The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-10

tendance with large panel photograph
with autograph and Life Book" of
! herself. 1t is said Corinne has ambition
to shine In something more lofty than
burlesque. and while the company was
lying idle in Chicago a week ago she
made a trip to Boston to see a produc-
ton on the style of THE Little Troop
err" which has been offered her.
A story comes from Duluth that one
1 of the theaters there is under a boycott
! and that at each performance rows of
laboring men line in front Of the en-
frances and request people not 10 pat
ronize the house. Under such condi-
I lions, IL is related Stuart Robson
played one night at the house to 800.
Louise Kissing, the shapely woman
who plays "Sinbad" in the Henderson
/ company, Is highly educated, the pos
SCISSOR of many accomplishments and
I fitted mentally and by training for a
higher career than that of a burlesque
/ artist. She was asked recently why she
/ did not devote herself to a career where
her rare talents might be employed
and be useful. Her reply was apt:
II have learned that legs are more in
demand than brains, and that by ex-
hibiting my legs / can make more
money than by exercising my brain"
The company that supported George
G. Min during his recent disastrous
engagement at the Broadway theater.
New York, claims to have received no
salaries for the last weeks work. Mr..
Min has written apologize letters per-
sonally to the members of the company
assuring them that he is not RESPONSE
BILE for the dishonesty of his hackers,
and begging them to accept this apol-
ogy as an I. o. U. for future payment.
A New York letter says: "Pilar-Mo-
rim collided rather forcibly with our
Puritanical institutions, and the courts
here are to decide whether she may I'M
dress upon the stage in Orange Bios
sons The safest plan, and the one fol-
lowed so successfully in the ballet, liv-
ing pictures and burlesque, is TO do
your undressing before facing the foot
lights"
Royle's Friends" company will be in
Butte for three nights beginning Mon
day, May 25 and the great Richard
Mansfield comes June 1, and 8. Prim-
rose & Vests Ministries come June 4,
and and Mile. Rhea on the 14th.
In regard to the nationality of Patti,
the New York Post speaks as follows:
According to, the baptismal certificate
of Adelina Patti, recently printed by a
Roman paper, she was born on Feb. 10.
1S43 1t has been believed heretofore
that Patti was half Spanish. but, ac-
cording to this document, her mother
was born at Rome and her father at
Catania. in Sicily"
A Munich theater has introduced
rotating stage, similar in principle to
the one built some years ago by Steele
Mackaye at the Madison Square the
alter, in New York. The first play per-
formed upon the new stage was Shaks-
peare's Comedy of Errors" and a
great success was scored with the new
arrangement, which worked smoothly
and rapidly.
Charles Hoyt is the richest Of Ameri-
can dramatists. His fortune is esti-
mated at $750000 and is said to be
growing at the rate of 800, 900 a year.
He has made a quarter of million by
"a Trip to Chinatown"
The largest salary ever paid to a
leading lady was 81, 500 a week but II
required a Modjeska to draw that
amount. 1t was while the Polish ac-
tress was playing with Booth and Bar
rett.
The De Resxke brothers were hard
workers as musical students. NJ. Jean
tOlQ a 1rlenu not long ago lndt ne anu
his brother practiced at home for 10
years before they considered them
selves fit for grand operas. .,..,--s.-
Mrs. Henry f. Abbey (Florence Ge-
rard) will return to the stage next sea-
son. She was formerly a member of
the Booth and Modjeska companies.
Frank Mayo in ''Pudd 'nhead Wilson"
will open an engagement of three
nights at Maguire's opera house Thurs
day evening.
Roland Reed, one of Butte's favorites,
will be at Maguire's opera house for
three nights beginning May 81.
Abbey and Grau have engaged Melba
and the De Reszkes for next season.
John Stetson's estate is valued at
$2.5OO.000.
Judic will soon return to the stage in
London.
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