The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-16

two years ago, the singer fell under the
influence of young man named Billy
Goodwin. In the autumn of 1897 Miss
Post went to Australia to visit a
brother and incidentally to fill some
professional engagements. She took
Goodwin with her, and he, who had
never previously been on the stage, ap-
peared with her in the vaudeville
houses in Melbourne and Sydney.
It was reported that Miss Post had
decided to abandon the stage and re-
main with her brother in Melbourne.
The first her friends heard to the con-
trary was when she arrived in San
Francisco a short time ago. 1t was
said that her mental faculties were
somewhat confused when she returned
from Australia, but the San Francisco
physicians had hoped that a period of
enforced seclusion and treatment would
restore her mind.
| John Philip Sousa will not travel with
| his band next season, and in all prob
| ability will refrain from that kind of
work permanently This has been au-
| thoritatively stated, with the addition
| that Mr. Sousa didn't wish to announce
| his retirement from band leadership on
| the ground that he might a. some time
| in the future feel that it was necessary,
| or at least advisable, for him to take up
| that work again, and in such case he
| didn't intend to be in the position of one
| who goes back on his word.
| Il shouldn't imagine, however" says
| Leander Richardson, that it would be
| at all within the probabilities for Sousa
| to find himself compelled by the neces-
stiles of life to again take up the baton
| and chase day and night all over the
| country, most of the time playing in
| two towns a day. He must be pretty
| we'll fixed in this worlds goods l UNI
| derstand upon the best of information
| that his income from the sales of his
music, royalties upon his operas and
| profits upon his tours, is about SlO0,0o0
a year, and this being the case, it
stands to reason that Sousa, in order to
| dispose of his income, must rise early
| and stay up late.
| He proposes to devote himself for the
| future exclusively to composition, and it
| is probable that if his next opera, upon
| which George H. Broadhurst is collab-
| Grating with him, should prove to be
| successful, Sousa and Broadhurst will
| work together regularly, turning out
| one opera annually. When 1t first be-
| gan to be rumored in the inside circle
| of amusement information that Sousa
would give up his travelling band con-
| certs, the impression gained momentum
| that he was actuated in this design by
rapidly failing health. This is not the
case Sousa simply isn't obliged any
longer to work himself to death and
live on railway trains, and he simply
doesn't propose to do it any more. This
goes to show that he is not alone a big
man in his chosen field, but is the pes
SCISSOR of good solid common sense
which doesn't always go with musical
genius.
Leavitt's gorgeous Spider and Fly
is having one of its most successful
seasons, and the production which is to
be given at the Grand next Thursday
ever vet seen. Upon its recent visit TO
Seattle the Times of that city gave 1t
the following notice:
| Never in it's history was the theater
| packed as it was last night to witness
the opening performance of M. B. Lea
Wits big burleSque company in that OK
tremely popular spectacular production,
The Spider and the Fly. The house
has often been packed to the doors, but
last night they would not take no for
an answer, and the crowd poured in
for hours after the last seat had been
( disposed of, all anxious to secure some
| choice bit of standing room from which
! to view the performance.
THE occasion of this big rush was
! the presentation of a piece that had al
| WAYS given good satisfaction. There
| are certain things that the American
people insist on, in connection with a
| burlesuue performance. There must be
pretty girls and plenty Of them. There
! must be songs and dance galore. There
must be funny comedians and dashlng
soubrettes. There must be clever spe-
| cialties and, above all. beautiful seen
cry.
"All these requisites We're on hand
! last night and more. The girls We're