The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-02

| turn he had done them unconsciously,
| they offered him a salary and per-
centage to manage them for an Aus
| tralian tour. but he declined the Of
| fer. They made a tour of Australia
and India and made a tremendous
success, returning to America with
cash balance of $127, 900. They soon
went back to Australia with the rights
to all of the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas and kept on coming money.
Her friends. of course, claim that all
the good fortune was due to Maggie
Moore's great playing. She certainly
made a hit with the Australians. Her
husband purchased various interests
in theaters and in a short time bought
the interests of his partner Musgrove,
aslo, and thereafter had a regular the
atrical trust of 1t in Australia. Finan-
cial success, however seemed to bring
domestic ruin and Williamson was ac-
cused of living a double life His wife
recognized him only in business way
and played at his theaters only as
any other actress would and on star
| terms. Last season she went out again
with Struck Oil" and her success
| showed that the sympathies of the
australians are still with her. 1t is
| likely that she win again visit the
states during the coming season.
Doublet and hose forsooth! More
than one dame of parts has put thcn
on before La Bernhard came to show
her genius andattenuation in the sables
OF the melancholy Dane, writes Will
lam Hudson Harper
The grizzled old-timer, who knows so
many things-some he should and sume
| he shouldn't-may set about telling you
or the women whom he has known tc
swap pettlcoat for breeches, 10 nut il
Los
and falter when he has named a hall
dozen, for even the memory of the FROM
row knows declining, and time has
been, oh, very long, since first Queen
Omphale put on the lion skin of Her
cules.
Really, a lot of ambitious actresses
nave played man parts in the history
of the English-speaking stage A few
all of us know, because such knowl
edge is within the average persons at.
tainment, but the many-good souls,
doubtless-have strutted their little
| hour and the lights are out. Let's cal
them to the front and give them the
| hearty palma benefit performance fol
one night only. But first the peers,
the stage all theirs. Be ii known, early
and deep, Notwithstanding your con
Vlctton at some time in your youth tina
all the heavenly bodies spanked in "a
dainty bit of girl in tights, winks and
women who have aspired to male parts
on the mimic stage has been Shakes
peare, and no man less.
Ahead of all, facile princepts, stands
cur own great Charlotte Cushman, o:
n BILE memory. She was born in Dos
ton and there in sweet Mount Auourr
she lies Masterful where her Sex nasi
her, in Lady Macbeth, Meg Merriies
NtEcV Skies and Queen Ka6il arina, shI
was eminent in her chosen male roles.
Miss Cushman was the greatest female
Romeo the stage has Known We
might even rank her with those who,
to tho manner born, gave it llustrious
Interpretation. 1t was in London, hei
sister Susan playing Juliet, that hel
performance of Romeo made her for
ever famous. From that time one o.
Miss Cushman's stage triumphs was
the Youth of Verona" OF valiant
stuff was Miss Cushman. Once playing
in Boston with Miss Anderton some
impertinent fellow in the audience
sneezed The play was Romeo and
Juliet and the sneeze was suggestive
Miss Cushman stopped the dialogue, led
Juliet from the stage, came forward
and said: Some man must put that
person out, or I shall be obliged to do
it myself" Out he went, and the audi
ence on its feet gave Cushman three
cheers.
A good second to her Romeo was
MISS NuSHHldH Hamlet. she nerSelt
thought it superior, and she loved to
play 1T. She alluded TO it as the high
est effort she made and the most ex-
hausting. 1t is said of her that this
role most fully filled the entire range
of her powers. She had least liking,
among her masculine parts for the
part of Cardinal Wolsey though to her
audience it was magnificent acting and
an incentive for great enthusiasm.
Some of her admirers feel that no ac-
tor who trod the boards her eontem-
porary, could at the supreme moments
vie with CushInans Wolsey. People
gazed, marveled and murmurei,
Cooke, Keene, Macready'' EF
OF course Miss Cushman's male i'm
presentations called for her imitators
and SUI cessors. For them of that day
and the Cushman school the Shakes
pearean herd became a craze. These
are some stage folk of generation
John Drew, Fanny Wallack cousin of
Lester Wallack) Mrs. Melinda Jones,
Susan Denim, Charlotte Champion,
Clara Ellis, Eliza Shaw, Miss Marriott,
Kate Reynolds, Fanny Moran, Annie
Clarke. Louise POmeroy, Alice Placide
Mann, Emma Waller, Charlotte Barnes,
Kate Denim, Mrs. F. B, Conway and
Clara Fisher Maeder.
A woman of wide worth and Ameri-s
can fame who passed not many years
ago was Anna Dickinson. Serving her
country in abolition days, and later
the republican party in campaign duty,
she finally fell upon evil days and went
further afield to prove the talent and
unlVersality of her sex. She took to
play-writlng and play-acting. In 1881,