Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-11
produce Maeterlinck's "Aglavaine and
Selysette."

W OAC XNCW 1OTA pdQer a
famine in the chorus girl market Is the
most remarkable thing connected with
TINS summer in a theatrical way. The
Dig producers of comic opera, musical
comedy and extravaganza, and their
stase managers and business agents say
thai the supply of shapely, good-lookdng
girls who IAN sing a few notes and Jake
a step or two in ensemble dances is about
hve hundred short of the demand. Within
three weeks the pay for chorus girls a
gone up from SIS to $25 a week to from
$25 to $35, and wen at these prices it is
hard to get them. There is the greatest
Kind OF scurrying on the part of agents
who generally gather the girls for new
shows. They have w started adver-
t!sing IN out-of-town papers in the hope
that they may succeed in bringing new
recruits to the stage.
Pierre Ginisty is to revive, next year,
at the Odeon, a half-forgotten tragedy,
Ulysses" by Francois Ponsard, with
music written by Charles Gounod. It was
but dropped from the repertory after a
few performances.
The Princess's Theater, hich 3. F.
Keith a learned in London, WaShen-
tirely rebuilt in 1880, and was openaM on
Nov. 6 of h year with Edwin Booth as
annie The curtain-raiser was Henry
Arthur Jones's AN Old Master" n
spy, made a hit in one of the ""Quo
Vadis' companies las winter, has been
engaged for a leading part in Frederick
b. sanford's farce cupid Outwits
Adam" which opens at the Bijou The
atre, New York, in September. How
ard Hall, another former favorite of the
play, "A Soldier of the Empire" has
been engaged as leading man at the
Alcazar, San Francisco.
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According to newspaper reports, a
rather remarkable arrangement has been
made by David Belasco in connection
with Mrs. Leslie Carter's production of
La Dubarry" in New York next season.
MI. Belasco has been to Paris and Sc
cured the services of M. Chainnish, of
he Theatre Francois, to design all cos
tunes and to furnish drawing for prop
critics to be used by Mrs. Carter.
Mr.. Belasco is the first outsider to
whom this favor has been granted, the
Theatre Francois being so rigidly con-
sentative in it's policy regarding such
matters, but the fact of the plays of NJ.
Richepin, the author of l. Dubarry,"
having been on the Coincide stage may
have been the moving factor in securing
the services of the greatest artist of his
kind in France.
Louis c. Haley, a "rag-time'' composer,
thinks that the days of the craze are
lIulIiDtTtu. Inc TdS-LlIHe ulLuleS OIL lS0U,
he thinks, are by no means equal to
those of preceding years., and he says
that HI style is being worked, and that a
decline is at han In discussing the ma
ture of rtag-time he said:
"Eessentially it is a syncopation, a
very rhythmic a%rtifice, whereby the &C
cent upon the beat is disloged and placed
upon the last half of the beat, tying or
holding the tone over into a similar pO-
sition in the next beat. Without this
tying of the last half of the beat to- the
first half of the next beat-as it were
bridging the ~beats-there can be no
syncopation: in other words, a synco-
patton melody is SO anxious to proceed
that 1t cannot wait for time but STARTS
a half beat ahead Of its accompanying.
harmonies and then waits at IA mid
die of the next beat for the strain to
catch up. Lide, the young violinist, q
cousin of mine, when admonished toEYOb-
serve the rests, replied that he was too
ambitious to stop for rests. But rag
time, carried to the ragged adge, as It is
today, is more than a SyncOpatiOn. The
non-harmonic tones in the melody lead
to harmonic formations and progress
sionS, known as suspensions, anticlpa-
tions, retardations, appogiaturas and
passing tones. In a word, the spirit of
rag-time melody experiences h all in
dividuals do who try to get ahead of
others by a rush. They find it a rough
road, full of excitement and difficulties,
but, Withal, some pleasure in the race.
Perhaps his is the reason why the
American people, in whom the spirit OF
adventure is keenly alive, have taken to
rag-time with it's abnormal n excit-
ing life"
IAN London correspondents seem to be
agreed that Mr.. Trees RIP Van Wrinkle
has been one of the weird disasters OF
the London season. Much has been writ
ten of it that has been pointedly ann
ing, and a recent writer declares that the
visitor willing to see a dramat-
ic idol shattered or tradition destroyed
could in every way be Accommodated at
Her Majesty's Theatre. He says: Alas
for Door Rip, whom Joseph Jefferson
made famous! He has become a clumsy
Avenue A German with a variety stage
dialect. All the underlying charm OF
this dissolute but kindly rogue Is lost.
He is now no more a a unk vaga-
bond who harnesses his wife and sleeps a
e~omic-Opera sleep on a mountain. How
Beerbohm Tree managed to cOnjure up
his weird special version is a mystery.
The picturesque village OF Railing Wat
ers, which Washington Irving pictured
in the Catskills, resembled in the new
production a summer resort in the Alps.
The villagers wore wooden shoes and
clattered through Dutch dances on every
possible occasion. American Indians
with London dialect lurked in the back
ground with all the dHlHldllOH anu redA-
ity which exist in their wOoden brethren
who ornament the fronts of Broadway
tobacco stores. Tit stage was strewn
with gigging children, and the dog Sny-
der, which never appeared In MI. JEFF
ferson's play, played a conspicuous part.
The ghost scene on the mountains was
deliberately set and had picturesque
value, but Rip moved through 1t In a ray
OF green light. Incidently he shot one of
Hendrix Hudson's ghostlike sailors, and
the sailorman arose and gravely bowed.
This expedient, presumably, was intro
duced to prove to n matter-of-fact
English AUDIENCE that the gnOmeltke fig