The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-12

Sir Henry Irving will visit America
in the spring and will play a season
from New York to San Francisco. Go
ing to or returning from the coast, he
will play the Northwest and will pass
through Montana. If he stops in this
state at all it will doubtless be for a
large guarantee only. The people of
Butte can bring him to this city if they
will. Their one and only opportunity
to see the greatest English actor should
not be missed. Butte is the one city il
Montana that can hold out inducements
TO Irving, and it is the intention of
Manager Mcfarland of the Grand OPP
era house to do the best he can to
bring him to this city. If the theater-
going people of Butte want to see the
great actor, they may be able to do so
by talking up an interest in the
proposition to offer proper inducement
to his manager. Such an inducement
will probably mean guarantee or
subscription list.
Something new in theatrical enter
tainment has been secured by Manager
Mcfarland for the Grand opera house
next Sunday night in the Akimoto
company Of japanese performers. 1t is
the only organization of japanese in
America that is playing big cities eX-
clusively and appearing only at the
best houses. There are - members in the
company and they have recently arrived
direct from Yeddo, Japan. to make a
tour of America. Their performance
consists of marvellous acrobatic feats
and juggling for which the japanese
are noted the world over. In other cit
les where they have appeared they have
made the greatest kind of hit. The
company includes men, women and boys
all wonders. In addition to theJap-
aneSe, there are number of clever
speciality people with the organizat ton
Among them are the three Ryan broth
ers, known throughout the country as
great comedians and entertainers;
Mackin and PearCe, acrObatic song and
dance artists; the Schrode brothers in
their sensational trick cottage" act:
Rose Randall, the Well known charac ter
vocalist, with her famous illustrated
songs; Julia Byron. the contortion
dancer and a number of others equally
clever.
struck him a few years ago, is still
after him. His latest venture broke
him again and his company went to
pieces at Phoenix, Ariz., after long
and hard struggle against adverse for
tune. The story from Phoenix is that
one Silly night, under the brilliant Ar
iona stars, Henderson pulled his
freight just as many another poverty
panied mistake has done from Phoe-
nix. frankie Raymond, who is also
Mrs. Henderson, rescued her husband
with her jewels, and fled with him.
The company awoke to a loneliness
untold.
Edward Bell. another dramatic un.
fortunate, was the leading man. He
scraped up a few dollars and Travelled
back to Los Angeles. Friends new anC
old gathered together a small purse
and sent seven members of the banC
after Bell. AT Los Angeles the loca
theatrical folk gave a benefit and TIL
disconsolates flushed and flew various
ly, according to the route and distance
to home cover All but three of then
are now supposed to be in safe covert
These three never got out of Phoenix
When they went to the local railroad
manager and bespoke his offices in tn
matter of their removal without remu
neration, he was touched. H
thought long over the stricken one
and then presented an ultimatum, tn
only action possible to him. He would
send them away as corpse attendants
1t is rule of the road that no CORPS
shall travel in the baggage cars With
out personal attendant on the sam,
train. corpse ticket provides for tn,
attendant. So AT the first shipment O
a passenger on his last earthly iournn,
one of the Henderson company vii
chaperone the remains as far as i
goes.
There are three actors at phoeni,
who are reading the newspapers witt
rare interest. They are living in hop
of an early succession of dead ones
1t is grief to them to know that Phoe
nix is distressinsly healthy and tha
death from natural causes is infre
quent. Most of the people who die i
Phoenix have come there for that pun
pose and are buried where they fall. :
to speak. There may long be cause f.
grief among those three loneles
Edward Bell was the leading ma
with Henderson after his retiremer