The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-23
should turn him from the path of ven
geance he had mapped out"

should turn him from the path of ven
geance he had mapped out"
Mrs. Langtrys daughter Jeanne, who
wants to go on the stage if mamma
will only let her, is described in a let
ter from abroad recently, and is said to
be even a more fascinating woman
than her fascinating parent, writes the
Matinee Girl in the Mirror.
She is thoroughly up-to-date," the
letter says, very beautiful in face and
form, and with a brightness that is
more American than English. She is an
omniverous reader and has most de-
c!ded opinions in literature and ART,
which she expresses originally and
nalvely. She knows all about horses
and can talk about every modern sport
with "a familiarity that stuns one, al
though she is only 20 years old.
When Jeanne was in America she
was long-legged little thing that
didn't promise to be anything in par
ticular. Beautiful women's daughters
are very apt to be like great mems sons
-disappointments.
Lillian Russell. jr., is a tomboyish
young person without a hint of her
mothers rare and radiant charm, but
no doubt, like Miss Langtry. she will
blossom out as a corking beauty one
graphs taken of herself.
1t must be trying to have an eternal
ly beautiful mother with the camera
habit who wasn't thoughtful enough to
think that daughter might wish to keep
up the family traits of good looks and
a winning way.
by the way, have you ever heard
that beautiful Phyllis Rankin, like the
handsome kitson girls of st. Paul,
owes her dark and serious style of love-
Illness to Indian ancestry? asks the
Woman of the World. They say thai
when Detroit and the Mackinaw re-
gion We're the very Ultima Thule of our
frontier boundary a beautiful HUI
ron ma1den-daushter of a red chief
taln-contracted a mesalliance with a
bold Scotch frontiersman
named Mckee, from which union spran g
the father of Mckee Rankin. Not hav-
ing mad the pleasure of the Indian
lady's acquaintance personally, | can't
Nouch for the story, but when Miss
Rankln's dreadful parent, Mckee Ran
KIN, used to tour the country in bord ar
dramas, this little tale of his aborigi-
nal ancestry used to carry a wampum
belt, tomahawk and a press agent 8
affidavit. T.,
The Bittner Dramatic company will
begin a weeks engagement at the
HidHu tomorrow night at summer
prices 20, 35 and 80 cents, and 10 and %
cents for matinees. The company comes
direct from Spokane, where it played at
the Auditorium for six weeks TO the
largest business since the opening of
the mouse. The company will open in
Butte in the beautiful drama, The
Galley Slave and will give a contin-
uous performance. The time between
the acts will be occupied with high
nd 1,+
moving picture machine. On the OPEN
ing night ladiets will be admitted free,
PROVIDED each Us accompanied by one
person with paid so cent ticket. The
Bittners have an extensive repertoire
of standard plays, and the company is
composed of number of well-known
and talented players.
1t was a hard task which Mckee
Rankin set Miss Nance O'Neill when
he elected that she should make her
London debut as Leah, but that sic
came through the ordeal with such fly
ing colors fully justifies his faith in her
abilities.
The play is dull in the extreme, and
nothing but the tragic force of the act
ress can possibly awaken interest
Then there was the danger of compari-
son, for the role of Leah is identified
in England with the famous Kate Bate
man, who was and is considered the
ideal of the prosecuted Jewess. But in
spite of these disadvantages Miss
O'Neill won a veritable triumph.
Adele Harrington, she of the shape
and comic opera fame, figured as the
heroine of a life saving episode at
Pleasure Bay n. j., one day last week.
She was bathing in the bay when a
7-year-old niece of Matt Grau walked
into the water and was carried out
by the ebb tide. Miss Farrington's
attention was attracted by Ihe cries
of the nursemaid on shore and swan
a long distance. reaching the child just
as she went under the second time, and
rescued her.
1T is rumored" that Blanche Bates
has been secretly married to Tim d.
Frawley. The friends and admirers
of the splendid actress and supposedly
sensible woman will find it hard to be-
Eeve that she has assumed such ham
dicap.
The successful farce, Browns in
Town" with pretty Miss Maude Knowl-
ton of California as leading lady, will
be seen the coming season. In every
city where this comedy has been seen
crowded houses have been the rule.
The first drama on the subject of the
war in the Philippines has been written.
1t is called The Siege Against Aguin-
aldo"
Mrs. Leslie Carter threatens to tempt
fate by appearing as Lady Macbeth
next season.
An Industrial Age.
The constant decline in the rate of in
terest indicates an enormous increase in
the savings of the people, and it shows