Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-06

poser. left a fortune of $500, 900 and sew.
eral unproduced works.
The Berlin censor has forbidden even
an expurgated version of Tolstoi's ''The
Power of Darkness"
Signor Puccini has written. to David
Belasco asking his permission to put
Madame Butterfly to music.
augustus Pftou has finished a new ro-
mantle Irish play for Chauncey .Olcott,
but It will not be produced until after
ths holidays.
There are in this country several clubs
OF ~playgoers. notably In the cities Of st.
EOufs and Baltimore. formed chiefly to
Encourage the best in the drama.
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Statements of the contrary notwith-
standing. says the Detroit Freee Press.
sarah Bernhard, is now about fifty-six
6 years of age. She was born in 1874. and
Hopin 1S47. IS her recently published
chapter of "reminiscences declares.
b. Vincent S~ternroyd. who plays Laertes
in Hamlet" supporting E.. H. Sothernl
and Virginia Harmed, was the Laertes
with Forbes Robertson at Sir Henry Irv-
ing's Lyceum theater during the recently
eventfM revival in London.
'.The Scarlet Sin.' by George r. Sims
and Arthur Shirley, produced at Liver
pool. deals to some extent with the Sal
walton Army and its mission. The hero Is
Rube Halstead. first a case-hardened
burglar, and afterwards a perfervid Sal
walton Army soldier.
Mansfield's proposed production Of
Henry w." is the ter-centenary of its orr
iginal presentation, it having first been
put on in the year 1900. The piece was
played for the first time on any stage
tina year at the Globe Theater, London.
with Richard Burbage "a the role of King
Henry.
Lester Lonergan. for a long time lead
ing man with Madame Helen Modjeska.
has begun his season as leading mar
with he Woodward stock company at
the. Auditorium theater, Kansas City.
During the opening weeks Of the ngage
ment he has been successful in Men
and Women and Shenandoah"
-. h. SOthern ana virginia f1dFneu
nave a new costume comedy by Lawrence
IRVING, dealing with the career OF Love-
lace, the poet. Young Irving was 1nvit-
ed over to play the King in Hamlet"
and at the end ofsthe eason would have
staged his own piece, to be ready for q
run next season. the engagement
with his father interfered.
80 - D-.-o4ks1 A.,
thors has announced to the theatrical
managers of France that they propose to
regard as still in existence the recently
expired rights Of Honore de Balzac in all
his plays. The penalty of disregarding
this notice is much more severe than any
that could be inflicted by law. 1t con-
sists in refusal to allow a recalcitrant
manager to play any piece over which the
Society OF. Dramatic Authors has author
\ a4yaf Lnpothex words, it puts an end to his
EcdupatioR and closes his theater.
Several cablegrams have passed be-
tween E. H. Sothern and Justin Huntley
Mccarthy relative to the contract for the
production of the latter's new play en-
TITLED "It Might Have Been" Owing to
the success of Hamlet" Mr.. Sothern has
asked for a -postponement of MI. Nc
-Carthy's piece until later this season.
The scenery is all ready, however, and if
the author insists on the fulfiaMment off
the contract, the first presentation of ut
Might Have Been will take place at the
Hollis Street theater alt the latter part
of the second and last week of the Soth-
ern-Harned engagement.
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Eamond Rostand's next play will be
= on for Sarah Bernhard. but will not