The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-28

for a week. and then Salt Lake City.
where Manager McGzrvfe welcomes the
coming and speeds the departing guest, Of
fers q weeks time. The Short Line cir
cult is good for week. and would bring
a company to Portland, where a week
stand would break the trip north. From
Portland Ii il suggested that companys
tour could include Tacoma, Victoria, Ma
nainc Vancouver. Whateom and Everett,
during which two more weeks could be
killed of. Seattle Is always good for
week, and the route east would take In
Spokane, Butte. Helena, Anaconda. Great
Falls and east over one of the northern
lines. Alternative routes are offered for
managers desiring to play Texas, Arizona,
Southern California, or 70 choose another
route east so as TO reach other territory
From Chicago the Western tour might be
made to include ene-night stands to Sioux
City and the route south include Omaha
The Kansas towns worth playing are To-
peka, Atchison, Leayenworth, EmpoFia,
Lawrence and Wichita, and would prob
ably use up q couple OF weeks more. The
prime object in the organization OF the
circuit is. however. to include Denver. Salt
Lake City. Portland and Seattle. The
matter Is interesting both from theatre
cal and a railroad standpoint.
w. A. Mcconnell says in a recent issue
Of Theatrical Topics that Anna Held viii
soon return to Paris and $40 a week
Miss Held. however, has given no sign OF
her departure. In fact she II now up to
her eyes In the yeilowest OF yellow jour-
nalism. Last week she interviewed Thorn,
accused OF the murder OF the Turkish
bath rubber GuIdensuppe. and the week
before she appeared In print under the fe-
rocious caption Anna Held Kissed to a
Standstill." the young woman having
thrown up the sponge at the l56th kiss.
Nothing that is more generally insulting
could be offered the women of the stage
than this sickening exhibition of Miss
Heid's utter depravity and its public ex-
ploitation In the yellow newspaper referred
TO. The only pleasure there is in recount
lug the episode lies in the fact that the
Frenchwoman did not establish q record
nor equal that of many amateurs. Frank
Daniels, in THE Idols Eye" at the
Broadway theater, said In recent inter-
view:
II do not wish To pluck the laurels from
me ioity p row OF JULIUS Steger. nor would
INDUCING In an osculatory wrestling match
with Anna Held. eatch-as-catch-can. as
and with all modesty desire to announce
myself as the champion long-dstance kiss
err OF the comic opera stage.
II you have seen The Idols Eye you
beauties there Is In the company. There
was no failure of the peach crop when
Manager Kirke La sheile picked out his
chorus. And you have also seen that IN
the temple scene ! have formed habit of
kissing these lovely young damsels OF the
slightest provoca ton. There are twenty
four girls, and the usual exigencies of my
part demand that / press my lips to theirs
many. many times. The amauni Of r1rea
] devour in one performance of The Idols
Eye Ii astonishing.
tfyOneb0dy sSfiFna cd nj the matinee the
number of labiai assaults and batteries
committed. and made the total 1o7 And
don't work so very hard at the matinees,
either. But just think of those figures.
Il have given about thirty performances
of the opera already. Thirty times 107 Is
3.2la Therefore. have kissed those ladies
32i9 times The Idols Eye will be my
vehicle for about thirty-five weeks this
season, during which time there will be 245
performances. which will represent 26.2l5
kisses. Isn't that awful? And Yet. Anna
Held had to take her corner after l56 kisses!
Don't va,l see nov why claim the era m
pionship?" THE GALLERY GOD.