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1iREEN ROOM (iOSSIP F. lEATER (iOERS - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - *t * * COKING ATTACTOIONS. * * Magulee's Grand Opera. * * April 29, 80 and May 1, 2 and 8- 'r * "The Streets of New York." * * *I * Sutton's Broadway. * * April 21, 28,' 29 and 80-"'Way * * Down East." * * * * Union Jamily Theater. * * Dark. * . Anaconda-Margaret Theater. * * Dark. * NOTHER theatrical season is drawing to a close. Butte thea ters have been dark the greater part of the week, and with the exception of the minstrel shows at the Broadway and Family, the city was without amusement. Theatrical managers report a success ful season. Most of the best attractions that have visited the west have been seen in Butte and without exception have been well patronized. On the other hand the barn stormer has met with a reception that has been far from torrid. The experience of many of the cheap shows that depend chiefly on lime light effects and flaring bill posters has been an expensive one. Long-haired fakirs have discovered dur ing the past season that there are no more critical audiences in the West than those which fill the theaters of what they have been shocked to discover is not a frontier mining camp. Nothing that has occurred in the the atrical world during the year was of greater import than the event marked by the ringing down of the curtain at Maguire's theater Monday night when Herr Daniel Bandmann closed his career us an actor and left the footlights for ever to retire to the quiet of his Mon tana ranch on the Bitter Root. It was rather an odd coincidence, but one worth noting that at the time of making his adieu to the profession in which he won world-fame Herr Band mann took the opportunity afforded him at a lecture given in this city Tuesday to decry the fame and fortune to be won on the modern stage. coming from so great an autho ity his words are significant. "Heaven forbid," said the renowned tragedian in the course of his lecture to the school children, "that I should at tempt to mislead you or to encourage you to embrace a profession that means a carer of continuous nightmares. The stage considered as a moral instructor would be a most powerful and influential factor, but as it is at present-a medium for ordinary amusement-it has nothing instructing or emulating In its following. It is chiefly a commercial enterprise, ut terly devoid of art and elevation." Bandmann has seen a generation of players. Recent experiences may have prompted a more caustic criticism from Mr. Bandmann than the decadence de served, but there is food for reflection in his remarks. William A. Brady's production of the play "'Way Down East," is said to possess a remarkable novelty in the way of a terrible snow storm, the most realistic and original that has yet been given to the stage. The storm is not a gently falling and inslgnificant patter of paper, but comes down furious and fast, drifting, driven and genuine; in fact, Just like the snow storms that may be seen anywhere in mid-winter in New England. It takes six machines to do the Ntrk, three to carry the enow past the door and three to carry It past the window, the in gredients being cut paper and salt. The machines work quickly and silently, for it would never do to have them reveal themselves to the audience by the roar and buzz of revolving wheels. The ac tion of a snowstorm it copies-as closely as possible, care being taken to make It intermittently wild and furious, the tem porary lulls being one of the most B".·. !!. I .: i ti~ B :.i: . 