The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18

Justly pronounced it a ruse in the in
| tereStS of the management to draw at
| tention to the play and the theater.
In five seasons of work upon thestage
Sarah Truax has played more roles
| than fall to the lot of the average act
| ress in a lifetime, and has progressed
with sure and certain steps towards
| the perfection of her art. Beauty, IN
( telligence, refinement and personal
magnetism are Miss Truax's in gener-
| Gus share, and these attributes, with
| splendid application and sincere love Of
| her work, have combined to press her
| name rapidly to the front.
| In proof of this fact it may be men
| toned tina. Miss Truax has received
| offers from two prominent managers
who want to star her next season.
! but she has declined the proffered
| honor believing that the time Is not
| yet come for her to attempt a stellar
| venture. 1t has been her ambition to
| rank as one of our best leading women,
and it is unnecessary to tell how well
she has earned the title For three
seasons Miss Truax was Otis SINNERS
leading woman, playing Portia. Ophelia
and Pauline, besides originating the
leads in His Grace de Grammont," AMI
"Villon the Vagabond" The larger
part of the rest of her professional
work has been done in stock companies
in Chicago, Minneapolis, st. Paul. Den
yer, Salt Lake City, Butte and else
where. Next season it is probable that
| this rising young actress will be feat
ured in play that has been produced
already with success.
Otto kawakam, the most disting
uished actor of Japan, arrived at San
| Francisco last week, accompanied by
| his leading lady, Madam Yacco, and a
| supporting company numbering 20.
| They will open a two-weeks' season
| at the California theater June is, and
! after the engagement will make a tour
of the principal American cities, pre-
senting series of the best japanese
dramas. The scenery and stage fur
niture will be built in San Francisco.
and the organization has already COM
menced rehearsing the plays to be pro-
duced there.
Mr.. Kawakami is a man of note in
his own country, having been at one
time a member of the Japanese parlia-
ment. He abandoned his political ca
reer for the stage some years ago. and.
besides winning fame as an actor, has
added a number of plays to the ORA
matte literature of Japan. He has
raised the standards of criticism and
composition in his native land, ana it
is his purpose now to bring Japanese
dramatic art before the people of
America and Europe in a dignified man
ner.
Madam Yacco is not less celebrated
in the far East than is Mr. Kawakan1i.
| She is described as very beautiful
woman of strong dramatic power, well
| schooled in the accomplishments of the
| theater The members of the large
supporting company have been drawn
| from the most renowned theatrical or
! CARNATIONS in Japan.
What are the arbitrary distinctions
| between tragedy and comedy?"
| They are these, in a word: A comedy
| should be comic and a tragedy should
| be tragic. Yet dramatistc of genius
| have modified this rule in incident. For
| instance, there is delighting comedy in
| in some of Shakespeare's profoundest
| tragedy. The distinction pointed by
Rosseau between comedy and tragedy
| is interesting. According to him the
| plot turns on marriage in comedy,
| while in tragedy it turns on murder.
| That is to say, the intrigue in the one
or in the other turns on the event of
marriage or of murder. Thus, in the
first act, the question is will they mar
ry, if a comedy, or will they murder, If
a tragedy. This introduces the second
act Something novel in marriage or
in murder is the life of the third act.
The fourth act illustrates some diff
Guilty that prevents one or the other of
the events. In the fifth act the mar
riage or the murder is effected
Concerning the recovery of Adele
Harrington a New York paper says:
| Miss Adele harrington. who was re-
ported lost in a recent issue of the
Morning Telegraph, came to this Of
flee on Saturday evening to state that
she had been restored to herself She
said:
Il see the kidnapers no longer have
possession of baby Clarke, and II l
have been kidnapped / want to be
found right away. OF course it is ex-
know where l am, but I should like my
friends to be equally well informed,
and as they obviously read the Morn
ing Telegraph, since every mail brings
me clippings form the paper telling
how 1 was abducted, I think its col
umns afford the best possible means CT
reaching them. Won't you please say
I have discovered my whereabouts?
Why, certainly; anything to oblige.
'Biff' Hall says that after the duel
in Paris which was to settle the ques-