The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-08

~ comedians and fingers
the latter department receiving clos
neutrality-suspicious. among whom ar
Ezra Kendall. Carroll Johnson. IN,
great Trovallo. Mcmahon and King
Freeze Brothers and Robert Carmi
chaeT.
A New York dispatch says: Tod SlOar
may wed Miss Edna Wallace. Such q
the story hat Is told in racing and the.
atrical circles. though no authorized an.
nouncement has yet been made. II
was My a short time ago that Miss
Wallace that she would try
To secure a divorce from DE Wolf Hop
per so that she might be at liberty a.
wed. The famous little jockey has
never been married. so there Is no rea-
son. so far as he is concerned. why the
story should not he true. Friends of
the W say that a strong matual ad-
miration has existed for some time.
but until recently no one thought that
any warmer feeling would result. Now.
the gcssips say. 1t has. and IL is ru-
mored that the wedding will be an af-
fair or the no far-distant future.
Rose Coghlan is the latest to leave
the legitimate stage To join the ranks
or the notables on the vaudeville. Sew
eral managers made efforts to secure
the services OF Miss Coghlan for aude-
Vile last year. and she came very near
accepting some of the tempting offers
made. h was approached again this
spring. and the terms offered were so
irresistible that she could not refuse
them. IL may lie stated on the very
best authority that Miss Coghlan's sal
airy VIII be larger than any so far given
10 n legitimate actress entering vaude-
vile.
Mime. Sembrich's real name is Stengel
as that Is her husbands name. Her
own name before her marriage was
something quite unlike Sembrich. which
was her mothers maiden name. Mime.
Nordica is now. in fact. Nine. Doehme
If hat be her husbands real name
ana mad been Norton and Cover be-
fore that. Nine. Melba is Mrs. Arm
strong. and was at one time Mitchell.
Emma Calve Is herself. and has never
changed that name by matrimony.
Mr.. DAILY has purchased from Kath-
eryn Kidder the American rights tn
Nine. Sans Gene" Now comes the an
nouncement that the comedy Is To be
worked over into comic opera. Official
announcement is not made as to who is
to make the music. nor is il known
will create the important roles in
new opera.
Life among the Irish gentry will be
the theme of the new play which Aug
ustus Pitou IL writing for Chauncey OIL
colt. There will be no peasants. the
element being contributed by
servant characters.
Louis James has received a cable
gram from kyrle Bellew and Mrs.
James Brown Potter. inviting him to
a third star for a triple aIIi-
lnce proposed for ext season. IA Mr..
said no.
Player people are telling each other
hat Walter Jones has a scheme for
getting up n regiment of actors for ac-
i've service i'm the war with Spain.
Fanny Mcintyre. now leading lady
Il the Bowdoin Square theater. at
BOSTON, was married tn T.. l.. Snayder.
he leading heavy man of the same
ompany.
In the Mex Casino review Walter
ones and Marie Dressler first pose as
tatues of Nero and Venus, and when
he folks go To bed the statues go on
lark and the fun begins.
Nellie McHcnry. who was ia in Chi
ago and underwent "A surgical opera-
has about recovered again.
The suit of Mrs. Ernestine Boniface.
IN" al Actor George &. Boniface. for
osolute divorce, James Miss Bertha
'aItzinger as correspondent. !
Annie Russell will shortly roduc a
? w play. The first act is laid i'm Next I
, and the Other two i'm Paris. [
An explosion i'm a gun factory is the ,
miller i'm 'Gettysburs." "A new war
produced in New York. f
Wright Huntington, who for some a
me has been with the Belasco-ThaU :
ock company at Los Angeles. has n
sunled his position as leading man n
the Alcazar at San Francisco. :
Fee Lung. a Corean acrobat. on his :,
ay In the Omaha exposition. is play :.
g an engagement at the ImperiaI ~
eater. '
Joe Cawthorne and Charles Dickson V
e playing at Keith's vaudeville the c,
er in Philadelphia. i
Edwin Milton Itoyle and Selena Fet- o
! ar" giving "A condensed version of A
'aptain lmpudence' at Proctor's i'm .,
Nv ork f.
Nadine Allen has closed her engage "a
'nt at the Imperial and will go to al
n Francisco from Butte. W
\melia stone has crowded Sadie Mar $,
out OF the "A Stranger i'm New 81
rk' company. bl
Sianche Walsh has Joined a stock tr
npany I'm a New York popular prica a,
use. "
larry Guy Carleton will write a new M
neuy Tor the company now present US
!; My Friend from India M
'eiasco Is Dragging about how ne an
de Mrs aEIf. sn.s ia
Is I'm Iondo tn
iarie Van Zandt is to marry a Rus m.
N nobleman. mr
latest play. "A Day and a an
Sht' rs not "a success.
larry Hampton will star i'm an In mi
n war drama. wi
\ lflp To Chinatown" and Uncle i'm,
tabin are touring Scotland. 10,
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