Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-23

son. Henry e. Dixey and Jeffreys Lewis
are in the cast.
Ibsen's 1.-The Master Builder has been
revived in Berlin With great SUCCESS. 1t
was played there a few years ago n
failed utterly.
F. r.. Benson will revive Hamlet" in
it's entirety in his coming S~hakespearean
season in London He will begin at $3.50
and end at 10:45 with an hour and a
halfs intermission.
Charles Richman. for a long time lead
ing man With Ada Rehan. contemplates
a starring o next season.
Israel Zangwill's new novel, 1.-The Man
tie of Elijah," will be dramatized imme-
diateiy.
Fanny Rice's new play is entitled "A
Wonderful Woman
Bessie Bonehill had just begun her tour
in South Africa when wal was declared.
She was obliged to leave Immediately.
A niece Of the famous Julia Dean
Haynes, considered the lovelieste and
greatest actress of her time, has Just
gone on the stage in ST. Paul. Mimi,
where she was born. She is said to be
pretty and clever. e
William Archer, the celebrated English
critic OF the DRAMA, came over here last
spring, and now he has published a vol
ume of his observations under the title
"Anerica of Today One of the funniest
stories he heard on this side was the
familiar yarn that related to a distin-
suished southern colonel who was invited
to see the elder S%alvini's performance of
Othello, and who remarked at it's close:
THAT was a mighty good show, and 1
don't see out the coon did as we'll as
any of EN-"
The city of Hanoi. in Tonkin, isSgoing
to construct a grand municipal theater
upon the plans of the architect Knosp,
whose design was crowned at the COM
petition which took place in 1896. The
city will contribute $50, 900 towards the
expense. At this theater it is intended
that the public shall zeal good music.
The fact has come out tina in south
western w the place of Charles Cogh-
Ian, during several weeks of the illness
preceding his death. was taken decept-
lively by another actor. Whenever a sus-
picion of the fraud was suggested, the
manager stoutly maintained that it was
Mr.. Coghlan who was playing the prin-
cipal role. 1t is said that one of the rich
and lazy stars is frequently represented
by a counterfeit, who passes readily as
genuine.
Charles Frohman expects to produce in
New York hex March the English
adaptation of Ma Bru,'' called my
Daughter-in-Law.' If he can make the
necessary arrangements, Seymour Hicks
n his wife (Ellaline Terriss) will come
in which they appeared there at the
Criterion. ~
The alterations and improvements in
the st. James theater, London, have
been nearly finished, and George Alex
arder will begin his winter season the
second week in January with Rupert of
Hentzau." No date is fixed for the 9rst
appearance of "Paolo and Francesca by
stephen Phillips.
Kyrle Bellew has bought the English
rights to Henry Hamilton's new dran1ati-
cation of Monte Cristo,' and will soon
produce the play in London Dantes
should be a capital role for him. The
artistic partnership between Mr.. Bellew
and Mrs. Potter seems to have been dis
solved. Another recent artistic partner
ship now broker is that of Forbes Rob
ertson and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. When
1.-The Canary" is removed. as 1t soon must
he, from the Prince of Wales to another
London theater, Forbes Robertson will
go abroad for a long vacation. 4 Mrs.
Campbell announces that she a secur-
ed, to follow George Fleming's comedy.
when that has run its course. q play by
Turgeney which has v been acted
or published. 1t is called "A Summer
Day" o 2 i
"Dreyfus, or Wv la France!" ia AUS
tralia's latest contribution to the British
drama. 1t is the joint production of two
formerly we'll known London actors. Mr..
George Rignold of Drury Lane. and Mr.
Walter Bentley of the Lyceum. and
brother Of Mr.. Faithful Begg, NJ. p. The
villain of the piece, Esterhazy, is made
Of DEVILS Island. where he
gOads his victim into a mad rush at him,
an incident which Is wildly cheered by
the gallery. In the final scene Esterhazy,
attacked by an angry crowd. is magnani-
mously rescued by the vindicated Drey-
fus beneath the shadow of a market
cross. Comic relief is brought into the
drama by providing Dreyfus with a
.Frauco-Irish servant.
Charles NJ. Curtiss. an actor who. died