The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-04

order to give her good time" the
management was obliged to Interfere
and deny them admittance to the the
ater
Woes of First Nighters'
''On the first night of To Have and
to Hold at the Knickerbocker theater.
New York. comments the Sun in a spicy
article. the sophisticated audience en-
joyed the play our people always
do rousing melodrama in fashion,
able theater, with a keen though sar-
castical appreciation of its novel points.
But all joined in hearty applause as the
acts ended. In the third section an in u
dental Indian delighted them. and When
the curtain fell he was singh "a out fer
demonstrative approval though ne h II:
not been in the final scere. Isabel 1rv-
ing and Robert Lorraine stepped Tor
ward and bowed, till some one in the
gallery let out an Indian WarWhoop.
This SO truly expressed the general fees
ing that the savage cries We're taken
up in many parts of the house and cons
tlnued until the stage Indian came out
to acknowledge the compliment. In the
meantime Mr. Lorraine. who is from
London, evidently took the cries for an
American form of booing. and turned
to discuss it with Miss Irving. perhaps
offering to protect her from anythinS
that might be thrown at them. Mr..
Lorraine should not judge us by tbs
standards of London. where only tw,
plays have been produced this season
without hostility on the part of the gal
lery and pit. Marie Tempest was in
suited the other evening for being nn~
fortunate enough to make a failure IN
Masks and Faces and Phyllis Rankin
had to let an understudy finish her part
in "Florodora because the hooting by
some of the rowdies drowned her song.
So eminent an author as Henry Arthur
Jones, who should be regarded with
pride by his countrymen never comes
before the curtain on the first nights o.
his plays, and George Alexander had to
apologize for reprimanding an audience
that had insulted a woman dramatist
who came before curtain. Mr.. Lowen>
fields way of escaping first night nos
tilities was to open the Apollo theata,
and produce The Belle of Bohemia TO
an invited audience. Two years ago,
when he brought out The Coquette at
the Prince of Wales, the applause ana
'booing' We're evenly divided at the eno
of the play. He stepped forward, ana
asked the gallery what it had to boo
at. No reply was given, and Mr.. Lowen-
field said: You may draw your own
conclusion Thereupon a man arose in
the audience and an animated discussion
followed. in which the manager said
that if the gallery gods We're dissatis-
fled none had lost more than a shilling
While he had risked many THOUSAND
pounds. An earlier first night expert
ence of Mr.. Lowenfeld's was when he
produced La Poupee, and announced
that any one leaving the theater at the
end of the first act might get his money
back and at the end of the second, half
of the original outlay
La Loie Fuller Coming.
La Loie Fuller, the celebrated French
dancer, now on her farewell tour of
America, has created a new dance this
season in which it is claimed she wears 4
dress containing 10000 yards of silk
! which cost more than $1,000. So delicate
/ is the fabric that Chinese firm required
more than four years to fill the order
! TO operate the complicated apparatus
/ used in the production of the electro
cal effects with which her dances are
/ embellished eight electricians accompany
| her on her present tour. SO delicate is
! this apparatus. it is said. that four
other electricians travel in advance of
the dancer to prepare the stages of the
| theaters along the route. The floors of
/ many of them have to be reconstructed
| La Loie will appear at the Grand on
the evenings of May II, 10 and ii.
| Ada Rehan has gone abroad, closing
i her season earlier than was contemplated
because of i'll health. She will not re-
/ turn to America till next September.
Martha Morton has contracted with
Klaw & Erlanger to write a new modern
society play for Miss Rehan. to be ready
| August LIST. Miss Rehan will make her
| first appearance in it in October. Miss
Morton has abandoned her proposed trip
to Europe and will retire to her cottage
| in the Adirondack mountains and devote
the entire summer to the composition of
the new piece. Miss Morton Is the au-
thor of several successful plays among
them The Merchant" His Wifes Fa-
ther'' and "A Fool of Fortune"
The receipts for the last week Of 'Ben
Hur'' at the Colonial theater in Boston
exceed $23, 900, breaking its, famous Phila-
delphia record of over $4,000 in one
week. 1t will end it's season at the Co.
lumbia theater in Brooklyn, where Its
original booking of two weeks, beginning
April 23d, was extended to four weeks
before the opening performance because
of the wonderfully large advance sale
Contracts between Klaw & Erlanger and
Arthur Collins of London and James c.
Williamson of Melbourne, contemplate q
simultaneous production of "Ben Hur'
in England and Australia April Sth, 1902
These are independent projects. The
American company will continue its tour
here. This means that three productions
of Ben Hur' will be running at the
same time In different parts Of the
world. giving employment to more than