The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-13
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ton is infamy; actors not to do the work
of stage hands and mechanics and vice
versa; Sunday and holiday performances
must be paid for extra, all the contracts
to the contrary Notwithstanding; and
finally, we demand that the laws for the
protection of people employed in build
| ings from fires must be enforced"
The feeling with which the people of
Montana regard the president was shown
the other night at the opera house. Come
dian Flint picked up gun and walked
across the stage with it.
"What are you doing ?" asked the other
young man.
II am looking for man who voted for
Cleveland"
The applause from the audience was
long and deafening.
The Tavary Grand Opera company
opened in San Francisco last Monday
night and the papers are saying all sorts
of flattering things in praise of the
madam's singing. 1t appears that Butte
did not hear the best singers in the or
ganization, according to the names that
appear in the San Francisco papers.
Butte, as usual, was evidently imposed
upon.
Walter Moss, treasurer of the Calhoun
Opera company, and an old newspaper
man, is one of many professional people
who believe that John Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of Abraham Lincoln, lived many
years after the time he was alleged to
have been shot. Mr.. Moss tells an inter-
esting story of his investigations into the
subject.
The Brooklyn Eagle makes this COM
ment: There was an auction of William
Warren relics the other day in Boston,
and the only actor present was Charles
Barron. A water color by jefferson sold
for 81, and bust of Kate Bateman for
S1.12. Warren's inkstand went for 35
cents, and there was not a touch of senti-
ment about the affair from first to last. A
boxing glove of John L. Sullivan's would
probably have brought more money than
did the whole collection.
Here is a new fad for a professional. 1t
is much better than the old story of carry
ing on tour pet demonstrators and own
ing tons of diamonds. 1t happens to be a
fact. Tamagno, the celebrated tenor
whom Henry Abbey has under engage
ment to sing at the Metropolitan opera
house in New York and in other cities,
has at his home in Milan a collection of
butterflies from the various countries of
the world he has visited. Under glass
cases Tamagno has hundreds of thous-
ands of these insects. The collection has
been valued at $4,000.
1.-THE actor that plays the villain is a
Handicapped man." says Henry Herman,
who plays the confederate spy in "Shen-
andoah." "All the lines put into his
mouth by the dramatist are calculated to
make him unpopular, and the audience
goes home utterly despisng him. The
matinee girl thinks him mean to stand in
the way of the hero, and taps one little
hand on the other when he is led off in
the last act to pay the penalty of his base
ness"
Oesterlein's Richard Wagner Museum
in Vienna now contains about %, 900 doct-
ments relating to that composer, includ-
ing 1000 books and pamphlets, 600 por-
traits and busts, 300 manuscripts, etc.
Oesterlein has spent many years making
this collection, and now offers il for sale
at so, 900.
Winkelmann's salary as operatic tenor
in Vienna is $4,000 year, for about sixty
appearances. Reichmann gets 8, 800 for
eight months, Fri. Remark $500. Frau
Schlager, who fifteen years ago received
$40 a month as chorus girl, now has $1,000
a year at the Imperial Opera.
Neil Burgess has given a contract to
McIlfatrick to build a new theater for
him at Broadway and Thirty-fourth
street, New York. 1t will have double
stage that will move from side to side.
The house is to open next fall with Bur-
CESS in a new play.
Sprightly and sweet-voiced Maria Bell
of the Calhoun company is a sister of Ida
Mule.
Il hung up my stockings on Christmas
eve," says VIII A. Mcconnell, "and in
the morning both were gone.'