The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-02

OF course the scheming of Becky
Sharp forms the handspring of VANITY
Fair" The character of society adj
ventures, exploited with the highest
literary skill-that is what gives Thack-
eray's work it's rank among novels
There is the love of strong, faithful
Dobbins for sweet, back-boneless Amel-
ia-but Becky dominates the story. No
wonder then that Mr.. Mitchell has
elected to call his dramatization Becky
Sharp" instead of VANITY Fair" and
that he gives Becky even more than
the star characters usual share in the
proceedings.
To have dramatized the entire novel
the author would have been obliged
to write cycle of plays. He appears,
therefore, to have selected from the
book all possible dramatic material re-
lating sto Becky, and then to have
sketched in the rest of the story He
has made four acts of it, the pictorial
climax seeming to come at the end of
the second act, when the ball at Brus-
sels-"There was a sound of reyelry
at night''-breaks up suddenly to the
thunder of Napoleon's guns beginning
the fateful battle of Waterloo. The
real dramatic climax, however, is found
at the end of the third act. when Raw
don discovers liasons between Becky
and Lord Steyne and assaults the no.
blemen.
Maurice Barrymore is Rawdon, Ty-
rome Power Lord steyne and Miss Zen
aide Williams Amelia, Robert V. Fer
guson, Charles Plunkett and Wilfred
North are also in the cast.
]. Shirrie Mathews, who plays in by
the Sad Sea Waves is quite a student
of human nature. Recently he started
out on one Of his nightly investigating
n infn Ia f~aS
taurant in Chicago. He seated himself
at table ii front of a very inquisitive
young lady and her hungry looking es-
cort. The waiter appeared. By that
peculiar psychological action of the
mind an action suggested itself. He
would pretend to be deaf and dumb.
He made signs to the waiter and finally
wrote his order on a card.
Poor fellow" said the girl across
the table, "he's deaf and dumb"
what do care?" replied her escort
brutally.
at seems pity" said the girl sym
pathetically. HE looks so bright, too.
It think he looks like lobster said
the escort.
Just then Mr. Mathews partner and
fellow funmaker, Harry Bulger, appear
ed on the scene.
"What'n you have, Mr.. Mathews?"
was his first question.
"a lobster" replied the bogus deaf
and dumb mute.
The party across the table left the
retaurant hurriedly.
Ada Rehan has arrived from London,
bringing two new plays, titles unan-
nounced, which she may produce. She
contemplates a tour in a repertoire of
nine plays, comprising some of Shake
speare's,. 1.-THE School for Scandal
1.-The Country Girl and Love on
Clutches
The usual big Sunday night audience
filled the Grand Opera house last night
| to see lyon Yonson." Whatever may
| be said of the well-worn Swedish did-
| lect comedy. one fact is that it con-
| tinues, season after season, to draw big
| audiences and to do big business. For
| Thrall & Kennedy it can be said that
| their present organization is the strong
est Yon Yonson company that has ever
visited Butte Arthur Donaldson, him
self a native of Sweden. plays the title
role and, next to Gus Heege, is the
best actor of the character ever seen
at the Grand. The cast includes sew
eral excellent and well-known players,
among them being Beatrice Norman,
an actress we'll and faVorably known
in the profession; Annie Mack Berlein,
another actress of prominence, who
plays the part OF the widow Latin;
Grace Hazard, Edith Hall and Sidney
Craven, who, as the real estate man,
Vanderbilt Bolts. makes up to look like
| Senator Carter The lumbermen's quar-
tette sings a number of new songs, in
Guiding some clever parodies and med
leys The play will be repeated to-
night and tomorrow.