Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK."

Tie DEllE UT NEW 1UNN.
Last night d bottle of champasne waS
opened on the stage of the Grand Opera
house, and it fixed. sparkled and
effervesced over three hours. 1t wasn't
Extra Dry either it was the brand
known as The Belle of New York" and
1t made a hit with The large audience
crowded in to every available seat Butte
is often said to be miniature New York
ana certainly the people We're en- rapport
with the players from the rise to the fall
of the curtain.
What is the Belle of New York." 1t
is Il melange, a pot pourr of fun. jokes
songs. dances. handsome costumes and
pretty girls comedians, with a back
ground of New York manufacture, the
Special scenery being one of the charms
OF the piece. The company is a very
large one and the ensemble work would
be Il credit to the average opera COM
pany. There is a faint semblance of
plot. sort of half sister to one. A bad
black sheep, one of the silded youths of
New York who has been straying pretty
far down the primrose path is brought
NJ with round turn by his father. a
pretty gay old boy himself, but as he
explains If we did not seek TO keep our
| boys in the right path what chance
! would their fathers have" And just as
h" is disoWned and cast out with one
| penny he meets the belle of New York
her name like her eyes, Violet. Like
all the other men, he does not follow
| the light but he follows her His father
comes on the scene ana says he will
leave his millions to the first worthy per-
son he meets. This worthy person is
Violet Gray and strange to say the son
is delighted. Then the girl conceives a
plan to shock and disgust the old man
so he will give back the place of heir
to his son. To that end she imperson-
ates IA wicked French singer and APP
! pears in the usual vaudeville short skirt
over tights. She cannot keep up the de-
ception, however, and faints. All is en-
planned and it is to be presumed they
| lived happy ever after
To praise the company over much
would be to "gild refined gold, etc." but
coming after the heavy course Warde
dinners the dessert was most appetizins.
| i'eulah Dodge, with her sweet serious
! face and demure air, was an ideal Sal
walton Army girl, and it seemed almost
desecratio when she dotted the blue
gown for the short one. Her singing of
| II ask them to follow that light. but
they all of them follow me- was en-
cored again and again. She was very
pretty though in the white and yellow
of the Social Purity League.
Mae Sailor as Fiji Fricot was an
enigma She looks Frenchy, and when
she sang The American Girl she walks
like this she brought down the house
and looked pretty and devilish. one true
type of q Parisenne. But when she was
sad, mon Dieu. what a change. Every
II.
, like a silver bell, not powerful but SIM
ply beautiful. There was an oddly in
the shape of Flo Perry. as Mamie Clancy
/ a tough girl. People were undecided
whether she was a child or woman. Any
way she was the life of the piece and
II there was any shape she did not
twist her body in it was only because
she forgot it. She is pretty too. La
itelle Dase is a beauty and as a toe
dancer, a wonder. Her cake walk on
y - toes was marvellous performance.
Go rtrude Rutledge is what one might
/ can "A fine figger of a woman, a Juno
| Ike blonde, who can sing we'll and show
! eG the audience an almost impossibility,
tall woman in evening gown doing a
| really graceful dance AS for the other
! git =, while some of them would not take
! prizes at beauty show. there are
! enough of them who would to please
! even the front rows.
! The men are all good. George ITALIAN
| VII b. remembered as the Wright Init,
Of -" Stranger in New York" and he
| \. ~ - in better voice. One OF the
gems was his song "Old Glory" which
took the house by storm and was heart
: lily encored. Edward J. Connolly as
lchabod Bronson. president Of the Young
| Mems Rescue League, was simply the
! limit" He has no voice but he makes
people think he has: he had the audi
eEce with him every moment. Joseph
Kane presented a new type Of German
| comedian and a vast improvement on
the usual variety. Arthur Deagan as
| tough, we'll, to be appreciated, he must
| be seen. His singing and dancing with
! Flo Perry was very good. f. S. Tar
and James Darling We're a splendid team
and their efforts We're rewarded with
generous applause. James O'Leary and
/ Wilmer Bentley We're excellent twins.
and on through a long list these be-
ing the stars. and how they twinkled
and shone.
The opera house will be packed to-
morrow night and tonight and the
matinee was this afternoon. 1t is well
worth the seeing. the play of the season
for light. sparkling comedy. songs,
dances and a general good time.