The Anaconda standard., 1899-10-08
Green Room 7 ralLk.

Among the early attractions that will
appear at the Grand in Butte will be
Smythe & Prices comedians in My
Friend From India" which is booked
for three nights beginning next Thurs
day. Those who remember last seas
ons performance CT the sterling COM
edy will see in this announcement a
guarantee for an evening of pure and
unalloyed enjoyment. My Friend
From India from the pen of H. a.
Du Souchet, a welcome visitor at all
times to theater-goers, deals with two
love stories interviewer With that al
ways novel theme, theosophy. The
complications arising from the weird
theories of occultism and the social
aspirations of an illiterate pork-packer,
are only part of the many novelties
upon which the author has drawn for
his humor in this play. A hapless bar
Der, as the result of drunken freak
of the scapegrace son of millionaire
packer, becomes endowed with the
'.Order of the Yellow Robe" by being
compelled to wear yellow silk bed
spread to hide his nakednesss, and Is
introduced by the aforesaid son as
MY Friend From India to help the
hilarious youth out of scrape. TO
make the deception more perfect, the
barber is invested with the towel ana
yellow bowl characteristic of the Or
der of the yellow Robe i'll INDIA.
most learned order of theosophists.
Contrary to the sons plans. the father
suddenly conceiveS The design OF re-
ducing the barber to the condition of
a social lion. The whole family get
the fever and are obliged to wear yell
low robes before the novel imposition
is found out No end of fun and COM
edy is extracted from this idea, and
wherever played it has been pronounce
ed the best comedy of the day. Walter
Perkins is the original barber, and is
really responsible for the original pro-
duction. His performance has had more
praise bestowed upon it than any other
comedian of late years. The dressing
of the ladies in this company has been
spoken of for it's unusual magnificence.
and as whole the production is per-
feet even to minutest detail.
Among the readers of this page of the
Standard are many old admirers,
friends and 'acquaintances of Miss
Louise Beaudet, who will always read
with pleasure anything of interest pub
lished regarding her A new story
about the actress tells of her engage
ment to an English earl, the protests
of his family, and her agreement to
sell her claim to a coronet for some
thing like $4,000, paid her by the earl's
family. Miss Beaudet had been billed
to appear in Toronto last week, but
when the night for her appearance
came she was represented only by her
pet parrot, pug dog and maid. the ac-
tress herself having suddenly returned
to New York and her ndustliou press
agent furnished the key to the mystery
OF her movements. According to Miss
Beaudet's immediate personal repre-
sentative, the accomplished and peren-
nial Louise met, while in South Africa,
year or so ago, an English earl of
1tt,,s aerE 1lI,
promptly fell a victim to her ripened
charms and proceeded to lay his acres.
his ancestry and his coronet at the
clever actress shapely feet.
Miss Beaudet spurned him. What are
a few paltry thousand English acres
to an enterprising American girl who
has vast and boundless ranches of her
own, as Miss Beaudet has, or says she
has? And as for ancestry--Miss Beau
det is a firm believer in the DarWinian
theory, and traces her lineage far be-
yond the time of the conquest to the
very earliest simian who ever swung
from the limbs of a family tree.
What is mere English ancestry to
such a Darwinian descent? But there
was the coronet. Miss Beaudet waver-
ed. Her reputation as versatile itc-
tress rested on the firmly established
fact that she had played the entire list
of female roles, from Lady Macbeth to
era, burlesque and Casino comedies.
Still she hesitated Versatile as she
was, there was no coronet in her re-
pertoire. Miss Beaudet deliberated,
and every one knows the fable of the
woman who deliberates. She accepts
the coronet.
For almost two years little Louise
was the betrothed of real earl. Then
came Toronto, and there Miss Beaudet
found awaiting her arrival large and
imposing document from the earfs So
licitors. Their clients family positively
refuse to sanction his marriage to an
actress. Would Miss Beaudet please
give him up?
Miss Beaudet would not. Nothing
would induce her to relinquish aer
claim upon the acres, the ancestry, etc,
of her Reginald. She cabled this ulti-
matum, punctured with sobs and heart
1lutterings. to the earl's solicitors.
Before the waves of the Atlantic had
ceased to seethe and sizzle with her
burning words second cablegram was
handed her. 1t read: 'Our Mr.. -
Is now in New York. He will hand you
1000 guineas at the offices of H. d. ii.