The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-13

powder beneath the heels of the ex-
cited mob
The prepare tons for the Passion Play
at Oberammergau next year are al
ready under way. All of the actors have
not yet been chosen, but the choruses
have begun to rehearse. Anton Lang,
the handsome John of previous festi-
walls, is to be the Christ. The most i'm
portant change in the appearance of
the theater will be the new iron frame
work which win extend over the space
allotted to spectators. This will be COW
cred with canvas to protect spectators
from changes in the weather. An UNI
brella used to be the ouly available
means by which that could be done.
This structure alone is to cost $40 900,
so the expense of the festival can be
realized.
1t is curious instance of the opera
ton of times whirligig that Charles
F'rohman should now be in practical
control of Days theater. If there was
one person on earth August Daily more
cordially detested than another, and he
was a large and generous hater,
Charles Frohman was that man. He
told a friend not more than a year ago
that if he had to go to the poor house
or give way to Charles Frohman on
Broadway, he would choose the former
course without hesitation. Mr.. DAILY,
in fact never alluded to Mr.. Frohman
by name. but called him by a pet name
which fully expressed his contempt for
the man who is now his successor.
In 1896 Walter Perkins waxed super
stitious about the 10 letters in his name
and began to use his initial E. Then he
made his hit as the barber in My
Friend From India" which he has
played ever since. 1t is odd how few
stars have names of IL letters.
Francis Wilson, William H. Crane,
Herbert Kelley and James X. Hackett
are about all. Crane generally lodges
fate by signing wv. H. Crane" Fame
never came to Minnie Madern until she
forsook those 10 letters and called her
self Minnie Madern Fiske.
The Parisians are nightly amused
over an action pending in Brussels. A
and a book of the words for the opera.
Directly the curtain went up the lights
were lowered. He accordingly claims
damages on the ground that it was i'm
possible to read the book he had PAID
for and that the artists were so lnco-
herent that it was impossible to hear a
word He also claims for waste OF
time.
Work has already begun upon the
models Tor the scenery lof tle SSiiiii'S
production of 1.-The Ghetto, which
Jacob Lift will make at his Broadway
theater, New York city, early in DC
tober. 1.-THE Ghetto has been run
ming for nearly three hundred NIGHTS
in Amsterdam, and is regarded by Eu-
ropean critics as being one of the
strongest plays that has been produced
in years. The play goes in London
shortly, with Potter and Bellew at the
head of the cast.
The scenery for the coming produc-
ton of "Zorah" at McVickeT's theater,
Chicago September 3, is all but COM
pleted, and it promises to be very hand
some and effective. The scenes are
all Russian and there are four acts,
The play is said to tell a most inter-
esting story.
Walker Whiteside will omen in Ben
Hur" November q. The piece will run
the entire season in New York.
Sporting Life" the big melodrama
which was so successtul last
| season shat ran for five months
in New York and three in Chicago
goes into rehearsal in a couple of wee ks
prior to its opening at the Boston the