The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23

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Stuart Robson has not appeared in
Butte or this part of the country for
eight years, and his engagement at the
Grand next Wednesday and Thursday
will undoubtedly prove a big event, and
the management will find that a mis-
take has been made in not extending
the engagement to a week.
Mr.. Robson will present two comedies
during his stay in Butte, and both of
them have been pronounced successes
in many Eastern cities. On Wednes-
day night Mr.. Robson and his fellow
players will make the first Butte pro-
duction of Augustus Thomas enjoy
able comedy entitled 1.-THE Meddler."
In it Robson will be seen as a meddle-
some artist whose proclivities for in
teTfering in the affairs of mis- acquaint-
ances gets him into all manner of trou-
BILE. THE Meddler" has been written
in three acts, and during its evolve
ment many complicated situations
have been devised all of them said to
be of a most laughable character
On Thursday night Theodore Burt
Sayre's comedy drama entitled 1.-TWO
Rogues and a Romance" will be given.
Mr.. Sayre's critic describe his work
as a bristlingly humorous play of in
tense interest. Some of its scenes are
said to be bordering on the melodram-
attic, but as Mr.. Robson domino ties the
entire play the cofnedy element must
of necessity overShadow anything in it
which might be construed as serious
Possibly the most important member
of Mr. Robsons company is furnished
tho ,f hoo, iF,,J ri
roughs, who, as a leading lady, has
acquired a reputation second to no ac-
tress now before the American public.
Miss Burroughs will be seen in import
ant roles in both of the plays men
toned above.
OF relative Importance in the casts of
her distinguished husbands company
is Mrs. Stuart Robson. to whose breez-
lily unctuous commedienne methods a
splendid measure of acclaim is always
Forthcoming.
Then there is clever Frank c. Bangs,
an actor whose work on the dramatic
stage covers a period of more than 80
years, and whose methods are natural
ly beyond cavil. Mr.. Bangs long APP
premiership behind the footlights has
earned him a reputation of which he
must be very proud. Other notable
names in the Robson roster are Harold
Russell, Edwin Holt. Willard Curtis.
and Mabel Strickland.
An item of intelligence which will
undoubtedly accentuate the interest
taken in Mr.. Robsons forthcoming en-
gagement is the fact that all of the
ladies in the comedians company will
wear some particularly fetching and
fashionable gowns.
Mr. Robson's long absence from the
local boards for the time mentioned is
not the only reason from which to at
tribute the public's desire to again see
this genial star. Mr.. Robson's sup
porting company on the present tour
is by far the best he has ever been
announced to environ himself during a
Butte engagement, and it is to this
matchless support that the comedian
must of necessity attribute a good por-
ton of the prosperity he is said to be
enjoying.
The Church of England is to make
special effort to save actors and ac-
. tresses, and new organization added
to the church is called the Actors
Church union, the main object of which
Is to make special provision for the
spiritual needs of followers of the
dramatic profession This announce
ment leads writer in the New York
Telegraph to observe that eff it is true
that English actors and actresses need
praying for, then the stage in England
this country" for in America actors
and actresses are quite as profoundly
pouS as men and women of other pro-
LESSONS. Ada Rehan is a devout Cath
Ollie as are her sisters. Kate Byron and
Hattie Russell. Mrs. Leslie Carter is a
Presbyterian. Rose CoShlan calls her
self an Independent Thinker which
sounds delightfully."- vague and deep.
Kate Claxton, who has been burned out
more frequently than any other Amer
lean actress, considers that she has an
infallible future fire escape in the Bap-
fist religion which she inherits from
her father, the Rev. Sylvester Cone, a
clergyman of that faith, who aban-
doned promising stage career to
by immersion. Mrs. Mckee Rankin,
the lovely Kittie Blanchard of the orig
Mia 1.-TWO Orphans" is a devout Cath
olic. Cora Tanner is a Christian Scen-
fist. and her handsome sister is sue
cessful healer in that faith. To Mrs.
Henrietta Chanfrau belongs the honor
of being the first actress to public en-
brace Christian Science. and her first
convert was the late Rachel McCauley,
Barney McCauley's widow, and one of
the founders of the Professional Wo-
mans league.
Viola Allen is a devout Episcopalan
and is prominently active in a New
York city parish in which she resides.
May Robson and pretty Madge Leasing
also belong to that faith: so does Elvia
Crox who is member of the swell St
Stephens church in Philadelphia. lisa
belle Urquhart is also an Episcopalian
but her friends say she doesn't work
at it steady" Lillian Russell. who
really has leanings toward Christian
Science. calmly confesses that she is
a cheerful heather. Adele Richie, who