The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03
Green Room 7 alIk.

The attractions at the Butte theaters
this week will be 'Incog" at Suttons
and Human Hearts at the Grand,
both opening tonight. 'Incog" is
promised an excellent presentation by
the Woodward Stock company and
will be on at the Grand for four nights
The advance man says the play is a
companion to Shore Acres and
claims that it is lone of the best
American stage productions of the
past 10 years. and that 1.-The oftener
one sees it the oftener one wants to
see it. It is refreshing in this day Of
imported problem and suggestive plays
to lie able to listen to IN American play
OF plain, common folk with the blue
haze Of the Ozark mountains enveiop-
ing it, play of lilacs, yellow roses and
clover; play in which the pipe of the
quail, the mooing of the Kine and the
song of the knocking birds are inter-
mixed with comedy, tragedy md pa
thos"
On Thursday night of this week Cap
tain Harry L. Wells of the Second Ore
gon volunteers will deliver his war lee
ture at the Grand.
The next following attraction booked
for the Grand is Remember the
Dec. 10, followed by Beach g. Bowers
Ministries on Dec. II. "Coney Island"
why Smith Left Home the Neill
Stock company and browns in
Town." all during the latter part of the
month.
The date for Emma Nevada's concert
at the Grand in Butte is Feb. IA. Upon
the occasion of her recent temperance
in New York the Herald says:
Twelve years ago, If memory serves,
Nine. Nevada said goodbye to her New
York public life and last evening at the
Metropolitan she effected her re-entry
on the local stage before a great audi
ence.
Twelve years! A long period in any
young woman's life, a very long period
in the life of public singer; stretch
Of time that requires exceptional abil-
ity and strong ties of popularity to
bridge and to enable a public artist to
return after so long an absence without
fear of an unpleasant comparison of
the of the present with remembrance of
what the vocalist was in the past
''Iti S not considered gallant to talk of
a Womans age or Of the swift passage
of time, or polite to speak of the
lengthy absence of prima donna, for
it infers that her voice has lost some
thing of it's more youthful freshness
But in Nine. Nevada'S case these rules
do not hold, for she was SO young when
she was last here that one can afford to
mention the dozen years; and she has
held SO prominent a place on the oper-
attic stage since she left New York that
there is no question of her present
standing in the music world.
How does she sing to-day as COM
pared with the Nevada of former local
occasions? Has her voice taken on
new qualities? Her style altered?
1T may be said at once that Nine.
Nevada's voice has not changed; it has
not broadened, become more dramatic
or filled out to use a homely but ex-
pressive phrase. Itisjust the same small
but exquisitely sweet. flexible voice as
ever-fiutelike in the forte passage, like
a muted violin in the pianissimios. But
she has a more intimate knowledge of
the resources of vocal art than before,
and sings with more assurance. If con-
slant use of her voice has in any meas
ure taken from it's freshness an inti-
mate knowledge Of artistic artifice en-