Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13

The enduring excellence of Frank
Daniels new comic opera The Ameer,~
as an appropriate vehicle for the display
of his unique talent, is being pretty well
proved just now at the Grand Opera
House in Chicago. Last season Daniels
played the opera there for two weeks to
an even $40, 900. This season the first
weeks receipts We're $4,000.
Margaret Sylvia, who is to star this
| season in Kirke La Shelle's light opera
hit, 1.-The Princess Chic" is of the
brunette style of beauty. She is de-
scribed as strikingly handsome. with
large black eyes and brilliant teeth. A
New York society writer predicts that
she will be pronounced the most DASH
ingly beautiful woman on the light opera
stage"
One of the curious alterations OF
weather is seen in Way Dow East"
the pastoral play which William A.
Brady's will give here this sea-
son. The first act shows the warm and
brilliant colors of a summer day. Every
thing ook peaceful and beautiful from
the comfortable shade of the big basn to
the sun-kissed hills of the pasture. In
the second act a glimpse OF winter is
seer through the big bay window, and
in the third act a terrific blizzard is rag
ing. At McVicker's theater, Chicago,
where the piece is now running, the aud
fences applaud every scene. New Eng
land ~puritanism and it's effect on charac-
ter are plainly shown in Way Down
East in the person of Squire Bartlett.
He is a mar who lives absolutely 'ac>
coTdin' to the Scripter," and in so do
ing he does many harsh things. things
which his own lind heart refuses to
sanction, but which his early training
and his environments ave made second
nature to him. At the end of the play
the latent good in the fine old man
triumphs over conventionalities and he
grows very human n loving.
1.-THE Choir Invisible was produced
by Liebler & Co., at the Park theater,
Boston,, on Tuesday night, Oct. 2.
Frances Hastings decentralization of
James Lane Aliens phenomenally pop
ular novel follows the original faith
fully, even to the apt preservation in
dialogue form of the lines that hinge in
the readers memory, while the inherent
strength of the story, has been
developed to the utmost. The love of
John Gray, the puritanic1 s~choolmaster,
for 1.-The forbidden woman" Mrs. Fall
coner, is the principal theme of the play,
ana leads to several powerfuLsituations.
Finally he succeeds in mastering his un-
lawful love, and leaves Kentucky, after
one of the tenderest and most d%elicately
dramatic parting scenes in the contem-
porary drama. The author does not risk
an anti-climax for the SAKE of the.tra-
ditional happy ending" but wisely
stops her play at the strongest point.
Nevertheless, The Choir INVISIBLE Is
nuot a somber play. The main story is
relieved by several quaint Characters
the parson, the conceited blacksmith.
Peter Springle; the husband hunting
Widow Babcock and Kitty Poythress
Delng comedy creations. Even the
fllrtatious Amy Falconer and the humor-
Gus If malicious O'Bannon are conceived
In a bright spirit, While the numerous
types of pioneer kentuckians, ranging
from gallant revolutionary veterans like
General Wilkinson to rough frontiers
men and heroic women like Mother Fer
guson, contribute to realize the pictures
que atmosphere of the period. Henry
JeWett appears in his original role OF
John Gray, and the members of the com,
pany We're selected especially for their
respective roles. Judging from Boston,s
nearly approval, the play is destined for
a long run at the Park theater,