The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07

dent that the player folk take their
models from among themselves, rather
than from among the people they essay
to represent.
1T has been the same way with the
dialect of the Southern negro as repre-
scented by both Northern players and
| writer's Nothing is farther from the
| truth and more absolutely absurd than
their efforts to reproduce the negro
dialect There is no greater abortion
on the stage to-day than the stage ne
gro. and there could be no characteri-
cation more delightful than a true one
! OF the old time Southern Uncle and
'Aunty.' Now ana then comes along
| the thousandth play writer and player
| VINO has some real appreciation of
Southern atmosphere, Southern charac-
ter and Southern dialect. AS the Cour-
Ter Journal has said in its dramatic
columns, there is such a play and such
players now at Macauley's. Mr.. Glenn
ent in his play A Southern Gentleman
shows plainly that he has not taken
his Southern characters nor his South
ern negroes from the Northern dialect
dishers or from the minstrel stage His
! characters are real people of the South
and Hannibal and Nanny Indy
are true types of the old time house
servants of the South whom every true
Southerner knows and loves. They ara
not perfect yet but they are so good
and so much better than those seen
before that it is pleasure for the
Courier Journal to commend them"
Mary Anderson-"Our Mary'-with
her husband, Antonio de Navarro, is
visiting friends in New York. It is her
first visit to America since her mar
riage in Paris in June. 1890, when she
decided to leave the stage forever. The
marriage was most brilliant one. and
OF 10. tl,.N
live in the seelusion of De Navarro's
beautiful country estate in England
where she wanted to forget the stage
and the hurry and worry of an actress
life.
1t was supposed at the time that in
few months Mary Anderson would
change her mind, that the glamor of
the stage and the memory of her great
triumphs would prove irresistible, and
that Mrs. de Navarro would come back
to eclipse the many stars who were
trying to adjust themselves to her or
bit
Hardly a month went by without its
30 rumors that she had got weary of
her seclusion. Theatrical managers
were not slow to offer tempting bait in
the way of small fortunes, but, one af-
ter another, the negotiations fell
through, and Mary Anderson remained
Mrs. de Navarro, the wife, and spent
all her time in her beautiful home
where she had nothing more ambitious
in view than the care and education
of her children.
The ease with which she forgot the
glitter of the footlights was nothing
less than scandalous to her former as
sociates, who could no more under
stand how one who could move an au-
dience to sympathy by the turn of a
hand, the lisp >of a word could consent
n do
stand it, and never will but Mrs. de
Navarro evidently does, and that's
more to the point.
Her visit to this country has no sig
nifcance from a theatrical point of
view. She has friends and relatives in
Louisville, KY, and her husband has
relatives in New York, and after a
visit to each Mr.. and Mrs. Navarro
will go back to England, where their
children have been left.
The following is from the beautiful
things in Clay Clements new play, "A
Southern Gentleman:
Madam Sterlng-The real heroes of
war are never recognized in history.
Judge MISUNDERSTANDING
history may not. but real history WILL
Madam Sterling-Real history has
never been written. The history that
is hidden in human hearts, that per-
L
have history of the war, gentlemen.
did you know that?
General CARROLL hope. then, we
have some real history at last
Madam Sterling-It excels in one re-
spect, at any rate, all other histories. |
General CARROLL am not surprised |
madam, that anything from your hand |
should be excellent.
Madam Sterling-BreVity is it's chief |
quality. ] is in three chapters, and |
to insure Ciura bility. / have had it pub
lished in marble | am so fond of my |
work that | have committed the whole |
book to memory. You shall hear it. |
gentlemen. Chapter one: Horace Ster-
ling, my husband, fell at the victory of |
Balls Bluff, Eighteen Hundred and |
Sixty-one; chapter two: John Henry
Thompson, my brother, fell a the TAX
ing of New Orleans, Eighteen hundred
and sixty-two; chapter three: this is
the longest, gentlemen Horace, John,
Nathaniel, Paul; I gave these four
sons for the confederacy! Gettysburg;