The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-06

nouncement II know you will like it
because it is about Butte Mr.. Bitt-
ner then told the few people in the
house that his company had played
continuously for three years and the
audience which he was addressing was
by all odds the smallest the company
ever played to.
Butte breaks the record and carries
off the palm. and l know you are
proud of it, said Mr.. Bittner.
Alexander Bison, the most success
full farce writer in France, has lately
been telling how, in his younger days,
he wrote letter to Napoleon III. tell
ing him that unless he sent 20 francs
on the next day to the cafe in which
he was writing he would throw HIM
self into the Seine. He was poor
clerk out of work then. He returned
the next day in the hope of finding
an answer. 1t was there in the person
of a policeman, who arrested him for
threatening the emperor. He was par
doned, though. and soon got a place
in the railway service. The emperor
learned later that he had been dis
charged as worthless because he spent
all his time at his desk in writing
plays.
Miss Blanche Bates, who forced her
self into prominence artistically and
otherwise during the past season. has
returned to San Francisco and says
regarding her separation from forces
of the late Augustin DAILY: ITO me. l
believe, he took an instant dislike, for
no other purpose than because Miss
Rehan liked me and was extremely
kind to me. He would allow no in
dividuallty. When | suggested a bit
of business that the emotions inspired
by my role prompted he objected.
You are to feel nothing he said You
are simply to be my reflex artistic
image That is the decree that caused
our separation"
They are arranging to give a benefit
for Billy Emerson out in Chicago.
According to accounts, it's all up with
| the veteran minstrel, who, to the last
| was the lightest footed dancer and
most graceful comedian who ever did
meat" song and dance. Few people
who ever heard him-and their name
must be legion-will ever forget his
rendition of that prehistoric coon"
| song, II Feel Just as Happy as a Big
! Sunfower," for he certainly looked and
! acted the part. With Emerson the
| "Old guard of minstrelsy will have
passed away completely.
Recent acquisitions to the variety
| stage are three girls from Utah, who
/
The Three Mormon Bellies" and say
! they left their otherwise happy homes
! because they were afraid they would
/ be coerced into polygamous marriages,
! says the Los Angeles Times. Would
! not it have been a better advertising
scheme if all three had married the
/ same man and then deserted him to
amuse the public"
There is a version of Hamlet"
played by Jews in Chicago which
makes Hamlet a young rabbi who
comes home to find his father has been
murdered. The scene is cast in Po-
land in modern times. There is a fight
| fistic between Hamlet and his uncle
| and the players scene is omitted.
! Hamlet is married to Ophelia by the
mystic "black marriage" of the an
/ Cient Jews. when she Is dead and
about to be buried; then Hamlet goes
| mad, jumps in the grave and dies.
Cecil Raleigh, whose melodramas al
the Drury Lane theater, London. are
one of the theatrical features of the
English metropolis. has been retained
by A. w. Dingwall, general manager
for Jacob Lift. who has just returned
from an extended European trip, tC