The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-02
GOSSIP Of THE THEATtR
Harry Corson Clarke Will Open
in Frisco.
WHAT DID TOMKINS DO?"
Friend-"The Girl From Chilli Is
Said to Be a Very
Lively Play.

where he will open his season on Nov.
l in his new comedy, What Did Tom
kins Do?" A story comes from New
York that his departure from that city
was delayed through indisposition and
too much confidence in the medical
knowledge of his friend, Manager
Bonita, who is said to know about as
much about the contents of a pharma-
copea as a drug clerk does about the
inside workings Of the show business.
Clark had been suffering from indi-
gestion for some time and went to Mr..
Bonita after the performance Satur-
day night for advice.
II suppose he said, i've tried every
kind Of medicine made. I've used all
there ever were for Indigestion and
number of others because the labels
contained letters which would spell in
digestion If they were arranged in the
proper. order. l also resorted to the
starvation cure, the water cure, cleo
tricity, and finally I began to let doc
tors divorce me from my salary"
Have you ever tried the sand cure?"
interrupted the manager
1.-THE what?"
1.-THE sand cure. You get lot of
capsules, fill them with sand and take
one after each meal and two before
retiring
Are they good?"
"Good! Well, just use them once;
you'll never use them again.
Clark purchased a dozen capsules
and walked down to the East river,
where he got some choice sand. He
| made the doses up according to the
contents of Mr.. Bonta's pharmacopea
and took them in obedience to direc-
tions. That same evening he was at
tackled with severe pains in the stom-
ach He sent for physician and
after an examination the latter found
Clarke was suffering from indigestion
in it's worst form.
"Your case" he said to the doctor,
''is an exceedingly rare one, and is
generally the result of eating vegeta-
bles which have not been thoroughly
washed. In other words, vegetables
not entirely clear of sand, and moth
ing brings on Indigestion like sand
| does"
! Under the management of Joseph
Miller 1.-The Girl From Chilli" said to
be a very lively play, will appear at the
Grand next Wednesday night. The
| play is a farce comedy in three acts.
by William L. Roberts, and framed
| from incidents which are the outcome
Of few errors multiplied to an enor-
| nous proportion.
1.-THE Girl From Chilli" is after the
| "Charley's Aunt order The story is
as follows:
Mr.. Bulwinkle, man of wealth
from Chilli calls upon his fathers
| friend, Robert Lightheart who is
| spending the summer at Atlantic City.
| Mr.. Bulwinkle is accompanied by his
| ward Juanitta Bulwinkle, who is mad
| ly infatuated with Homer Doomsby,
| and for the purpose of breaking off the
| love match the old gentleman visits
| Bob. Circumstances adjust themselves
to bring the visitors in the direct at
mosphere of Homer, who proves to be
| Bob's chum. Bob was made aware
of the fact that some girl had become
| infatuated with Homer by the latter,
who tells him that he desires to shake
| her, for he is really engaged to an
other, Harrietta, by name.
While this conversation is going on
| a servant announces the arrival of the
visitors. Escape being impossible. Bob
improvises a disguise by dressing Ho-
mer in his aunts clothes. The visit
ors are introduced to the supposed
| Aunt Primrose, and at once old Bull
| Wrinkle takes fancy to her. The real
aunt Is said by Bob to be an insane
woman who is under his keeping. Har-
rietta also appears upon the scene in
quest of her lover who was to marry
her at noon. It was past that hour
and the poor fellow was entangled
in feminine garb and all to save him
from detection from that Girl From
| Chilli Complications multiply from
then on and each thinks the other Of
| unsound mind.
The real aunt appears upon the
scene and creates furore; Harrietta
] makes a scene when she can't find her
lover, Homer is besieged by old Bull
| Wrinkle, who has really fallen in love
with the supposed aunt, and Bob be-
| gins to think that 1.-THE Girl From
| Chilli is about good enough for him.
| Old Bulwinkle refuses to allow her
to marry on the ground that he will
lose control of her property, and so
chaos reigns throughout the play,
Miss Blanche Bates press agent is
earning his salary these days, and 1
suspect working overtime, too, writes
| "a Woman of the World' in the New
York Telegraph. Renewed rumors of
that charming actress joint partner
| ship in sentimental specially with
| Manager Frawley and Actor Worthing
came pouring in upon my desk yes
terday, together with solemnly assev-
Grated statements of her triumph as
Ghetto" By the way, some of the ac-
counts of Miss Bates heart affairs are
the most superbly humorous / ever
perused. I haven't the faintest idea
that it makes the least bit of difference
in Miss Bates acting whether she is
engaged or married to either, both or
neither of the two gentlemen whose
names are so industriously linked with
hers But what has become in all
this press agents hysteria of informa-
ton, Of Miss Bates husband. Lieuten-
ant Davis of San Francisco? 1t is a
well known fact that Miss Bates be-
came Mrs. Davis some years ago, and
l do not remember that either party
ever received a divorce. Miss Bates
press agent SO insstently and nauseat-
ingly prattles about her love affairs
that he might create a renewed inter-
est in that threadbare theme by CIV
ing a little attention to the gallant
and dashing gentleman who welded
her in the prologue, as they say in
THE Musketee~s."
Mrs. Fiske's Becky Sharp is maxi
ing talk in New York. They are still
unearthing posthumous writings OF
Thackeray-his hitherto unidentified