The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
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was regarded as pretty nearly the most
expensive thing of the kind ever I'M
dertaken, it becomes apparent that the
Ben Hur' presentment, upon the in
creased scale to which reference is
made, will be altogether beyond any
| stage effort in the history of this coun-
! try.
| In order to give increased realism to
! the chariot race scene the right to use
! Neil Burgess patent revolving stage
| apparatus has been purchased and the
| audience will be enabled to see the
| chariots drawn at full speed by real
| horses. The entire depth of the Broad
way theater stage which is 20 feet from
| the curtain line to the rear wall, will be
| required for this episode, the arrange
ments for which, it is said, have been
| so far perfected that the minutest de-
| tails of the race as described in the
| book will be realized even to the loss
of wheel from one of the chariots and
| the violent throwing, out of the
charioteer
The entire season of the Broadway
| theater~ subsequent to the date already
mentioned is held at the disposal of
Ben Hur," whose projectors are so
confident of it's long continued success
that they have made no preparatio at
all for taking il to other cities during
1900
If the play should turn out as ex-
pected there will be great fortune in
it for all concerned, as they hold the
rights for the entire world, and have
declined all propositions for it's use by
other managers in foreign countries 1
am told that a suggestion was made to
allow Sir Henry Irving to control the
English license, but that nothing will
be done in this direction.
Here is what appears to be a pretty
fair estimate of Maude Adams Jul
let from the pen of Paul Griggs:
What the young actress has given
US is nothing more or less than an
ingenue Juliet" a Juliet" reminfs-
cent of modern light comedy That her
rendering is sufficiently girlish there
is no question. But was Shakespeare
Juliet as girlish as Miss Adams pre-
sents her? To be sure, Shakespeare
has made Juliet IA, and Miss Adams
has made her Is, but one is the IA of
Verona and the other is the Is of New
York Miss Adams makes Juliet a
modern young girl, and she remains
young girl throughout all the trag-
edy. The Veritable Juliet was not
modern at all, and she does not re-
main a young girl after her marriage
to Romeo. She is a particularly pas
sionate woman of passionate race
AS an Italian, size hllONS now TO nate,
and to love with a fervency quite be-
yond the power of the juliet of whom
Miss Adams introduced us. Two years
of Lady Babbie have evidently been
too much for Miss Adams. Had Yer
ona been Edinburgh and the Montagues
and Capulets Scottish clans, then this
Juliet would be to the manor born"
Il am going to write a book about
farces," said j. B. Delcher, who is ex-
plotting Browns in Town Il have
written one book already, you know,
and it didn't make hit. Perhaps the
next won't, either You can't always
tell. l think | shall call it a little
compendium on what to avoid and
what to look for in farces. / have been
delving in farces to such an extent of
late that l feel farcified through and
through. 1t will be guide to would
be spectators in farces, to writer's of
farces, to players of farces and to pro-
ducers of farces. incidentally, it may
be useful to commentators on farces
What do you think of the idea? 1t
will be a complete catalogue of farci-
cal characters in alphabetical array.
each one tagged and labeled with the
appropriate jokes, situations, gags and