The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-15
At THE BUTTE THEATRES
Musical Comedy Seems to Be the
Most In Demand.
AT GAY COMFY ISLAND"
Crowded Houses and Big Business at
Maguire's-"The Matinee Girf' Will
Break the Record at the
Union Family Theater.

The musical comedy seems to be the
character of entertainment the amuse-
| ment seekers Of Butte want. There
have been a number Of that class in
Butte this season and the great bust
4 ness done by them is inducing others
\ Of the same character to come. 1t is
doubtful if. in the history of Maguire's
! opera house a single play did such a
big business as AT Gay Coney Island z
and this week the record at Sutton
Union Family theater will most likely
| be broken by The Matinee Girl" an
] ether musical comedy which, in some
respects, is a better thing than AT
| Gay Coney Island" because there is
more music and of a better class and
rendered by better voices. Ned Mon
roe and Billy Hart are a pair Of clever
comedians who Will soon be rated
among the greatest. They are so Sc
/ cure in their position that they are not
afraid to surround themselves with
other capable and first-class perform
1 erS. lola Pomeroy, who has a splendid
|. reputation as star. having for several
| seasons been at the head of her own
company, is the matinee Girl of the
/ play, and demonstrates that she Well
/ deserves the title of Comedy Sun
/ BEAM
/
| man and Miss Myrtle Franks, also have
/ prominent parts and fill them capably.
Among the pretty girls and singers are
Lucil Rogers Alice Hamilton, Florence
Brace, Berna De Wore, Myrtle Brocee
and Noble Rogers. Besides that OF
Monroe and Hart some clever comedy
is furnished by c. II. Dean and H. NJ
Barlow. The music of The Gay Matt
nee Girl is all new and the songs
catchy. The fun is fast and of re-
fined character. Among the original
musical and comedy ideas exploited are
Nurse Convention" The Romeo and
Juliet Serenade." The Yellow Kids"
THE Happy Farmers THE Rainbow
Dance and many others. the perform
ance concluding with a cake walk.
Notwithstanding the large company
and the rather small Stage, the per-
Torrance was as good a musical COM
edy production as ever given in Butte.
The Gay Matinee Girl will run at the
Union the remainder Of the week with
the usual matinees.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen will begin
an engagement of four nights at Ma
CURES opera house tomorrow evening.
The musical comedy has made the big
gest kind of a hit throughout the West
on its present tour. The Vancouver
News Advertiser has this to say
about it:
Vancouver theater-goers know what
they want, and when they get it they
show their pleasure Last evening at
the big house on Granville street they
applauded the members Of the Lost,
Strayed or Stolen company to their
hearts content. The musical comedy
presented is freely. very freely, adopted
from the French by j. Cheever Good
win, and the music by Woolson Morse
is tunefui enough. The success of this
company, when domestic comedy
failed to please a little while back will,
no doubt, cause the superior person to
invoke the gods and little fishes again,
but everyone will prefer 10 remain a
Philistine. If that protects from the
flattefy of the superior person. The
vaudeville last night was amusing from
beginning to end. The Wanderings of a
father and three would-be godfathers
in search of a son afford ample oppor-
tunity for Bidart, Chachignon, Roquen-
court and Galampois to show their tall
ent. Harry Clay Blaney is. one is told,
new to his part, but it is quite impos-
sible to tell it. As the florist he won
recall after recall. Harry Allen and
Charles A. Burke are as funny as one
could wish, and c. j. Alden CRokey),
is splendid. The word sounds amateur
ish, but it conveys the truth. The scene
which evoked the greatest enthusiasm
on the part of the audience was in the
third act. when Harry Clay Blaney as
the plasteref, Alden rs the clock re-
pairer and Harry Allen as the hair
dresser of Rose D Etc. and lastly Anna
O'keefe herself, simply brought down
the house. Tt was several minutes be-
fore Lucas Henderson. the jealous Gu
ban. could proceed with the business of
tearing his love passion to tatterS
This act was beautiful as we'll as anus
ing. The beauty was furnished by
Anna o'keefe. and the danseuses, May
NJ al Ia GtnJI IL Il
Alice Green. and by Julie Mabel Bou-
ton. The second act gave the best song
of the evening, from Bert Ihayer, an
aristocratic conscript. and. of course,
fun in the misadyentures of Galampois.
Charles A. Burke in this act Is as red
as Mephisto and the scene, like others,
was extremely comic. In the last act
the godmother. Miss Oriska Worden,
sang serenade and Blaney gave an
additional verse to "A Hot Time
which will catch on. Miss Adelaide
Nye. too. in the balloon song, gave
some charming verses sweetly. A. l..
Holhrook as Jolivet and as Captain
Bridoux filled two fatally different
roles decidedly we'll. The nurse maids
were pretty and the soldiers and gem
darmes We're picturesque. Last nights
success again goes to show that the
people-Who are fter all the best crit
ics-want amusement not problems"
Albni. the magician. hypnotist. mind
reader, spiritualist and adept in all that
kind of business, who says everything
in that line is a fake and that he can
duplicate about everything done by So
called mediums and mind readers who
claim their alleged powers are un-
usual gifts, arrived in Butte yesterday
from Seattle en- route East. Albini was
in Butte and Anaconda about a year
ago. when Alexander j. MeIvor Tyn-
dali was here. and made life miserable
for him by exposing his undertaking
tricks and ridicuiing his claims of
elairvoyant powers. Since leaving
Butte Albini has been running vaude-
vile theater at Seattle. which he sold