The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-13

father picked them UP and carefully
carried them to his dressing room. The
theater in which we were playing had
very long windows that extended be-
low to where the floor was put in the
dressing rooms. This left a sort of
pocket. My father absently stuffed
the clothes in this hole
When Mr.. Couldock came around a
year later, father wished him to play
Louis XII They had the same sort
of time, but finally it was settled that
the play should be announced. With a
sort of inspiration Couldock said I'D
play it. but l haven't got the clothes.
Yes YOU have" said father. Here
they are. He took his cane and fished
out the garments he had stuffed in a
year earlier"
John c. Fisher manager for Madame
MOdjeska, announces that the elaborate
productions which he had in view for
next season are now well under way.
Thomas Moses, the well-known scenic
artist. who was able to undertake the
contract by the courtesy of Jacob Lift,
with two assistant artists. Is now at
work at Mr.. Fishers theater in San
Diego where the productions are be-
ing built. The scenic outfit for Mac
beth" Mary Stuart" and Much ADO
will be new and complete in every
way.
The feature Of Modjeska's repertoire
next season. and for which the most
ella borate preparations are being made.
will be her new play of Marie Antoin-
cite. In this direction Mr.. Moses has
been given carte blanche, and If all aC-
counts prove true it. will almost COM
pare from a production standpoint at
least with Henry Irving's much talked
of success, 'Robesperre. The two
plays. by the way, will have many
points of resemblance. for Modjeska' S
play of Marie Antoinette," of course,
belongs to the same period as Robes
pierre" and naturally concerns many
of the same exciting events incident to
the fall of the French monarchy.
Clinton Stuart, the author, Is said to
have made all the dramatic material
possible out of the characters of Mira
beau, Marat, Robespierre and King
Louis, and in the character of Marie
Antoinette the noblest victim of the
bloody revolution. he is said to have
furnished Modjsska with one of the
best opportunities of her long and
eventful career
John E. kellaVd, who is to be featur-
ed as Nodjeskas leading support next
season. is now in Europe for pleasure
and study, and While abroad he is to
get the designs for his many costumes
II is not yet know (which character he
will elect to play in Marie Antoinette,
but in other plays of the repertoire he
will be seen as Macbeth, as Leicester
in Mary Stuart" as Benedict In
Much Ado" and as Mark Anatomy in
Antony and Cleopatra" Charles D.
Herman. who earned so much favorable
comment with Mojeska last season
will continue as a member of the com
pany. as also will George Spencer
WadswOrth Harris and Lynn Pratt. lr
the aggregate Mr.. Fisher should be able
to boast next season as exploiting one
Of the most talented and best-equtppec
organizations that the legitimate
drama has known in this country II
many years. The tour will embrace al
the principal cities, including Butte
San Francisco, Chicago and long en-
gasement in New York.
Katti Lanner. the ballet mistress a
the London Empire and a teacher o
dancing. brought suit against the par
ents of a girl who had been taught by
her placed in the Empire ballet anC
then refused TO continue her profes
sion. She sued for $780, the sum men
toned in the original contract. a:
liquidated damages. She won the case
which threw some light on the way
ballet girls are manufactured ABROAD