Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30
THE REAL WIDOW BROWN.

especially when they are as captivating
as the Real Widow Brown" Manager
Sutton's offering for tomorrow matinee
and all next week. This amusing nlav
rs the latest bid for popular favor from
une American public. 1t is a farce-com-
eay OF the most amusing type, replete
with songs and merry dances, inter-
preted by an exceptionally clever COM
pany. It possesses a decidedly amusing
plot. full of absurd complications, yet,
W1thal, clean and pure. If you see the
Real Widow Brown" you are bound to
laugh. The plot of the play is briefly
summarized as follows: Hiram Good
man, a deacon in the church, picks up a
matrimonial paper, which his younger
daughter has accidentally dropped on
the foor. Having a particular fondness
for widows and seeing the advertisement
or a charming widow, with plenty of
money, he at once corresponds with her,
and she answering promises to visit him.
The old man feels young again as the
day for the. visit approaches. In the
meantime his two daughters haye fallen
IN love with two young men, to whom
the father is not particularly disposed.
In order to prevent such a calamity as
a mother-in-law coming into the house,
Charley Ward, who is in love with the
young daughter, arrays himself as the
widow Brown and subsequently the
lover of the older daughter, whose suit
depends on keeping the deacon from
marrying, assumes a disguise and APP
pears as the old gentleman, and pro-
poses to Withstand the loving onslaught
OF the Widow Brown when she arrives.
Then the two lovers meet, neither know
ing the part the other is playing. Com
pllcatlons naturally follow and follow
fast. The old man returns home and is
confronted with the promises and deeds
of his double. He is made to believe
that he has been drinking, kissing the
Girls and getting everything pretty well
mixed up. Here the real Widow Brown
arrives on the scene She turns out to
be a pretty and dashing woman. The
old deacon is too mixed up to know
what he is about, and as the bogus dea-
con has had a fit In the presence of the
real widow, she makes her escape. Then
comes a German baron who wants to
tight, a duel with the deacon for rob-
bling him of une Widows love. There are
i'm conjunction Will the deacon his two
daughters, their lovers. the baron and
the real widow, a troublesome man ser
want, a misunderstanding house maid and
a number of less important characters.
Me Real Widow Brown ran success
fully for over 100 nights at the Standard
theater, New York city. The cast is said
ITO contain some of the best comedians
brought to the coast in a long time. a
few Of whom are: Hal w. Brown, for
five years with HOyt attractions; Joe
King, late of the Milk White Flag COM
pany; Charles w. Darlington, the hui
man orchestra, who is said to give a cor
VI ~ AAAolSdl Illo ~ lllC .
only Ills lips and nose; Frederick
Beane of Frohmanfs Lyceum Theater
company, New York city; Eddie Clark
OF Willie Collier and 1892 companies;
company New York, in ner speciality /
sis Hopkins" the Sisters Mullaly, Miss
Dell Lincoln NV Henry and
TIL sultan of Turkey appreciates the
European drama. Some German actors
recently gave a performance in his pal
ace. The sultan was to take his bath at
the time appointed for the performance
to, begin, but rather than to miss it he
had the tub rolled into the room in which
the actors We're to appear and so en-
joyed the bath and the play together.
1t has been decided that the new
'Francais building shall be exclusively !
devoted to- the uses of the theater. The
space formerly occupied by shops, or
rented to private individuals, will be
used for exits and entrances. The ten
ants who remained i'm the parts of the
building not destroyed by fire have pro-
tested against this decision, and will
bring action for damages against the
government. Some of them had occu-
pied the little shops for years.
The actor-manager in london has Oft
en- been held UP to ridicule on account of
his pretentiousness and the Importance
he places on his own efforts. Herman
Merivale recently sued Martin Harvey
for damages because the actor would
mot play the version of Don Juan"
which he had commissioned the drama |
fist to write. Mr.. Merivale got 81, 500,
after Sydney Grundy, Arthur w. Pinero
Mr.. Harvey has brought a counter suit
for libel on account of the burlesque pro-
gramme distributed by Merivale.
Edp,on1 pocto,asc poUt pJo,, rri1J 10 !
written for Sarah Bernhard, but will
not provide for her another male char
acter. The action passes in Rome under
the rule of Nero. A young Christian girl
lover from death. But the tyrant does
not keep his word and determines that
his old rivel shall, with am old bishop,
be given over to the lions. The girl
throws herself from the royal box be-
tween her lover and the beasts but in
vain. She n he are torn by the beasts
and die in the arena to the last blessing
of the wounded bishop.
In Hauptmann's play, "vor Some
naufgang,"is a rather interesting bit of
dialogue, especially as Hauptmann him.
self writes part of the time poetry, like
d Versunkene Giocke," and part of
the time realism, like "Fuhrmann Hens
chel:" Helene-Perhaps you can tell me
there is SO much in the papers about
lola and Ibsen-are they great poets?
Loth-They are not poets at all, Frau
lein. They are necessary evils. I am
thirsty and seek in poetry a clear, re-
freshing draught. I am not sick. What |
lola and Ibsen offer is medicine. Helene |
(almost unwiMingly)-Ah, then, perhaps
they are the things for ne?
The Increase in the number of stock
companies over that of a year ago is con-
siderable. To be exact, there were a
year g IS companies, while now there