The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-10

! all. You remember the scene between
! Macbeth and the witches. at which II
! is generally believed that the first sug-
| gestion of his later crime was made to
Macbeth. don't believe that. ]
! think that Macbeth had talked over
with his wife the murder of the king,
and had planned 1t all before he ever
met the witches. AS / know Macbeth
and as 1 think Shakespeare intended
to draw his character, he was a cool,
INSCRIPTIONS, calculating villain. He
was a man of great sentiment, poetical.
as / said before, but absolutely with
out feeling"
Mrs. Leslie Carter has dyed her hair
a brilliant red. 1t must be very striking
for even the dignified New York Tri-
bune says that such a head of hair
would stop almost any timepiece ever
put together. The Tribune also sug-
gests that Belasco should go to work
on his play with an adze and toma-
hawk. Still the drama seems to have
some strong situations, and the scene
where the heroine swings by the bell
rope and stops ii from ringing wins
great success.
Nine. Janauschek puts the case in
this way: Artistic methods are no
longer considered. Everything Is done
placing a speculator in the managers
place is seen in the number of pile-driv-
ing dramas we are now forced to sub
NIT to. Tanks, railroads, saw mills,
brazen-faced semi-nude females, very
lively young women who scream and
howl as soubrettes, in a production of
vulgar farce-comedy, usurp the ground
made sacred by histrionic art and ge-
MUS.
st was Shakespeare" says Joseph
Jefferson, ''who really invented the
star system. Each of his plays has it's
star around which the subordinate
characters revolve. 1t may be argued
that in Romeo and Juliet there are
two stars. This is not so, however
The two characters are like a double
comet-two stars with one ray. Ham
let,' in my opinion, was not mad. He
simply assumed madness for a pur-
pose"
A suit was recently brought in New
York by Emily Charlotte Langtry, bet
ter known by the stage name of Mrs.
Lilly Langtry, against Helena Bozenta
Chlapowski, known on the stage as
Nine. Helene Modjeska, but the nature
of the suit was not disclosed. They
have a way of suppressing such things
in the New York courts and keeping It
even from the keyhole reporters of the
press. A few days ago the
suit was discontinued by consent.
Eleanor Calhoun. the California
actress who once made some claim as
an heir to the Davis millions, Butte,
is playing "Cheer. Boys. Cheer" at
the Drury Lane theater. London, and
has met with great success. The play
is said to be crowding the theater
nightly.
Mrs. Alexander Salvini MAUD Dix
on) is not travelling with her husband
this season. All last winter her health
was very poor. and while she was
abroad visiting her father-in-law This
summer the family physician ass ured
her husband that ii was imperative
that she should rest this winter, so
she is in New York.
Bernhard made her recent Italian
tour without the service of a manager,
and attended herself to all the bust
ness arrangements. such as enga ging
her company and hiring the various
theaters on the line of her tour.
The Two Orphans was the greatest
financial success of the melodramas.
1t is estimated that 100000 was made
from the old drama alone.
Nat Goodwin's new play, Ambition,
hinges on the Cuban war and a presi-
Dental election in this country
Dunlop's Stage News. the best of all
dramatic press sheets. has again made
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