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THE ANACONDA STANDARD, SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER tf^ gg.
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BUTTE,Sept. 24.-Margarct Math^^er'* engagement m an artlatic^and social success. Few women^on the American stage have won such^general applause and admiration for her^painstaking work as Miss Mather. Since^her first great success in ^Romeo and^Juliet^' about ten years ago her advance^in her profession and public favor has^been rapid. Her work in ^Leah, the For^^saken.^ ^Nance Oldfleld,^ ^Lady of^Lyons^ and her new play, ^The Egyp^^tian,^ is equally as good as in ^Homeo^and Juliet.^ Her new- play, in which she^appeared last night, has been received^with great favor wherever presented. All^dramatizations of great novels must be^more or less disappointing, and the se^^lection of impassioned scenes from^Hugo's marvelous story cmlxxlicd iu^^The Egyptian^ forms no exception. It^is impossible to do more than sketch so^great a story as ^The Hunchback,^ but in^^The Egyptian^ the work has been done^boldly and coherently. Some liberties^hnvo been taken with Hugo's conception^of tlto ending of the somber tale, but, for^pui|)oses theatrical, the liberties are ex^^cusable. They tend to the uniting of two^loving hearts instead of the execution of^one and tho murder of the other.
Amass of images crowding like^waves^ upon each otlierpresent Sixteenth^century scenes and history in brilliant^and bewildering succession. None but a^great writer could have made a great^story of such vile and loathsome per- mis^und material as crowd the pages of the^^Hunchback.^ Esmeralda, the Gypsy, a^dancing girl and a princess among^lieggars, beloved by Claude 1'rollo. u dev^^ilish priest and his dupe, Quasimodo, a^deformed wretch of hideous mien, envir^^oned by tho lecherous villainy of the^priest and by him torn from her lover to^be finally saved by the deformed lieing^whoso heart beat with a lovo sublime iu^its purity and devotion^such is a dim^outline of this version of Hugo's great^work.
MissMather, as Ea mem Ida, imparled a^refreshing naturalness to tho charac^^ter of tho gypsy girl. In the lighter scenes^she was most happy, though in those re^^quiring power and intensity the perfection^of her art was clearly manifested, for Miss^Mather is a versatile actress and a beauti^^ful strong woman. She has a haughty^spirit and physique to sustain it. Such^women are not lacking iu iorccfuliiess.^In the third act, when she reviles the per^^jured priest and hurls him from her. de^^nouncing him in the most frantic lan^^guage w hich tongue can frame, she was^truly grand. Her characterization was^sustained, the exacting demands of the^trying role, not seeming to snphcr strength^in the least.
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Amongtho early attractions nt Mo-^guire's will be Alexander Salviui. Besides^being one of the greatest actors on the^s'.age at present ho is also on excellent^swordsman and an all-around athlete,^rays Augustus Dunlop. Ho stands six^feet high and is built in proportion. One^day in New York last month he was talk^^ing of tho Sullivau-Corbett fight. Ho had^tried in vain to persuade his manager. \V.^M. Wilkison, to postpone the opening of^the season so ho might go to New^Orleans, but in vain. ^I would like^to tackle some of those fellows myself.^^said he. ^and if they would only do somc-^ihing to make me mad 1 think I could lick^them.^ Sahiiii is not a pleasant itersou^to encounter when they do succeed in^making him ^mad,^ as he calls it. His^temper, which is very hard to arouse, has^vecasionally been u detriment to lam in^his profession. Ho has the greatest con^^tempt for laziness and inattention lobusi^^ness, and he is prone to express it. LmI^season, when playing ^A Child of^Naples,^ ho many times regretted speak^^ing harshly to some incompetent stage^hand, for they would be revenged by^strewing the stage with small tacks, and^as he pluyed the part with bare feet it was^not very pleasant. During his engage^^ment at the Boston theater last spring ho^was rehearsing a mob of supers. 2U or ^^of them, all selected for their size, as they^were to appear as musketeers iu ^The^Three Guardsmen.^ Salviui is very fond of^rehearsing: supers are not. He had been^instructing them in a particular bit of^business with great patience, and they^seemed determined not lo leurn. Finally,^after many repetitions, ho lost his temper^and one of them mumbled some sort of a^threat. Salviui turned on him like a^tiger. ^What's that.^ said he. ^jou^^^Why. I'll lick you, and you, and you.^^as he pointed from one to another. ^And^what's more, if 1 have to try this ngain.^I'll kill seme of you do you understand .'^I'll kill you. So once more 1 ask you, w ill^you help me V^ and like a lot of scared^children they answered ill one voice, ^We^will.^ They went through the business^again and did it right, but at night, when
itwas time for thokts to appear, not
oneof the whole mob had shown up. and^lines had to Ixj cut and the piece played^without tham.