7 ý . /ý~ "ry h,. t i M".V .. ý ;spa y . :s r : ORAO0. HULL 0E .THE ".'W,-AY DOWN EAST" COM'PANY. characteristic point In a New England storm. The mechanical part of the storm be ing so perfect, it is well to say that it Is not lugged into the play for mere sen sational purposes, but it Is told that it fits into the action so smoothly and naturally that the spectator accepts It as one element in a strictly logical series of events. Of course, electricity is the power; the old way was to swing aloft out of sight a long bag of torn paper, which fluttered down through a slit in the bag. Sometimes the paper got crowded in one place, so that snow fell on the just but not on the unjust; and then when the cloud broke loose the un just got a paper wad in the neck. In this scene there is a kitchen with a door and a window, about ten feet above the floor and just at the stage right of the door are electric fans so placed that the wind causes the air to take a sort of a whirl-a-gig-course down past the door and window; the papers are dropped out of a box, while salt flows from cylinders into this wind; the beautiful snow beats against the window, and when Anna opens the door and standing on the threshold declares: "I never want to see any of you again," the wind and the snow whistles chill in the doorway. This unusual realistic effect is prom ised to be done in its entirety at the Broadway theater, the company opening there this evening and running four nights with Wednesday matinee. Among coming attractions none will please Butte audiences more than the Frawley company, which opens at the Broadway theater for the week com mencing Sunday. May 4, in repertoire. Mr. Frawley and his company are well known to the theater public here, and as well liked as known. The company is practically the same as the one that was here earlier In the season. *s* The Family theater will be dark all this week. It opens Sunday, May 4, at which time McEwen, the hypnotist, will entertain. Hypnotisnm Is so weird and so little understood by the masses that It is always fascinrating to a degree. The absence of any attraction ao this nature during this season should insure good houses during the run of the show. Mr. McEwen is a wonder in his line. ** "Nathan Hale" Is one of the strongest American plays of recent years, if not of the century. It is from the pen of Clyde Fitch, just now the foremost American playwright-in that there are more of his plays now being acted than the productions of any of his contem poraries. It is In four acts and the scene is laid in New London, Conn., and in New York. It tells the story of Nathan Hale as true to history as could pos .bly be followed in a dramatic prodtuction, anwl It tells it beautifully. Naturally, there must 'be a deal of sadness and sor row, but there is also much of humor, and the love story and the love scenes are so prettily done qnd so splendidly and tactfully acted that the tears at one's hearstrings are varied. It deplcts th. character of Nathan Hale as every patriotic Amern an believes it to I., and as he was. Not as a spy--in the gen erally acceptedd meanc:lg--but as a pa triot, who thought that anytlhing thlit he!lped the cause -rl his. country was honorable,,l and "whose ttonly regret w.as that he had but one lifte to lose. for his country." This jpmay will alppar at tht Itira way three nights, u'olulllencing Thursday, Muy 1. Word has been reecived from New York that Ham Thall will he married in that city May 10. The nl w Ellensburg theater, In EIlens burg. Wuah., was opened March :1, by Hose Coghlan in "Forget-Me-Not." The hou.e was packed. Prominent man agers of the northwest were present on the occasion. The theater is a beauty. George Musgrove, the Australian Iman uger, arrived this week from home on his way to view the coronation cere monies in London, and to complete ar rangements with Mme. Melba for a tour of Australia. Mr. Musgrove reports that Her Majesty's theater in Sydney burned to the ground early in the morning of March 23. "The Royal Box," Charles Coghlat'4 strong play, will open April 21 for i spring and summer tour