The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-03-13
A CORRECTION,
What Variety s'Fairy" Has to Say in
Defense of Herself.

A few days ago TIE M1vER was visited
by middle-aged damsel, more or less
adorned as to her features with the "make-
up" OF the stage. She had petite form, a
dashing manner and q serio-comic voice.
She said her name was Blanche Dixon, that
she was a variety actress, now attached
to "the stock" at the AriOn, and that re-
Thence had followed her a report that she
had robbed "a sucker" of $17O. which had
caused her to flee tn pastures green and
suckers new" in Butte.
THE.ALLEGEp ROBBERY.
It was to correct the latter
article that Miss Dixon called on
The MINER. The report was re.
published from the Sunday Welcome. She
denied that she had robbed the sucker"
as she put it. and desired to be set right.
She said: '"The fellow was a ranchman
and blew him = for $500 or 5000.
He was q married man, but wanted to
marry me. He had about $500 in cash
and his wife in Portland. He was dead
stuck on me and used to come to the thea
ter both afternoon and evenings. hu.
mored and cajolcd him. l told him
would marry him; that / would g" to
w daHIuSUOE 4eFIlCOFy WlIu ulIu, IL ut
shook his wife and that would live with
him."
WHY SHE DID 1T.
SOS, Miss Dixon?" asked THE MINER nan.
''Oh! yes" she said; "but you know we
have to do that to get suckers in the
variety business. If the men didn' believe
that they could enjoy our company else
where than in the theater they would not
be likely to long buy us wine and beer. We
have to work them in all sorts OF ways to
blow them in.'
AS TO THE PRICES.
''You see, in variety thea ters, "continu ed
the pert Miss Dixon, the cochineal on her
lips assuming a deeper tinge, ''all liquors
are sold at Il higher price than elsewhere.
Beer is sold at 25 cents a drink; cocktails
at SO cents, whether made OF tea or I'm
perial champagne; a bottle OF beer is dol
lar and a bottle of wine S. for pints.
The ladies in these houses are
allowed 20 per cent. on everything
they can induce any one to buy.
Managers do not care so much for perform
ers as they do for good beer rustlers.
The woman who cannot make her salary az
an actress in perc ,ntage is not considered
much good. So we have to work, you see. y
WORKING A "sUCKER.'
"But how about your Portland sucker,
Miss Dixon" asked The MINER man, as he
drank in the dashing jamsel's revelations.
"Oh! yes well, he was mashed on me
and worked him. I promised would
run a way with him, and every day he be-
come the more liberal. kept him there three
or four weeks. He i,ecame so infatuated
that he even brought is wife to the thea
ter and into the boxes and introduced her
to me. He told her, right in my presence:
that he loved me better than he did her and
that he would run away with me-"
THE GALL OF HER.
"And you remained there while she was
in the boxf'
"Why, certainly. We get used to such
things in our business"
"How much money did you get out oi
him?"
"The only money I ever got out OF hin,
was per centage. One night my per centage
amounted to $37."
Then he must have spent $1S5 on that
nightr"
- s.Yes. I blowed him for wine."
never handled any Of his money. AT
Portland they have no walters; the girls
change was made at the bar, SO could net
have robbed him. I never went to a saloon
with him. I got from him only what
worked him. for"
WHY SHE ESCAPED.
'Ditln't you leave Portland in a hurry7''
"Yes, but Mr.. Clinton, for whom l work
ed, knew l would leave. When the ranch,
man found had left he became very angry:
He was desperate man and l was afraid
he would harm me il he found had fooled
him Sn / thnaa kp0 w
Il can prove by the Chief Of Police Of
Portland. who is great 'fr,e' d. OF mine, y
continued the now virtuOusly indignant
Blanche, that l have done no wrong.
only played him. To get square with me he
had this story published on me. He wouldn
have done it if 1 had been there to defend
myself. He couldn't have got the nasty
article in first-class newspaper. The
Welcome has no standing there
The serio-comic star then reiterated hcl
innocence of theft, the part she played
in working sucker her readiness tt
tackle new ga me in any field, as being one
of her duties. and graciously bade the re
porter good evening. Within an hour shs
was probably whispering sweet things te
other ':suck ers" willing and anxious to b'
worked" in the Arion boxes.