The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-27


bic for the story that Jacob Rosentha
won bet in Terre Haute last week
He. along with the agent OF THE Cir
from Paris" company. landed in the
Hoosier metropolis at /: 80 a. IN. Jacob
thirsted for newspaper space to an
nounce the coming of What Happened
TO Jones'. He wanted Il big announce
ment in the leading morning papers;
he wanted 1t so badly that he made a
wager that he could get half a column
In morning paper before IL went to
press.
The wager accepted, the irresistible,
naming Jacob ran as fast as his 400
pounds would take him to the news
paper office. On the way he picked up
u small boy, whom he offered a quar-
ter to go along with him. Arriving at
the office, Jacob Invested himself of his
hat and coat. handed them To the boy
to hold; then ran almost GREATNESS into
! the city editors room and screamed
that he had been assaulted and robbed
by footpad. He gave full particulars
and more especially as to his own iden-
4 tfty--that the unfortunate was none
other than the renowned Jacob Rosen-
| thai. Jacob now thinks that there is
no use going to the klondike when
| gold bricks" are so cheap right here
| at home.
"Maloney's Wedding" a laughabl
| farce comedy in three acts, by f. FL.
A1dCbt VI tflt american AI1uStf1ltUI
association, has been secured by Mana
ger Sutton for the Union Family thea
ter for the week commencing to-mor
row. This skit has no plot but is
series of innocent plumbers put together
for laughing purposes only. Maloney,
rich Irish American, who owns min
ing interests in Colorado, Is the aspi-
rant to the hand in marriage of Mrs
OConnor, the mother of a very bad
boy. named Johnny. Maloney has
strong rival An the person of Val Blatz,
a German saloon keeper, and the man
ner in which they press their suits is
the cause for many laughs. Johnny,
with mind of invention, makes it
lively for the two rivals with his mis-
chievous pranks. Mrs. O'Connor finally
accepts Maloney and they are married.
During the festivities which follow nu-
merous high class specialties are intro
duced by artists in their line Promi-
nent in the cast is Miss Emma Whitney,
who plays Mrs. O'Connor Mr. Graham
as Maloney. and Mr. Rice as Val Blatz.
The other characters are in the hands
of competent people, insuring good
performance "Maloneys Wedding"
viii run all week with matinees Satur-
day and Sunday. Little Miss Butte
viii make her first appearance at SUIT
tons this week.
Magicians are not often thrown
they lure on the stage to assist them in |
their feats of magic but Henry +. |
DlXey was fooled in a manner that he |
VIII not forget soon. He was doing a |
trick with coins and called boy out |
of the audience to hold tray contain /
ing $40 in silver half dollars for a few
While Dixey was down in the t
audience doing another part of the |
trick the boy quietly walked over to the
wings and disappeared. When Dixey
returned to the stage to finish the trick
the boy and money We're both gone
The youth, it seems, was formerly en-
ployed in the theater and, of course
knew the ms and outs of the house, and
when Dixey went down into the audi
ence he quietly walked into the wings.
and from there out of the stage door.
Dixey was smart enough to know that
any attempt to find the boy would give
away the story, and he kept quiet. The
audience saw that something was en-
barrassing him, but he made testing
remark about disappearing money
and went on to another.
Ada Rehan has lost enough flesh to
make two good condolences and a lead
ng woman, writes Hilary Bell in the
Press. When our actress came upon
ne stage on Tuesday evening attired in
boys suit she seemed slender. not to
but to juvenilty. For age
lhu eis3lI dupOlS UIltH creep on tORpln- |
r IN the drama, and actors fear cir
more than the i'll opinion of
he critics. Miss Rehan has left plump
less behind and returned to youth.
ike as not the bodily tissue that has
disappeared is absorbed into her men,
ality, and curves and dimples have
hanged into gray matter. for she acts
letter than ever before Time was
When Miss Rehan tipped the scales at
20 pounus' now she appears to weigh
pounds less Time was when her
efformance was the ebullient humor
l rounded ana bouncing personality;
I present her comedy is almost entire
intellectual, and she lends to it as ,
lany nights and shadows of thoughtful
as can be discovered in the
'ork of that best of comedians, Joseph
EMERSON. Her gestures and move :
rents are not less eloquent than before ,
Ut now they have greater conserva-
SIN, and Miss Rehan depends for her
Hects at present mainly OH facial vo-
al and mental shading.
Sarah Bernhard will bring to France
lara Guerrero. the best known of
panlsh actresses, and Paris will have 9
mother foreigner than Elenora Duse to :
ass Judgment on. Gabriel d'Annunzio !,
as said that Nine. Bernhardts per-
'rmanee of the blind woman in The
cad CITY was perfect embodiment
the foie, out III spite of that the piece
said TO possess little or no dramatic G
terest, in spite of the poetic beauty of I
$ language. According TO the latest
ports. Elenora Duse will NOT appear in
. Dut VIII devote her attention to La !.
iaconda which will be produced i'm .
afls IN Italian next spring. Signor
Annunzlo, who is now 81 years old. is
I'd 10 look much older. His features
e worn, and his present enthusiasm
ems to be concerned entirely with the
eater which he and Elenora Duse are
have on the shores of Lake Albanus. e
rom the photographs which have come
this country, Sarah Bernhardt an
,ars to have given the tragedy beau '.
ful and appropriate scenery. n,
Francis Wilson, the we'll known comic
EZRA comedian. has followed the lead W
Joseph jefferson. and written a book
hich he calls The Recollections of n
aver, and which has as yet reached a
ny that popular gentleman's personal
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