The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-13

The girls parents apprenticed her for
nine years when she was IL, and were
to pay the teacher, in case the girl re-
fused to take her lessons, damages to
the extent of $3.50 for the first year
and $125 for each succeeding year. The
girl progressed rapidly, and in 1896 re-
ceived nine shillings a week from her
teacher who got IL shillings from the
theater. When the girl received ~ her
teacher got IS for her services and IS
shillings were paid to the dancer when
the teacher got 80. This would seem
sufficient reward for the teachers serv-
ices, but the court gave her the addi-
tional damages on the ground that APP
premiership agreements had to be re-
spected. Most of the English ballet
dancers that come here are less COM
petent than those trained on the con-
tinent. The salaries make it evident
how London ballots can be mounted on
such a lavish scale
The vitality of the rural play is al
most as great as that of the Irish
drama on the American stage, says the
Sun. There have been popular exam
pies of it almost continuously on view
since the earliest days of our stage.
''SolOn Shingle" was succeeded by The
Old Homestead" and the profits of that
piece have done more than anything
else to inspire dramatists to equal It's
success. None has rivaled it yet, but
the efforts continue and are often re-
munerative. A new one this year is to
be a farce, with slight serious inter-
est, extending through four acts, while
another, called The Dairy Farm" is to
exploit deliberately new phase of farm
life. way Down East" while it was
neglected by managers for some
months, proved attractive when it got
before the public. The success or fail
ure of rural plays is not always easy to
understand Sometimes it seems to the
casual spectator that they should all
do well if the quartette of farm hands
sings often enough, the scenery is pref
ty and the dialogue is literally seasoned
with Gee whiZ" and by gosh" But
that cannot be true.
The ensemble work Of the big Boston
Lyric opera company is claimed to eX-
eel that of any similar operate organi-
cation that travels. The members of
this company have been associated to-
gether for so many years that their
work is described as being well nigh
perfect All of the many trunks of
elaborate costumes of this organization
We're made especially for the company,
while some Of the more magnificent
costumes We're directly imported from
Berlin. The outlay in costumes alone
for an opera company of the calibre
of the Boston Lyric, that presents some
90 operas, is a small fortune in itself,
and the extra hazardous risk paid
for insurance is an item of expense
! that the public seldom takes into con-
Sideration when estimating the costs
of running a big repertoire opera COM
pany. The company will appear in
Butte one week, commencing Sunday,
September ?.
DeWolf Hopper's stern resolution
never to recite Casey again evidently
does not apply to England. At din
ner recently rendered by the Eccentric
club of London to members of the
Lambs club of New York, Mr.. Hopper
was on the programme. 1t is needless
! to say that he gave them Casey"
Writing to the Mail and Express of the
! banquet, Frederic Edward Mckay
/ says: The climax was not reached
| however until DeWolf Hopper was in
| duCed to take the platform, and. after
| some predatory remarks concerning the
! American national game for the sake
of the Englishmen present, delivered
| himself of his immortal masterpiece,
! Casey at the Bat with such force and
| fire THAT dozens of monOCles fell from
| their wearers' eyes and were ground to