The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
MAY LEASE THE MARGARET
Jacob Lift Has His Eye on Ana
conda's Beautiful Theater.
PLAYS THE COMING WEEK
"Ole Olson" Tomorrow, "Hogan's Alley"
on Thursday and "a Parlor Match
on Saturday-Th Good Things
For the Future.

The announcement which appeared
on one of the Butte pages of the Stand
ard yesterday morning, relative to the
proposition of Jacob Lift gaining con-
troll of the principal theaters in Great
Falls, Helena, Butte and Anaconda. is
received here with expressions of ap-
proval. Under Mr.. Lifts management
the Margaret would receive the best
attractions in the country and each and
all of them that come West.
So far, no negotiations of definite
character have been gone into between
Mr.. Lifts representative and the trus-
tees of the Margaret for a lease on that
theateT. The representative of Mr.. Lift
was in the city yesterday looking over
the ground in a casual way. but TO
deal has yet been contaminated. II is
understood that the keystone of the
whole proposition is the acquiring by
Lift of the Grand opera house of Butte.
If he can get the control of that house,
then the other cities will doubtless fall
in line promptly.
Tomorrow night at the Margaret will
be presented the Swedish dialect COM
dydrama, ole Olson" which has APP
peared in this city a number of times
before. Miss st. George Hussey, the
woman with the Incompatible Irish
Voice and The Ship that Brought Me
Over" is still with the "Ole Olson"
company, and will play the part of the
Irish woman.
one of the most popular and hgnly
successful farce comedies on the road
this season is "Hogan's Alley" 1t IS a
most lauShable comedy in three acts,
by w. II. Macart, and introduces to
the public the famous yellow kid" and
all the merry crew that inhabit that re-
noWned quarter of Gotham. Mickey
Dugan, the yellow kid" is undoubt-
eddy the most famous creation of mod
ern fiction and his bright ideas, witty
sayings, sage advice and humorous mar
ratiVeS have all been read with the
keenest of pleasure by thousands of
people all over the country. In the new
farce comedy. "Hogan's Alley he is
surrounded by the brightest talent on
the stage and is presented in a vehicle
of humor that fingers in the memory,
causing tears of laughter to stream
from the eyes for months after his Wis
1T. In addition to the very latest songs.
ballads and rag-time melodies, several
new features. including the New Ho-
CANS Alley the. Hogan Cycle club and
HoganS Illuminated Roof garden, have
been introduced for the present tour.
'Hogan's Alley" under. the direction
of Delcher & Hennessy, will be seen in
this city at the Margaret on Thursday
evening,
Following "Hogan's Alley" on Satur-
day night comes Hoyt's "Parlor
Match" probably the best of all of
Hoyts plays. One always associates
with the "Parlor Match" odd Hoss"
Hoey and Charlie Evans and Minnie
French, who for so many years delight
ed the people of this country with their
clever performances. Minnie French.
who was Mrs. Evans. died only re-
Gently in Brooklyn and there are few
of the old cast left. The fact that these
old-time mirth-makers are no longer
with the "Parlor Match" does not in the
least detract from the excellence of the
play and the present company. The
following is a portion of flattering
notice from the Portland Oregonian. a
newspaper whose critic very seldom
goes into parOXysms over any play:
THE production of "A Parlor Match
at the MaTquam Grand last night JUST
fed its claim of being an evergreen
success, and by long odds the best and
funniest creation Of that master farce
writer. Charles H. Hoyt. Despite the
fact of its having been seen here some
half dozen times, the play is as popular
rollicking and fun provoking as ever
1t possesses the attraction of an actual
plot, which, though ludicrous and an
surdly ridiculous, is maintained with
interest and cleVerneSS to the end.
Perhaps the real secret of the peren-