The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-02

II described as a Jolly skit with an
abundance Of fun n paucity of seri-
Gus Interest. In other words. its pur-
pose is to diver rather than to engross
the attention II bellies the general
opinion that a farce comedy cannot
have a coherent plot. In point of fact,
IL has a scheme Of interest that runs
throughout the play. upon which Is
hung a series OF speciality performances
of a high order and enjoyable nature.
Manager Joe w. Spears has selected
an unusually strong company. He.
knowing the value of pretty women. has
them The graceful and be%witching
bevy Of femininity consists of Misses
| Kittie Beck. MAJ Trumbull. Mona Car
J rington. Fannie Trumbull. Blanche Gre
I ago. Kittie Hawthorne. Oracle Wolfe,
Kitty Cummings, Refine Gale and Alice
and Marie Smith. They all have pleas
ing voices and the choruses and dances
go with a chic and dash hat stamps
the musical portion of the entertain
ment a strong feature. The male sup
port includes Fred Wilson. Len. Del
more. Matt Russell. Eric Pollock.
Frank Waters. Harry Hopping n
Billy Barry.
THE Distinguished Guest" which
Roland Reed produced for the first time
I'm Boston last week, was a failure. and
the piece has been discarded. Speak
ing of the failure Mr.. Reed said: AT
the end of the first performance when
Mr.. Jack. my manager. came back to
the stage. ] told him l guessed we had
better change the name of the play to
The Extinguished Guest and get
something else ready Immediately. So
we put The Woman Halter in rehearsal
and presented IL as soon as possible. /
had some months previously
with Madeline Lucette Ryley to furnish
a new piece for me. and l Immediately
cabled to her to know If she couldn't
complete IL in time for my Chicago
opening the first week in October. She
wired back hat she had sent two acts
and would do the best she could. The
matter she referred TO in her dispatch
arrived on Saturday. and | am very
much pleased with il. / hope to be able
to put the piece on at the time mem
toned. 1t is to be called The Voyag-
ers.' The first act is laid in San Fran
cisco. the second and third take place
in Honolulu. and in the fourth the char
acters are back in Frisco. IL will cost
me five or six thousand dollars to get
the play ready, but / feel a good deal
more like making the expenditure than
going before my patrons with nothing
but old material. 1t is one thing to get
a reputation and another to sustain il.
Mrs. Ryley will join me next week and
assist in the rehearsals."
Richard Mansfield will not. after all.
have a play from Israel Zangwill, ac-
cording to the latest Ii was
to have been a dramatic version OF
The King of Schnorrers." but the act
or and the novelist are said TO have dis
agreed. Egerton Castle. whose novel,
The Pride of Jennico," will be made
into a play for the Lyceum, will provide
a play for Mr. Mansfield.
Tomorrow the James-Kidder-W arde
combination will produce "The School
for Scandal at the Grand opera house.
New York. with Louis James as Charles
Surface, Frederick Warde as Joseph
Surface, and Miss Kidder as Lady Tea
gle. During the stay of the combina-
ton they will also produce "Othello."
Julius Caesar" Macbeth and Ham
let"
Mrs. Fiske has definitely abandoned
Becky Sharp" for this year, not being
fully satisfied with her scenario, and
also deem,ng il unwise TO begin a sea-
son with IL so late as February. which
is the earliest she could get time i'm