The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-11
THEATRICAL CHITCHAT.

OupA1y WOEkeu very udEu ~ PIcdSc "
people and succeeded admirably. We ha
company, and especially of Miss Davit
superb, conscientious acting, and we col
mend them most heartily to the press al
people of the Montana circuit, upon wifi
they play during the coming week, en- rou
to Portland and the Northwest coast.
On tomorrow evening the Rev. Geor
w. Pepper, the eloquent Irish lecturer, W
speak on 1.-THE Ireland of To-day" Tn
mere announcement will be sufficient I
fighting chaplain" will deliver two lecture
the subject for his lecture on Tuesda
night night being "Sherman's March to Il
Sea-"
Rev. Mr.. PEPPER arrived in the cit
yesterday. He was met at Silver Bow b
Manager Mcguire and Mr.. Pat. Conlon, an
is a guest at the st. Nicholas. His tOu
this season has been a very successfr
One.
MILTON MOBILES and his excellent CON
pany will begin a weeks engagement at tn
Grand or Tuesday, the 18th inst. TIL
company will lose a night en- route fro1
Portland.
JOHN HOwsoN has been engaged by Man
ager Locke, of the American Opera Com
pany, to act bouffe parts the coming sea
son Of that company. Mr.. Howson viii
make his first appearance in Goetz's 9Th
Tanning of the Shrew , on the opening nigh
OF the season.
The New York Sun SAYS: "Miss MARY
Anderson seems astonished at the coldnes!
of her reception after the first night, ant
does not conceal her disappointment. Blu,
this is usually to be expected where TIN
audience is composed OF r~ustics, rs must bt
the case when such a sum as $3.50 il
charged for a seat, the same as Rachel ano
Bernhardt asked. Mrs. Langtry, from the
commencement to the close of her perform
ances, never received the faintest express
sion of applause, but she said she did not
care as long as money came. New Workers
wish their fair country women well, but do
not feel inclined to pay a heavy extra price
to see performances which they have been
accustomed to witness for many seasons
with a more perfect ensemble, at the usual
rates. Besides, it was scarcely wise to
bring over an English company, when so
many better artists could be found at
home"
STEPHEN F1sKE, one of the best dramatic
critics in America, and a gentleman as we'll
informed upon matters theatrical as any
one writes to the Chicago Times: II believe
that, for the first time in her life, Mary
Anderson is acting in a real romance. and
that this accounts for the artifciality of
her acting on the stage. The sad fate Of
John Mccullough has deeply affected her.
The season before she went to London he
was devoted to her. Her album vas filled
with his photographs. She did not know
that he had a wife living in Philadelphia,
and the revelation of this fact made to her
Boucicault shocked her terribly. She
returns to find the stalwart tragedian who
SO interested her a hopeless lunatic in
The Bloomingdale Asylum. What more
natural than her to think that he, too, had
and that she is the cause of his in
'anity. DR.. Griffin, her father-in-law, tells
ne that she misses the immense'crowds and
;he tremendous applause to which she has
,een accustomed in England; but there is
omething more than this suggested by her
and her Indifferent perform
noes. She may redeem herself in her old
epertory, Romeo and Juliet The
~1unchback,' The Lady OF Lyons and
[ngomar,' which are underlined as in
but fancy that Mary Ander-
has at last discovered she has q
romans heart and that her grief for poor
dcCullough is the worm i the bud that
reys on her damask cheek"
NEVADA says she is 'supremely happy"
nd that DR.. Palmer is an ideal husband.
lost brides have this opinion in the honey
1oOn,
BILLY EMERSON and Mrs. Mary Hickok,
zee Ellis, were married some time ago in
australia. The present Mrs. Emerson is a
.ronounced blonde and petite. She has
considerable property in the city OF San
francisco.
Able LIST, who ought to be good au-
compares iGluck's 'Alceste' with the
'ork OF Wagner. The opera has just been
evived at Vienna after a laps Of seventy
years, and with great success.
NINE. GERsrER writes: II am bound to
[r. Abbey by a legal agreement, in virtue
I which the possibility of joining Colonel
[apleson's company is perfectly out OF the /
uestion." She relies on her physicians
tatement that she will soon be able to sail
,r America for a concert to ur.
LAWRENCE BARRETT will probably pro-
uce Victor Hugo's "Hernani, +" mounted
y Captain Alfred Thompson. 1t will be |
n expensive undertaking, but the play is
splendid one and ought to catch the |
ublic.
AFTER all the row over it, Manager Hay
an only ran "Paquita'' one week at the
aldwin. San Francisco would not have
at any price. He has now sued BARLEY
ampbell for 5 $500 for breach OF contract.
he contract specified that Campbell was
furnish a full company to play
Paquita," whereas, Hayman was forced
} pay all the salaries.
LATELY ina California music hall ayoung
dy was warbling, "Oh, would l were u
rd!" when great excitement among the \
ldience was caused by a stalwart miner /
nging, Would I were a gum?
MAY W1LLEs is a talented actress and a
sautiful woman for whom the glorious eli
ate of California is responsible. Miss
likes has done some acting in New York
I'd a great deal outside and has won re-
tie as an artist OF exceptional spirit and
'ility.
The opera house and the theater at St.
Mimi, are just now deserted in the
terest of the dime museums. Even the
ating Kinks have undergone a drop.
Il II II
BEFORE he went to Europe at the end of
st season, Del Puente, the singer, gave his
wings, amounting to $4,000, to a mer-
ntile friend in Boston to invest for him.
is friend speculated, and about three
'eks ago, not only ruined himself, but Del
lcnte also, and to make the denouement
the affair still more unhappy, the next
y blew out his conscience-stricken brains.
May FIELDING is back from Italy, where
9 has been cultivating her voice. She
probably be heard in light opera before
e season is over.
NELLIE BOYD, a thoroughly good actress,
8 cut loose from her brass band, which
has been carrying around, and has ap-
ed the expense OF the same to surround
herself with a much stronger dramatic
mpany than she formerly had. Conse-