of the co The tour will be under the managem nt of Leroy Pelletier. An excellent comps'y and magnificent costumes and settlrig are promised. A funny story comes fron liostndh, where they have been having a seal. t of grand opera. During a presentati)h of "La Tosca," a number of ltaliaflt, sitting in a box., became convulsed wilrh laughter. As Ternlna was in the nmidti' of her impassioned love song to Mar1., the people about them first wondered what they were laughing at, and then became incensed at the foreigners. Final ly an usher was sent to find out the reason of so much hilarity. One of them said: "Do you know what Ternina is singing?" "No," answered the atten dant. "Well, instead of a love sing, she is singing in Impassioned accents: 'Don't turn around, your trousers are torn; don't turn around, your trousers are torn.' " Lillian itussell will leave ' Weber Fields next season and star in a musical piece under the direction of David lBelasco. On May 17 James Neill and his com pany whil celebrate in San Francisco their fifth anniversary of continuous playing. That organization holds the world's unique record for having givent more performances during that length of time than any similar company, as It has played both summer and winter, losing only occasional plerformiances while traveling from one city to an other. The NellH company was flrst or ganised in 1894. The Warde. company will sail from San Francisco May 1, for their llrst ('nr gagement in the Islands. Mr. Warde will produce. "Macbeth" during :he en gagement. and Virginia Drew Trescott will play Lady Macbeth. That wonders fully clever actor, Barry J ':natonc, will contribute his share of artistic delinea tion during their stay there. And Frap clis McGinn will uphold the credit of California in first rate style. The con *pany's engagement ought to be in every way succiessful. E. a. WIRIaG I BU Is V t t Ia W ewtrp.ay by Stephen Phillips, with the c'haractrl of King David as the hero, and dealing , 'th his love for the wife of t'l ith tChe heretic. Further details have come to light of Blanche Walsh's unfortunate accldent in Everett, Wash. After presenlting 'Janicee Meredith," In the Wh.attombl theater, which stands on the buy, Miss Walsh started for the hotel. t'pon leIy Ing the stage entrance she stepped from the narrow walk connecting the wharf and theater platform, and ftll 12 feet, striking the timbers bci\vw. lcer ., ft le was Iadly cut and her right arm 1. wholly useless. The doct'r who attend ed her says It might lie many dlays I, - fore she is alule to play. It was de lciied to send the actress to Sp)Okanll 1 .m1soon a1.4 posslble after the acc'itlent ttIld whiln the ambliulance reached Ih ,b.rain Stern was Infornied that there' was ilo berI'rth. .lMiss Walsh was startldl bInk to thel ho tel. The conductor told Slerll she could have a stateroom-sonlething that all hands had overlooked. Sitern riln t ttle hotel after his patient and on tnr. way stumbled and fell, smash lig his nose, lacerating his -hand and cutting a bad gash in his head. Ilh was covered with blood when he reached tii hotel. Miss Walsh was placed on a ctill in the statel room. Miss Walsh will likely suo. the Whateomb t heaItr and Ithle (i'ly of Whateomln b.ecause thll danI.IIl'O s walk was not protected by a ralling. Sundlay, one of the coml:pany's stage hiands, Mor rls, was struck by a pie.e oif ' :lin scenery and knocked out. Fried Cooper Is la1 upil in A.l;ntecla w\\'lth I sever attack of Iuat'l;l I'htlU,:lt tlism. Mansfield ii "lHtueaiir," which a :Il he seen at thle Ilroadway ill tihe nr-al' fu ture, is the( happiest Iprollmise o, the i lrth matic year. The great aitori lns nith had such a populalr success o"r ..1,'h it perfectly fas.iniating pIlay ais "lita.u caire" sinc'e hi, glave' "BolHlll i nnlllllwl,"' and "Prince Kiarl." TIhe author's have madle