The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-04

frequently declared to her mother that
she hoped some day that she might be-
come as great an actress as Miss Dav-
export. Her mother used to tell her in
these times of confidence that perhaps
she might reach that then so far-away
goal prediction which now bids fair
to be realized.
Daniel Sully, who filed a petition in
bankruptcy in New York, is one of the
many actors who have tried a play
without success only to force it to pros
perity by persistent advertising. When
the Corner Grocery was originally
produced at Pastors theater it was
dismal failure. Mr. Sully caused the
city to be placarded with posters of
the most absurd kind. The result was
| noticed at once. Then comic advertise
ments reached the newspapers, and it
did not take long afterward for Mr..
Sully to find himself a rich man. 1t was
by this same attempt with other plays
that the actor lost all his money, with
bankruptcy proceedings as the end of
the tether.
News comes from Boston that E. H.
| Sothern and Nat C. Goodwin may make
an alliance for two-star production
at the end of next season, says the
| Washington Post. Mr. Goodwin was
in town last week and the matter was
discussed, but no definite decision was
| reached Mr. Sothern closed his tour
| in Providence and will sail almost i'm
mediately for Europe, accompanied by
Mrs. Sothern Virginia Harned). They
| expect to spend most of the summer
| quietly in Switzerland as Mr.. Sothefn
| is feeling the effects of his long and
| trying season. He will return to open
at the New York Lyceum early in Sep
| TENDER. After that he expects to pro-
| 3nIy Inv TTcy md
| The title is not yet chosen, but the
| manuscript is now on it's way across
| the ocean. 1t has not been decided that
| Miss Harmed will appear with him next
| season. Daniel Frohman has made her
an offer by which they may appear
in different companies and 1t is pos
| sible that she may decide to rest for
! another season at her home in New
| York.
J Mrs T. Benton Letter, formerly a
| Butte girl, has signed a three years
| contract in New York to appear in a
society drama which is to be written
| for her Mrs. Letter is said to be heaV-
lily backed and is to be surrounded by
capable company. 1t is claimed that
| she had a number of offers within few
weeks to appear in different produc-
TONS but declined them all until she
got one that fully satisfied her.
Lawrence Barrett used to say that an
actor who exceled in at least three
roles could be called great. Melbourne
| MacDowell has no less than four to his
credit-Loris Ipanoff in Fedora Bar
on Scarpia in La Tosca,' Mark An
tony in Antony and Cleopatra" and
| Almerio in 'Gismonda"-and surely de-
serves the appellation.
In reviewing the performance of The
| in a
London critic pointed out an amusing
oversight. The play only describes that
| the man locked up in the bastile for
seven years wore an iron mask, which
completely covered his face and which
was never removed. Under these cir
cumstances the critics want to know
how it happens that when the mask
is eventually removed the wearer is
| discovered to he neatly and carefully
clean-shaVen. The query is, to say the
least, staggering one.
Robert Cutting. husband of Minnie
Seligman, has forestalled his wife and
has brought suit in New York for di-
vorce. Mrs. Cutting says she has been
compelled to support herself ever since
she married Cutting, and at last con-
cluded she might as well be free, and
| prepared to bring suit for divorce.
When she heard that he had brought
the meanest man on earth.
The charm of La Tesca" has held
| audiences spell-bound for years. The
| passionate, impusive, fascinating wom-
an, with her woman's jealousy of her
lover and the tragic end of that love-
has the power to thrill and charm the
| coldeSt
NJ B. Curtis, who recently returned
1,n I,e,
aging a juggler called Dante, the Nor
| mon Magician" says he has made lots
of money and announces that he is go
ing to take Ernest Hogan and com
pany of coon" specialists back to Aus
trala to try it again.
In a recent interview Richard Mans
field said: 'Tbe study of voice is a
very important an all-important ne
cessity. You should be able to produce
any quality of voice; you should study
music; the actor who has no ear for
music and does not know something
| about music will never succeed Ii
does not matter greatly whether you
say 'ah' or EN- There are two
different qualities of voice you must
produce, and be able to produce at any
moment"
When Lew Dockstader went to pieces
| several years ago, after having Vainly
tried to make ministrely a permanent
feature of amusement life in New York
his share of the Indebtedness amounted
to $4,000. 1t is now stated that he has
paid off every dollar of obligation.
Blanche Walsh claims that perfect
art should be perfect in every detail
that a grand painting can be RUNE d
and lose much by bad framing and bad
lighting, and that the public he6
reached that point where they demand
as near perfection as it is possible to
obtain.
Ben Hendricks won't be the star OF
"Yon 9onson" next season. There has
been some sort of an upheaval between
| himself and the management. Hen
! bricks will go out upon his own account