The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-20

Rooney. her husband. has been causing
her trouble, two of her three children
are sick. and the public has been wan
ing in its enthusiasm for Lottie. A few
days ago matters cached a climax and
she resolved to die. With a clasp knife
she hacked at her throat and then ct
an artery in her wrist. Blood came and
Lottie swooned. When she recovered
she was too weak to complete her un-
dertaking. She was found bathed I'm
blood and tears by N of her %acquaint-
anees, and, aid being summoned, she was
taken to a hospital. where surgeons
dressed her wounds and said she would
live.
Lottie Collins has la moments Of
triumph such as a V been vouchsafed
to few artistes of the music hall stage.
One night, seven years she sang
"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay' in a London
hall and next day the entire city was in
a state of excitement over the song and
the dance that accompanied IL. Mr..
Labouchere wrote a long article on the
subject in Truth. Sir Edward Arnold
discussed it in the Daily Graphic. and
the bishop of London made ~allusiou to
ii in the pulpit of st. Paul's. Lottle
crossed the channel. and in the Folies
Bergere of Paris, the most fastidious
audience in the world welcomed her
ong with no less enthusiasm than mad
been accorded to it in England. rhe
song was then sung in every country in
Europe.
Lottie Collins was born in England.
While quite a child she appeared with
her sister. Marie, at a London variety
show. At II she introduced the popular
skirt dance and became n high kicker
of rare excellence. He tour in the Unit
ed States in 1889 was marked by no par
ticular triumph. but her visit to this
country two years later was highly re-
munerative and she returned to London
with $4,000. To her marriage Lottie
ascribes all her misfortunes. Samuel
Rooney. the man she chose for a nus
band, was a butcher. Husband and
wife did not live long together. Lottie
preferred more refined society, and she
left him.
OF late the comedy Lottie has been
waxing stout, and the fnvidious have
remarked that she kicks less highly
than Of yore.
Few would believe hat the appar-
entity innocent delays here and there in
a vaudeville show are really an organ
lied plan to save so much OF a salary
list. but such Is the case" says a variety
performer. The delay in shifting the
numbers OF each turn, the walking
slowly across the stage from one side
to the other to change these numbers.
the many little preludes and apparent
constantly INDUCED in by
the piano masters, the slow and Ian
guild efforts OF clearing the stage after
an act. the slow changing OF drops and
scenes. are all regularly laid out to
gain time. One Is astonished at the
actual time thus gained at the expense
of an i%ndulgent audience. BY deliber-
ately purloining two minutes here and
three minute there an average gain
of n hour a performance is made.
One hour in a vaudeville performance.
when acts or features of eight. ten and
twelve n receive from $500 to
$500 a week. is rather an important bit
of saving In a weeks time. Year
when II was customary to employ a
stage manager to n a vaudeville
performance, to cause a stage wait
meant a fine or dismissal. The stag
manager of yore woul be sadly en-
In the new vaudeville, with
its 't~ime-savers' and other Innovations.
but this particular position has been
away with. as many other points
which went toward making a great
performance. n the stage carpenter
is now dubbed the stage manager in
Thus the ever-indulgent public.
without question for the best
the market affords. is 'buncoed' out Of
at least an hours performance"
II was manager of a big vaudeville
company once upon a time" said a vet
eran Snowman. "and n of our stars
a clever lightning caricaturist-'
He would stand before an easel huns
with sheets of manila paper n dash
OF portraits Of celebrities in less time
than IL takes TO tell IL. Occasionally he
would do one upside down. and the GER
tainty and celebrity with which he
worked kent me astonished until I got
onto his trick. He would first take his
paper and make his drawings
very carefully in a solution Of Canada
balsam. which IL a sticky gum. in
visible a few inches away. when he
appeared on the stage he carried a