The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-22


it two. Thanky, sor" said he, as Mr..
| O'Neill handed him the pass. An.
what play might ut be. yer ahnor!
Monte Cristo," was Mr.. O'Neills re-
ply.
Tut, TUT" muttered Tim shaking his
head: Everybody says Mount SChrls-
ty' doesn't be wurt -. sure L
wondher if yez cud give me pass fer
tn Chestnut"
What is playing at the Chestnut"
asked Mr.. O'Nell.
"An acthor be the name of Giblet, in
Hid by the En- av me- and they say
he's foine!"
The Jessie Bartlett Davis opera COM
pany appears to be reality. A dis
patch from Chicago states that Miss
Davis has accepted an opera written by
DR.. Sterrett, of La Sale. ILL.,, and will
arrange for its production at the ear
lest possible date. The setrlipg char
acter of Miss Davis company can be
Judged from the fact that William
Broderick. the basso, and the somewhat
baritone, William Pruette, both singers
of world-known ability, will, in all prob
ability. be members.
DR.. Sterrett, who has written the
opera Miss Davis intends to make the
vehicle of her fortune. is physician
who has given far more attention to
| musical and dramatic matters than he
has to his patients. AS result, DR..
Sterrett is valued much more highly
as writer of operas than as a ply
sician.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will
begin their tour of this country at the
Knickerbocker theater in New York on
Oct. 80 and will come no farther West
than Chicago and St. Louis. After three
weeks in Gotham and three in Boston,
they will spend a fortnight in Philade,-
phia and devote a week to Washing
ton, to Baltimore, to Brooklyn and to
Pttsburg. Cleveland and Detroit are
to have only three nights each, and To-
ledo. Columbus, Dayton and Indian
apolis must rest content with single
| performances. Louisville has two
| nights and st. Louis enjoys a weeks
visit from the eminent actor and his
! company. Then, on Feb. II, the entire
| organization goes to the Columbia,
and for three weeks Chicago theater-
goers will have opportunity to enjoy
themselves From there a jump is
made to Toronto, where three perform
ances are to be given. An equal num-
Der are set down for Montreal. then
come single nights at Springfield.
Mass, New Haven and Hartford, and
with three appearances in providence
the tour closes. on March II. The rep
ertory will consist of "Robespierre,
waterloo" and for Miss Terry alone
1.-THE Amber Heart" and Nance Old
field When the company returns to
London in April Sir Henry expects to
produce a play laid at the time of the
massacre of ST. Bartholomew. The
drama is connected with the intrigues
of Catherin de Medici against Henry of
Navarro. and interest will be created by
the Introduction of such remarkable
characters as Charles TX. and Margaret
of Anjou.
Fred c. Whitney, the theatrical man.
ager, is to make an elaborate produce
ton of "Quo Vadis," the novel by Sien-
RiewicZ. which has run through
score of editions.
The dramatizatien of the novel has
been made by Stanislaus STANCE. better
known as the author of the books of
number of successful comic operas. in
Guiding The Wedding Day. THE
Man in the Moon" and Brian Boru."
Mr.. STANCE, for more than a year.
has been at work|on QUO Vadis," and
has been in constant communication
with Mr.. Whitney. who has naturally
| taken a deep interest in the work. Mr.
| STANCE has promised to come to Amer
| lea in time to be- present at it's final
| rehearsal and initial performance.
Mr.. Whitney is very sanguine over
| his new play, and says that not only
| all of the strong dramatic possibilities
| of the story have been utilized to the
| fullest extent but the great spectacu-
| lar fea lures of the book have been
most deftly adapted for reproduction
| on the stage.
The manager promises to make one
of the most gorgeous productions from
scenic viewpoint that has been seen
in New York in years.
Mr.. Whitney while not having made
up his cast, is negotiating with several
popular actors in this country. and will
| begin rehearsals in a short time with
the intention of producing the play
| early in November.
Quo Vads" is not the only dramat-
| ic writing Mr.. Strange has attempt
ed, for he has written romantic play.
| 1.-The Courtship of Miles Standsh," that
will also be produced this season.
The Louis James, Kathryn Kidde1
| and Charles Hanford combination be-
| gan its season at the Alvin theater,
Pittsburg. on the 18th of September,
| presenting for the first time Wagon
halls and Kemper's big revival of THE
| Winters Tale" The presentation was
a triumph alike for the distinguished
artists at the head of the organization,
as well as for the enterprise and good
taste displayed by the management
The Pittsburg press was unanimous in
was the most massive, artistic and
complete Shakespearean revival ever
witnessed in that city. not excepting
the productions of Sir Henry Irving.
1t is probably some years since Sc
much interest was shown in a theatre
cal event as is already evinced in the
coming of the great Polish actress
| Madame Modjeska, one of the three in
contestably great women of the worlds
stage. To the casual and inveterate
playgoer alike it will be a great treat
to listen to one who, although foreign
er by BIRTH reads the lines of the i'm
mortal Shakespeare as no other can
read them, and whose art unfolds for
him the beautiful depth of their mean
ing to which he is otherwise blind. The
generations are no more generous with
their legacies of great players than Of
great painters or writer's, and conse.
quently she looms up the more because
of her artistic isolation. The worthiest
tribute her genius has evoked was that
paid her by Edwin Booth, who, when