The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-17

by Edyth Chapman, Robert Morris, J..
B. Everham and George Bloomquist
Among the plays to be presented here
are The Senator "A Bachelors Ro-
nance" The Gilded Fool" THE
Wife Sweet Lavender" The But
terfiies,' London Assurance" Arts
tocracy." The Lottery of Love" The
Amazons" and The Gray Mare
"A Black Sheep will soon be pre-
scented in Butte. 1t will be accompanied
by some up-to-date specialties. 1t is
Hoyts last cutting of satires and one of
his most popula" plays.
Gorton's MINISTRIES will play at the
Grand on Sept. go, 90 and "a There will
be good specialties, neat dancing, clever
vocalists. a magnificent first part and
plenty of harmonious music by Cor
tons solo band and gold sextette All
brass effects and harsnness have been
eliminated in this band. Beauty of
tone, softness of melody and organlike
fullness is attained. There are many
players of distinction in the organiza-
ton.
T. Daniel Frawley and company left
San Francisco for Los Angeles. where
they will play 10 weeks engagement
Frawley has added Hortense Nelson.
Irene Everett and Pearl Landers to his
organization.
Nance O'Neill has begun a four
weeks engagement at Cordrays thea
ter in Portland, Ore.
Mathews and Bulger are this season
again with Dunno and Ryleya con-
pany, presenting BY the Sad Sea
Waves" They opened the season at
ST Paul They, have int
Der of new features.
Coming engagements for Montana
cities are "A Breezy Time" Clara
Thropp and "Yon Yonson"
Primrose end Dockstader's mnstrels
have broken another record, this time
at Buffalo, where the receipts for the
week were $3.50, the largest ever taken
in that city by any minstrel company,
while the average receipts for a per-
formance were the largest ever drawn
in Buffalo by minstrel company.
The new melodrama, "A Man of Mys-
terry" by Mark f. Swan. was recently
presented at the Bijou theater, Pitts
burg, with marked success, business in
creasing throughout the week in the
face of hot weather.
Rev. T. ]. Lacey of Alameda, in a
recent interview in the Oakland En-
quirer regarding the stage, said:
Il believe that the stage has a mis-
sion from God. 1t takes its place with
the pulpit. the public school and the
press as a factor in holding public
opinion. Hence it's relation with the
church should be most intimate. Both
should work hand in hand to elevate
the moral zone of society. This should
be their common aim. / feel deep in
terest in the recently organized Actors
Church alliance. 1t has a large field
of usefulness on the part of church
people. The old prejudices must be
gradually overcome The church must
show the dramatic profession that she
is not hostile to their aims. She exists
to help them to help humanity. Their
profession is honorable and honored."
Robert B. Mantell will appear this
season in The Dagger and the Cross
Charles II. Hoyt returned to New
York last week after a long vacation.
He will soon complete a farce that was
under way when illness overlook him,
and will begin work upon a new play
that he has in mind.
Virginia Carlyle has come to this
country from London with the design
of presenting the ancient East Indian
drama Sakuntala, lately shown her in
that city. This young actress is COM
mended to attention in this play by
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of THE Light
of Asia" and by other learned persons
interested in the literature of the East.
Ben Hendricks tour in A Yenuine
Ientleman' has been remarkably sue
ceSsful despite extreme heat encoun-
tered during its first week in the West
the company go to the Pacific coast
reaching San Francisco early in Oc-
tober.
Mrs. John r Raymond has Joined
Nance ONeill.
Louis James has bought a house at
Long Branch
John z. Henshaw and May TEE
Brock continue bright features of The
Man in the Moon at the New York
They have had several offers to star,
besides numerous flatterng vaudeville
inducements. but prefer to remain in
New York.
William A. Brady's production of
Sorrows of Satan" will open in New
York in October. and is booked almost
exclusively for the larger cities of the
East.
THE Great Train Robbery, under the
management of William T. Keogh,
promises to be one of the great sensa-
tional surprises Of the year. The piece