The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16


the Tombs an opportunity to go on the
stage. 1t was understood that she ar
ranged for debut at Sam Jacks, but
the closing of that foul theater and the
subsequent death of it's manager pre-
vented her appearance. The money
value of such women exhibits in plays
for the multitude has not been appreci-
able, though pugilists, burglars and
Bowery celebrities have been used pro-
fitably. However. the New York Tele-
graph says that Fayne Moore has now
been engaged to exhibit herself in THE
King of the Opium Ring" 1t is said
that of late she has led life of Tender
| loin hilarity
| Mrs T. Benton Letter conveys the as
surance that she will not withdraw
| from her vaudeville engagements at
| present She said to the New York
Telegraph:
| II shall appear with Mr.. Huntington
| for a week at Atlantic City, and an
| other week at Narragansett Pier this
| season, and l am booked for 20 weeks,
beginning in the autumn. 1 was doubt
| less crude in my work during the Proc
tor gagements, but l hope to improve.
II am not stage struck, but took to
the theater as a matter of compulslon
l am obliged to take care of myself and
my husband, and as soon as l make the
| 81, 500 necessary for the performance of
an operation upon him similar to the
one undertaken some time ago for the
purpose of restoring Lawyer Frank Col
liers mental equilibrium, the effort to
| bring Mr.. Letter around will be made.
1t is reported that young Leon Herr
mann, who was scheduled a couple of
years ago Ito take the place left vacant
by his illustrious uncle Alexander, will
travel all by himself next season under
the management of Edward Thurnaer
and w. E. German
| Mrs Adelaide Hermann, the widow
J of the great necromancer, had an idea
| that the public might take kindly to
| the youthful aSpirant for favor, and the
venture of putting him forward was
| her own. 1t has been said that the
young man was anything but tractaole,
! and that in spite of his lack of expert
ence he was about as hard to manage
as a full-fedged prima donna with an
| Unborn and carefully nurtured tendency
| to kick. -, .. -. s.........
Mrs. Hermann herself is playing at
a New York roof garden.
The worship which Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt has lavished upon her is extreme
| ly enthusiastic When she is in Paris
| two middle-aged women wait every
morning before her house in the Boule-
| ward Pereire to see her go out. When
| their divinity appears she gives them
| descension worthy an empress, they
| appearing slavishly grateful for the
| chance to abase themselves. 1t is said,
| moreover, that the foolish idolatresses,
who have won for themselves the cpl
| tibet "Saralatresses, are either English
| or American by birth
| The elder Salvini has been invited to
| give three performances in Paris dur
ing the 1900 exhibition. The French call
| Salvini the Italian Talma, the highest
praise they could give, for Talma has
been an ideal with the French stage
from his day in the early century to
the present time. Should Salvini ac-
cept the invitation he will play, it is
expected. "Othello,' 'Sauf' and
.''Orestes" He may be accompanied by
his son Gustavo, to play Iago, David
and Pylades in the respective pieces.
A London cablegram says: Nance
O'Neill, as the Jewess, received
great ovation after she had finished
her part in the curse scene.
without exception the London crit
les speak in the highest terms of Miss
O'Neill, and all agree she is a genius,
but only one quantity lacking-devel-
opment.
The play is destined for a long run,
and Miss O'Neill for a London sue
cess which will live.
For the medium of her reintroduc-
ton to the stage Mrs. Lily Langtry
has chosen Robert Buchanan's version
of Dumas The Queens Necklace"
Mrs. Langtry will produce the play as
soon as possible in London and will
then bring it to America. She will APP
pear in the leading female role of
Marie Antoinette.
The rumor is again revived that
Blanche Walsh and Melbourne Mac
Dowell, husband of the late Fanny
Davenport, are to be married Miss
Walsh recently purchased the Daven-
port jewels for a sum said to exceed
$4,000, and this doubtless gave rise
to the repeated rumor that she and
Mr.. Mcdowell will wed.
Delcher & Hennessy's Browns in
Town is said to be better than either
What Happened to JONES' The Man
From Mexico or why Smith Left
Home" The author. Mark Swan, is
only 26 years old. 1t will be one of the
early attractions west this season.
The daughter of Bettina Girard, the
actress, who is still confined in the
alcoholic ward of Bellevue hospital,
New York, last week came into a for
tune of s250000. The money was left
by the father of the actress first hus-
band, who cut her off in his will en-
tirely.
Black Patti, the colored singer. was
recently granted a divorce from her
husband in the Providence, r. l., court.
Manager Mcfarland will be back
from New York next Tuesday.
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