The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14

sound. and his intellect is commanding,
logical and sane. OF the minor details
of his performance, his super-human
endurance, his eloquent trifl, exciting
glissande and all those attributes Which
may be fairly classed as physical, are
astounding. 1t is Rosenthals enorm-
Gus improvement on the spiritual side
of his art that is the more grateful
subject. He was accused decade ago
of being brilliant virtuoso, nothing
more. OF the d fiat valse and its be-
wildering, ford counterpart and dou-
BILE notes we will say naught now
Rosenthars fabulous octaves furnish
food enough for columns Depreciation
Suffice that he is the greatest pianist
alive to-day, and that the first con-
cert of this season. was a success I'M
paralleled in New York"
Here is a new tale on Patti On the
eve of starting for Bucharest, where
Mr.. Victor Ullman had gone as agent in
advance, she said to her manager: Il
shall not go there; it is too cold-snow
everywhere. l do not want to catch my
death of cold. No, a hundred times, no;
you shall not persuade me to go there"
You may imagine what a blow this was
for me (says the manager) when tell
you that all the places, Notwithstanding
the raised prices, had already been sold.
There is nothing so bad for manager
as to be obliged to return the money of
| whole audience. l went to the tele-
graph office to wire the fatal order to
my secretary, and there a happy
thought struck me. Here is copy of
| the telegram which l sent to Uliman:
I'VE must have, at any cost, an ovation
at the Bucharest railway station. Wire
back as follows: The Roumanian no.
biity are preparing grand reception
of Mnf a Dat
will be representatives of this ministry,
sledges, torches and bands. Telegraph
the hour of your arrival This mes
sage was soon wired back, and pro-
duced the expected result. In reading
the telegram Madame Patti blushed
and said: What charming people.
What o'clock do we start?" ''To-mor-
row morning, since you wish it,
When we arrived at the Bucharest rail-
way station, late in the evening, we
found sixty gentlemen in evening dress,
who, in spite of the cold, stood there
immovable, in two long rows. Behind
| them torches We're held up, flags were
waving, flowers strewn on our path,
| while two bands played national airs.
An old gentleman advanced and said:
| The mobiles of ROumania welcome you,
| madame" We We're thus escorted to
| our hotel in the midst of applause and
| made a trumphal entry into the town,
secretary, Ullman, to come in with us.
| impossible" he whispered to me-
| 'Why?' Il must watch their clothes
or they Will run away With them.'
| 'Who?' These men! You asked me
for select and numerous crowd. /
have hired as many loafers as I could
at two francs each. l have hired sixty
evening dresses at five francs each. I
have bought gloves and white scarfs-
total, nearly G13." Very cheap,
thought
The Crank actors have not all been
Americans said a well-known mana
ger, after listening to stories told of
strange characters of the stage "One'
of the first specimens" said he, was
the celebrated philanthropic amateur
of fashion, Romeo Coates, an Eng
lishman, who made his debut at Bath
in 1910, and had very skyrocket ca
reer of it. Coates was the son of a
merchant who made large fortune in
trade in the West Indies. Charles, or
as he was afterward known, Romeo
was left an orphan at an early age
with a large fortune and a valua bic
collection of family Jewels Charles
launched forth. He arrived in Bath
with Enthusiastically decorated coach.
bearing the crest of a growing cock.
with the motto: Whilst I live I'll
crow The rest of his living was in
keeping, and so it was no difficult mat
ter for the leaders of the fashionable
set to persuade him to appear in a per-
formahce of Romeo and Juliet at the
Bath theater, and easier still to per-
suade him that he had made hit.
From that day Coates devoted himself
to his art, playing a number of we'll
established characters in a manner
| that was ridiculous enough to be high
ly amusing, paying his own expenses
and that of his company and giving
the proceeds to- charitable societies. He
dressed gorgeously, but without taste
always wore all the jewels he had in
herited and acted so queerly that when
| he played in the leading London the
alter of the time crowds fiocked to see
him. and 'gentleman's education was
supposed TO be incomplete until he had
seen Coates practical demonstration of
how not to act. The novelty wore off.
| That did not worry the would-be
tragedian until the indulgence of his
| eccentricity and his liberality and ex-
| travagance dissipated his fortune
| compromise was finally arranged, and
he returned to London, but not to the
stage. He lived to be a good old age
and was finally killed in a collision Of
carriages while returning from a fash
ionable concert in 1S47. Coates mon
strosities in the way of acting were SO
well known that one of the best i'm
presentations of the elder Charles Matt
hews was a burlesque of Romeo
which he was called upon to give fire.
quently and remained popular long
after Coates enforced retirement"
John R. Rogers claims the credit of
having invented the familiar and en-
dearing term of Our Mary" as applied