The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-27
STUART ROBSON.
Greeted by a Splendid Audience in "Th'
Meddler,"

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Neddler.'
A splendid audience in numbers and
cordially greeted Stuart Robson and
his excellent company of players at the
Grand opera house last night and en-
Joyed performance of one of the most
delightful legitimate comedies on the
American stage-Augustus Thomas
great success, THE Meddler"
That the presentation of the comedy
was faultless the cast is itself sutfi-
Gent evidence:
Francis Eli. The Meddler.... ......
Stuart Robson
Mr.. Chandler. Edwin Holt
Captain Oliphant.. -. Frank C. Bangs
Mr.. Bancroft. ......... Harold Russell
Mr.. Shirlaw, novelist.... -. 49,.
............ ........ Willard Curtis
Henderson, a colored servant......
............ ....J. G. Braye, Jr.
Holland, Bancroft's servant. go.
Joseph Mettler
James, ELEPHANTS servant. ........
80. ............ -. Walter Deming
Mrs. Porter, betrothed to Eli
.......... -. Mrs. Stuart Robson
Mrs. Oiphant -. Miss Ida Van Cortland
Bessie, Ei's sister Miss Gertrude Perry
Mrs. Bancroft. Miss Marie Burroughs
Few stronger companies ever visited
Butte than that which is supporting
MI. ItoDsUi. anu l1lt duultnte was llpSl
impartial in the bestowa of it's ap-
plause. At the end of the second act
Mr.. Robson was called before the cur
tain, and upon the insistence of the
audience. he made a brief speech:
Il always consider it a compliment
to be an actor to be called before the
curtain" said he. 1T is double COM
pliment when he is called twice, and
especially gracious when the applause
is so general that he cannot even hear
the uskers.
Il always thing that when an audi
ence calls an actor before the curtain
once they wish to get the actor away
from the play; when they call him
twice they desire to get the man away
from the actor. when they insist on a
speech they desire to get any idea that
may dominate or characterize the man
away from him.
when I am called before an audi
ence to make a speech any favorite
ideas | may have had in the corridors
of my conscience flee away. and in
stead of presenting my friends with a
glowing personality they find instead
only a cold and empty personal inte-
riOr
Ideas are fleeing things: they are
also very tenacious. ! remember when
l was a boy in my home in Baltimore
my father drew the plan of a house
on my slate. / remember it now. There
was a hall down the center and a lit
tie room for me in the second gable.
But bless you, he never built it. Then
the years flew SO fast that they SEEM
ed to fairly tumble over each other
until so had gone by. and then it was
my boy, who had the slate. One day
| told his mother that he was a good
boy and that we had better keep him.
So we decided to build a house. and
bless you, the only house l could think
of was the little house my father had
drawn for me on my slate, and we
built it with the same little room in
the second gable for my boy that had
been intended for me. The idea of that
house survived my father; it now
stands materalized on the highlands of
New Jersey; it will probably survive
me, and ! hope it will last as long as
the little fellow needs a home.
You probably have some idea in
| calling me before the curtain. In turn
! hope you may live to welcome the
| young actors who are to greet you
| upon this stage in the coming years
| and I intend to return here myself
Tonight 1.-TWO Rogues and a Ro-
NANCE play that abounds with
| heart interest and gives the splendid
| players of Mr.. Robson's company OPP
| pOrtunity for serious work. will be
| given. The story of the play is said tt
| be an interesting one. and in its un
| folding many serious situations are
| disclosed, but the comedy element is
so closely interviewer that the scenes
which are dominated by Mr.. Robson
| always prove of particularly engaging
| and laughable nature.