The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22
GOSSIP OF THE THEATERS
Critics Devote Space to the
Blanche Bates Episode.
.HOYT'S "A MIDNIGHT BELL"
The Next Attraction to Be Put On at the
Grand-"A Bitter Atonement'
at the Union Family
Theater.


Inc way lhe view 10TH papers ilaNe
been devoting space to Miss Blanche
Bates since her sudden retirement from
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or that young woman, whose greatest
compliment had previously been that
she was NOT sufficiently noticed in New
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writes for the Telegraph in this way:
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weeks notlce 10 MI. Daiy anu was lieu
from THE Great Ruby on the spot,
probably now has a clearer and broader
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mp eiieii'Aoii VI 'he pio.ip. anu We
managers who care anything about
maintaining discipline.
From the tenor of her newspaper in
terviews concerning the melancholy oc-
currence, Miss Bates, like some other
Western prodiges who tackle the effete
and enervated East. evidently labored
under the delusive impression that she
constituted the entire push
She chafed under the bonds of Mr..
Daly's stern but wholesome discipline,
but her chief grievance seems to be that
| the august Augustine did not wait upon
her after the first performance and tell
her how great she was.
done was to send in to Miss Bates and
ask if shs would see him, and then
humbly lombard her with few choice
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|
The Woman of the World" in the
| same papers, has this about the West
ern favorite: .
The doors of Days had scarcely clos
| ed on Miss Blanche Bates before the
| tongues. on both sides of the Lane began
| Wagging anew about that young wom-
ans matrimonial future. 1t was de-
clared with circumstantial details as
| to become the. bride of Frank Worth
ing, of Annie. Russelrs "Catherine"
| company. and the elderly ingenuess and
| time honored soubrettes of the Know
1t All club asserted with equal positive
| ness that. Tim- Fra Wley was the happy
| man.
Didn't she sail.,for Europe on the
same steamer with Mr. Fra wIev D.,
| triumphantly asked the Know IT Ais
| Yes but didn't she desert the West
'ern manager at the pier and visit Mr..
| WORKINGS family IN Scotlandq" was
| the inyariable answer which indicate s
that long before Miss Bates came to
.Daly's her profession was kindly keen
inng tabs on that handsome actress,
4 movements
Meantime Miss Rates preserves a
| disnitied Int smiling reticence hut T
noticed the other night that she wore
| one of the newast ana smartest IF eold
bangles set with Jade turquoise and
| AMETHYST.
Of course. Won know these stones stand
| for the initial letters of ie .t,aime and
are supposed to he as significant as a
| solitaire on the eneaeement finger
| saw a very popular Young millionaire
| buyine that same bangle or IFS very
| double a few weeks AGO but 7 won't
| lacerate the heartso of Messrs Worth
| ing. wley ct al nv mentioning it.
Leander Richardson the eminent
| theatrical writer and critic, touches up
| on the subject as follows:
Incidents are coming to light which
| tend to strengthen the impression that
| Miss Blanche Bates intended to leave
Mr.. Daily some time before the produc