The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-09

of the "legits" to get into vaudeville
for the spring season. We hear no
more arguments about the degradation
of such a step, but all are only too
anxious to get an opportunity to earn
liberal salaries and applause through
out the otherwise idle months. Among
the most recent recruits are Marie
Wainwright, Theresa Vaughn, Marie
Decca, j. K Murray and Clara Lane
of comic opera celebrity Moreover,
there are more TO follow, and it is
stated that some surprises are in store.
The new play which is being written
Dor Sara Bernhard by Rostand, the
author of "Cyrano de Bergerac," will
not be seen until next year. according
to reports from Paris. The title chosen
for the play is "L'Aiglon," and its ac-
ton deals with Napoleon's son amid
historical episodes in France. 1t was
announced for production this spring,
but Rostand says now he will not be
ready to let it go out of his hands I'M
til next season. He apparently realizes
the great responsibility he must as
sumo in providing a worthy successor
to "Cyrano de Bergerac."
NJ B. Leavitt's Spider and Fly" will
be at the Grand four nights beginning
April 10. The Portland Evening Tele-
gram says Of it: Few attractions that
have been seen here this season have
proved more popular. The costumes
are very costly and beautiful, and the
scenery is sumptuous in its magnifi-
cence. The music is new and catchy,
and the entire evenings entertainment
is one well calculated to please a fas-
tid.ous audience"
The Turtle" which provoked such a
cyclone of critical discussion and is to-
day the most widely talked of play in
America. will be at the Grand near the
latter part of May. This play has been
one of the unique dramatic successes
of the New York season. In selecting
1t for the Inauguration of their second
season at the Manhattan 'theater,
Messrs. Brady and Ziegfeld were &C
tuated by a desire to keep pace with
the times, and entertain their patrons
with one of the distinct of European
novelties.
De Wolf Hopper was recently called
upon to recite Casey at the Bat" and,
strange to say, he broke down in the
middle of the wellWorn poem and for
got his line. He stood for a minute,
looking at the audience, then said:
Ladies and gentlemen, after all the
years in which / have been recit.ng
that poem, / must confess that l have
forgotten it," And a deep voice some
where in the gallery suddenly chimed
in with an earnest Thank God"
Some one out in San Francisco said
that Nances O'Neil would some day
rival Bernhard, so she straightway
proceeded to amass menagerie She
travels with two bulldogs. parrot and
cat. and last month a Seattle hotel
proprietor was heartless enough TO de-
cree a separation between the actress
and her pets. She went to another mo-
tel.
Comedian Bobby Gaylor will be at
the Grand for three nights commencing
next Sunday, opening with "McSorley's
Twins and giving a change of bill
each night. This play has been entire
ly rewritten and refitted and this sea-
son it is funnier than ever. The pro-
duction is laugh producer, leaving
only pleasant memories Of pretty girls,
caroling comedians, sweet singers,
dainty dancers and gorgeous costumes.
There are some things that John
Griffith. 'of Faust fame" can do better
than Others Mr. Griffith has friends
who are pleased that he did not do
Richards Ill" during his Butte en-
gagement.
Preparations are on foot for a revival
of Diplomacy in New York this
spring, with Rose Coghlan. Charles
Coghlan, Sadie Martinez, John r. Sui
Ivan, Frederick de Belleville, Robert
Fisher, Ida Won Trautman, Grant
Stewart and Mabel Eaton in the roles
they have already played.
A number of well known German and
Austrian dramatists have expressed
their belief that the calls for the au-
thor at the first performance of a play
are prompted by curiosity rather than
They have organized a
league to stop it.
Oscar Wilde has written a new mod
ern comedy. which will be produced in
London in May. The play will be
anonymous, but it is so chars cterstic
that it's authorship cannot be con-
cealed.
The Wyoming legislature has passed
a law making it a misdemeanor to
wear "headgear tending to obstruct the
view at theaters and other places of
A novelty at the coming annual
Shakespearean festival at Stratford
will be the performance of the I'M
abridged Hamlet" with its 20 scenes
and 1000 or so lines of text.