The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-08
ANACONDA news.
CERTAINLY A FINE PLAY
Everybody Speaks Well of Sow
ing the Wind"
AT THE MARGARET TONIGHT
The Frawieys. in Two OF Their Strongest
Plays. VIII Be Seen Next Monday
and Tuesday jolly Della
Pringle at the Union.

Sowing the Wind will be the bill
at the Margaret this evening. Sow
ing the Wind" Is new to the average
theater-goer of these parts. as was III
''Old Coat" and so were half a dozen
other plays that have turned out to be
the greatest of surprises to Anaconda
play lovers. Rod williams said he saw
Sowing the Wind in ST. Louis two
years ago and that IL is one of the
finest plays ne has ever seen. Other
Anaconda people have also seen IL and
they say they wouldn't miss the de-
lightful piece for ever so much. The
sale Of seats has been quite large so
far. and by tonight IL II expected there
will be few. IL any seats. left on the
board.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. in be-
ginning a long article ON Sowing the
Wind" has this TO say:
Sex Against Sex Is the remarkable
theme that underlies the heart-rending
story OF sydney Grundy's Sowing the
Wind which was given its initial per-
Torrance before a fashionable audience
at the Seattle theater last evening. II
Is a story of mans Inconsistency to
woman and woman's devotion TO WON
an: woman's virtue against mans hon
or The story Is that OF thousands of
men and the shame of the woman is
the shame of thousands of women, and
the combined effort of the worldly men
TO make an innocent girl suffer for the
sins of her wronged mother. while not
new. appeals to the chivalrous nature
and enlists the sympathy of all. These
are the strong points in the play that
account for its great popularity. The
weak points in the drama are 80 few
that they only serve to emphasize the
strength of the production as a whole,
both from a literary and dramatic
standpoint.
The Times of Seattle is even more en-
thuslastic. The opening paragraph Of
its criticism of Sowing the Wind
says:
practically unheralded and unan-
ounce the dramatic surprise of the
season vas witnessed at the Seattle
theater last night by n house filled To
the doors with a most fashionable audi
ence.
Surprise is the only word that fits.
l We know sydney Grundy and how to
value his work; we know that the ma
jority of Frohman's companies are
good. we are told that there were no
stars in the cast, but that IL was an
evenly balanced Last nights
deligted audience had not a word of
forewarning Of the treat in store for
them: in fact. they did not realize 1t
till lon" after the first act.
aAVNt thoA
there were no stars in the cast may
be true. IL is true I'm the sense that
the names are unknown To us. But
Amelia Gardner and Howard Hall de-
serve TO be ranked as stars, and IL
they keep TO the standard of their good
work undoubtedly will be I'm the near
culture"
4 The Spokesman-Review OF Dec. 8 de-
Votes more than half a column Of com
ment to Sowing the Wing" The critic
on that newspaper grows rapturous.
One part OF the article says:
but IL was the acting that most
awoke the appreciation OF the audience.
The company came with no star her
aided and no names of its members
given prominence and proved itself T.
pf the most capable and evenly balanc-
ed theatrical organizations that has APP
peared this season. Miss Gardner may
not be a star. but many a woman of
vastly inferior talents has headed her
own company I'm more ~pretentious plays
than Sowing the Wind" As woman
~ as Terry. graceful. with an immense
amount of reserve force and ability to
play the heroine without ~inundating
the stage with her tears. she ave the
part a most artistic reading"
The next attraction at the Margaret
after Sowing the Wind" will be the
Frawley Stock company, In two OF the
best plays in it's extensive repertoire,
AN Enemy TO the King" and Fort
Frayne." The company is now playing
in Butte and crowded houses are the
order. AN Enemy of the King will
be presented Monday night and Fort
Frayne" on Tuesday.
Twenty ladies and gentlemen. headed
by Blanche Bates and T. Daniel Fraw-
ley. comprise the personnel of the
Frawley company this season. There
is not one member Of the company who
has not. during the past 20 weeks IL has
been playing at the Baldwin and CO.
lumbia theaters. San Francisco. been
singled out by the press Of that city
for Individual OF the most flattering