The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-23

the man, because Marie wainwright's
engagements have been failures In
every instance, while those of Louis
James have been successes.
The eliminating point in the chase
of ex-huSband after ex-wife came In
this city. Miss Wainwright had been
playing in hard luck up to the time
she struck Nanaimo. There things
came to a climax, and the company
were literally on their uppers. The
wires were used to Vancouver, and the
manager of the Vancouver opera house
went responsible for the fares from Ma
naimo to Vancouver. The company got
here, but the hardness of fate followed
them, for in this city the house that
greeted them was small. AS the local
manager had brought them at his own
expense from Nanaimo, he took what
there was to make good his outlay, and
left Marie and her company in the
slough of financial dependency. Miss
Wainwright's own personal popularity
gathered friends around her in this
city, but, strange to say, 1t was the
guarantee of her ex-husband that al
lowed the baggage of the company to
be released and sent them on their way
perhaps not rejoicing. but yet easy in
their minds"
Here Is an interesting extract from
the London illustrated News of Sept.
so. 1861: THE new play of RIP Van
Winkle," a dramatiZed version of Dion
Boucicault, of Washington Irving's
most genial and humorous story, in
which the hero, one of the early Dutch
settlers of New York, falls In with the
COLLINS who haunt the Catskill noun
tains and drinks their magic liquor,
causing him a sleep of 20 years, is like
ly to have a long run at the Adelphi
theater. The new American actor, Mr..
=. H.. NnN1
Wrinkle, seems as though he had Great
ed the character himself, so perfectly
does he enter into the authors concep-
ton of the loose-lived, lazy, Longing
fellow, who let's his wife turn him out
of doors and then becomes the victim
of the mischievous imps, with the ghost
of the old pirate Hendrick Hudson, at
their head. Our Illustration shows the
scene in which Rip Van Wrinkle was
compelled TO quaff the fatal potion"
The illustration referred to shows
young Joseph Jefferson as the yellow
haired Dutchman of the village of Fall
ing Water. but the mountain gnomes.
instead of being the goblin dwarfs ia
miliar to the play-goers of to-day. were
sturdy Highlanders in kits and tartan
shawls. David Garrick used to play
Macbeth in silk small clothes, red
heeled shoes with silver buckles, and a
tie wig.
Sarah Bernhardt's salary is $500 a
week. Yvette Guilbert receives what
she can earn under current sensational
conditions, probably $1,000 a week, and
Calve earns 81. 200 for each of her APP
pearances. Olga Nethersole earns $3.50
q week. What with his salary and per-
centage of the receipts. John Drew
earns in good times $500 a week. A
competent leading man or woman, like
IL Lii
Allen or Isabel Irving, can be had for
5000 a week. The only player that ever
received, even in this prodigal country,
a salary equal to that of Bernhard
was Mime. Modjeska. Edwin Booth,
who knew nothing about the value of
money, once engaged the Polish actress
at a salary OF $500 a week. Calves
contract lasts five months, but during
that time she sings only twice or three
times a week, after which she returns
to the moderate salaries of Europe
Media receives $500 a night in this
country. but in Paris she is content
with $500 a performance. But Sarah
Bernhardt's contract continues through
summer and winter, and every Satur-
day night she pockets $1,000 Taking
one thing with another the actress is
better off than the singers. Averaging
the entire income of each performance
we should say that Calve earns $50. 900
a year, Guilbert about $685. 900, while |
Bernhard is sure of $4,000 annually
for five years.
Mrs. Jane Fulmer Newhall. a woman |
of wealth and prominent in society cir |
cles in the West and in Washington, |
made her debut on the variety stage at |
a sacred concert in New York last |
Sunday The protests of husband and |
family have been unavailing. Mrs. |
Newhall believes there Is a place for |
her on the stage, and she cannot resist |
the fascination II has for her. She is |
the wife of DIR. w. NJ Newhall of Min |
neapolis. and the daughter of ". b. |
Fulmer, the law partner of United |
States Senator Nelson of Minnesota. |
one of her closest and most intimate |
friends is Mrs. l.. f. Hubbard, wife of |
the recent governor of Minnesota. Sem
ator Davis and his wife, of that state |
have also often entertained her in
Washington. From childhood Mrs.
Newhall has had an intense love of
music. She has made a reputation as
a singer. while some dainty verses OF
hers have been set to music. She is
remarkably handsome woman, a per-
feet blonde and possesses the figure of
a Juno.
Am going to wear tights? All.
that's awful" said Mrs. Newhall In
answer 10 Il reporter query. NOBODY
has said that l am going to wear
tights. "'she continued. II am going to
wear evening dress"
The following from the Western News
of Hamilton sounds strangely familiar:
"a strolling aggregation of barn.
stormers rejoicing under the high
sounding appellation of the Western
Musical and Speciality CO., hailing from
the confer Of the dramatic art Nfiesou-
Ia. composed of ex-variety performers
and a variety of other broken down
specialists came to town last week and
having received in some mysterious
manner some flattering press notices
were greeted by a fair house that, I'M
der the influence of the company's dra-
matte power. rapidly dwindled away
until at the conclusion of the rounds of
Anticipated and moss-embossed Jokes
and rust-eaten emetic-entailing songs,
the house had the appearance of a des-
erted grave yard while its somber still