The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-26

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MILE. MARIE ToULINGUET.
Prima Donna Soprano
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dra Viarda, who is now playing in New
| York in a play called Alexandra"
From all accounts it must be gloomy
| sort of play, and it is hard to look
/ Tor any great success before the Amer
/ lean public for an actress with roper
| tory of tragedies. Briefly told, the
story of Alexandra is that of the beau
! tiful but neglected daughter of an itin-
/ Grant show woman; she becomes faSci-
/ mated with Irwin Won Eberti, young
| gentleman and falls a victim to him
! irwin disappears, a child is born, and
| the half-maddened girl thinks of kill
| ing it to hide her disgrace. She relents
however, but the child, nevertheless
dies. She is accused of having murder
ed it, and is sent to prison.
Through the efforts of one Andrea,
who is in love with her. she is released.
| but energies from prison filled with
| hatred for the man responsible for her
ruin, and goes to his mothers house to
denounce him. On seeing the mother
however. she is won over, and at sight
of her lover the old love reasserts it
self, and they become reconciled and
betrothed. Later, she is recognized by
one of the persons living on the estate
as the woman who was sent to prison
for the murder of her child. He threat
ems to expose her to the Won Ebertis,
who know nothing of this blot on her
life. She defies him, and in an exciting
scene precipitates her ruin. Her lover
proves false. and she dies of despair.
Shall We Forgive Her?" the play in
which Marie Wainwright will soon be
seen at the Mcguire. is classified as of
the tears and taffy" variety. The story
is not embarrassing. The central figure
is woman with past. She was young,
unsophisticated and not acquainted with
the evils of a big city. But she had
outiiVed, as she thought. her early in
discretion, and had married Il proud
scion of an aristocratic family. The
latter thought he loved her until the
snake in the grass in the person of an
adventures made her appearance. He
was such a good, kind man that she
naturally fell in love with him, but of
course she didn't come right out and con-
fesS it. Had she done so the play would
have ended sooner. No. she "biaed her
time by casting insinuating remarks
about the Wife. which in time aroused
the suspicion of the husband. He finally
demanded the truth and womanlike
and with feeling of being forgiven, the
wife admitted the horrible truth Right
here is where Mr.. Harvey showed him.
self master playwright. The husband
presumably in order TO emphasize the
shock given him by the confession
straightway went blind. and then turns
the poor girl out upon the world. Later
of course. he forgiyes her and the cur
tain falls upon a delightful denouement
The story comes from Paris that
James Gordon Bennett is to become
angels food 1t is said he Is to put
money into theater To be built under
the direction Of Eleonora Duse and Ga
brielle d'Annunzio, on the shores Of
I a "a Do HIa
ers to the scheme include most of the
Roman nobility and a number of dis
tinguished Frenchmen, headed by Mel
choir de Vogue. Count Frankenstain
who owns large estates on the shores Of
the lake. has given the ground for the
building and competition open To all
architects of the Latin races will be
held TO decide who shall design the new
theater DuSe is to collect a company
made up of the best Italian actors ana
d Annunzio. who has already translated
tAntigone" and +Agamemnon' into
Italian for the repertory Of the thaater.
will write for the opening Of the nstitu-
ton tragedy to persephone The
date fixed for the opening of the theater
is March u, 1899, and performances will
be given during the months of April and
May in every year.
]. II. Stoddart now with .tThe
Sporting Duchess" is Scotchman. the
son of Scotchman who made fame on
the English stage.
Mr.. Stoddart recalls an incident of
his youth which illustrates the ignor-
ance prevailing in the country districts
of Scotland as to the theater His faith
er took him and his brother to Scotland
10 see the fathers native place, Dunn
fries, which is not far from the birth
place of Burns. They were tramping
about the village, when the father ran
across an old friend of his youth
Eth. son. Jeemes, an hoo are YEP"
4 ann Meel, Saudies; l hope you are
the same"
An what are We doin', Jeemesa'
Il m actin. mon.
An what is that .Jeemes F.
oh. I'm piay-acting in London
theater. Sandie. Playing Shakespeare
and the like.
Eth, son. play-acting Is it An do
We stand on yer head, Jeemes, an can
ye tumble, mon2
Poor peerless Corinne. The end OF
her career as Il star has come. After
a four months struggle in a vain at
tempt to keep An American Beauty
going she was compelled to disband
her company al Topeka recently. Rice
and Maeder dropped her after the dis
astrous Pacific coast tour. and then
the peerless tried 10 Keep the COM
pany going. II is said she lost her
private bank account, and even parted |