The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26

MESSIAH, Ben-Hur resumes the search
for his mother and sister. The opening
tableau of the last act finds him once
more in Jerusalem in the Palace of Hur.
Simonides and Esther are there. The
barrier between Ben-Hur and Esther
removed, their love is unalloyed. He
relates to Simonides the miracles
wrought by the NaZarene and learns
for the first time that his mother and
sister are lepers, entombed in the vale
of Hinnom. He rushes away to find
them, unmindful of all danger to him.
self. The second scene shows the Vale
of Hinnom, with the cave of the lepers.
before which BenHur falls exhausted.
The tableau changes to the Mount of
Olives. In this scene $50 people are
utilized. The multitude, bearing
palm branches. come to greet the
Nazarene, the presence of the Saviour
being merely suggested by shaft of
wondrously brilliant light. A great
chorus sing hoSannaS, and the miracle
of the cleansing of the leprous mother
and daughter is performed. This Incl
dent is quickly followed by the reunion
of Ben-Hur and his mother and sister
and Esther. AS the curtain falls song
of thanksgiving swells out from the
hillside in all directions.
Sunday Nov rs, the Woodward
stock company will present at Sutton's
new theater the romantic sensational
play, THE Three Musketeers.'
The play is a dramatization of Du-
mas celebrated novel, and at present
it is being starred in by such actors
as James O'Neill and E. Fl. Sothern, and
had a run last season in both the
Broadway and Knickerbocker theaters.
New York city, to the largest business
of the season. The play requires spe-
cial scenery and elaborate costumes,
and considerable expense is required to
produce it.
The production will be one Of the
events this season in the theatrical cir
cles of Butte. A brief synopsis of the
play is as follows: "A fiery young Gas
con adventurer leaves his home for the
first time to seek his fortune in Paris.
After many adventures and much trou-
BILE he finally gains a position of a
Musketeer in the Queens guard: he
falls in love with his landlady, who is
a Waiting-maid of the queen. Cardl-
nal Richelieu, then in his prime, who
ruled France by his sway over the
pleasure-loving King Louis. had devils
ed a plot to ruin the queen because she
had refused his advances. His main tool
was Lady DeWinter, who was former
ly the wife of Athos. Musketeer and
a strong friend of D'Artagnan. The
queen in weak moment gave the Duke
Of Buckingham, who had made a Sc
cret visit to France, IL diamond studs,
a present to her on her marriage day
from the king, as token of her re-
gard. Lady DeWinter discovering it,
appraised the cardinal, and he at once
dispatched her to England in quest of
two of the diamond studs. the other 10
to be left in the dukes possession.
The cardinal then induced the king to
give a state ball. requesting that the
queen wear the diamond studs, which
he knew to be in Bucllingham's possess
| sion. Constance. the queens waiting
maid. comes to the rescue, enlists D'Ar-
| tagnan, sends him in quest of the dia-
monds, which he succeeded in obtaining
| with the exception of two. Lady De-
| Winter being beforehand in having it
| distracted. At the last, moment as the
| ball is in progress and the cardinal tri-
| umphant DArtagnan returns 10 studs
| to Constance. who gives them to the
| king just as the queens downfall seems
| certain. Lady DeWinter, who in the
meantime has turned out to be Con-
| stances mother, is banished, the car
dinal excused from court the queen
and the Musketeer triumphant.
Richard Mansfield is of English birth,
but he is an American in every good
thinks of him in any other relation
| than as an American. A pretty story
| of his loyalty to his adopted country is
told. Among the passengers on board
q ship, Europe bound, which carried
| Mr. Mansfield, was a gross and ignor
ant millionaire.
Don't you think Americans are very
| ridiculous and vulgar asked the
millionaire. Mr.. Mansfield's answer
was intoned in contemptous negatives
| of biting and overwhelming judgment
| against cads whose native bad breeding
| tol tn1 hair
knowing the splendors of their own
countries Mr.. Mansfield wound up oy
| saying:
My humble efforts in art, which you
| have so absurdly flattered under the
impression that l did not belong to
America, are entirely of your own
country, for your country and in your
| country. l belong to America and am
unusually sorry l was not born there,
except when persons of your stripe
make me much ashamed. l am an
American actor and to bluntly assert
that my field of art is ridiculous and
| vulgar is the broadcast insult | have
ever received without knocking my
man down." There was an awful flash
of the spread eagle for awhile and the
rich American went below to be very
much under the weather for the rest
| of the journey. Mansfield wakes in
dignant and vocal over the noisily ad
miring attitude of England toward
America, which he chooses to count ex-
asperating. The idea of England pat
| ting US on the back and telling US
what nice young sailors and fighters
and conquerors we are, and how much
she would like to have us for afternoon
tea or a bank holiday" says he. "The
| British are the most tiresome imper-
ialists on earth. I love England because
it is England but it's age does not war;
rant its imperious and motherly cod
| ding of America.
Bolossy Kiralfy, who will be remem-
| bered by all old theater-goers as the
greatest producer of theatrical spec
tacles, is now manager of the EarPs
[ Court exhibition in London. The Kir-
alfys are famous alike for the mag
nificence of their theatrical presenta-
lions and the prudence of their personal
habits, says the Chicago Journal. In
the latter connection a good story IS
| told about them.
One of the brothers was in San Fran
| cisco, the other in New York. The San