The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-22

a special Sunday matinee this after
noon. The popular American play is
now in the seventh year of it's remark
able success and is on it's fifth visit
to Butte. 1t will be presented by an
exceptionally strong company and with
entirely new scenery gotten up for this
seasons tour. I'm Old Kentucky" is
a sharp, dramatic and intense story,
with intelligent, consistent and dis
tinct characters, and clean and rea-
sonable plot. sharp contrasts. a strong
racing feature and a score of amusing
and excellently trained pickaninnies.
The plot lis laid in the blue grass re-
gions. of Kentucky, and presents as
its chief figure a simple but warm
hearted mountain girl, who has loved
above her station, but with the sin
certify which brings her out triumph
antly, not, however. until she has de-
feated the ends of villainy and checked
the impetuous but well-motived young
mountaineer in a course which might
have lead to villainy, but with re-
straining influence, quite as well to
generous manhood.
The first act shows a wild and noun
famous locality in Kentucky. No time
is lost in getting down to the story,
winch starts out thoroughly melodra-
matte. The characters are admirably
introduced. and double interest is Gre
ated. involving the contention between
the hero and the youth who thinks
himself wronged on the one hand, and
the hero and the villain on the other.
When the bridge over the chasm is
shot away to prevent the heroine COM
ing to the aid of her wounded lover,
and when to save him the girl bravely
swings across the chasm with the help
of hanging rope the interest is in
no oil, is-
until she filings over the precipice the
dynamite bomb. which lies primed and
lighted at his side. With a roar it eX-
plodes as it drops into the valley and
the curtain falls. The second act goes
to the other extreme and deals almost
entirely with comedy. The scene is in
the barnyard of a country mansion
and score of darkies-little pickanin-
nles--dsport themselves quite as if they
were slice cut out of Southern life
1t may be said that there are no supers
Even the chickens and geese are train
ed to their duties. The singing and
dancing and music of the pickaninny
band are highly diverting. But the
horse which must win the Ashland
Oaks and save the estate is in the barn
and thither the villain turns his atten-
ton. The impetuous young noun
taineer, misled by the villain (hs
Whiskey still had been DESTROYED sup
comes dangerously near adding notch
to the butt of his rifle and making him.
self villain, but he is turned aside
from his purpose easily and naturally
and consistently. The villain seeks to
destroy the stable by fire. but the he
rome dasheS in where others fear to
venture and rescues the horse from the
flames The third act includes the race
One learns that the jockey is drunk
that the mountain girl is the only avail
| able person to ride the horse-and that
| she consents. A glimpse is gained of
| the saddling yard or paddock which is
exceedingly natural. Then like a flash
comes the horses dashing down the
stretch at terrific pace amid the wild
est enthusiasm. The heroine rides the
winning horse. A short fourth act ties
up the flying threads of the story.
The new bankruptcy law has given
Mrs. Leslie Carter an opportunity to
settle with her numerous creditors and
square s6s.7ss in debts without pay
ing anything on them. She has just
been decreed a bankrupt by a New
York court. When she entered her
petition in bankruptcy on Nov. 7, 1898.
she was preparing to put "ZaZa' on the
stage, and was living here in luxurl
Gus style. yet in her petition she could
| offset her liabilities with assets of only
$500. and this was in wearing apparel.
1t is not quite clear how this amount
of clothing was divided among Mrs
Carriers creditors, yet, according to the
| lega! decree, they are satisfied. When
| her debts were scheduled her principal
creditors We're Writ Dexter, Chicago,
cash loaned, $40, 704; Marshall Field &
Co. Chicago. 1891; White & Howard,
$4,613; Julius Bien, s4725; Henry Pur-
| govel, sl,409; Caroline Rath, Dayton,
Ohio. cash loaned. $4,000; Caroline
Dudley Phelps, $3.50; Mollie O'Harra,
| S2,l09; Clarke Gapen, Omaha. 81 900: NJ
2. Felix, Paris. $3,l0S; Alexandrine,
Paris, $1,000; Lentherie, Paris, $1,000:
Nine. Judith, s2.7OS There was a big list
OF Judgments against the actress Many
OF them We're held by Chicago firms.
Hitchcock. Darling G. Co, of the Fifth
| aVeune hotel held judgment for $4a7
| representing part of the cost of a sump-
| tuous suite of apartments
| In the last week of the same month
in which she declared herself without
means to pay her debts, "Zaza" was
| produced in Washington 1t was an in
| Simultaneous success and has been ever
| since. Mrs. Carter's income from it has
| been estimated at more than 81 900 a
| week.
| During the summer she lived at Bar
| Harbor. Recently it was announced
| that she had rented Elsinore for the
| season. paying $1,000 rental
AT any rate, Mrs. Carter was broke