The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30
BUTTE NEWS.
GOSSIP OF THE THEATERS
John Mcguire Is Going Into
Vaudeville.
IN AN IRISH SPECIALITY
He Has Had Flattering Offers Irene
Pixley Returns to Butte - The
Stories OF That Fortune A
Little Poker Game
IN AN IRISH SPECIALITY

John Mcguire is going into vaude-
vile!
The announcement is made by the
New York Dramatic Mirror which
says: Another star secured by the
Lykens- McGarvie company is John Ma
suire, the eX-manager of Magure's
opera house in Butte, Mont. He will
appear in vaudeville in the near future
in an original Irish speciality
Mr. Mcguire is at present in Mssoula
and could therefore not be seen yester-
day relative to the above. but it is
known that he has had a number of
very lattering offers and inducements
to go into vaudeville, all of which he
has declined. Recently negotiations
We're opened with him again and a
proposition was made that tempted
him and he took it under consideration.
and according to the Mirror he has ac-
Cepted it.
one of the provisions of the offer was
that he should be a top-liner, and re-
ceive $500 per week.
1t is likely that Mr.. Mcguire will do
his famous monologue sketches with
which he made himself noted during
the early days of his career as an actor.
and which have been done by no one
else in this country. OF course. the
veteran actor will make good" as
they say. that is, he will make a hit.
That is certain. 1t is probab BILE that he
will make his first appearance in New
York and then make tour of the Keith
circuit
Vaudeville is popular entertainment.
1t pays well, and some Of the best men
and women in the dramatic profession
have entered it. Mr.. Mcguire will be
in talented and noted company.
Irene Pixley. the young, talented and
attractive actress who left Butte a
few months ago for New York to ac-
cept and collect a half million or more
dollars to which she had fallen heir by
the death of an uncle, a wealthy over
all manufacturer. has returned to
Butte and is engaged in adding to her
glory as an actress in a vaudeville
house. The young lady only got as far
as spokane on her way to New York
when she received information from
her New York attorneys which caused
her to return to Butte. What that in
formation was is not divulged by her,
but from the fact that Irene still wears
smile as broad and sweet as of old
it may be concluded that it was not
unpleasant news, Friends of Miss Pix
left her by the New York overall maker
is so much larger and the settlement
OF the estate will require much more
time than was anticipated by her, and
in the meantime she will be compelled
to continue working for a salary There
is another story to the effect that Irene
never had an uncle in New York, that
he never made overalls, that he didn't
leave a fortune to Irene, and that she
started in the wrong direction wher
she left for New York. but then that is
rank calumny and doubtless has been
told by malicious and envious persons.
George Primrose had a little poker
game in Washington last winter that
he wont forget for some time
The Triple Star Combination' was
playing there at the same time Prim-
rose was and Lillian Russell, Della Fox,
jefferson D'Angelis and the minstrel
man were all stopping at the same hotel
The game began one night after the
usual midnight lunch of actors and took
place in Miss Russell's apartments. For
the first hour or so the luck ran to
George Primrose who, besides piling up
most of the checks in front of him, en-
joyed numerous glasses of wine which
bell boys kept bringing up from time
to time.
Presently the luck changed. and the
had lost and more, too. This somewhat
unexpected turn Of fortunes wheel gave
Mr.. Primrose a shock. but he still fig
ured that if he could not hold his own
At the cards he would at least be ahead
of the game several cold bottles.
About , O'Clock D'Angelis, who had
been persistent loser, began to show
signs of wanting to quit, in which he
was abetted by Primrose, but not until
they had both lost several more jack
pots to the ladies We're the latter will
ing to stop the game
After the party broke up Primrose
mentally calculated that although he
was out $40 in cash, he was the winner.
because he had drunk the best part of
three quarts of champagne.
For all the rest of the week Primrose
took pleasure in telling how he had got
ten the best of the triple Star aggre-
CATION He was doomed, however, to a
rude awakening from his dream. On
the Sunday morning following. after a
late and substantial breakfast Mr..
Primrose called for his hotel bill. and
on looking it over was paralyzed to
note an itcm-'10 quarts Pommery Sec,
$3750.''
He had thought the wine would be
charged to the room where the game
had been played, but as the wedding
Day" company had left for New York
the night before, and as Primrose is far
too gallant an admirer of the fair sex
to say anything about the matter any
how, he settled the bill with easy grace.
but somewhat ruefully declared that
he never again wanted to play poker
with ladies.
Bobby GaylOr successful eluded NJ. B.
Leavitt and the sheriff with the $500 at
tachment papers in Montana. but LeaV-
lit caught up with him in Boise and
the Statesman tells about it as follows:
'McSorley's Twins got into more
serious trouble than they could possibly
manufacture on the stage. The first act
had scarcely been tapped off before the
curtain was rung down and a dappeT
little chap stepped out in front and told
the audience that the show was all over
and that the admission money would
be refunded on presentation of the c0u-
pons a the box office.
The house held a fair-sizcd audience,
and there was a once rush for the box