The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-22
ANACONDA NEWS.
|0RGAN FUND IS SWELLED
4 Entertainment at the Margaret
Theater a Great Success,
sHOUSE WAS OVERLOOKING
VA Mastery Lecture and Splendid Music
Contributed to One OF the Best En-
tertainments Ever Seen in
Anaconda.


zone of the largest audiences in its his
cory. Seats and boxes were all filled
and chairs had to be placed at the
tends of the aisles, while many people
Svere standing.
Il In every way the entertainment Civ
Zen in aid of the organ fund of st. Pc
ters church was success. Just how
much was realized cannot be told just
yet, but it was a large sum.
y The entertainment was good in all
@of it's several features, every one Of
switch was so much above the crdln-
larry that it would have been al enter
xainment in itself. .:
n Palms, ported flowers and great
punches of roses We're the decorations
of the stage, while flowers were pler-
ltiful in the audience on the costumes
of the es-chrysanthemums and
roses predminating.
y The lecture of Father MacCorry on
s"The Story Beautiful" was delivered
with all the eloquence and power for
which the orator-priest IS famed. Never
did he deliver it better than last night.
The narrative of the life of Christ from
birth was told in vivid language, sa-
ient incidents being pictured in rarely
beautiful descriptions The appear
ance of the Star of Bethlehem in the
East, the journey of the three wise
men, the birth of the Messiah on that
clear December night, and then the
early, toiling boyhood If Jesus-all
these were told in such manner as TO
make them real and living incidents.
Then came the story of the boy Of II
among the learned religiolists il the
temple asking and answering them
questions and the narrative of the
growth to manhood of the Christ child;
then his first announcement to the w0-
man at the well that He was the Mes
siah, and, briefly, the subsequent dia
matte periods of the Savior's short stay
upon earth, His healing of the sick
and on to Gesthemene, the crucifiNion
and the resurrection. There was but
one departure from the general theme
and that when was tod the incident
of Mary Magdalene. IN blrit of
impassioned oratory the speaker cried
out against that law or rue or custom
Of society that condemns the woman
and condones the man, the par:rer of
her guilt. %!
Accompanying the lecture an? ror-
dering it even more dramatic were
series of stereoptican pictures thrown
on a huge canvas. They were repro
auctions of Hoffman's paintings IF the
life Of Christ. At the close in the order
named We're shown portrait of the
pope, a picture of st. Peters church
and portraits of Rev. Fathers Coop
man and MacCorry.
There was no sermonizing in the lee
ture, but the fidelity and simplicity
with which the speaker told the eau IT,
full story of the Savior's life upon earth
was more powerful than many sermons
would have been.
Good music at any time in Anaconda
is a treat. but that of the concert
,in1, ip1 he w. a
yeritable feast.
In an interlude in the lecture Mrs.
G. Haldorn of Butte sang "The Holy
City, so sweetly, so perfectly that it
touched every heart in the audience.
Later she sang Gounod's "There Is
Green Hill Far Away" responding to
tumultuous encore by singing New
ms 1.-The Rosary At the end of the
Gounod selection she was presented
with ma gnificent bunch of roses.
The two numbers which the chorus
under the direction of Professor S. A.
kennicott sang were revelation. That
so large a chorus could have been
brought to high degree of excellence
in so short a time is remarkable.
Many voices in the chorus evidently
were those of well cultured musicians.
The two numbers We're Mozart's Gloria
and the Hallelujah chorus from the
Handel oratorio Following were the
voices in the chorus:
Sopranos-Madames Haldorn, Nor
beck, Collins, Baker; Misses Wright,
English, Morgan, McCabe.
Altos-Madames Kennicott, Winston;
Misses Davidson, Gleeson.
Tenors-Messrs. Thomas, McMullen,
MartZ, Reeves.
Basses-Messrs, Baker, Davis, En-
erson, McGuinness. Brown, Pickel,
Scare.
The singing Of the male quartette was
one of the best features of the enter
tainment. 1t had but one number, but
was Obliged to respond to an encore
that nearly raised the roof. The quar-
tette consisted of Messrs. MartZ, Thorn
as, Pickel and Davis
1t would be unfair to close a review
of the entertainment without mention
ing the excellence of the Margaret
Theater orchestra, which contributed
not little to the success of the even
ing and the enjoyment of the audience.
In one of the upper boxes on the left
hand side of the house sat Mr.. and
Mrs. J. v. Collins. In the other upper
box on the same side were Sisters