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Mrs.M. L. Littleton of Nashville. Tenn .^nnd Mrs. W. Newton Much of West Vir^^ginia have set to work to build a theater^for the world's fair, to bu under Hie^patronage of the board of lady managers,^iu w hich will be prcdiiccd a s|^cctneiilar^pantomime of rare btilliaucy. They ex^^pect lo spend $.m'i^xi in erecting a build^^ing and presenting ^Christopher Colum^^bus.^ a historical -pei taele in which^would bo introduced scenes and^dramatic events ill connection^with tho diseoverry of America.^Mrs. Littleton is the author of the s|k-c-^tacle. She has accepted Washington Irv^^ing as authority on historical matters rc-^laling to the discoverer's career, and laid^the foundation for brilliant spectacular^t'fefcts.around the stirring events of his^life. Fancy dunces are to Ik-a feature of^the performance, and the ballet costumes^w ill be historically correct. Ix-itig taken^from famous paintings. In all 14 ballets^will be given, alioiit lUO people lieing re^^quired to pfoduce the spectacle. The^scene opens iu a suburb of t.cnoa. with^Columbus stretched under a tree dream-^ing of great aelne\einents. Fantastic^forms float about htm. Suddenly -1 blonde^maidens appear, decked in skirts of seven^colors ami dancing to the music of ^wiss^liells. Tho next scene represents Colum^^bus on a rock-lioiind coast, yearning to^start on his voyage of discovery. A proci s-^sion of priests, the sacrificial dance of^the Aztecs and other spectacular features^are introduced in this. In lik^ manner^the different stages of Columbus' life arc^illustrated, a fancy dance being introduced^to close each act. A royal minuet in the
courtdress of the times, Spauish peasant^dance, dance of Jewish maidens and sim^^ilar features are promised. The conclud^^ing vision shows a statuo of Columbus^rising from tho stage, with angels placing^a crown on the discoverer's brow. Colum^^bia places a flag at his foot and beckons a^bevy of foreign queens, each representing^a nation that takes part in the fair, girls^representing each state in tho union^dance, and as tho orchestra plays^^Yankee Doodle^ tho curtain falls. Sie-^mans ^J- Halske, the great electricians of^Berlin, will illuminate tho theater and^introduce many electrical effects un^^known to this country.
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Itseems probable that Butte will, after^all, not seo Nellie McHcnry this season,^at least not until her return trip from the^coast. She w as booked to uppcar at Ma-^guirc's in ^A Night nt tho Circus,^ but in^some way the dates conflicted with those^of Miss Mather, and ^the Circus^ passed^us by.
Thenext attraction will be ^Little Tip-^petts,^ tho new farce comedy which is on^its first trip out. It is said to be very^^taking^ and successful. It is booked lor^October 0.
TheatricalGossip.
GenevieveWard is in South Africa.
Thereore L^i theaters open in New York.
Thereare ::.o ^i actors olid actresses out^of work iu New York.
YoungH K. Einmett travels on the repu^^tation ot his dead father.
