The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-28
IN 1.-THE NEW DOMINION"
New Play of Intense Interest-The Janet
Waldorf Company Is Sure of a
Welcome-Frawley Coming
Earlier Than Usual.

looked at it.
"rOh. yes" said the major, after
glancing at IT, " clay and cement; you
want rates on a shipment. How much
and where FROM
Don't spring that on me-" replied
Mr.. Collins. Il have heard that be-
fore"
Major Dawson put on his glasses AMI
took another ooh at the card and then
he apologized. He said he had not
meant To be funny and had simply read
the card wrong.
THAT was not quite so bad as the
experience / had at Algona, Iowa, some
time ago" said Mr.. Collins. Il went
there to arrange for a date to play on
a guarantee. The theater was on the
second floor and the owner inc mana
ger of it had a store on the ground
floor. ! walked into the place and
found the manager seated at his desk
engaged with his books and trying TO
unravel a tangled mass of figures. He
was deep in the mess talking to him
self and complaining about the store
boys bad figures. Hanging around his
desk were real estate signs, grocery
signs, announcements of agricultural
implements. threshing machines and
shoes and dry goods for sale. In the
midst of his troubles | laid mn card
before him. He just glanced at 1t and
then looked up at me and exclaimed
impatiently:
"'Clay, cement! Go to the brick
yard; | sell groceries,"
Cha Clement Will be AT MaCuira's
opera house three nights next week,
beginning on Thursday. An idea of Mr..
Clement and his play may be OBJ
tanned from the following review in The
Salt Lake News:
CLAY Clement i'm The New Domin-
ion was a revelation to those who have
thought that stage attractions were
losing their charm, and from the rise
of the curtain on the first act, to the
closing scene of the play, the interest
was intense. The audience was filled
with varying emotions, the ladies shed
copious tears during the serious situa-
tions, while the men looked stern, but
all laughed conCertedly at the humor
of the play. 1t is constructed upon
lines as old as the hills, for il deals
with the passions of love, but the gem
eral atmosphere surrounding it is diff
ferent to the common run. 1t keeps
an audience i'm genuine sympathy with
its every action, and is so simply told
that each auditor feels a personal in
terest, in fact MIR. Clement and his
company seemed to exercise an hypno-
tic spell over the audience. and the
performance was marked with sponta-
neous bursts of applause.
THE story Of the play runs thus: A
Southern gentleman, of the old school,
has m~ortgaged his inherited estates to
secure for his daughter the education
he thinks a lady hou have. but Is
unable to meet the mortgage or the in
terest; the place is to be sold, the old
man is torn with thoughts of the desc
Grafton of the graves of his ancestors
and the spoliatiOn of his estates The
mortgage, a low-down fellow, loves
the daughter and agrees to cancel the
indebtedness in return for the daugh-
ter's hand. The father arises in the
full strength of his dignity and says
that there is a mortgage upon his
lands. not upon his honor, and tells his
oppressor to do his worst, but a good
angel in the form of Baron Hohen-
stauffen V everything and marries
the daughter himself. Mr.. Clement, as
the Baron, makes of the part one of
the best dialogue sketches ever done
here, and IL was generally said during
the evening that he must be a German
himself, but this was dispelled when
he stepped before the curtain in re-
sponse to a regular ovation and
thanked the audience for its marked
appreciation, and incidentally paid a
glowing tribute to the salt Lake the
alter and it's historic career, in accents
truly American. Mr.. Clement is not
only a talented actor, but, as his play,
The New Dominion indicates, is also
n gifted playwright. The New Domin-
ion yves its existence to a peculiar In
cident. Mr. Clement was asked To play
n German character role I'm a play with
the significant Cognomen of Surf,
written by Oliver Logan and being pre-
scented by Mckee Rankin several years
ago. Clement LOOKED into the part, but
thought it's possibilities not very great
and refused to play il unless Rankin
would LOT him mako II over and MIA V
Il as he pleased. This he consented To
and the character of Baron Hohen-
stauffen was introduced. 1t was an
immense success, and Clement con-
Ceived the idea of writing a play
around IL and The New Dominion is
the outcome. II was lard To get n start
with II, but the merit Of the play was
appreciated by John Henry Martin. the
present who has managed
Frank Mayo in 'Pudd'n Head Wilson
and other noted actors, and Mr.. Glenn
ent came rapidly Ia the front, and his
play now ranks with the best produC-
tions Of the stage in recent years. Mr..
Martin has surrounded Mr.. Clement
with n most excellent company. Mr..
Clements wife (\arrl kenwyn),
proved a valuable adjunct in the role
Of Mrs. Josephine Dulaney. The com
pany as a whole is ~splendidly balanced.
well selected and particularly well
I u - AAAN - 49,
play"
The Janet Waldorf company has beer
playing all through the summer sea-
son. Miss Waldorf will visit Butte
again this season. where she Is sure
Of a welcome. SarNll Nc'iree"r. for
merly leading man at the Union Family
theater in Butte. is still with the Wal
dorf organization.
Wright Huntington. formerly leading
man with a stock company at Ma
CURES opera house, has concluded his
engagement as leading man at the Al
cazar. i'm San Francisco. and has gont
East to accept a profitable engagement
which has been offered him.
Frawley viii he i'm Butte much ear
lier this season than usual. as his Coas
tour will be somewhat limited.
The pnsh aud the Main GuN.