The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-02

Manager MoFslland's adRsnts' beok
fngs for the Grand are as follows:
Nance O'Neil, Mcsorley's Twins 1.-THE
Spider and the Fly" Stuart Robson in
1.-THE Meddler," Primrose & Dockstader
Minstrels, "McFadden's Row of Flats"
Bachelors Honeymoon" Rosenthal,
THE DEVILS Auction" Haverly's Min
strels, "a Hot Old Time" Roland Reed.
Katie Emmett, Melbourne Mcdowell
and Blanche Walsh.
The friends and admirers of Blanche
Bates-and the West is full of them
will read with increasing delight and
satisfaction of her increasing populari-
ty in New York, where she has made
the hit of the season. AS Miladi in '"The
Musketeers," she has scored an en-
phatic success, upon this every critic in
New York agrees. A fair sample of
what is said of her is the following by
Hillary Bell of the Press:
mo rise to fame so sudden as this
has been known in modern times. Mrs.
Potter, the London Miladi. went
through a. dozen years of vicissitude
before reaching her present distinction.
'ZaZa' Carter studied nile years under
the best dramatic trainer-David Be
lasco-before she declared her full quail
ity. Maude Adams was an humble
player in Charles Hoyt's company when
Mr.. Frohman engaged her to support
John Drew, and she had a heightened
course of theatric instruction before
fortune smiled on her Lady Babble.
Mrs Langtry was a popular attraction
from the first. but she is a beautiful
spectacle rather than an actress. Flea
nora Duse spent five and twenty years
on the stage before it began to reward
her efforts, and even Sarah Bernhard
with all her ingenious skill in advertis-
ing, found little advancement during
the first half dozen years of her theat-
ric history. Ada Rehan was unknown
until Augustin Daily pushed her for
ward, although she had acted with 9TH
er companies. Jean de ResZke had
reached middle life before he achieved
his present renoWn in opera Nine
Calve sang without renown or high SAL
airy in various companies before Mas
cagni selected her to create his San
tuzza, by which she grew famous and
wealthy.
Art is long and life Is short to only
favored few. and among these en-
Viable players Blanche Bates has found
the coolest place in the lap of fortune"
Ellen Beach Yaw, the California sim
ger, seems ito have found in London the
success denied her in this country, for as
far as her experiences here We're con-
cerned her appearance served rather to
introduce to us new manager, while
in England her voice appears to have
made a decided impression on the
critics and to have stirred up much dis
cussion in the public prints. all of which
means that she is doing we'll
She made her debut in this country
some seven or eight years ago. and for
some time thereafter Eastern critics
who concerned themselves with musical
affairs, read from time to time of the
appearance in the cities of the West of
a soprano of wide range of voice ana
great altitude. They We're told that she
ran a few notes above PATHS vocal
high kick, and remarked that some one
must have been treating the newspaper
men unusually WELL For a couple Of
years she headed concert company in
the West, and then Victor Thrane, a
Minneapolis newspaper man, decided
that her curious voice was worth eX-
plotting properly. and about five years
ago went to New York to arrange fer
her appearance in the fall.
Fefsed in the methods of exploitation
and keenly approaching the value of
newspaper work, he did all in his power
to stir up some excitement concerning
her advent. Here was a singer he de-
clared, who was bound to create a tu-
rore. She had a voice that was of
greater compass than had ever before
been heard, for starting with a natural
lower register, it went nearly a full &C.
tave above high c and blended the rich
ness of Missions lower register With the
brilliancy of PATHS head tones. More
over, according TO Thrane, she was a
very beautiful girl, and her photogra phs
certainly bore out this statement
Under the influence of heavy adVerJiS-
ing in the leading musical journals, the
press agent worked up very promising
boom, and in 1898 she was heard at Car
negie Music hall, and thereafter toured
the country with the prestige giveI by
a metropolitan appearance. But on the
road as we'll as in New York she was
found rather disappointing. for While
she was all that she was represented as
being and was the pOssessor Of Il voice
which has probably never been equaled
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