The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

wings), said to Saint Peter when he
suggested that the cherub needed a
spanking?
He said indeed / do not doubt it,
But what are you going to do about 1T?
The bedstead drama has followed
closely on the great disrobing spe-
cialty and what Wen have next it is
difficult to predict
There are beds on the stages of our
leading theaters just at present, with
gentlemen prancing around in pajamas
and ladies in their underwear dancing
gaily about as though life were one
endless night time.
One manager came out in print last
week to say that it's the public that is
decadent and not the stage. Then he
says: IF you We're a shopkeeper and
found that a certain line. of goods was
selling rapidly, would you quit selling
that line of goods?"
That is a very poor argument. Bur-
glars find that burgling pays well. and
there are a great many lines of dis
reputable businesssin which people can
make money easier than others.
Grocers can make more money sell
ing rotten apples than good ones, but
honest folk prefer to deal in clean ma
terials. You can't cater to diseased
tastes in any line of business for the
sake of making money without laying
yourself liable to a horrible charge.
There are lines in some Of the plays
| that are on the stage in NeE York to-
| day that ought to be Kissed down by
| every decent person in the house. Some
| of them are very broad and others so
| obscure that the actors in whose
| mouths they are put do not seem to
| understand what they mean.
| Human nature is pretty poor stuff
| We are several stories lower than the
angels, but it isn't possible that we
| prefer to grovel in the mud when we
| go to the theate
| Good plays pay. If it all gets down
| to question of money, good plays
pay better than bad ones. The glar-
| ing vileness of some of the things said
| and done on some of the stages to-
| day are reproach to the managers,
! the actors ana the audiences.
"a Yenuine Yentleman," in which
| Ben Hendricks will appear at the
| Grand tonight, was last seen in Butte
| four or five years ago when the late
Gus Eeege played it at the Auditor
| Jun. The leading role in "A Yenuine
| Yentleman' is that of Sven Hanson.
| Sven is a young SWede who has been
trained for a mining engineer at the
| great Upsala university in sweden
and who is coming to America to en-
| gage in his chosen calling out in the
newt mining region then just opening,
| the Occur dAlenes. The first act OF
the play takes place on board the
| North German Lloyd steamer Muen-
chen while lying in Southa mpton har-
Dor awaiting the arrival Of the tender
bringing the passengers from South
amption en- route to New York. Sven
and the other characters of the play
are introduced to the audience here
and Sven runs across an old friend
whom he had met in Sweden in the
person of the Hon. Gordon Castle, ex.
minister to Sweden, returning home tt
the United States. The second scene
of this act takes place off Ellis island
in New York harbor. The ship il
boarded by the health officer and {
case Of cholera On board detains ths
vessel at quarantine, The Hon. Cor
don Castle has valuable papers which
he is the bearer of to the Swedish EN-
bassy at Washington. and which HI
is anxious to have delivered Withou
delay Sven undertakes the commits
sion of delivering the papers, jump
overheard and swims ashore. Tn
second act changes to the Coeu
d'Alene country, Idaho. Sven eiscoV
ers his brother in the person o
Charles Nelson, who has been actin