The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-28
A RETURN ENGAGEMENT
Neill Stock Company Presen ts "A
Gilded Fool"
FOR THE THEATER GOERS
Brown Will Be in Town Sunday-The
Success of Lifts New Shenandoah"
Mark Swan on Baseball Among
the Ancients.

The Neil company returned to the
Grand last night and was greeted by
large audience The play was "A
Gilded Fool" the comedy in which Nat
Goodwin made such a great success
few years ago. Mr.. Neill presented the
play with a splendid cast and the per-
Torrance as a whole was excellent. Mr..
Neill played the part of Chauncey
Short, 1.-The gilded fool and gave
performance of the part that showed,
when constrasted with his work in
more serious and exacting parts in
which he was seen here last week, the
versatility of his talent. Mr.. Neill is
finished actor and thorough in his
work. He has a company, exceptional
~ we'll balanced, that gives him good
support Edythe Chapman was partic-
ularly good in her part last night Julia
Dean, Benjamin Howard, the villain
Lillian Andrews and Robert Morris all
played well, as was expected of them
Tonight Captain Lettarblair a
play in which Mr.. Neill and has COM
| pany have met with especially great
success, will be given.
AS we have had Smith and Jones, it
is inevitable that Brown should appear
as a hero of a farce OF course there
| are many members of the Brown family
| in Butte at the present time, but this
| particular Brown will arrive for the
| first time in this city and receive WISH
| tors Sunday and Monday, matinee and
| nights Dec. 81 and Jan. 1, at the opera
| house. The mission of this particular
! Brown is to spread a great glow of
| happiness over the country, and a
does this through the medium of a
| htry,, for .tt ont lnf
'Browr's in Town Brown was dis
covered together with several interest
/ ing characters by Mark e. Swan, a
| young author of considerable talent,
and is being introduced to the public
| by Delcher & Hennessy, under whose
direction Brown will visit.
| The play was originally produced in
Chicago last season and played sue
| cessfully for 90 weeks. According to
| the criticisms that have been written
| regarding it, the author deserves credit
| for eliminating several time-wOrn char
| acters which are usually found in come
| dies of this description and substituting
in their places several absolutely new
ones.
| The plot of Browns in Town" has
| to do with the dire troubles of Dick
| Preston, a son of a rich miner. who
marries the girl of his heart. Because
of his fathers opposition to matrimony
| he takes her away to snug little
| country cottage and in order to con-
ceal his identity assumes the name of
| Brown. Mutual friends, however, acci-
! denxally discover their rustic retreat,
| the first to appear being Suzanne Da-
ere. who is LET into the secret and con-
| sentss to aid The truant couple. Next
| on the scene comes Arthur Howard. a
| former sweetheart and would-be sutton
| for the hand of Dicks wife. who is told
| 70 c q
| to keep him quiet. Dicks father then
unexpectedly makes his appearance and
| the unhappy boy leads him into the be-
lief that Howard is Brown and Suzanne
| Mrs. Brown, though, unfortunately for
| him, the genuine wife has meanwhile
| informed the unsuspecting old gentle
man that she herself is Mrs. Brown,
| and the now irate parent jumps to the
| conclusion that Howard is a bgamist
/ and double-eyed villain in general,
and straightway makes preparation to
| leave the premises and take his son
Dick with him. In sheer desperation
| the latter confesses the truth and the
eccentric old man, having during this
time taken a great liking to Mrs. Dick,
| overcomes his extraordinary scruples
| and bestows the parental blessings. A
| colored cook and a German heiress in
| seach of her affinity also add interest
| to the story, which is clearly and legiti-
| n1dIely LIE luH Sldi Is
| from the rise of the curtain and is
kept going with unceasing vigor, one
complication following another with as
| tonishing rapidity. There are original
and novel musical numbers which do
not conflict with the plot.
The company includes such capable
people as Mark e. Swan, Jessie Mae
w. Cullison, Mamie Ward Fanny
| Midgley Minnie Lee and others
| Mr.. Lifts big revival of "Shenan-
doah" which is now making it's sec
ond triumphal tour of the country,
| created a sensation in Chicago, where
it ran all summer at McVicker's theater
to crowded houses. 1t was of this pro-
duction that the Chicago-Inter-O Ocean
said:
1T is so much more deliberately done
| than ever before and so much better
played that it would have met with
favor, even had there been no real war
excitement to stir play-goers to re-
newed interest in Mr.. Towards pretty
story AS it is put on at Mcvickers. it
is more like a military spectacle than
simple story of love heroics The bat
tie scene is perhaps the best illustra ton
of what good stage management
| can do than has ever been seen here on
; a local stage. 1t stirs the audience to
rarely seen in a play house. Men arise
in their seats and cheer. women wave
their handkerchiefs and cry in sym
pathy.'
The great play is booked for three
| performances at the Grand, beginning
on Jan. A.
Charles M. Curtiss, an actor who died
recently in hospital at Salford Eng
land, was a native of this country and
made his first appearance on the stage
as Pooh Bah in 1.-THE Mikado," at st.
| Louis, IL years ago. For some time he
was with comic opera companies in the
Southwest and also played in the ligiti-
mate in the companies of Booth and
| Barrett, James O'Neill and Frederick
| Warde. For a season he was with a
circus, was seen for some time on the
| stage of the English music halls and
shortly before his death was in South
Africa with Herbert Flemmings COM
pany.