.
James Hamlet is pronounced everywher
the best Interpretation of the role now be
fore the public and we'll worthy of a plac
side by side with the greatest Hamlets o
| history