The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A WHEREVER Richard Golden's
wv III Jed P%routy's'' name is

/HEREvER Richard Golden's
wv "Old Jed Prouty's'' name is
mentioned now there is a strain
like the far-off bells of New
England. He brought the smell of the
sweet clover into our native drama and
set up there the New England home with
all its precious memories. He might
have ransacked the world and he could
not have got a theme that would touch
so many American hearts as Old Jed
Prouty."
And If New England is the land of
homesteads, the cradle of common
wealths, the schoolhouse Of patriots, the
academy of statesmen, it was after all
Websters, our Adams, our Everetts
and our Longfellows who got their ear
Hest inspiration and imbibed the princi-
pies that made them known to the world.
That old tavern stands there yet, on
the stony hills and in the shady valleys,
just as 1t stood when Bunker Hill was
fit" 1t has sent out generation after gen.
Grafton of brave men and women who
have made the valleys of the Ohio and
Mississippi to blossom like the rose.
They fought the battle of life with a
hymn book in one hand and a musket in
the other.
They drove the savage before them. and
IAcy swung lie dAe luGy SET
up the meeting house and the district
school. They overran Ohio, they con-
verified the prairies of Illinois into meas
ureless gardens that fed the world, and
their sons and daughters today are types
OF the hardihood and indomitable pluck
that snatched states from barbarism all
along the great domain of the West.
These men and women came from New
England. They had sterling piety, simple
honesty and unconquerable thrift. With
them shiftlessness was a crime. They
were made Of granite and sunshine, and
they went over this continent with the
keenness of the winters blast and some
thing of the n%ourishing gentleness of the
summers rain. OF course, 1t is the home
that makes men and women Somebody
has said, "the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world,' and
the New England home, with it's rugged
simplicity. its quaintness and sternness,
is the home that Richard Golden puts
before our eyes with Its living. breathing
New England people.
No one, ever of the third or fourth
generation, will fail to see and feel its
charm and recognize its idylic truth If
he has one drop OF New England blood
in him. All that Is sweetest and kindli
est in the boyhood past comes back with
the suggestions of this play of "Old Jed
Prouty."
Mr.. Golden will be seen in his famous
play at Sutton's New Grana for two
nights. Sunday and Monday.
"Music is the universal language of
mankind" says Longfellow, and in his
words there is much of truth. Music of
all kinds has more or less sweetness to
1t. Whether it be the work of a master
lik Beethoven or Guonod, or the lighter
efforts of the writer's of the popular dit
ties of today, there is something entranc-
ing about it all.
There is another music which Is not in
the flats and sharps of concerted effort;
1t is the music of a laugh. and certainly
no music is sweeter or more interesting
and the producer of music of this sort.
of all mankind.
Perhaps it is because he has inspired
more music of this sort than the aver
age writer that George H. Broadhurst's
comedy, What Happened to Jones'" has
always been on the high tide Of public
favor.
This season this delightful work is to
be seen under the personal direction OF
Thomas w. :Broadhurst and a perfect
production is assured by reason of the
combination of a Broadhurst play under
the management of Broadhurst. What
Happened to JONES' will be seen at Ma
CURES opera house, Sunday matinee
and evening.
In the daily mail of the average tneat-
rical manager there are mary curious
letters. most of which come from stage
struck girls, but Mr.. Henri Grassitt. who
Is directing the tour of Eugene Blair In
peg Wofington," recently received an
epistle with an Enclosure which will prob
ably hold the record for this season and
MANY more to come. The writer after
modestly devo.ing four pages to the
story of his early life and exceptional
educational advantages, finally comes to
the point and asks for a position as press
agent. |
"As a sample of my ability in writing |
articles for the press" he writes. you
can see for yourself from the inciosed ar
ticlc which l respectfully submit to your |
learned judgment and kin consideration.
Mr.. Ora sit has allowed the article" to
be printed, and verbatim 1t is as fol-
lows:
Everybody who has seen the beautiful
and talented Eugene Blair act on the
stage will recall TO mind the great num- |
Der of diamonds worn by her in all of her |
plays. 1t has been stated upon good au-
thority that her collection of glittering
gems is worth at least $3.50, 600, as every |
stone is as near perfect as can be ms
of the very finest water.
of all her sparkling mineral atoms
there was none she priced as much as a
rare diamond Of a pinkish hue n
uniquely cut in triangular form. which
was presented to her by the late Dom