Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19

Liebler companies. Miss Mayo is just out
of school and lives with her sister, Mrs.
James Elverson of Philadelphia, who, as
Eleanor Mayo, makes such a success in
the title role of princess Bonnie
tralto of the Bostonians, to become con-
tralto for the new grand-opera-in-Eng
lish company that he and Maurice Grau
are organizing for a season at the Metro,
politan Opera house next season. 1t is
said that Mrs. Davis is not unwilling to.
sing in grand opera and she may be in
duced to reconsider her determination to
join the Francis Wilson company. a
A good story is told in the dressing
rooms of the New York theaters in which
Edwin Booth figures humorously. Mr..
Booth was booked to appeal at a big pro-
fessional benefit in New York, and. being
the leading actor of the day, he was con-
suited by the managers as to his choice
of place on the programme. There was an
imposing array of volunteers, and among
them were the Irish comedians, Harry
n John Kernel. The brothers had made
a great hit in their "Sidewalk n
ton and had been put down for that
the list and said nothing until he came
to the James of the Witty HiDsrnians.
Put me down before the Kernell&,' he
said, gravely. Were l to follow them
my soliloquy would empty the house. If
they follow me they will seem even more
l%aughable than they really are n the
melancholy Dane was so put down.
"Borderside,' the play in which Virgin
ia alhoun appeared at the Lyceum thea
ter, New York, last week, is the piece,
which Kelley presented at the Columbia
theater in San Francisco and offered a
prize for the best title. 1t never had a
name there, and it seems to have fallen
dead in New York. Miss Calhoun has not
proved a success, according to the critics.
On the first night Of Woman and
Wine,' when Elita Proctor Otis had been
killed in the duel and her lifeless body
had been hidden in a box under, a mass OF
cut roses, the exercises had SO winded her
that the flowers rose and fell with her
breathing. The people laughed. Now
when she is put in the box a board is Slip
ped over her chest and the roses rest
quietly on immovable wood.
The retirement of Blanche Walsh from
the roles of Sardou heroines is not going
to mean the shelving of the Davenport
productions of the dramas. Melbourne
MacDowel has announced that he will
secure another actress and Will continue
to present the plays, all of them, Cleo
patra,'' "Gismonda,' La Tosca' and
n eOOfd. his HfSl step Hts DeeL u Hilu
a new anage las Ben Stern, who cared
for Fanny Davenport's affairs for SO
many years, some time 6 elected to fol-
low the fortunes of Miss Walsh. The new
business director will be Clarence NJ.
Bruno. Miss Walsh and Mr.. Stern mean
time have begun a search for a play, and
it is said that the quest has something to
do with the actress trip to Europe.
an RoSfandis famous NAV 'CyranO de
Bergerac,' is very disappointing in Eng
land says the London Sphere. Mr..
Stuart Ogilvie and Mr.. Louis Parker have
lone the work of translation as we'll as
could have been expected, blu the mere
fact of translation max NJ. Rostand's
play something quite different from the
original. Mr.. Wyndham has mounted
'Cyrano' far better than the French did
themselves. Within the limits of his
language he seems to me to act quite as
well as Coquelin-and yet the play is
flat 1t has not seemed flat in English
on this sid he water. Was 1t owing to
a different adaptation or a different actor.
i, Let there be no mistake in the matter,
says the London Mail. In America re-
Gently there has been an inundation Of
Objectionable farce. There are signs of a
similar attempt here; of late there have
been one of two essays in this direction,
and, possibly, the success of a great syn
dictate in the United States in the provis-
ion of this unwholesome article may lead
to emulation among our English manag-
ers. We, in England, are sufficiently
broad minded to forgive daring on the
stage if that daring is associated with a
tragic theme, if it be necessary. in a SER
ious play, to hold the mirror, unclouded,
up to nature. But vulgarity for the mere
sake of raising laughter, for the mere
purpose of pandering to a taste for the
smoking room story, will not be palliated,
and will, in the long run, meet with the
fate such pandering merits, the gradual
enlargement from the theater of the real
playgoing public, as distinct from the
smart set which frequents first
nights" And when that happens, it will
no a haI Jav fn. tho thaotar