The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07

mat is my history, gentlemen. The
book is bound in green cypress, end
any student of history is welcome to
peruse it's pages.
General Carroll-Your work is sub
lime, madam, but the same criticism
you have just passed on other histor-
les applies to it: you have not men
toned the name of the real hero.
Madam Sterling-I appreciate your
gallantry, Joseph, and will admit that
| have left room for postscript you
may write it yourself, Joseph.
Plans for new theater for the city
of New York will soon be completed.
The erection of the building will be
begun during the year if the projectors
secure promised capital.
The new theater has already been
named the National Liberal Theater of
America. It's announced purpose is 30
encourage the development of a ma
tional drama and to discourage syn
dicate' domination. the subordnation
of the drama to money making, and
undue prominence of stars" and SEN
sational plays. Its chief sponsor is
Miss Blanche Walsh, who found the
suggestion in a magazine article of
Mark Twain and afterwards CORES
pended with Mark Twain in regard to
the plan.
On receiving Miss Walshs elabora-
ton of this idea, upon which she had
collaborated with a group of enthu-
sasts, Mark Twain wrote to her in part
as follows from Vienna:
In your second letter you expose me
to myself with fatal insight 1t is pos
sible that my work terminated with
the sowing of the seed. That is Just
my way. I was always fond of sowing
seed and then-why then fitting to
other ground and sowing other seed.
leaving somebody else to do the real
work.
II lack your youth and hopefulness
and splendid faith and energy. 1t Is
people like you and the friends who
are helping you that accomplish things.
Your plan for the National Liberal
theater is drawn upon noble lines and
you have the grit to conquer success
for it.
Go on to viCtory-with the admira-
ton and the best wishes of the LATEST
man in history, who is sincerely yours,
MARK TWAIN"
All points in connection with the new
theater are decided upon by a commit
tee, whose members refuse their names
as well as the names of the citizens
who have contributed to the fund.
1t is known that the theater will, if
the real estate can be secured, be in
the vicinity of 59th street and Central
park. The building will be 800 feet
long and three stories high. The archi-
lecture will be Greek, and the building
will be surmounted by an immense
dome.
The stage is to be large enough for
grand opera, the green rooms ideally
equipped, and every seat in the house
accessible and comfortable. The large
foyer, which is to be used in European
fashion as promenade between the
acts, is to be decorated with statues
and paintings of the greatest dram
Artists, actors and actresses.
One entire wing of the building is to
be set apart as an art gallery. 1t is
planned to hold exhibitions here on the
plan of the Paris salon.
In order that the new theater may
stand for all the fine arts at once, it is
also planned to issue a weekly critical
paper to be called the Censor, and to
publish a play every three months The
first play will be issued next Septem-
Der, and will be a translation from the
German of THE Master of Palmyra"
The leaders of the movement" as
it is called, have been warmly support
ed, during his visit in this country, by
William Archer, the London critic
The advent of that frolcsome French
farce, The Turtle" at the Grand for
H.,
create furry of excitement, for this
unconventional diversion has proved
more than a nine days wonder at the
Manhattan theater, New York
THE Turtle is French, undeniably
so; La Tortue,' they call it in Paris.
and it brings to the city the piquancy
of the boulevard interpreted by Amer
lean players. 1t is spicy French dish,
with American dressing, thus reversing
the well established astronomical rule.
Perhaps undressing would be more
strictly accurate, for its episode of dis
robement is the pivot upon which turns
the sensational interest.
The earliest critics of 1.-THE Turtle"
have been silenced by the emphatic
popular acceptance of the sprightly
play. A play that can keep blase New
York in mrthful mood for a sixmonth |
must needs depart from the convpn- !
tlonal, and THE Turtle" seems to have |
accomplished this without any grave !
violation of the proprieties.
A nasty divorce, which a sprightly |
wife obtains from the middle aged hus- |
band. who was too turtle-paced to suit |
her fancy. and convenient French
law, which reverses the decree after
he has innocently married again. form
the basis for story of steadily cumu-
ative humor, which becomes furiously
sunny in the complications of the last
act.
The droll and fantastic complications
IF this funniest of funny farces are all
he more mirth-p provoking because the
ANTIQUITIES involving the characters are
lean and perfectly apparent. 1t va
les from most of the adaptations from
ne French stage, inasmuch as it's
heme does not touch upon marital in
Its characters are perfect
y proper ladies and gentlemen, and
is complications are delightfully."- alb
'urd and ridiculously droll
With the Endorsement of six
months run to representative New
fork audiences at a Broadway theater,
I'll fears should be dispelled as to the
or vulgarity of The Tur-
lie. The much discussed disrobement
Gene in the second act may be a trifle
lsque, but it is not in the least sug-
FESTIVE, and as artistically handled by
Mss Isabelle Evesson it becomes abso-
utely poetic. In short, THE Turtle
5 dainty suggestive dish, but so deli