Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24

. NN IlC NIOSC VI II pIeoSIIU SCdSOl,
Marcia Van Dresser, contralto, with the
.Bostonians, is to retire from opera and
seek opportunity upon the dramatic
stage. The reason she gives for this de-
termination is her unalterable repug-
nance to wearing tights.
Charles Frohman has secured the Eng
fish rights for M. Edmond Rostand's
new play, "L'Aiglo," and Miss Maud
Adams will play the role, which Nine.
Bernhardt originated in Paris. 1t will be
given in New York about the middle of
September. The English adaptation is
to be by Louis N. Parker, the author of
Rosemary"
Madame Modjeska contemplates a trip
to Europe. If she is allowed to return
to Poland she may play Hamlet"
there. A rumor has been going about
that Madame Modjeska was going into
vaudeville. She says it is quite untrue.
She was offered $4,000 for thirty weeks
and all expenses.
club in New York at the expense of
Clay Greene. who recently sold a sketch
to George Leslie to use in vaudeville.
On the night of it's first production out
of town Greene sent a dispatch to Leslie
saying: How did it go?" In due course
the answer came by wire from the actor.
1t read: 1.-THE gong saved it."
WtllldLIl DedG f1UWcllS Is LIE ldCeSC
vaudeville recruit, but he isn't acting.
He is writing for the vaudevilles. David
Miles and Anita. Hendric produced asst
week in Brooklyn a sketch called Room
49," written for them by Mr.. Howells.
The playlet deals in a humorous way
with some of the features of hotel life,
and made a decided hit.
A comedian in a farce came near get
ting into trouble in Harrisburg. He di-
.,oa+ovl - {o1yo n r. n wall Ero,py, nc ~ n horr+
town and that Individual arose from his
seat in the audience and announced that
he was going to take it out of the come-
dian with his fists. Quite a crowd gath
cred after the show. but one man was
pacified after h other had apologized
and the crowd e home disappointed.
The next new play under Daniel Froh-
mans management at Days New York
theater will be AN Interrupted Honey
MOON" in which a married woman, elop-
ing with a gay Lothario, seeks shelter in
a country house. The two are mistaken
for a bride and groom, expected as WISH
tors, and the complications ensuing are
said to be hazardous n even thrilling
whenlthe husband of the lady arrives on
the scene. The author is Kfnsley Kiele.
who is now dramatiz1ng RED Pottage."
The first performance OF IAN interrupt
ed Honeymoon" will be given next Tues
day.
Victor Herbert will guide the artistic
fortunes of the Pittsburg orchestra dur
ing the coming season. This has been
placed above all surlnise by the ~re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Herbert as director by the
orchestra committee of the Carnegie in
stitute. The season of 1900-1901 will lbegin
on Nov. 1, 1900. and Will continue twenty
weeks. A feature will be the greater at
tention given to concerts in other cities.
The years deficit is stated as between
$20.0 900 and $50, 900, though the exact fig
ures cannot be ascertained until Mana
ger Wilson's report is ready.
Mr.. Charles Frohman is to nave a new
theater in London, having secured a site
in st. Martins lane, just back of Charles
Wyndham's new theater. Mr.. Frohman
thinks he will have it ready to open on
January e The theater will be about
the same size as the Garrick theater in
New York. The site is only a short dis
lance from Mr.. Frohman's other theater,
the Duke of York's, which he will con-
tinue to manage.
Maud J~effries, who has been the lead
ing actress in Wilson Barrett's ompany
ever since the retirement of Miss East
lake, has finished her engagement with
him and may return to America. She is
a native of Kentucky. Her place will
be taken by Lillah Mccarthy, the girl
with the big. black eyes, who acted here
in 1.-The Sign of the Cross
Says the London Telegraph: With Mrs.
Craigie busily engaged upon her new
comedy for h Haymarket. Miss Con-
stance Fletcher George Fleming) full
of a successor to 1.-The Canary" and
Miss Clio Graves attending rehearsals of
Nurse" it is abundantly clear that lady
dramatists have no intention of leav-
ing the theatrical field free to writers Of
the opposite sex. There is, moreover,
clever Mrs. Madeline Lucette I,iley,
whose n of humor has long since
emerged from h passive or feminine
state, and entered Upon the active OIL
male stage. To these has TO be added
without, however. exhaus ing the list
Mrs. w. X. Ciiffora. who only thu other
day copyrighted a new play in -four acts.
II formed the acquaintance of Ameri-
can PLAYERS sooner than may be general