The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
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Manager Mcfarland has good list
of strong attractions coming to the
Grand during the next few weeks, in
fact the list may be said to have start
ed with Hotel Topsy Turyy," which
closed a very satisfactory and success
full engag cement last night Following
the engagement of "A Yenuine Yentle-
man" which opens tonight, will come
"A Milk White Flag for two perform
ances on Wednesday. opening with a
matinee on that day. The comedy is
one of. Hoyt's most popular and is al
In "A Milk White Flag Mr.. Hoyt mas
brought his attention to the National
Guard, and he has treated it with such
originality, such broad vet telling
humor and wit that it is said the fun
becomes irresistible "A Milk White
Flag has more of a plot and story
than is usual with farce comedies, and
it is more pretentious than the other
Hoyt plays, requiring large cast for
it's production and a carload of scenery
and costumes. It is spectacular in eff
feet and is SO full of music that it might
easily be called a comic opera. The
success of "A Milk White Flag" has
been phenomenal, and the war in Cuba
and the Philippines has caused any
thing pertaining to the military to be-
come extremely popular with all classes
of people. The satire contained in the
piece which is directed against the cltl-
zen soldiery is of so good natured a
character that the victims are usually
the most amused and best pleased. Last
season 1.-THE Flag played all the towns
in the South in which the military
camps are located and did a record
breaking business. No doubt many a
soldier boy who saw the play While on
duty last winter will remember the
popularity it enjoyed. 1t comes TO US
this season with an entirely new and
handsome scenic equipment, also new
costumes. The musical numbers have
been changed and new specialties
added to the already long list. No
playwright is so shreWd a studying the
wants of the public as Hoyt. He has
partly rewritten "A Milk White Flag
and has supplied material that is par
hieularly appropriate at the present
time. The company includes several
of the old fayorites and is SAID to pc
one of the strongest ever engaged for
this play.
Next on the list is "A Stranger in
New York" another of Hoyts plays,
which will begin an engagement or
three nights and a Saturday matinee
next Thursday night. Everybody IN
stranger" When the play was last
presented here it was presented TO sev-
eral of the largest houses of the season
and it is safe to say that the pople VINO
witnessed the amusing comedy were
among the best pleased that ever
emerged from the Grand opera house
1t is being presented this year upon a
grander scale than ever, with no END
of up-to-date music. a lot of novel Vau-
deviIle features and bevy of the pref
ties girls ever seen on the local stage.
During the recent visit Of this piece
in London, England, where it was pre-
scented at the Duke of Yofks theater,
Mr.. Hoyt devoted all his time in AIDING
to its perfection and giving it sort OF
finishing touch. And the cast, when
Is to present the best of all Hoyts
comedies, has been selected with great
care, and among its members are Paul
f. Nicholson, jr., who was one OF the