Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16
AT SUTTON'S

Next week a rare treat is in store for
the theater-going public of Butte. Com
mencing Sunday the Woodward stock
company will produce q double bill.
Heretofore since the opening but one bill
has been presented. The engagement
has secured two of the strongest bills of
the kind obtainable for the acceptance
for the patrons of Sutton's new theater.
The first bill to be presented will be a
one-act cOmedietta entitled, "a Game of
Cards Following it on the same even
ing the three act comedy Pink Donlinos'
will be presented. This latter comedy is
positively the strongest of it's kline ever
written, having been the means Of fea-
turing some of our best known actresses.
The late Augustin DAILY of New York
first produced this piece some years ago
in his theater and the success Of the
piece has been equaled by few and eX-
ceeded 10y none Following is a brief
synopsis:
Mrs. Maggie Flasstoff and Mrs. Sophie
Graytholhe are intimate friends: the for
ller the wife of a club man and man
about town, the latter the wife of a
travelling merchant who deceives his Wife
as to his escapades. The ladies enter
into a controversy about the fidelity OF
their husbands. Lady Maggie Flagstaff
avoWs that all men are more or less
given to pleasures not shared by their
wives: Sophie Glaythorne is positive that
her husband would not partake of any
enjoyment not shared by her and defies
her friend to prove otherwise. The chal-
lenge is accepted and a conspiracy is
formed whereby the two husbands will
meet each others wives at a masquerade
ball, the ladies to disguise in pink do.ni-
nos. Lady Masgies maid Rebecca, who
is considered a paragon of innocence, is
instructed to write the notes on paper
n ro yA n7 with n f,,n1 h dnac Cn- -
writing a third note. She presents the
two letters written first to the two nus
bands; the third she gives to a young
boy, a cousin of Mrs. Graythorne. Before
the conspiracy is consumlnated Mr.. and
Mrs. Tubbs, the uncle and aunt of Mrs.
Greythorne, come to pay her a visit. Mrs.
Tubbs is called by a telegram to the
bedside of a sick friend and leaves Mr..
Tubbs. He, wishing a night off, goes
to the Crernone, that being the meeting
place of the husbands and wives, in
search of adventure which he gets With
a vengeance. Rebecca gets a third DOM
mo (pink). attends the masquerade with
Henry, meets at different times during
the evening the pleasure-loving husbands
who take her to be the companion they
escorted to the ball. sups with them, caus-
ing a general miX~up. The next day the
husbands by chance discover that their
wives had perpetrated the joke upon
them and turned tables by avoWlng that
they We're aware of it all the time. They
accuse them of i~mproprieties, which they
deny, the wives accusing each other of
shameless conduct. At last Rebecca is
discovered as the Observation-Disclosures
pile" and the Vindication of both wives
and husbands is complete.
"A Game of Cards will produce it. 1t
is positively one of the prettiest and
u~uaintest onc-act comedies written. 1t
tells OF the strained friendship of two old
cronies over a game of cards and shows
the unique way in which they are brought
together by the son of n and the
the daughter of the other, who are ems
gagged to be married.