a superiror pliecI of l'raintl t' o''tk :nanship. All concerned IMsi,-t Ihtl. "elaucaire" is not a dlr'.,natizalion of Blooth Tai kington's "Monslaur' Iltou cairel." The play was cnllcivced first and the btook lwas only ian enll l'l;lltaion froin it; as the dramnatists says, it In .1 oI.l'lt rio. The cihair' of this form of lh! story of the play attracted the publsh il of Mr. Tarkinton's fir'st novel alud 1i w'as pe'r. suaded to print the little story. IIts great hit is a i matltr of litl'ary hlislolry. ly many It is coInsiered a classi' wo\\'rtlhy of a place of perml'anency among i':l gllsh masterpieces. The play Is In five act's. Act one .shows the c.elebrated Pump Room at tlath when that watering place was the rendezvous for a1ll fash ionable England, under the s;oclat su. premacy of Beau Nash. The blades and belles are IiiurhL agi tated over tile gossip fronm lFr ane in rie gard to the flight of tile I)uke i"of trte'.t but this Is eclipsed by a newer mortýj of gossip, the grave rumor toalt M1on slear Beaucaire, who hits obtalnted in tree among the fashionable., is the bar bher of the Marquis de Mirepols, ambas sador from France. Heau Nash acceplts the rumor and a stirring seeen leads 4o Beaucaire's social humiliation and ex pulslon from the Pump Room. The seu. and act shows his lodgings in Bath. hie is an exile from the centers of faithhijp, but the nobles and gentlemen fr".u,,4uat his chambers to.play cards. Among them is the Duke of Wintersett. ]3eaucai'e tl'aps him while cheatlpg and he uses his power over him as a leverage to make Wintersett Introducp him again among the elect. The third act represents Lady Mary Carlisle's on the same evening during the progress of her ball. Wiptersett Introduces Beau. caire as the Duke of Chateubrien, ani} Lady Mary is an instant victim. There is a flow of wit and sentiment all through the act which culminates in a delightful piece of gallantry, after Bad ger's attempt on Beaucalre's life. The garden of Mr. Bantison's country plac. at a point on the driveway near the Diana Is the background of act four. It is a mobuv iht night and the guests are (eaving alter a merry rout. Beau ncare's silt with Lady 'Mary prospers. He as handing her to her coach when Wintersett's henchmen make an attack In the dark. They are beaten off but tleaucalre is wounded. Then Wintersett betrays his promise and tells Lady Mary that the Duke of Cthatubrien is none other than Beaucalre the barber. The last act Ins in the Assembly Room a we'ek later. It leads up to the return • M-~ .. and the introduction of his royal master to the assembled traducers of his real identity. It is a consecutive aInd cumulative story of sustained inter %t. 'rhe humor and sentiment balance nic'ely., and the action is varied and the ,ilaloguel witty as could be desired. By crencraTl connent, all the charm and at mnosaphlre that permeated the book, are Ilto the play. There is equally glenral e'nnsont that Mansfield has not beforo lonie anythling finer than the prlnceIly barlber. The talvat it.e sal,' of sea for the Neill taison itt the t'talifornit is greatetr than thlt of any previouis seautloll. * Jatttes Naill's tl.w ploay, "The Star Itruks," hast thit following splaedlid speech detlltr't'etd by ithei old mnltonishltnrl., I;lltpr $Starbluctk: "l'in:lly sly lime mieI . I Imarred''h it latnle liltI*' VtTltan aullt d w\\'e hIad Itwo of as fine biloys as tlth world ever setn,. I talked my conilon the saltt' hillside anti matde mny Ikter,. ait' thei golt'' ent nevter ald it a lord. An' when menlt and ltheiut boys w\o at w i.k tip t.lhar, we c'uldt Siat'ar that li1Ilet wolttlat a itsingin' dlowin lat Ith hl ltse., sMill in' the s lng t' glory Ihalt she had htarnll the ofl soldiers ting. "I thit day t nilt, ti' I Iht boys - Itw i lin Bys, Ja'dge- - ila I1 h In' the .o'u lit (lit' fields. I rico, ltl' It a ti t.h,' it il us yistl ly. At!' ltei all tIhei..