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

well filled up. l will continue as gen
eral manager for Mr. Lift but will re-
| main in New York most of the time.
public interest at the DISARMAMENT of
the DAILY stock company. She has held
unique place in American theatricals,
says the New York Sun. She came into
her first conspicuousness as the leading
actress at one of the DAILY theaters and
has never since then been in other than
DAILY employment, or partnership, as
the case may have been. This train
ing of her natural gifts made great
actress Of her Possessed of physical
! beauty and a dominant mien she was
able to command the fullest attention
to her merits, and what was quite
much to her good fortune. induce an
almost admiring tolerance of her faults.
The fashionable mob set her on a pc
destal and worshiped her. More dis
criminate people ranked her, if not as
| a genius, at the very least as an artist
of the first grade. While Mr.. Daily
guided her on to immense popularity
and was unquestionably the maker of
her earlier career, he was quite as
surely hindrance to her in the later
years. She has kept in American and
/ German farces, enacting silly girls,
! after she had won her better renown
as Shakespearean heroines of comedy
| and had demonstrated her worth in
modern serious roles. If she had be-
come a star long ago, as John Drew
did she might now be more widely
| celebrated than she is, and surely
| richer. The understanding is that dur
| ing few years prior to Mr.. Days
| death she was a business partner with
| him. But those Were not years of ac-
| emulation for him or her in fame or
| money. He did not provide plays in
which gains We're possible in either d
rection. Miss Rehan gets, under the
| will. 90 per cent of the estate. She has
| bought the DAILY outfits of standard
| comedies, and presumably means to
use them on professional tours. Thus
! equipped for repertory including
| Katherine, Viola, Rosalind. Portia
Lady Teazle and other standard roles
| in which she shines brightly, there
should be good times right ahead for
| this actress. 1t was reported yesterday
| that she would recruit travelling COM
| pany from the DAILY forces. 1t was said
that she had written from England to
several of her stage companions asking
them to refrain from engaging else
where until they heard from her
again.
Effie Ellsler has been telling some
stories that illustrate the peculiar
crankiness of the late Charles W. Coul-
dock.
There are some plays" said Miss
Ellsler. that are actors 'hoodoos.
Something is certain to grow wrong
every time they are produced. Louis
XII was Mr.. Coudock's hoodoo. Dur
ing one engagement my father wished
him to play it. He refused and began
to swear terribly. My father had an in
fallible method to bring Mr. Couldock
to terms on such occasions, and applied
it this time. My father always got just
a little madden than the actor. He
did this in the case referred to, and the
play was produced.
Things moved along smoothly till
the last act, and everybody hoped that
the evil spell was broken. 1t was not
Mr. Couldock died and lay there on his
couch, waiting for the curtain to come
down. But it didn't, so what did he do
but come back to life, go to the side Of
the stage, give the necessary order and
return to his bed of death. OF course
there was a terrible time when the cur
tain did come down. CouldOck frothed
at the mouth and declared that he
would never play in that piece again.
He tore off all his stage clothes and
tossed them angrily to the floor, My