The Anaconda standard., 1899-04-20
GOSSIP OF TIE THEA7ER.
The Reason Robson Cancelled His
Anaconda Date.
THE IMPERIAL IS CLOSED
Has Failed to Make Money for Some
Time-"The Spider and the Fly" at
the Grand-Pretty Girls and
New Specalties.

Regarding the cancellation of the date
which was being held by Manager Col
Inns of the Margaret theater of Anacon-
da for Stuart Robson and his produc-
tion of "The Meddler" Ed w. Dunn
business manager for the eminent COM
edian. said yesterday: I'VE regret most
sincerely our inability to present The
Meddler' before an Anaconda audience,
but our time limit to play this North
ern Pacific territory is curtailed to
three weeks, beginning at Portland,
Ore, and ending 1t Duluth, MINI. We
are under a contract to play return en-
gagement at the Grand opera house,
Chicago, opening on May I, and we
have been trying to move that along a
week later, and thus be able to stay
that much longer on this route, but
when | arrived in Butte yesterday l
found advices awaiting me which said
decisively that the Chicago date could
not be interfered with"
1T is unfortunate" continued Mr.
Dunn, because MI Robson has not
been out this way in eight years, and
we could easily have remained in the
Mr. Dunn is authority for the state
ment that Mr.. RobS0n's present season
is the best he has known as an indi-
vidual star, and that his Western tour
is being construed as an event in the
theatrical world all along the line
where his receptions have invariably
been so cordial as to be characterized
as IAN ovation
Stuart Robson's engagement in Butte
will be fulfilled on the evenings of
Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
He will present both of the comedies
which have won him additional fame
and fortune this season. On Wednes-
! day night Augustus Thomas play"The
| Meddler,' will be the bill and on
| Thursday night Theodore Burt Sayer :
| bristlingly humorous comedy drama of
serious interest, 1.-TWO Rogues and a
| Romance" will be presented
The sale of seats for the Robson en-
gagement is announced to begin on
Monday morning next, and Manager
Mcfarland desires to say that all orders
| received through the mail. telegraph OF
telephone will be filed and filled in the
order in which they are received.
The Imperial theater in Butte has
! been closed and will remain so indefin-
| itely, although a notice on the doors
! announces that it is being remodelled
| and retitted and will reopen under d
new management and with new ag-
| gregation Of talent. The Imperial has
not been making any money for its
proprietor for some time, for severa
reasons, one Of which, according tt
stories told by employees, has been the
fact that the house as well as all the
women, performers and others, have
been compelled to give up too much
every month as a tribute to persons
who claimed the power to levy it. Tht
Imperial has always been the best con
! Quoted place of its kind ever known il
| Butte
Leavitts spectacular extravaganza
"The Spider and the Fly" will open al
| engagement of four nights and tw,
matnees at the Grand Tonight Th'
| piece is made up Of a wealth of scenery
costumes and pretty girls in the chor
uses and ballets. There are 40 peopl
! in the company, with many new spe
cialties, music transformation scenes
comedy. opera and new scenic efforts
For show Of its kind it is claimed t.
be this season the most gorgeous of an,
on the road.
One of the new organizations thi
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