The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29

| so liked her that he engaged her for
the following season in the Warren
| Opera company. She was next with
| the Wallack-Davenport company, and
afterward retired from the stage in
order TO study the drama and music
In 1868 she was engaged for soubrette
| work at the Continental theater in
Boston. appearing as Cinderella and as
Stalacta in the BLACK Crook" She
was afterward Oberon in "A Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" with which en-
| terprfse she made a tour of the West
She was under the management of the
famous John Brougham at Broughams
| Fifth Avenue theater, New York now
| the Madison Square. After 1870 Mrs
| kimball played many parts in musical
comedies. She was very pretty and
was as successful as an actress and a
| singer as she was as a manager.
The body was taken to Boston for in
| terment.
The late attractions at Maguire's
| opera house may not have been entire
| ly up to the standard of excellence re-
| CURED by some of the fastidious the
ater goers of Butte who never patron
| lie good attraction, but who always
come around when there is hayseed
Dand on the street. or a wooden horse
race and sawmill advertised, and
then keep away from the opera house
and kick" until another show
| of the same kind comes along
and they are once more drawn
| in. As has been said, the late
attractions may not have been of the
highest class, but Manager Mcguire is
evidently saving the best to close the
present season with. He is going to
feed the people on cream from now on
John l.. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan.
however, do not come under the CLASH
fication of cream, but they will be here
next week with the wicklow POST
man." Sullivan and Ryan do not act,
but they exhibit themselves at the
close of the performance. THE Post
man" will be here April 8, Z and s, and
"A Subscriber" who wrote the Stand
ard a letter criticising the character of
recent attractions, will be there in all
his glory to see Sullivan and Ryan.
Frederick Warde is booked for April
16, IL and is, and the Texas Steer" for
April 20. 81 and %, and GrifHth's
Faust" for April %, "a and rs. Follow
ing that will come, in the order named
Henderson's spectacular, "Sinbad,"
Frank Mayo in "Pudd'nhead Wilson,"
Roland Reed, Rhea, Primrose & Vests
Minstrels. Siedeps world-famous or
chestra, and last and greatest, Richard
Mansfield.
This is from an interviewer's account
hardt:
1 told her what Miss Davenport
thought of her. giving il by sections so
as to break it gently.
At the first section she shrugged her
green sleeves and observed that Miss
Davenport's opinion was a matter of
utter indifference to her. At section
second she shrugged her sleeves more
vigorously and declared emphatically
that she was still Indifferent. At the
third section she opened her safety-pin
and jabbed ii tentatively into her green
skirt as If the skirt were named Fanny.
And she said she was Indifferent to
Miss Davenport. 1t was apparent, how
ever, that the skirt had not been skew
cred as a skirt alone.
But" IL was cautiously limited,
Miss Davenport has acted in your
roles, and she has some claim to speak
as an authority"
Yes" answered madame "she has
played Fedora. l saw her. She is very
good as Fedora"
And why not as Gismonda?"
At that madame flung up her hands
like the French dressmaker who cried,
What immortality at sight of an ILL
fitting gown. She also stuck the pin
through her skirt again. And she re-
marked:
THAT she can play Fedora does not
say she can play Gismonda."
But why not? Will you explain the
difference as it applies to Miss Daven-
port?"
THE difference" and up went the
hands and the safety-pin. THE plays
are laid in different scenes and years.
Gismonda is grand dame; she must
have distinction; she must be imper-
sonated by a woman who knows some |
thing about the air aristocratic."
There could be no doubt madames |
whole artistic nature had been shocked. |
She took one excited moment to think, |
then, with her arms swung wide in a |
graphic gesture. she said something |
Davenport will never forgive.
she is" declared madame, with aris- |
tocratic scorn, "she is too fat"
1t was a good English word, virile |
and terse. 1t equaled, IL 1t did not sur |
pass, the earlier epithet.
THE members of a bankrupt opera |
company once came to me-" remarks |
one of the humorists of the managerial |
profession, and convinced me that |
they would ask no salaries IL / should |
only play them from Minneapolis to |
Chicago, where, in the latter city, they |
should obtain employment. agreed |
to pay only their fares and board on /
the trip. The first town we played was |
Duluth. where six Of the chorus girls |
left the opera company to go with a
repertoire company playing "A Plum /
Pudding and "A Bunch of Bets At /
the next stand, Saltwater. seven of the |
male chorus hired out as harvest /
hands. and another married a cook and |
settled down. From there the treasurer |
allowed five of the chorus girls TO get |
hold of five railway tickets. and they /
quit the show and went right to Chi /
cago. That same night two other men |
singers purposely created disturbance |
SO as to get locked up. and free food
with no work. When the company /
arrived in Eau Claire the chorus only |
consisted of two girls whose grand |
mother was singing Marguerite in /
Faust with the show; three stage /
hands, the hotel proprietor and a sher-
if. The tenor always seemed TO have
money because he sold Congress blue
ing and IVanhoe writing fluid on the /