The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25

sounding report followed, and the cork
| shot high in the air. The bottle as far
| as appearances went was glass. but it
| was really copper. Before the per-
| Torrance two paper packages We're
| dropped into the bottle, one containing
tartaric acid and the other bicarbon-
| ate of soda. Water was then poured
on, though without immediate result,
| as the paper was thick enough to with
stand the effects for a tie. The cork
was placed in and tied to the neck of
| the bottle by a string. Just before the
| scene the bottle was violently shaken,
breaking the paper and causing form
| alton of gas not unlike that resulting
| from the mixture of seidlitz powders
Sothern swung his sword and cut the
| string The power generated within
| did the rest.
In the first act of "Trelawny of the
Wells beer is supposed to be the bev-
erage of the farewell banquet When
the piece began it's New York run, beer
was used, but the players soon COM
planned that it became fiat too soon
and ginger ale was substituted. When
play calls for beer an attempt at sub
stitution is not often made.
George F. Lamson whose wife, Car
RE F. Lamson. secured divorce from
him in Oakland Cal, in June, 1895, and
was awarded $50 a month alimony, has
asked the court to be relieved of that
re sponsibility. Lamson is the father
of Nance O'Neil, the actress, who in
private life is Miss Gertie Lamson. In
the affidavit filed by Lamson is the fol-
lowing passage:
Il have not been able to pay the all
money from the income of my business,
but. previous to the 1s't of January 1889,
I received sufficient money from my
daughter Gertrude to enable me to pay
it. | should not have been able to pay
it except for the assistance | received
from my said daughter Gertrude
He then gives statement of the
moneys earned by him for several
months to prove his contentious, the
highest amount for any month being
that of November, 1898, when he earned
$780, In February of this year he
earned only S32 He then states that
his daughter has been paying her
mother SIS week, which, he declares,
is ample for her support Continuing,
he says: My daughter Informed me
on March l. 1899. that she could not give
me any financial assistance, as she
should continue ito pay her mother $15
a week as long as she my daughter)
should continue her theatrical occupa-
ton upon the stage, which is her pro-
fession. My health during a great por-
ton of the last year has been infirm,
and l can not do the work which /
could do before my recent illness. I am
now past 20 years of age, and the pros
poets are that on account of my age
and increasing intirmities, my earnings
will grow less, while the necessary re-
uuirements for my comfortable support
will be correspondingly increased"
Lamson was always a strict church
man, and it is said that his daughters
choice of profession has been a severe
blow to him. He formerly conducted
an auctioneering business.
1t is a long chance that is being
taken by the managers interested in
the production of Ben Hur," which is
scheduled for Nov. 81 at the Broadway
'theater, writes Leander Richardson. As
nearly as l can get at the facts-and |
am convinced that the present state
ment will bear close Investigation
there will be an expenditure of very
nearly 100000 in money before the chr
tain rises upon the first act of General
Wallace's dramatized novel
When it is recalled that the enormous
spectacle, The Man in the Moon" ar
the New York theater, cost $65 900, and