The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-26
TRIP THROUGH THE WEST
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Author of Way Down East" Is
in Butte.
GOSSIP OF THE THEATER
Ernest Hogan in New Role-Protectior
OF Girls =" Ma Cousine"
Warmer Thing Than
The Turtle

Lottie Blair Parker, the distinguished
authoress and dramatist, has been
spending several days in Butte with her
| husband, Harry Doll Parker, manager
Of 1.-THE Turtle" and is making the
| present tour Of the West with the COM
pany Tor pleasure and recreation. Mrs.
Parker is the author of the successful
drama Way Down East" which has
just closed an engagement in Phila
delphia with its 540th performance.
The play Will begin next season with
special production at the Academy of
MUSIC IN New York, after which it will
be put on the road and will be one
OF next seasons attractions at the
Grand. Mrs. Parker's latest play is
The War Correspondent which re-
Gently had its first production in the
city of Washington, where it had a
run for six weeks. 1.-The War Core
spondent' was written for Burr McIn-
tosh, who will star in it next season.
Another pretentious play written by
Mrs Parker Is white Roses" which
ran for whole season. in connection
with THE Gray Mare at the Lyceum
theater in New York She has also
written number of other things for the
Lyceum, but of all she has written the
most successful has been Way Down
East, which was first produced at
Newport, r. L., on Sept T. 1897.
The present is Mrs. Parker's first trip
through the West in nine years. She
was in Butte as a member of 1.-THE
Royal Pass" company in the fall of
1891, in which George Staley, a German
comedian, was starring. under Mr.. Par
ker's management Lottie Blair playing
the part of a Russian spy.
In view of the fact that Ma Cousine'
is promised for Butte next season, fol-
lowing Mile. Fiji" the following from
Washington may be timely for the pur-
pose of putting some people in this city
on their guard: my Cousin" was pro-
duced on Tuesday night at the Ma
tional theater before a gathering in
which the Washington newspaper cor
respondents and their families figured
largely. My Cousin" is an adaptation
by Frank Tannehill, jr., of Meilhac's
French comedy in three acts, Ma Cou-
sine The local critics unite in calling
the piece the Frenchiest and broadcast
thing that has ever been this way.
THE Turtle" THE Cuckoo and Mile.
Fiti' are Shaker dramas compared to
it. 1t might be called the forerunner
of the Lounge drama as that article
OF furniture is very necessary prop
erty in the development Of the story
In at least two scenes the figure of
NORM is pressed hard against the
springs, but with no harm to either.
The excellence of the acting alone pre-
vents the play from slipping the strap
and becoming offensive. Pillar NORM is
improving as an actress, and was given
several calls. The cast includes Theo-
dore Babcock, Samuel Edwards, Earl
Brown, Charles f. Parsons, Ida Nc
MILAN, Matilde Cottrelly, Beryl Hope
Bertha Bowling and Eva Wescott.
Ernest Hogan has turned up in New
York in new role, that of a protector
of innocent girls. A 16-year-old Read
ing. Pa, girl eloped with a colored end
man of Thayer's Ministries The couple
fled to New York and the police and the
girls father We're unable to locate them
until Ernest Hogan appeared on the
scene. and in a few hours he turned
the girl and the end man over to the
detectives.
John s. Lindsay and a company of
players in Standard plays will be at the
Grand Sunday night. His repertoire
includes "Othello," "Virginius, shy
lock- "Richelieu," "Ingomar" "Da-
mon and Pythias' and Don Caesar de
BeZan."
A New York firm of amusement man
ayers announces that 1t has organized
a new circuit of summer gardens, i'll
Guiding an outdoor resort at Butte.
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