* ..I . I kit h iear the I' Iina ittu ln ' ilu flat 11 tile house.ll An' then lnt t that ame tllll hrilln' ni'Ltse ithat inly fither ait gralnfiathe'r h llll hard before IiIi-- the bentlin ' it' the dirums ti d alin i tl Ili'i I rled rut.' , ' hut a thme trouble tl0' is a spilln' up and the Ild Union aiys.' I ken look itack now, Je'dge, an' .,#. that lilt I iittlan a standil' under ihe tree, ai tlla' gritood-bi withll an oildl Gag. I kin 'e' her yIt. ..edge, we went I-'lnu into tii- lttiy fur'nnae. W'e seedt the la' g drot p jt':i' falal andi thlt --Ithenll , then rise t It vitit'ry. Yes, I 'eed it.i Hitt my boys-- my blys that wua like 'ilcture.$--they %wuz left t (aIt tysbuarg. 'Yes, jidg.e, whe'n that Ipoor t'ittle nt oitn learn t (ll it' they wan't cltin backh . lilt l -ited ' I Iay a ii i ed-an' when Ir I.note hunms, i , (ltlik h inl' thern wu'. t, grate bli. l till ( tlh] Vil a} 11 at W Wll l t l n l ..iln . ht Klt,, lxelt'ior ofi the estat- of :Ihe late Ithtil. is A. A .it yt, ailI Mhr .. Muary ihtl.'s ,lid .l ss Il Har Mh lkel S ales, m lt.ther I tl l sister of I lin, n'' liskel, l ti ' h i's b 'ul It, I I ritit hlngs, rings, t ia'alnd-in. ul'll iy 0\ i tht.hen sa lt.ops of ,p.arta, 'T'hey a Pk f I, H A P Sr0A .A 1, ý . G k ý , r ., + ý f . `iz .ýý? ^tf1 <.¢3 were hist worni by Flr.a Walsh Iloyt, cnd later by (',aroline Miskel Hoyt. M'rs. Cjrah s aln her daughter asHert that they were lpr'oiised thle Jewels while they were traveling In the South with the Iloyt coiany ill 189t. McKee says the a.ssertion is abtsurld; that the Jewels b.e lon ; to the .state and rust be huiadled it aI orl'danlc. with the knotwn wlsh.es of lot II onnliti g them. j Three youing wormen, inelobrs of the ('lhapert s chorus, railed upon amunllel Juiipers, pres'ident of the Amertlearn Fed er'atlon of JLabor, In (`llncinnall, last Wednesdayi , to ask his co-oplerationl In theill effots to oI'gaRnize chorus girls' plroturtlvtt aissoli:lation. The delegation reclted all thei woef of the chorus sing ers, and stated the remedies that lie within the power of a protective union. Mr. (tomplters receiveed them cordially andi .ssured themt that If they sucreed In organizing, their association will be supported by the Federation of Labor. N. C. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott will follow E. S. Willard at the Columbla, theater In San Francieco. Their great 4 7 fS L rD Y D T E WD by " ý`ý. ESTELLE WARD OF THE "'WAY DOWN EAST" COMPANY. 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At the Family thee,,r i, e next at traction will Ibe MuEww. Ihe hypnotist, who opens there May 11. The. ab~~enrc, oif any aIuseiifIIent of this nature d(uring this seafon should insure good Ihouses, !si.de from the really mne;'itortous work of Mr. Me',wen. All "ho enjoy fun sl.ould go, as It in more IprJductive of tla ughter than thie f unnli-l. of faire 'o ;led Ied. There seems to b) sme t<)IIntrbt Ha to the future plans of T. Dulnt! Frawley. It cenlltly reports have gottll oullt of his intention to ret!re fromi malLnagement :nd retur; to New York. Froola Po-astello comes a telegraphic denial of this idea. The dlepath further .ayn: "1'. Daniel Frawley on AprAl 15 denied Wbsolutely that it was his liotntion to either retire ftln the anangelnent of the Frawley dtranatic company at the end of the sca:oion or disband the compalny Fravw ley statid that abh)ut selp)ttnertl. he will go to New York for surlglal treat mnent, whh'h .will absent him frtom the, nltive .- lIIliIsnjgemenIt for ab)out MIx weeks. He tlo tattlled that at Portllnd or attle i'i It it t ile th e utlon to tet-v r n izol the 'ompu)lll atl Iba(bring In new ) 'lo (d, tanl It Ii lsmenh,ie this gave rise to tlhe Irumllor of Ilabudlrnent'l. 'Phe hoondoo still 1lpl|ie'r. to hlang with thi, ctlomnnny. 