The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-13

O11E, Jan. ia rOmantlc
J story concerning Sibyl San
* derson, the California girl,
W over whose singing and
J beauty Paris has raved for a
AA year or more, was told to the
writer of this column by professional a
few days ago. Something moro than 10
years ago Miss Sanderson lived in San
Francisco. She is. the daughter of re-
spectacle parents, her father being pro-
fessional man, but they were just out
side of San Francisco's top knot circle.
The girl at that time gave abundant evil
dence of the great beauty she now pos
sesses and had any number of admirers.
Among the lot was the scion of a most
noble house. For the purposes of this
story 1t is only necessary TO say that the
young man and the handsome Sibyl be-
came engaged before his family learned
of it. When they did learn of it there
was the deuce TO pay and the upshot of 1t
was that the young man broke off with
Sibyl. And then did she weep and gnash
her teeth and bring suit for a
breach of promise? Not she.
The girl wasn't built that way. She was
as good and as proud as the best in San
Francisco, so she held consultation with
herself and decided that she would make
some people respect her yet and, above
all, would make a certain young man re-
greet his action toward her. With assist
ance from some friends she went to Paris
TO make a name for herself. How we'll
she has succeeded the world knows. She
first went to Paris in 1881, and her Euro
pean career has been a successful one,
her beauty no less than her voice assist
ing in making it so.
And now sha ic in,
make a brief tour of the principal cities
in this country and sing in operas. But
that is not all. In New York a few days
ago she announced that she would soon
be married to Cuban millionaire named
Antonio Terry, a gentleman who came
across the water with her. The only
thing in the way of a speedy marriage is
the little obstacle that the rich Cuban has
another wife, but q suit for divorce is well
under way and this little obstruction to
the contamination of her victory over the
young Californian will be removed in time
for her to be married to Signor Terry in
New York before her return to France.
Isn't that a romance for you?
The World has this to say about it: "A
Night at the Circus" Every one should
go and see Birdie tonight or some other
iiShN huAinS luO 4NclliS eIHdRe-
ment at the Bijou theater. Her company
of farce comedy players is certainly the
best that has been in the city for many a
long day. The principal characters in the
matchmaking, laughter-provoking piece
are in the front rank of their profession.
Nellie McHenry is a host in herself, and
it would be difficult to name any woman
before the public who has such a complete
control over her audiences. You may
laugh at her until you are worn out, but
you can't relax your attention. Mile.
Electra is a good title for the Queen of
the Arena, for more electric little woman
was never before the public; with all her
fun, is graceful in all her business; she is
refined, in fact there is finish to her
performance seldom seen in a farce-com-
edy actress, and which entities Nellie Nc
Henry not only to be announced as
Queen of the Arena" but also as queen
of her school of art.
Miss McHenry opens at Maguire's opera
house next Wednesday evening, the en-
gagement continuing the remainder of
the week with a Saturday matinee.
"Jolly volatile, clever Nellie McHenry is
creating n small sized furore in that
funny combination of bright people.
bright music, etc., "A Night at the Cir
Gus" What a world of jollity is conjured
by the aforesaid combination. Nellie Nc
Henry is a soubrette who has established
field for herself, and, as no one else is
possessed of her peculiar talents, she has |
very little trouble in holding her own. She |
is the very essence of happy good nature, |
her magnetic laugh seems to be conta- |
gious. a Night at the Circus is an ex- |
cellent thing of its kind, and it is a pretty |
good kind when it makes humanity forget |
its cares and its miseries in laughter To |
be sure, one couldn't imagine "A Night at |
the Circus" without Nellie McHenry, but |
then, as no one wants to imagine it with
out her, it's all right. She is clever, the /
piece is bright, the company is good, and |
the music is new and catchy. 1t may also
be mentioned that the business is big"
This but one out of hundred of the press
notices that have been accorded to Nellie
McHenry during the late run of "a Night
at the Circus" in New York city.