The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23

5 ~ l~'>p'yrll> y5'S ) II
such a valuable advertising feature of
ALVIN Joslin's" starring tours, as the
following, recently told, will show. Ac-
cording to this latest one Davis was
standing in the lobby of the st. Charles
in New Orleans when a man from Chi
cago stepped in front of him and looked
over his head in search of an acquaint-
ance, who he supposed was in the hotel
lobby. Davis, mistaking the Chicago
mans purpose, remarked: "Ah, | see
you admire my diamonds. This one
indicating the stone on his shirt bosom
Cost me $1,000 These"-showing his
cuff buttons--"cost me $500 each, and
my wife has trunkful up in our
room"
The Chicago man did not say much,
but that evening, by arrangement with
the head waiter, Davis was placed at
supper alone at a table where We're
several vacant chairs. Presently seven
men, all commercial travellers, entered
the dining room, and each one had
large cut glass fruit dish fastened on
his breast, while glass prisms hung
pendent from each coat and vest but
| ton.
| Soberly marching to Davis table, the
| seven men took the vacant seats, and
! the Chicago man. entertained the actor
| with: "Ah, | see you admire our dia-
monds. This one'-pointing to the fruit
dish-"cost me S3000,O00 These'-in-
dicating the prsms-"cost $3.50 900
eacn, and we have three carloads like
! them at the depot waiting to be side
| tracked Davis not only changed his
| table, but went to another hotel.
Every form of depravity is now eX-
| plotted in the theater, and it is incredi-
BILE that these various phases of wick
! edness should be known to the majority
of their spectators, writes Hilary Bell
in the New York Press. The drama
, is a college of forbidden things, and
after a season of varied entertainments
one has learned a knowledge that can
not be acquired in books, society or
| the ordinary conduct of life. Even
| those who have never been to the
streets of Cairo may studythe couchee-
couchee dance at a Broadway theater.
Its neighbor instructs us in the proper
| method of seduction, maintaining a
mistress and murder In the next block
we are graduated in the approved
methods of thievng, and how to loot a
| iewelry shop is shown with enough eX-
| plicitness to make master burglars of
any folk whose tastes are inclined that
| way. Further up town the exact sys-
TEN to be pursued in forming a liaison
with a married man and the way to
keep two establishments is set forth
with convincing candor. Another stage
| eXpounds the method by which a de-
serted lady arouses once more the
flames of passion in her lovers bosom.
| At another house the abduction of a
sentimental wife from her prosaic
husband is illustrated neatly, and al
| the same time we are instructed in the
art of being drunk in company without
offending either the host or his guests
Across the street lessons in the system
of branding a woman with redhot
iron are given, and a rival theater has
classes in wholesale killing.
At present there are no undressing
ladies in town, our education in that
school being considered complete. But
| apparently we are not yet sufficiently
advanced in sneak thieving, burglary
seduction, poisoning and designation tC
receive diplomas. In these studies oul
actors are so assiduously training US
that when commencement day arrives
next month we shall all be competent
to enter a career of crime.
Here is story about Ed W. Dunn
| business manager for Stuart Robson
II was divulged by a fellow profession.
al, whose name, for reasons of defense
is withheld. Dunn left Portland fol-
Tacoma one night about 10 days ago
and in view of the fact that he haG
numerous bundles of printing to checI
out of that city for the sound district
he departed from the Portland hotel il
a cab about an hour before his trair
was scheduled to leave. Now Dunr
has failing for high hats, and on this
particular evening the glossiest OF
silk skies" adorned his dome o,
thought. All went well until just be
fore he reached the Union station
when. whether from nearsiohtedness o.
a protracted gaze through the bottom
of a highball glass. the jehu who wa:
plotting the avant courier struck
hole in the pavement which caused hi
four wheeler to careen like ship il
the trough of a sea, and which sho
poor Dunn up against the roof of thu
cab with a dull. sickening thud, ant
hattened his bonnet to the proportion:
of fried egg. The atmosphere in tina
locality almost Immediately assumed
that peculiarly pungent quality know
as phosphorescent. Dunn abused tn,
cab driver like a pickpocket. He wal
so mad and his words of denunciatio1
came so fast that he almost choked
The knight of the box let Dunn ex
haust himself and then said with ;
Steve Brodie dialect, 1T serves ye
right, young fellar: why in hell didn'
We hold yer dice in yer hand?"
They strike a stump where they leas
expect it sometimes, these courers O
the drama who go ahead to max
smooth the paths of those who com
after them. A nice little story in proc
of this is credited to Ed Connolly,
man of many parts and not unknown
to fame:
In the average one-night stand, whe1
a company arrives it's director usual
ly calls for rehearsal of the theate
orchestra. Mr.. Connelly's Organization
reached little place in Kansas durin
the course of its travels and the must