The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-02
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But then the plays were inferior. Just
| how much this fact had TO do with the
! nonprosperity of Dixey's tours under
Mr.. Frohman's management, may be
! determined next season.
why don't theatrical managers fol-
low the medicine boys with their ad-
| Vertisements." said w. A. Mcconnell
and how would an ad. like this do /?
William Gillette.
President of the MIrth-Provoking Co,
Standard Theater, New York City.
Dear Sir: During the past winter 1
witnessed performances of The Two
Colonels." The Pace That Murders"
| and THE Queen of the Night" and I
was completely run down in health,
and the doctors gave me up. But
thank God, at the proper moment,
some kind friend took me TO see Too
Much johnson" at the Standard, and
am completely restored to health"
Julia MarIowe, II would seem, makes
an ill-advised move in starring herself
as Mrs Tabor. After a vast amount
OF hard work in the face of the usual
obstacles, she has made a reputation
for one Julia Marlowe by name. Hav-
ing obtained this reputation for Miss
Marlowe. she is now billing herself as
Mrs. Tabor. Mr. Tabor is a good ac-
tor and a good fellow. but he has not
been spending years in achieving q
reputation equal to his wife's. and the
name of Tabor on Telegraph paper
means. at present, scarcely anything
to the onlooker. The names of theatre
cal stars become just valuable as
trade marks as do the names of patent
medicines. Ii is a mistake not to bear
this fact in mind.
In a few years Fanny Davenport in
tends to retire from the stage and as
sumo the management of a first-class
theater where she can give full play
to her penchant for magnificent pro-
auctions. Several theaters have been
offered her in leading cities, and she
has her plans well outlined for an ex-
tensive launching on the managerial
sea when the time comes. AS Miss
Davenport has long since proved her
competency for business direction in |
the successful handling of her own |
plays. she is liable to cause her broth |
er managers to look alive to equal her |
achievements. |
The product of American dramatists |
has received cordial recognition in this |
country during the past season. |
Among the recent American successes |
are "Puddin'head WILSON, The Fat |
ted Calf" "A Bowery Girl" His |
Wife's Father" TOO Much Johnson" |
Captain Paul" Maine and Georgia."
etc, while on the other hand a number |
ures in America.
Within n decade Fanny Davenport |
has paid more than $4,000 in royal
tiles to Nictorien Sardou. She has
sent $4,000 to him this season for
"Gismonda." Within this time she |
has spent in staging Sardou's plays
Fedora" La Tosca," Cleopatra" and
900. She is reputed
TO be worth half a million dollars.
When all these figures are taken in
the thought suggests it
self that IL was a red-letter day for
the French dramatist and the Amer
lean actress when they came across
each other.
Fred c. Whitney has become tired OF |
cabling and dickering with Emma |
Calve with regard to her singing at the
head of grand opera company under |
his management In this country and
IL Calve returns here at all, she will be
under the direction of Abbey and
Grau. Her terms for America, she
says. are $4,000 guarantee for the sea-
son and a further guarantee that she
will sing a hundred times.
We are likely to have a deluge of
hypnotism after Svengal Joseph Ar
thurs new piece. "Linsoy Woolsey,"
done in Chicago last week has hyp-
motto villain, and the part seems one
II the most successful features of the
show. other people are trying to use
the name 'Trilby," also. musical
setting of the piece called "Trilby of
Argyle has had sort of private per-
Torrance in Boston. and is being pre-
pared for the public as fast as posi-
be.
Says Eddy's Stage Squib: Every |
lay is adding TO the number of actors |
and actresses in distress who have
Hooked To New York. They are seek |
ng engagements I'm vain, for mana
gers with enterprises projected for
next season are acting on the policy
hey adopted last summer OF waiting |
until the last minute to make up their
in order to secure their
people n reduced salaries"
Rose Coghlan's tour the past winter
las been disastrous. At Pittsburg a |
she played to less than fifteen
hundred dollars on the week. and her
business on one night stands has fire. |
luently been below a hundred dollars |
Miss Coghlan should sail abroad this
summer and get some plays. and start
Jut again next year with a brave heart. |
Miss Marie Burroughs will sail for
Europe in June in search of new ma |
erial for her next seasons work. She |
Ias her next season booked for about |
OTlN WttkS. MISS huiIbuEIS rather IN I
iignantly denies that she is going back |
with willard season after next Her
starring tour has more than fulfilled |
her expectations.
Commercial travellers are numbered
among the best patrons of theatrical
At a recent CONNER
,ial Mems Convention held in St. Paul |
+. II. Cross of Columbus, introduced a |
which was Incorporated in |
The minutes of the meeting. wishing
Frank Daniels endless success in his
starring tour next season in The Wiz
ard of the Nile"
Bernhardt expects to pass the sum- |
mer in an old ruined castle on the At |
antic coast Of Brittany. where she |
hopes TO lead the life Of a barbarian |
with only two servants rather lux
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