The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

costumes will be from Hermann from
designs by Anderson and the furniture
ana properties from Bradley and Cor
bett. Two cars will be utilized in the
transportation of the production. Each
of the principals will be happily cast
in the big revival. MIR. James will be
seen as Autolycus. Mr.. Hanford as
King LeOntes, and Miss Kdder in the
dual roles of Hermione ard Perdita,
the characters in which Mary Ander-
son made her farewell appearance on
the stage. The other characters will be
represented by such sterling actors as
Barry Johnstone, Collin Kemper, Nor
man Hackett, Thomas Coffin Cooke,
Mrs. Henry Nandenhoff Miss Helen
Singer and the two Shakespearean vet
Grams, Harry Langdon and John A.
Ellsler.
In connection with Hamlet" the gs
are deemed a feature sufficiently i'm
portant for ilustra ton and comms n .
Before me, writes John r. Stevenson,
lies an English periodical devoted to
stage and other art matters, in which a
half-page cut illustrates the shapes
poses and sizes of legs exhibited by
various players who have impersJnated
the mad prince of Denmark from Ma
cready to Sarah Bernhardt. And in Il
dozen native publications a.lusion has
been made to the eXquiSiteiy moulded
limbs Julia Arthur will have to support
her when she dons the ebon hose and
cloak of the tragic hero. The legs Of
Hamlet, forsooth. What a subject for
speculation. Were they straight or
crooked? Well nourished or shriveled?
Were they planted firmly, with the
independence of virility. or stood they
apart, two quavering, leaning columns,
trembling beneath the overburdened
brains load of sorrow? The leg has
nf tjR Sr1 in 10
opera for a long time. Is it to he
adopted as sign post to dramatic
values in tragedy? Should it be TO the
observer of a dramatic performance
what the Bertillon finger marks are
to the crimnologist? Noveliss have
employed the legs as vehicles for ex-
pressing emotious, setting before us
villains whose legs "quaked" and whose
knees "smote together" But in the
drama the fad is new. What it will
lead to can only be guessed at. Per
haps complete tabulatpd set of leg
phenomena and the emotions they ex-
press may be forthcoming. and we will
be told what pigeon-toes, knock-knees
bow-legs, cts. etc, signify when we
come across them on the stage
Bettina Giard was in a New York
police court again few days ago and
was sent to the island .or three mon his
When brought into court she was in a
pitiable condition. She could scarcely
stand and was on the verge of delrium
tremens; her face was bruised and her
eyes black from having fallen on the
stones. Her clothing was old, tattered
and torn.
Bettina Girard was committed for
five months to Xavier's sanitarium at
InnwOod in 1898. On her release she
took legal steps to establish status as
the widow of Arthur Padelford and her
right of dover in the estate of $780,
900.
Padelford was the son of a wealthy
Philadelphia. He obtained a divorce
from her 10 years ago. She has been
in various institutions for alcoholism,
and only last week was sent to Belle
vue hospital. She was formerly Eliza
beth Ordway, prominent in Washington
society. Her father, General Ordway,
died, it is said, of a broken heart.
1t was the opinion of many who saw
her in the New York court room that
she would not survive her term on the
island. Her friends long ago gave her
up as hopeless. A few years ago they
made last effort 20 save her and she
was given Il position in a travel ng
company aand remained with it