A.M. 1';.lmei 's Stock company will see^many new faces this season.
ArielN. Barney is to pilot the tour of^Mrs. James Brown Potter for John Stet^^son.
TheSan Francisco courts decide that^McKcc liaiikin has no legal ground for^divorce.
Salviui,tho elder, will shortly make a^tour of the world, including a long visit to^the I'liitcd Slates.
Awag has it that Fanny Davenport is^nhooting Welsh rabbits from the wiudows^of her castle in Wales.
KoseCoghlan w ill revive ^Diplomacy^^next month at the Slur theater. New York.^Her brother Charles and John T. Sullivan^will play the two licaitclrrcs.
OtisSkinner, who is at present touring^in the Swiss mountains, will return next^week and join the Modjcskii company, iu^which he will Ix) ^featured.
ThomasFlnhcrty, the husband of Mrs.^Kimball, who is fortune's reputed mother,^died in lloston last week. People, how^^ever, say that there has been three for-^illties.
JohnL. Sullivan's company continues^to rehearse ^A Man rrom Boston.^ The^result of the New Orleans contest will^make no change in tho ex-champion's^theatrical plans.
StuaitItobsoii is rehearsing his com^^pany in New York and on Monday begins^his tour at folonel Sinn's theater ill^Brooklyn. Mr. liobson will include the^South iu his tour this season.
Attalieflare, who hud tho row with^Lillian lCusscll last scuson, w as married^on Wednesday ill New York to Alfred^Kayne. a rich young man who is yet to^graduate from Columbia college.
JohnC Towers, who culls himself ^The^Great American Tragedian.^ was arrested^ill New York for stealing a bicycle. He is^the author of ^Life or Wife.^ in w hich ho^proposed to star this season. Ho admitted^his guilt and told the judge he stole to gel^money for bis starving w ife and children^iu Middle-tow n, N^. Y.
Peoplewho are charmed by the refine^^ment of Sol Smith Hussell will not be sur^^prised lo learn that hehas one of the finest^libraries in the I'nitod States, and that his^connection with the library is not confined^to mere iiossession.
There'snothing as sail as an actor's lait^h
Inthe H ue theatric style.^Except (he Kpusin hy courtesy cidled^A urofcsslouul Joker's smile.
Andnow gossip says that W. W. Kelly^nnd Grace llavvthoi no were married in^Chicago years ago. Miss Hawthorne lias^been telling the Londoners lately that she^is a relative of the late Nathaniel Haw^^thorne and John Groenlcaf Whittier. ami^our tram-Atlantic friends have swallowed^the yarn. Grade's maiden name in the^long, long ago was Cortland, and she^made her debut ill u bier ball on the wist^side iu Chicago,^ so says Dunlop, and ho^makes the same mistake so frequently^made by other Eastern dramatic writers.^Grace Hawthorne is not the Grace Cort^^land known in the East more than a quar^^ter of a century ago. bin was a Grace^Carl land, w hose principal work was done^on the stage west of the Mississippi river^before slit- went to London. There is only^a difference of one letter in the two^names, but that is sufficient to show that^Hawthorne is not Cortland. If the latter^is still living she must be ut least W.- y ears^old by this time.
Sami'hall. for several seasons manager^oTtiic (irisincr-Duv ics company. Ins been^engaged by William A. Brady as business^manager of James J. furljctt's tour in^^Gentleman Jack.
KatiePutnam's season will open on^Thursday in Beulmi Harbor. Mich., when^she will present her new play, ^An Cn-^elaimed Express Package,^ for w hich new^scenery has lx^cn prepared. Miss Putnam^expects to make this piece the feature ol^her tour.
Manychanges are being made in^P. M..^ and as now given it is a vast im^^provement over the original production.^The piece affords Jennie x culufsM many^opportunities to display her abilities as a^comedienne, and should be successful ou
lie to.id.
