The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-09

ABOUT Sarah BernhardtS great fond
ness for olives. 1t is related that re-
Gently seller of olives appeared on
the terrace of Partisan cafe exhibiting
notice to the effect that he was "pur-
veyor to Madame Sarah Bernhardt"
The great actress is so fond of olives
that every evening between 10 and IL
o'clock the olive merchant had orders
to bring a certain quantity of his wares
to her room. Someone disputed the
olive-seller's authority to exhibit the
notice, whereupon he drew from his
pocket paper, creased and dirty, on
which was written, please pass every
evening" seller of olives-Sarah
Bernhard"
This brings to mind little story
about that eminent and delightful
actress Maude Granger, who has but
one failing a disagreeable one, how
ever, as will appear. 1t was on her
last visit to Butte that her friends here
became aware of it. One evening after
performance at the Grand Miss
Granger and another female member
of the company left the opera house
together and started for their hotel On
West Broadway they encountered a
hot tamale man. oh l must have a
tamale!" exclaimed Miss Granger, and
she called to the purveyor of the ur-
wholesome and questionable mixture,
and asked him to put up one of the
articles for her.
OH" she exclaimed, as the man was
fishing in his kettle, do you use garlic
in your tamales?"
mo, ma am answered the tamale
man, Il do not use garlic
Miss Changers face dropped and she
showed that she was 'awfully disap-
pointed.
Il am so sorry" she said, "for do
love garlic"
And she denied herself the luxury of
tamale because it did not contain
garlic, and took a weinerwurst sand
wich instead.
Should stage folk marry is a prob
lem again being discussed by the men
and women of the profession in view
or the many recent matrimonial mud
dies of actors and actresses. A new
York paper put the question to num-
Der Of professionals and some inter-
esting answers were received, some APP
proving and others opposing marriage.
John e. Henshaw who has for many
years been the contented and apparent
ly happy husband of May Ten Brock,
takes the affirmative side of the ques-
ton. 49,
There is nothing in the world like
it,, he said, "and when one says that
theatrical people have no right to enter
into such bonds they do not know what
they are talking about. Marriage is
the natural union of loving hearts, and
an actor and an actress have as much
right to bask in the sunshine Of love
as broker, or a lawyer, or any one
else. And if they meet and love. and
don't marry, then they ought to be
doomed to long life of solid misery
Laura Burt, who is also more or less
well known to the theater-goers Of
Butte, and who has never ventured up
on the seas of matrimony, takes the
other view. Just look" says Miss
Burt, upon the unhappy lot of most
married actresses. They are either
weighed down by unworthy husbands,
who are content to live upon their
earnings, or their lords and masters
are jealous of their success. Each one
takes it as a personal insult that his
wife should stand higher in the profess
sion than does he, and trouble--end-
less, horrible troubles the invariable
result. Can you imagine Ada Rehan
having attained her present position if
she had been chained down to hus-
band who was jealous of her greatness
or who made her life misera BILE by liv-
ing on her earnings? The latter sort
OF men are always dissipated, worth
less fellows and are certain to make
the heart of any woman ache who is
foolish enough to permit herself to
be tied to him. Would it have been
possible for Maude Adams to have at
tanned the prominence she has in so
fettered to a man who was constantly
wailing over lost collar buttons and
holes in his socks? No, you can't and
it would not have been possible. Per-
haps the best instance of this is Sarah
Bernhard. Her greatness came after
she was free from all restraint. And
do you remember how, when a few
years ago she married her leading man,
she began to fall in the artistic scale,
simply because she had to tug him along
with her? She soon saw her error,
threw him over. and Immediately be-
came her own great self again. 1t is
the same in lesser degree with lesser
actresses. l do not believe there is one
married actress, who, if she told the
truth, would not admit that she had
made a mistake in giving up her free
dom for the sake of a man. Mind. l
have the greatest respect for men, but
that they are hinderance to a woman
of conspicuous histrionic ambitions !
think has been amply proven. and
yet" added Miss Burt, Il do not wish
to go record as unalterably opposed to
it. l have seen many women of the
stage most happily married"
Miss Mary Mannering (Mrs. James
X. Hackett) takes an entirely different
view from that taken by Miss Burt
She said: Certainly theatrical folks
should marry. They are human beings,
and the broad law of humanity is that
neither man nor woman Is complete
in existence without the love and COM
partnership of the other sex. From the
days of Adam and Eve down perfect
happiness has only been found in the
marriage state. Look through the
profession and you will see hundreds
of happy theatrical marriages where
the couples lead ideal lives. OF course,
enforced separations are hard. but they
only tend to make the reunions the
sweeter. Why. there are families that
have been known for generations in
the theatrical world, and some of our
best actors and actresses inherit their
talent from long lines of professional
ancestors who have lived happy mar
ried lives in the past. The conditions