Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13

A comedy drama replete with thrill
ing situations and containing marvellous
scenic effects will be the attraction at
the Union Family Theater for the week
starting Sunday, May IA. "The Pay
Train is a piece which appeals to every
theatergoer. 1t tells a very strong dra-
matte story, with a vein of wholesome
comedy running through it. and through
out the performance ample opportunity
is given for the Introduction of all of the
latest vaudeville features. A car load
Of special scenery is carried by the COM
pany. and the scenic and mechanical and
electrical effects are not surpassed by
those of any scenic production now on
the stage. The people composing the cast
have beer carefully selected and all a re
competent in their respective parts. Miss
Ollie Halford, a particularly clever
young lady, who takes the leading role,
heads the The Pay Train"
will prove one of the most enjoyable pro-
auctions given at the Union Family
Theater this season.
Charles H. Yale's Forever Devils
Auction which plays IN engagement
of two nights and one matinee at the
Grand opera house mex Tuesday and
Wednesday,, like Tennyson's brook,
seems destined to go on forever" This
phenomenal record, however, is due only
to the push n energy of it's protector,
Charles II. Yale, who each year manages
to fill it so full of new life and matter
that the public have recognized the fact
that they are yearly being treated vir-
tually to a brand new performance under
an old title. The coming season and en-
gagement will prove no different to the
past. The dramatic cast, specialties,
premier dancers, pantOmimlsts, %acrObats,
coryphees, %secondas, b~allerinas, scenery,
costumes and effects are new, with but
few old faces in the cast. In fact, Man.
ager Yale seems to have made a clean
sweep in the Devils Auction" this year,
and offers more new features and faces
than ever before. Among the notable
new members are Ben +. Grinnell, a most
unctious comedian, singer and nimble
dancer, who will make his bow as Toby,
the transformed donkey. Sadie Stevens.
a very clever impersonator of boys
parts, and who possesses one of the most
phenomenal contralto voices ever given a
human being, has been engaged to appear
as Carlos, the handsome and dashing
hero of the ~spectacle; while Miss Ella
Gardiner, a pretty and plquant interpre-
ter of '%ingenue' parts, will appear for
the first time as the prosecuted heroine,
Madeline. Miss Madge Torrance, a stat
uesaue English beauty, whose perform
ance of Zero. the Snow Queen, in the
cast of the .'Twelve Temptations of last
wear, has induced Manager Yale to en-
gage her for the part of Chrystaline, the
Fairy Enchantress. A limited number OF
old favorites have been retained. among
whom are Miss Mayme Mayo, whose sue
cess as Janet, the Milkmaid, the past sea.
son was most pronounced, and who is
undoubtedly one of the handsomest and
cleverest soubrette a~rtistes before the
public today, has again been re-engaget
for this part, a satisfactory bit of new!
to her many admirers no doubt; ant
800, NF:1?coJ JJN1Ia, 1x.Io hos In ho,
several years engagement with this at
traction played almost every principa
part in its large and varied cast, will fol
the first time appear as the wicked
Count Fortune. w. H. LOrella, a stand
ard favurite, will again essay the part o
Pere Andoche. while Eddie Snow, who's
marvellous antics are we'll known to al
lovers of the a%crobatic and pantomimil
art. has been engaged to portray the pc
culiarities Of Chaos, the little devil.