InterviewedIn Boston last w eek. Mrs.^James Brown Poller modestly said: ^A^good deal depends oil the |^crsoiiality of^an netn'ss after she has mastered the^technique of her profession and I hare^done that. Dumas says 1 play Camdle^the 1k^si of any actress he has ever seen.^Hi' ought to know. He w iote tin- play.
Lottalicgins in Toronto on Oct. :t a tour^which will extend M weeks, und include^all ihe principal cities from New York to^San Francisco, where she closes July I.^She has anew musical comedy, called^^Clytie.^ by a prominent American act^^ress, who st ipulates that her name shall^Ml in- revealed. The action of the piece^all takes place at a little Maine watering^place, at a hotel called ^Y\v ^Map 'Em^Inn.^ During the play Lotta bsbMbssssI^several disguises, among w hich an- a Gor^^man peasant girl, a French dauseiisu uud^a hoidenish school girl.
TheCountess ^^; Clancariy ^Belle Bol^^ton^' has established herself us a prime^Lit onto ill ^society^ in lrelaud. At the
horseshow in Dublin a few weeks^the great social event of the year^abe was^much admired and courted as she moved^about amongst the thousands in the ^how^yard at Balls' Bridge with hor bussjsxnd,^and w as voted not only the best dralsed.^but the prettiest woman present, which it^saying a good deal ill Ireland.
FIGHTING THRO' FOUR ACTS.
Corb.tr.Thrilling and Realistic Halo-^drama, ^(ieattloman JI as,** f^Tho new ploy In which forbett, th^*an-^quisbcr of Sullivan, is to be seen al tlx^Haymarket soon is entitled ^Gentlsjmon^Jim.^ and the cast w ill include the Cali^^fornia champion ; Daly, his boxing part^^ner: Delanev, his trainer, and Dillon. In^it forbett will take the part of a college^student, bank clerk, boxing master and^pugilist.
Thefirst act opens w ith 0orbett as a^college student at old Princeton. The^scenery will he painted from photographs^of the campus. Jim w ill be represented^as the hero of his classmates and the best^all-round athlete iu college. The heavy^v illnin of the play is a Princeton student^in Jim's own class and his constant rival^in the sports of tho college. Jim invari^^ably defeats him, and this lays the^foundation of his jealously that ripens^into hatred when they find they are both^ill love with the same girl.
Throughhis childhood Jim had been^taught to believe that his father was dead,^but the villain accidentally discovers that^his father, soon after Jim's birth, had^boon acensisl of murder uud sent to jail,^from which he subsequently escaped an I^disappeared. In his hate for Jim. the vil^^lain tries by spreading this story to turn^tho boys against their favorite. Jim's^mother now improves tho opportunity of^a visit to her son at college lo tell him^the sorrowful story of her htl-hand's life,^and Jim sees how his enemy has. in a w ay^Ik* did not suspect, workisl against him.^Jim is no angel, howev er, and takes ad^^vantage of the beautiful chance to'get^even.
Thetime is at hand for the annual root^hall game between Princeton and Yale^teams. The game forms the last scene of^the first act. Jim and his enemy saw both^in the Princeton team. The ball is put in^play iu actual college style, and III the^scrimmage which followm Jim plants him^^self upon his enemy nnd iu a self-deter^^mined way pr^s i i iN to ^put a tace on^him^ I hat foot ball men w ill appreciate.^The act ends w ith Princeton's victory and^tin* curtain goes down on a stage scene of^waving orange and black, tooting horns^and cheering girls, for Jim's sweetheart of^course is there lo watch him.
