Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-27
"A AND PLAYERS.

h1QQ~er-f1dnIOrU, Clara 1uOIpps /
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Henry Arthur Jones Is now finishing a
new comedy, which will be first acted at
theater, in It IS said
to follow the model Of "Rebelious Su-
san" and The LIARS 1t will not get its
chance until Wyndham has finished with
his new English version Of 'Cyrano &c
which he will produce In
Blackpool, March 5.
The old English actor, J. +. Cathcart,
formerly an associate OF Charles kean
and Macready, has been on the austria
liam stage since 1868. He has lately had a
noteworthy benefit in Melbourne to COM
memorate his sixty-eight years OF dra-
matte work. He Is now seventy-one, and
was taken on the stage as q child OF
three years.
The Passion Play will be acted at Ober-
ammergau this year in a new iron build
ing not open to the sky like it's predeces-
sor, but open to the mountains back OF
the stage. There will be seats for four
thousand. So business-1ike has this one
time religious ceremony become that tick
cts are placed on sale in the great cities
months before hand and diagrams q rne
theater are on view in the same places.
About thirty performances have been ar
ranged for between May 20 and Septem-
her 80.
The English press states that Miss Ada
Rehan is arranging for a provincial tour
to begin at Manchester in the early
season in London. Miss Rehan, who Is
to have Robert Lorraine for her chief sup
porter, proposes reviving her Shakespeare
ian representations and producing q new
adaption from the German. Mr.. LORI
aine is the son or a veteran player VINO
was seen in this country two generations
Tago, and who died recently in England.
The younger Lorraine has been winning
high praise for his work during the last
two or three years.
Louis James says: 1.-THE thinking the
ater-goer often asks the question, as he
sits in the front of a well-regulated per-
Torrance, Where do traditions of the
stage come from? How does the tradi-
tional business Of a certain part orgi-
| nate?' The question is easily IN
| most instances. The traditional bust
ness of a role is either the ideas OF the
! author, the man who originally staged
the actor who played the part in the first
instance. Some actors really have brains,
| and at times use them"
One night when Digby Bell was playing
| the deacon in Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell"
| says the Detroit Free Press, Augustus
Thomas, who has since come into fame,
went back to Bells dressing room to con-
graduate him on his success in the char
acter. "Digby, old chap" he said, "your
deacon is a creation-it's great. In my
opinion it ranks with-well Jefferson's
Rip Bell was visibfy affected by the
praise of so brainy a man as Gus Thomas,
ord xrvsth n tan -1odo an whine no CO III sshn
you mean that, Gus?" mo, I don't"
quickly responded Thomas, placing a
, hand soothingly on his friends shoulder.
81 didn't mean it, really hadn't any
idea it would hurt your feelings so"
The German papers inform us that sieg-
fried Wagner is intending to locate him.
self in Rome, where he will make a long
sojourn. He will employ himself in An
ishing his new opera in three acts, OF
which the first Is nearly completed, and
for which he is writing both words and
music. The first performance of this
work is reserved by the author for the
Theater Royal. Munich, where it will
make it's appearance in the course of the
year 1901. 1t will afterward be played
at Leipzig, at Vienna n at Budapest.
The queen of England has ordered her
private orchestra to be reorganized In con-
oC4uCuNc u lac ICol6 udIIUu u 0A "0ltCA
Parrat. Latterly the queen has found her
orchestra insufficient, even from a roper
tory point of view. and has expressed her
desire for a change, which the Princess
Beatrice has undertaken. The queens
orchestra Is composed of thirty musicians,
who ave other occupations and do not
rehearse enough. They are going to re-
new the personnel. and it appears that
Mr.. Villers Stanford will be placed at the
head of the new orchestra.
Mr.. Sothern is getting ready to act
Hamlet for a while in the spring, says
Edward A. Dtthmar in the New York
Times, and Mr.. Daniel Frohman is pre-
pairing to put the tragedy on the stage
in a noteworthy manner. Miss Harmed
should be an interesting Ophelia. Mr..
Morgan an effective Claudius and Mr.
w. F. Owen a capital Polonius. 1t is not
a bad idea for Mr.. Sothern to try his hand
at the Prince of Denmark. There is re
great Hamlet now in sight. as Irving has
laid aside the role. and it is well tina,
the young. generation should have a
chanc to see Shakespeare acted. Mr.
Sothern Is wise and safe. TIE fact that
an actor Of his tact and taste DIS. IS t.
act Hamlet indicates that he has i@eas
on the subject worth hssding. AS & 8 n,
eral thing I believe it is b'ttcr ~ ng.
~inadequetely, though it mist hs c'a.it,
ted that the aesthetic prscap.o.s OF