Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-11

MOUNTAIN: BUTTE, MONT
Now 1 would like to look at the corpse"
Like to look at the corpse? I don't UNI
derstand.'
Il want to see what kind of a corpse
you furnish and kno what the price
will be-"
The clerk was amazed.
You advertise to furnish everything
for a funeral, don't your said Sothern.
"Well, you can't have a funeral without
a corpse"
The sign had been altered when Soth-
ern passed the following day.
The New York Supreme court sustains
the judgment of the lower courts that
awarded Tony Pastor $500 damages
against Gus and Max Solomon, profess
sionally known as the Rogers Brothers.,
and thus ends this important litigation.
The decision is of decided im~pOrtanceito
managers, as it enables them to hold
performers to their contracts. In 1898
Pastor booked the Rodgers Brothers for a
season of II weeks at 1920 per week, and
stipulated in the contract signed by them
that they were not to appear prior to ful-
filling this contract at any theater put
those selected by him in New York, Phil
dutlpHId VI Siitlilidti. LdtSI lin ="
German comedians signed with KlaWl d
Erlanger to go with with "One Round'oi
Pleasure" and jumped their contract
with Pastor. who subsequently brought
suit for $500 damages and was awarded
that mount.
Olga Nethersole has abandoned her in
tention to produce Max O'Rell's new
play, THE Prince of Wealth. during her
New York engagement.
A one-act play called Repentance"
has been written by Mrs. Cralgle Tor
George Alexander. Its scene is in SPAN
at the time of the Carlist war in 1888. The
leading two characters are called upon
to decide between their devotion to their
country and their love for each other.
mile Fiji the French farce put on at
the Manhattan in New York to succeed
The Turtle is described as another one
of those broad importations from Paris'
It contains for it's principal scene an IN
cident that is both indecent and vulgar
The balance of the farce is lacking in
dash and sprightllneSS that made "Ine
Turtle" a winner according to the gen
eral verdict after the initial presentation
last Wednesday evening. The strong
scene in mile Fiji" is much worse than
! anything in the other Objectionable farce
| and shocked even the blase first nighters
who attended the opening performance.
Joe WEIGH. the Hebrew comedian, came
to grief in New Haven the other day.
His audience, largely composed or Yale
I students. was guying Joe 1t seems ana
this aroused his ire. Without weighing
the Welch picked out one
of his tOrmentOrs and opened up a strlhS
of billingsgate that nearly caused a riot,
when he eluded it by inviting the young
Yale man to come up on the Stage anu
fight it out. Several students came to
their comrades assistance and had the
ushers not held them back it is reported
that WEIGH might have been roughly
handled. Another act was finally sub
stituted and order re-established. The
comedians left New Haven that night
The Yale boys generally make up a
tough audience and more than one
player has had trouble there.
Calculations based upon the first five
months of the present season, during
which time Mr.. Richard Mansfield has
played to gross receipts IN excess OF
$40, 600, show that his entire receipts FOL
the single season cannot be less thar
$500,OOO All Of which goes to show tina
America is really beginning to IKE
American actors after all. y
dig Nethersolc revived Camille ii
New YORK last WetN, ana loI a ~
the characters were dressed in costume!
of the period of 1910. The innovation
proved a success, though the fearful anC
pulmonary heroine looked rather odd II
crinoline skirts, it is said.
w. S. Gilbert, the librettist, is said tt
have so little ear for music that he can
not distinguish harmony from discord.
John E. Kellard, the actor, has begu,
suit in New York against the financial
. hacker of The Sorrows of Satan," Simon
D. Dessau, to recover $500 for two weeks
salary alleged to be due him under hi
| contract.
Minnie Dupree is going to play Ami
Russells part in "Dangerfield, '95," tn
successful comedietta that Manage
Proctor has secured for production in hi
z vaudeville theaterS.
/ Tt is amusing to read every now an,
then that Jessie Bartlett avis made tn
song, "Oh, Promise Me-" famous. Wit
: simple justice the case could be reversed
e for it is the prima donna who should b
grateful.
: At a called meeting Of Elita Procto
Otis creditors, in New York the othe
2 day, of a possible siXty-three only tire
put in an appearance, and two of thi
l number were unable to prove thei
claims. Evidently the charming actres
hasn't much cash left.
1 An important announcement of las
week was to the effect that Richar
Mansfield has signed a contract wit
e Charles Frohman to open at the Garde
S Theater, in New York, on October /, in
= new play, the title of which has not bee
;, announced.
t A story is going the rounds at the eX