Thesecond act discovers Jim an em^^ploye of the bunk of which his father's!^enemy is president. The same hatred^pursues him here. An old man ap|^ears,^w ho is hired to repair some broken locks^on the premises but manages to keep a^watchful eye on the young employe and^thw art the plans of bis enemy. While the^audience is wondering w hy the playwright^introduci'd tho old man. Jim's brother^chances lo cuter the bank, and, coming^face to face with the pretended tramp, is^Ix'trayiil into a hysterical cry of recogni^^tion. Jim's ever-present enemy is, of^course, on deck, and. his suspicious taring^aroused, he puts a uuich on the old man^and discovers that he is Jim's father, the^escaped murderer. The villain, however,^does not inform on him; ho is too cute for^that. The tramp's profession that^of a locksmith gives him his one.^He concocts n deep-laid plot by^which the crime of stealing is laid ul Mia^old man's door. By a cunningly contrivd^plan the plotter makes the old man be^^lieve that Jim w ill b^ secIIBed, and in or^^der to spare him tho blight of suspicion^tho disguised father flees. Jim. on the^other hand, is led lo believe that the real^thief is the old man and. furthermore,^learns tint he is bis father. Not knowing^of his flight Jim, in heroi'- self-defense,^takes the guilt upon himself, and though^his employer believes he is shielding an^^other, and w ill not prosoctito him, Jim^must leave I he hunk.
Thescene in the third act is laid on the^i-oof of iho Madison Square garden iu^New York city. Jim is iu the new capacity^of professor of boxing at tho well-know n^New York Athletic club. The cause for^vv hich he was driven from the hank is not^publicly known, and he moves in the best^society, und umong tin* swell clubmen,^particularly, is a great favorite, liis^sweet heart, much to his delight, still ro-^lil.nils true to him. He has made quite a^reputation in the meantime as a boxer, so^much so, in fact, that his club friends are^decidedly anxious to match htm against^any of the present-day champions, but^having an Instinctive dread of the prize-^ring he w ill not enter it. His old enemy, be^^lieving that the only way in which he can^w in the love of Jim's -*cclheurt is by re^^ducing the hero of the play to the level of^a defeated pugilist, imports an English^prize lighter named Charley Twiehel.^Daly, w ho has boon Corla-u's boxing part^^ner, will take this part, and for six weeks^N'fore the big fight of Wednesday evening^Daly has been growing side-wliiskct* to^assist his make-up for the part. I ne^Englishman, following out a plan pre^^viously adopted, insults Jim in the roof^garden, the latter resents it, and us a last^resort accepts Twiehel's challenge to light^the pugilist at the Olympic club. New Or^^leans.
Inthe last act the curtain rises on the^training quarters at Ixs'h Arlsiur. On one^side of the stage stands the litlla barn, all^exact reproduction of the ono w here Cor-^belt did his training, showing Deal lake^and tho cottage*, at Asbtiry Park in the^distance. In this scene all the paraphcr-^Mate 'hit Corlielt used previous to^Wednesday's light w ill Ik^ exhibit.-d on the^stage. Jim nnpeors behind the footlights^with Delanev and his other trainers,^punches the bag and wrestles just us he^did w hen preparing to whip John L. Tho^seeotitt seeiio shows the interior of tho^Olympic club ut New Orleans uftcr lint^tight of Wednesday night. Photographs^were lakcn of the battle ground, and lbs^scenes will lie painted from them. In this^act all the preparations for the light will^lie show n. The entrance of the principal* I^and their seconds. ih^ exact speech as it^was listened to Wednesday night will bo^heard, the la^ts of the audience, the work^^ing of Mm famous electric gong, the c ^ani^^mation of the glove-, all of which will he^made quite realistic. The light occurs.^A dastardly plot to dose Jmi is frustrated,^ami as he meets the Lugl.sh puiriUst the^excitement in the stage audience hoc*.me*^great. The girl who has all along Is-en^true to Jim and repelled the adv unces of^his rival, has found it impossible to city^aw iv at this climax and has bribed her^Sra] in iii male attire. There Ate six^whirlwind rounds, in the last of which the^disguised sweetheart taints aia! Jim ha,-^won. The curtain falls on a rontissj hupp)^reunion, with the single exception ot the^presence of Jim's father.^Sun /VaacbM^fcrassiarr*.
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