The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-26
Butte Department.

was claimed as a distinct local
product. The San francisco papers
went into ecstasies over THE young
California singer" the St. Paul pepers
said that city had cause to be proud of
its town-wOman; the St. Louis papers
said they were glad she had selected
that city as her birthplace; the Chica-
go papers were somewhat in doubt
whether IL was to her voice or the fact
that she was born IN that city, that she
owed the greatest measure of her sue
cess: Buffalo newspapers, In their tele-
graph headlines, credit another triumph
TO Buffalo talent, and Missoula, up in
| The Bitter Root valley of Montana,
stole march on Helena and claimed
Miss Yaw as its own. 1t is not gener-
ally known, however. that the lady
| was born I'm Butte.
| Nancy Sykes says: New Workers
| are having a new sensation. Olga Meth
ersole is the originator q shouldn't
! wonder II she has II patented) of the
most wonderfully prolonged, clinging.
| lsscivious and oft-repeated kiss that the
| public has ever been privileged to gaze
upon. While watching Olga's oscula-
| tory specially the famous Abbott and
| Tempest kisses are forgotten, living
| kisses and French farces can only be
remembered as insipid entertainments
| for children, and even the sensuous
Yverte Guilbert, with her shocking |
songs, seems innocent and guileless |
With her arms locked tightly around |
her leading mans neck, the libidinous |
Olga groanS and gurgles, twists and |
| trembles and says: More, more, closer, |
closer! when the poor fellow is already |
stified with kisses and nearly squeezed |
into jelly"
Yvette Guilbert is very much pleased /
with America and she likes it's slang. |
She says she likes the expressive words
sure" and bully" especially well and
never misses am opportunity to employ |
them. "I'll tell You a funny story"
said she to a Chicago reporter in relat-
ing her first effort TO speak English.
The first time / went to England
could not speak very well. 1 was at
the Savoy hotel and / wanted a raw
egg. SO rang the bell and the cham
bermaid came First say, Bring me
an egg natural She not understand
Then / say, Bring me an egg without
hre.' She iook stupid. l say, Bring
me an egg without water She look
stupider. Then 1 get very angry. l
swear. 1 say, Mon Dieu, can you not
bring me an egg Immediately. when he
has been made by the hen" Char
mamie! She understand She fly. l
have my egg"
The New York court of appeals a
few days ago handed down a decision
in the case of Mark Smith against
Robson, which is of the greatest i'm
portance to the theatrical fraternity |
because 1t establishes the proposition
that manager may not summarily |
dismiss an actor in the future on the |
basis of an ordinary two weeks notice |
contract as he has been in the habit of |
doing in the past The court holds
that a capricious or arbitrary dis |
charge. despite contract, cannot be up |
held When Bill Nye wrote THE Cadi,"
Robson was Green Angul and Mark |
Smith was engaged as a comedian. The |
piece was a failure and Robson dis !
charged Smith with the customary two |
weeks notice. Smith brought suit and
won his case. Robson appealed and
the court confirmed the decision OF the |
lower court, awarding Smith $1,000
Actors are far from unanimous I'm re .
lation to the employment of children j
on the stage. Fanny Davenport recent
ly said to a reporter: II use a child
myself in 'Gismonda,' and. although i I
know its mother is constantly looking
after II, / always feel that IL would be
far better off at home. The wings of a | 4
where there are bal I
let and chorus girls-is not the proper | Y
place for a child" Louis Aldrich, the I
veteran actor. says: Il agree thor r
oughly with Fanny Davenport when
she decries the use of stage children. l
was stage child myself. / used to I
play before | was 10 years old. We are I
wont to hear a great deal about these | 4
sweet-faced little cherubs, that are so
happy in the fond appreciation of the
public, but, truth to tell, they are usu- r
ally overworked in order to support d
grown-up folk, and this does them per- e
injury" d
Out of the 81 theaters opened on
night, says the New York
Press, 13 were devoted to English or 8
German plays-which means that the o
royalties for these pieces went across o
the ocean. What, with the authors II
royalties and the actors salaries, we
are sending abroad this week the hand
some sum of about $4,000. The aver n
age season in theatricals last 30 weeks, | s
which means that before spring comes
we shall have paid out almost 81, 900, 900
for our dramatic entertainment every n
dollar of which, beyond the actual liy- Al
ing expenses. will be invested in Tu-
rope by the actors and authors. On a
rough, but by no means exaggerated
IL may be argued that this n
season foreign singers, actors and vau- r
1eville performers will earn, in this and | q
other cities. sl0000,0oO of American I
money n
Hermann, while in San Francisco. | a
offered to take Henry f. Dixey under L
his tutelage and teach him the magic p
ouSlnesS, WIN Wow 10 DiXey taking | >
Herrmann's place after his retirement
which will probably be in about three
years. He agrees, If Dixey will submit S
himself to his instructions and tuition
for period OF three years, to guaran-
tee him an income of $4,000 a year for
1--WE years following Hermann made 4,
the offer, as he considers there is no a
one to-day to take his place. He be- \
lieves DiXey, although only a novice in b
the magic arts, the superior OF all other o
now travelling. and expects a
TO make him second only to himself | a
Dixey is to decide by June /.