The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-24
Grand with that splendid comedian,
Walter Perkins, in the title role.

ne SucceSS1ul comedy Mistakes
Wlll Happen will be the attraction at
the Grand Oct. and s, and it is said
to tell most amusing story. More
than this, If some of the most critical
acumen in the country is to be believed
it tells it extremely we'll An actor and
his newly wed wife, a theatrical mana
ger who loathes married people and
VIII not have them in his company, a
boarding house keeper. who is a stickler
for propriety, a very English coachman
plumber, a newly imported German
maid servant and an eminently re-
respectable elderly gentleman, who is
given to literary pursuits, and his
young wife. who has a great desire to
shine as an amateur actress. are the
component parts. That they have been
exceedingly well mixed by the author
goes without saying. He has handled
his subject very cleVerly and has
turned out comedy which cannot fail
to please even the most captious. mis-
takes VIII Happen" is under the dircc-
ton of Jacob Lift, and he has given
the comedy a most elaborate produc-
ton. The leading male part is played by
Charles Dickson, as clever a comedian
as there is on the stage at the pres
ent time, and the balance of the COM
pany is made up of as good fun-mak
ing talent as it has been possible to
obtain.
The Rays bowling success, "A Hot
Old Time" will be an attraction at the
Grand in November.
The play has been rewritten by
George M. Cohan since It was here last
season. The third act is entirely new
and many new and taking features
have elsewhere been added
The plot is one of mistaken identity
and tells the story of Larry Mooney,
expressman, who is mistaken for
O'Donovan Dunn, member of parlia-
ment who is making his first visit to
America. General Stonewall Blazer,
who has two marriageable daughtres,
showers favors upon him and he has
merry time until the real Mr. Dunn
arrives. There is not dull moment
in the farce, and the ridiculous Incl
dents follow each other so fast and 50
furious that the audience are kept
in an almost continuous roar.
1t is promised that the company is
one of the strongest and most preten-
tious farce comedy organizations seen
here. Each member appears to have
I been selected for individual specialties
aside from the comedy ability. A nov
city is the finale of the second act of
}he comedy, when the entire company
a 0pear in grand cake walk intro
>lucing the greatest of all cake walkers
| and dancers, John and Bertha Gleeson.
| An added feature for the present tour
| is the worlds greatest novelty dan-
seuse, Annie ST. Tel, known throughout
! the East and all Europe as THE
| Bounding Antelope"
Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday
| evenings, at the Grand opera house,
| Playwright Hoyt will present for the
| first time in this city his phenomenaily
successful comedy, "A Black Sheep
! and it is fair to presume that the con-
| dition will be the same as 1t always is
| with the presentation of anything new
! from the fertile brain of this clever
and successful author. Every seat will
/ be taken and the Standing room only"
! sign will occupy prominent place at
| the entrance to the theater.
| "A Black Sheep" is merely farce,
| though there is here and there touch
! of something that makes one wonder
| whether Mr.. Hoyt hadn'ta serious idea
! occa sionally while he was writing. The
/ traces of the deeper currents of nature
| cut no figure. The rollicking, breath
| less succession of ridiculously funny
situations. the songs and dances, the
| wonderful terpsichorean feats and vau-
deville featurs are the magnets which
attract.
The public will hear no deeper Key
from Mr.. Hoyt's Lutte and we suspect
that he doesn't care very much, any-
way, as long as his "A Contented
Woman" "A Trip to Chinatown and
"A Black Sheep" can add to his al
ready large bank account. 100000 or