Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-27
STUART ROBSON.
GIVEN AN OVATION BY A CROWDED
HOUSE AT THE GRAND.

Stuart Robson and the members OF MS
clever mpan were given an oFatioh
at the Grand last night n at the close
of the second act Mr.. Robson was called
before the fOotlights twice ana coWpelieu
to make a speech. .
The play presented was '"The Meddler,'
in which Mr.. Robson had the role of The
Meddler,' and Miss Burroughs assumed
the character of Mrs. Bancroft. In the
character of The Meddler' Robson en-
acts the part of a man who gets into
trouble because he has not sufficient Wit
to keep out. The piece is embelllshed
with bright repartee and clever satire
which the splendid company handles
most gracefully. Each member of the
company is assigned important work and
not one of the leaders is dwarfed by the
| o~vershadowing of Mr.. Robson or Miss
Burroughs.
That Mr.. Robson's efforts were fully
| appreciated by the large audience was
| evidenced by the applause bestowed so
literally. In responding before the cur
tain Mr.. Robson said in his Robsonian
way:
Il always consider it a compliment to
an actor to be called before the cur
tain. 1t is a double compliment when he
is called twice. and especially gracious
| when the applause is so general that he
canont even hear the usherS.
l. always IliIlh lIdl, VIGIL Oil "o"'
ence calls an actor before the curtain
once they wish to get the actor away
from the play: when they call him
twice they desire to get the man away
from the actor; when they insist on a
speech they desire to get n idea that
may dominate or characterize the man
away from him..
when 1 am called before an audience
to make a speech any favorite ideas I
may have had in the corridors of my con-
science flee away, and instead of present.
ing my friends with a glowing PERSONAL
! ity they find instead only a cold and
empty personal interior.
Ideas are fleeing things: they are
also very tenacious. l remember when
| was a boy in my home in Baltimore
my father drew the plan of a house
on my slate. 1 remember it now. There
was a hall down the center and a little
room for me in the second gable. But,
bless you, he never built it. Then the
years flew SO fast that they seemed to
fairly tumble over each other until so
had gone by, and then it was my boy,
who had the slate. One day ! told his
mother that he was a good boy and hat
we had better keep him. SO we decided
to build a house, md, bless you, the only
house ] could think of was the little
house my father had drawn for me on my
slate, and we built it with the same little
room in the second gable for my boy that
had been intended for me. The idea of
that house survived my father; it now
stands materialized on the highlands of
New Jersey; it will probably survive me,
and / hope it will last as long as the
little fellow needs a home.
you probably have some idea in call
ing me before the curtain. Tn turn | hope
you may live to welcome the young ac-
tors who are to greet you upon this stage
10, f1n. on,,inr yran 90 nd I ;~t~,I - $40
turn here myself"
Tonight, the closing night of the en-
gagement, "TWo Htogues and a Romance
will be presented, in which Mr.. Robson
and his will be seen to much
better advantage. In this comedy Miss
Burroughs enacts the part of a literary
woman with q past. The role calls for
great emotional art and Miss Burroughs
rendition is said by critics to be perfect.