The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21

belong to the school of finished artists.
His control over his demons and COB
Inns was as complete as his capture of
a critical audience. This scene brought
out some of Butte's boosted talent in
the masculine gender. There's Ernest
Hardcastle as Bacchus. No better
Bacchus ever happened along this way.
Mr. Hardcastles lines We're not simple,
nor was his acting anything less than
graceful. He was easily the peer of
the subordinate inv strong second
to Mephisto. Fitz H. Butler, one of
Butte's very best singers, acted and
sang THE Wicked Magician" into
favor with his auditors. M. J. Shee-
han as Revenge, r. J. Casey
as SANDER, Cornelius Kelley as
Malce-each acquitted himself admir-
ably. Their solos were well sung and
not one displayed that quality of green
ness and sperm candle lustre so pain
fully noticeable on some occasions of
amateur efforts.
While in the height of their revelry,
Burgundy and his faithful valet, Lep-
erello, appear, Keeling under the enor-
r1ous weight of an unmistakable jag.
County Clerk Jack Moran was the
valet and if he were not known so well
in Butte, it might be inferred from his
every action and utterance that he had
always held the job as valet to Lord
Burgundy. Mr. Moran was credit
able valet. The scene was transformed
by the entrance of Miss Finnegan as
Honora the goddess of honor. The
imps dispersed and the swarms of
fairies surrounded the dazed duke
Here honor made her offering, which
the duke was unprepared to accept.
and he again drifted away at the can
of vice. who chuckled in all his hldeous
glory OVER his triumph over honor
Miss Finnegan's singing of solo from
..Faust" was a vocal gem, the young
lady proving her ability to the salts
faction of all.
Again the duke was visited by the
angelic influence unprecedented by MRS.
Fitz Butler in the role of wealth. II
she failed to convince the duke that
gold was the proper companion in times
of adversely. she succeeded IN conVlnc-
! ing the audience that she is the charm
| ingly sweet nightingale in greater
| Butte Hers is the voice Of the really
| divine in song-soft, clear and sweet
| She was heard to excellent advantage
It was the blending of grace and poetry
| of motion with the purity and charm or
| voice But Burgundy was still in the
| clutches of vice and while he gave re-
| spectful audience to his goddess wooers,
the root of sin was too deeply imbedded
| in his heart to allow him to yield to
| their entreaties. So he fell again, and
all the demons and imps rejoiced
| There yet remained one whose APP
! peas had not been poured into the ears
, of the disgraced duke. Love had her
inning. She was to crush the exultant
| joy of the ruinous demons to dust of
! everlasting despair. Mrs. Katherine
+; Finn Kelly as Amorita. goddess of love,
accompanied by her maids, led the way
| into the presence of the duke, who lay
asleep upon his couch. She directed
| cupid to pierce the heart of the duke
with his arrow. There's where love has
the best of an engagement with The
other goddesses-they have no cupids
/ to assist them. His heart pierced The
(, duke was at once in loves power. This
/ was the browning scene. With one less
! capable CT translating enigmatical HER
oglyphics of love into the essence of
! song the act might have been made 10
| appear crude. With Mrs. Kelly the task
was easy. She has evidently inherited
/ the gift of song from the generations
| whose ancestry lived during the ages
when all the world reposed on the bill
| lows of melody, when marital conjugal-
! ity depended upon song for its SuSten-
| ance. 1t was brief moment of rhap-
| sody-too brief The audience insisted
| upon an encore and the response was a
I delightful repetition of the measures
| L
4 forgot that he was only acting" but
at any rate his facial expressions and
| general demeanor indicated that he en-
| tered fullyinto the spiritof the occasion,
| and for once the duke appeared to be
completely under the control of love
With such able support 1t Is difficult to
| imagine how any man could affect in
| difference at such supreme moment
| He yielded Vice and his satellites were
then and there renowned and hence
| forth love should be the guiding star In
| his existence on through to destiny
| Love won the contest-she was pro-
claimed queen of the fairies. The hun
dred or more little fairies. court maids
and ladies of the invisible realm de-
! posted garlands. flowers and wreaths
! at the feet of love. while an enchanting
| chorus was sung by the white gowned
| inha bitants of that mysterious place
| known as fairy land.
| The above named We're the principal
! characters of the song play. yet there
! are those 10 whom mention is due Miss
! Marie Armstrong was a eautiful queer
! of night. Mrs. Tgnatius Donnelly as Ce-
| ella sang beautifully an air from the
| "CaNalleria Rusticana" in the first act
| Mrs. M. Z. Policy, Misses Alice Lang,
lois, Theresa Kelly. II. Armstrong, Ma,
ME Healy. Helen O'Nel. Agnes IIol-
! land. Mamie DriScoll and Baldwin, as
the Graces, sang their lines Charminsly
. k.Velina. rustic maiden. who sees
good qualities in Leperello, the valet
did Well in the rag-time talk and dane,
with her charmer. Had the directress
Mrs. Elizabeth Vance Neumayer, no
been fortunate in selecting Master
Charles LaVelle to be Cupid that char
acter might have passed almost un
noticed. AS it was, the little child tool
| the house with him wherever he went
The skirt dancing speciality of Mis-
Maggie Kelley was equal ITO any seen il
Butte. She is the personitication o
grace. The Triumph of Love" was on
of the tFumphs of the season in Butte
social realm.
Monday night RoSenthal the pianist
treated large audience to a piano re
cital the like of which was never hearI
in Butte. Later in the week came TIL
brilliant extravaganza, The Devil