The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-04

melodrama suppose it would be pos
sibe to put handsome, presenta5le
New York production on a New York
stage for something approaching $1,000"
when left public life 10 years ago."
says Mary Anderson Navarro, Il left
1t permanently. / find sufficient OPP
portunities to make use of my voice
in entertaining my husband and
friends. Once only 1 sang in public
at benefit given in London. 1 am
very fond of my vocal studies. The
opera is my greatest weakness. We
often run up to London for it during
the season. Theaters? Yes, l like
them, but not so well. After my mar
rage there was a period of nearly
seven years when l did not go to a
single play. I don't know that it was
my own experience but felt no inclin
alton to CO." She is as handsome no.
as she was in the days that her beauty
first conquered England, writes Hill
larry Bell, and her figure is still as
graceful and slender as ever.
In the days of Our Mary" beauty
was an element, if not an essential, of
success on the stage. When they
knocked at the door of applause it was
opened by the beauty of Ada Rehan
and Fanny Davenport. Lillian Rus
sell owed her early prosperity to her
looks as much as her 1arnyX. Georgia
Cayvan was handsome girl, and her
comeliness won instant approval for
her talent. If Edith Kingdom had been
homely she might have remained to
this day a minor member of Days
1t was the physical beauty of Adelaide
Nelson Mary Anderson, Margaret Ma
Their, Helena Modjeska, Julia Marlowe
and Mrs. Potter which attracted inter-
est to their Juliets and in some in
interest lppOpned
from admiration into applause by their
union of the graces of art with the
charms of nature. dozen years ago
an actress face was her fortune, and
a noteworthy example Of that fact wss
Mrs. Langtry In these better days
mere beauty is of little aid in winning
the esteem of the audience. Marie
Dressler, Louie Frear, May Robson,
May Irwin, in the lower field of Ell
tertainment: Eleano'a Duse, Minnia
Madden, Maude Adams. Sarah Bern
hardt, in the higher, and Nine Schu-
| mann-Heink in grand ooera, are pres
ent proofs of the honely argument
that handsome is as handsome does.
The three prettiest performers CT mod
ern times-Anna Robinson, Cissy Fitz-
gerald and Cleo de Merode-Mon no
applause beyond that given their beau
ty, whereas Yvette Guilbert, miracle
of ugliness. earned $4,000 week and is
| Augustus Thomas new drama, "Ari-
| zona'' will not wait till next season for
| production. 1t will be given, with all
| perfection of scenic and incidental de-
| tail at the Grand opera house, in Chi
| cago, on June II.
Rehearsals were begun on last Mon
! day in New York, and the cast chosen
| by Kirk La Shelle, under whose direc-
ton the new play will be given, en-
| braces many of the best actors and
actresses just returned from the "regu-
| lar season. tours of the principal trav-
| cling companies.
Among the principals are: Robert
Edeson, Mabel Burt, Theodore Roberts
| Olive May, Clarence Holt Matte Earle,
| Sam Edwards, Vincent Serrano, Adora
| Andrews, Arthur Brown, Lionel Barry
more, Walter Hale and Franklin Gar
| land, young brother of Hamlin Gar
| land, the author and lecturer.
Augustus Thomas, who wrote ala
| bama, tEdithas Burglar" and In
Mizzoura,' is overseeing the prepara
| tons for the production of Arizona
the latest work of his pen.
A play at the Coincide Parisienne, in
| Paris, is a comedy in four acts called
| Les Appearances" (Appearances).
One of the ablest French critics, Paul
| Perret, sums up it's meaning very clev-
| erly.
rs it better" he says, "for husband
| to have a wife whose secret conduct is
| blameless but whose outward behavior
is improper, or wife whose secret con-
| duct is improper but whose outward
| behavior is blameleSs?
LAS a question of morality" he goes
on, there can be no hesitation. We
must give the first prize to the woman
who keeps her virtue. But after all
| it is little unpleasant to be made to
choose either. Do you prefer smallpox
| or typhoid fever Some people pre-
fer the former, some the latter, and
there are also few who feel no in
| clination to make a choice between
| them"
In Les Appearances" the question is
| typified in two women who are the lead
| ing characters of the play. Neither of
| them appears to be a very attractive
| wife and the curtain falls on an i'm
| preston of general unpleasantness.