The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-13

MS. version bearing the date "Pret. Oct.
81. ITO" which Is probably late and
moderniZed copy OF much older manu-
script. This play. "Fratricide Punished,
or Prince Hamlet of Denmark" was
first printed in 1874. and has been fire.
quently republished since then.
The first part that Julia Arthur ever
played was that of Zamora, in The
Honeymoon" That was at the age of IL,
in an amateur performance given at
her home in Hamilton, Canada. At IL
years of age, in the company of Band
mann, she played the roles in Hamlet
of the Player Queen. Gertrude and
Ophelia; in Romeo and Juliet" Juliet;
in THE Merchant of Venice" Narissa
and Portia In Richard H. the
queen, the duchess of York and Lady
Anne. All of these before the end of her
10Th year.
Manager David Henderson will put a
permanent stock company into the
Great Northern in Chicago, opening with
''Trilby." The prices will be from so
cents down, and the company will in
clude Wilton Lackaye. Mckee Rankin.
Nance O'Neill. Rose Eytinge, Ida Van
Sisclen. Couteney Barnes tMrs. John T.
Raymond, Julia Stoffer, Ricca Allen.
Rena Fairview, Eugene Besserer,
Frank keenan,, Andrew Robson. Fl. A.
Arthur Maitland. Walter Clark Bellows,
formerly of the Frawley company. will!
direct the stage.
The Animated Chorus" which is now
being done in almost every vaudeville
theater in the country, was first intro
duced by Mile. Anna Held at Roster IL
Balls last September. 1t is her original
idea. but managers have not hestated
10 copy this decided novelty all over
the country.
WAY Down East the new rural play
recently produced Mt the Manhattan the
alter. New York. has scored n sensational
success. 1t bids fair to rival the fame of
the "Old Homestead" and "Shore Acres. !"
Way Down East is Il homey little
story about New England
Adelina Patti has been in Paris at the
Continental hotel since the death of Mic
olini and is living In retirement. All her
concert engagements have been cancelled
and she will not be heard in public until
late in the spring.
In the middle of the to-be- or not-to be
solloquy in Hamlet" as Walker White
side was presenting 1t in Indianapolis.
the floor caught fire from the footlights
and the melancholy Dane had to tread
the boards with purpose more literal
than ideal.
The only surviving member of the cele-
hrated Julius Caesar Big edwin
Booth. +. l.. Davenport. Lawrence Bar
rett and Frank c. Bangs-is Mr. Bangs,
who acts when he can get an engagement
and teaches when he can find pupils.
corbett says This has been the biggest
and most profitable season he has had
on the stage and his greatest success as
an actor has been achieved since his de-
feat in the ring by Fltzsimmons
Nellie MclIenry's manager is the latest
to use the Klondike for advertising pur-
poses. lie announces that she is going up
there in the spring, but she won't
Joe cawthorne will be under the man
agement of James =. Delcher next sea-
son. the contract having been signed in
Butte last Sunday.
May Irwin has taken a horseless car
rage on her tour for the purpose of Il
daily street parade to advertise her show
In circus fashion. Lillian Russell is using
II four-in-h equipage and Anna Held q
gayly emblazoned railway car,
Ethel Kendall. a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Kendall, has run away from home
because her mother would not let her go
on the stage She is in New York, and
has been engaged TO sing IN Proctor 5
vaudeville theater.
Minnie Seligman contemplates for next
season a starring tour, presenting pro-
grammes such were made famous by
the late Rosina Eokes. Her repertoire will
comprise q one-aet plays.
"A Stranger IN New York viii open a
four nights engagement al Maguires OPP
era house next Sunday night.
In china Il company of 80 actors can
he engaged nj $50 10 play as many pieces
as may be desired for two days at a
stretch. The ordinary continuous ac-
tor" may regard this with trepidation.
Charles coghlan is Partisan by birth
His first appearance on the stage was in
a French play. II was in one Of his COM
panies that Ellen Terry first achieved
prominence.
Nat Goodwin. in an interview says he
will cancel his engagements 10 enlist if
there is war with Spain. He wants to
teach those contemplate assassins a
lesson
The profits of the late W. j. Seaman
reached $4,000 in one season. This is at
tested by his manager. Augustus Pitou
Yet he died poor.
Ada Rehan, in her Is years with DAILY
has missed less than half dozen per-
formanees.
The Nottingham papers commend blue
Jeans, which was presented there Feb
II by Laura Burt.
Beatrice Cameron tMrs. Richard Mans
field. has retired from the stage.
Corinne. 'tthe peerless. has joined the
Wilbur opera company.
Marie Laurent. IA Paris actress, is II
years old.
Ada Rehan has played 800 parts.
Irving is 90 years old.
4 Mean Man
From the Cleveland Leader.
MY daughters husband said Mrs.
Smitherxins. ''is the most perverse man