The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
IS REAP|NG HER HARVEST.
Returns for Kitty Churchill's Big
Advertising.
HER DEBUT Is A SUCCESS
Hearty Applause Greeted Her First Ap
pearance-Has Pleasing Stage
Presence-She Has Great
Talent.

kitty" Churchill is beginning to reap
the benefit of the extensive advertising
she received in the Eastern papers as a
high toned member of the eminent Lei
ter family. She made her debut on the
vaudeville stage in New York last Mon
day, and the Telegraph noticed her per-
Torrance as follows:
Mrs. r. Benton Letter made her de-
but as professional actress yesterday
before a large audience that had as
sembled principally for the purpose of
greeting the new asprant to stellar
honor The sympathetic expectations
of her audience was demonstrated by
hearty applause when that point in the
programme was reached where Mrs
Letter was to make her appearance,
and when she walked upon the stage
and stood confronting the spectators
there, was more applause, which the
lady acknowledged with a smile of
pleasure and a graceful bow. The smile
was concealed by a heavy white veil,
but the bow was very apparent and
the audience liked that, and took the
smile for granted.
when it is said that Mrs. Letter did
very we'll in the small part she es-
sayed, and with the limited opportuni-
ties allowed her, as much praise has
been lavished as can now be justified.
"She has a pleasing stage presence,
was easy and self-possessed, and spoke
her lines distinctly. This, for a de-
butante, was doing pretty well. But
the performance throughout was dull.
Mrs. Letter has not yet progressed far
oh RI he TaS a hp
nervousness which she is supposed to be
laboring under in the opening of her
scene was not apparent in her manner,
nor did her lines in the love passages
with Wright Huntington reveal any
latent depths of emotion. On the con-
trary, Mrs. Letters performance was
cold and Unconditional. 1t was graceful
enough and was not marrpd either by
too much staginess or too much ner-
vousness, both faults which might be
expected in a beginner. But at the
same time it was not particularly in
tereStng.
THAT Mrs. Letter has talent is unde-
niable, and that she may develop into a
very good actress is probable, but the
DEVELOPMENT is still necessary.
For much of the dullness of the per-
Torrance the sketch which Mrs. Letter
has selected as the framework of her
dramatic talents, is largely to blame.
portunity to appear only for brief inter
walls in the center of the stage and the
amusing features are contained in the
dialogue between the two male charac-
tiers during the time the lady is con-
cealed behind aAscreen
Mr.. Huntington and Alexander
Kearney, who assist Mrs Letter. were
not quite as happy in their parts as
might have been anticipated.
MIR. Hun arlington. especially in his
love-making, was so perfunctory as to
suggest that his work bored him, Mr..
Kearney threw much spirit into his
work, but his acting was monOtonously
furious, a fault for which the author
more than the actor was to blame.
LAS whole, her play does not afford
Mrs. Letter an opportunity to display
her ability, and it must therefore be ra
garded only as the very first step upon
the ladder which she hopes to climb.
The lady is handsome and should prove
an attraction