'I'.o night, with th enti(, re h llouse sold(), the elec'rtl (. II ilI failed entirely, 11n4l uat 9 o'nlonk the culrtalin rose. to I: llli.g of coal all foilllil~lt ." Wi,'ltth , pinhy tea i- te'xt, ia 14s'rllon It tIImewIaiit oif tan illnovatlion 'v ivon I ht'so hlteral day wtllh the( departlng of lthe nIneltenll h .utlnurly. . Yet the lev. Alleo IK. Wright, Ilh'ospet lhightIs ehureh, Il'rooklynl, clhosl,' s tlll' sullbjer t of anl venlll lg discouIisnei "'Wiy DoIwn Ialt~R" erf the textl I ''itruothy, v, 22--"Ktep thyslelf pureia," the ladly ,aid nit part: "A desir' to ltalk ullpon this subject't cIameO to rlae when I ltheard the Interating drmIt IIIlit whiclh the thilught of mliy sub jert It mosdt vividly itllltrultld. I amn Iconiilous of I htt riat that itt inlaiter who gets an Inllpiirtlon for a ermlon farm Ihi' thlolter in thought by sonm, Kgood ('hllll.tll l pi, ,ple to be a very unplirelou Nort of a p'llr'iion. IBut I 'believe that tile ImaIs of Ithe people and i' largiK number of the clergy of today r.eogniitei In tho ltheater it g'reat mnoral forl'e'. I biellevo Ihat they tre very onie-hid'd who fall to aeknlowlledg that there are good i ,i the itlorn which ranlk with our Iinstitutionll or lirtninig andil our e(llul'hlur'h uis educlta tionaill ianl torll fuin's, and that Ither Il' pure, cle(I dramas eniltteitd Iltherein that ranlllk wilth our beat lllteratlure, lec tureis talld ri'min0rtl asi upilift ilg and In spirintg influence,'s. Next to real life, there is no mnore forcible way to Im press a tlesson than In Ithe rli'presenta tllon tf the r'eal whlih the siiagti affords, and I believe tlhe stage and .pulpit, the theater and theh church should, work to gelher. Whetn I saw "'Way Down l'it'' " I was lIipr'ised :Ileu-w by the mighty power for good that the stage is 'apable of exertinlg. The grl't moral lesItmns Il this uplay ar'. owst that long appeal to nlme from ny Hstudy of tmen, wornen and books, 4but never with a more vivindand forctble impreia'lon than in this drama. When golhig Ir hear it I noticed on the ,play'boardu tt'hese words: "Every woman ought to heai'r ''Way Down East,' alnd bring everty man." IT-ponl my return I w.nted to stop andIlIii' unoderlinet every onei' of thut:l'e words, fort the fortce of their meaning was ft'lt; andll the popularity of this play and the long-continued success that it is win ning testify to the .good moral sense of the piece. I hope you will all hear the play, and I shall only draw your atten tion to the great central lesson that It teaches." The speaker then in the most eloquent manner pidtured the story, depicted the, scenes, and drew the moral that in the matter of morals there could not 'be one law ,for the man and another for theo woman. Thlis attraction will be seen at the Broadway theater in the near future. BY THE WAY. Speaking of runs it is said that "Floroe diora" goes back into New York next season for another long stay, as it Is to be put on at the big Academy of Music in a spectacular fashion, and is expected to more than duplicate its first great metropolitan hit. E. M. Holland, who is appearing in "Ebe.n Holden," will star under the management of Charles Frohman in a play to ,he written by Arthur Wing Plnero, Sydney (Grundy or Clyde Fitch. The production will 'be entirely different from ",lben Holden." When Francls Wilson goes abroad with his family, after the present season, his summer home In Now Rochelle will be used by Dr. MacDonald, a spelcallst, who is the constant attendant of the di vorced wife of Henry M. Flagler, the mnltl-millionalre magnate. %dlnnie Dupree wiNl star next season under the management of W. G. G myth in a play entitled' "A Rose of Plymolth Town," written by Mrs. Evelyn Gre.i leaf Sutherland. Miss Dupree Is..espe cla)ly well remembered for her auctin of, the lazy. girl in Not Goodwin's pro ductlon of "In Missouri."