Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28

great hit in playwriting, which will in
crease his fame as well as his fortune
is only 80 years Of age He was BORN me-
Marseilles. 1t is said that ~likenesses OF
both Cyrano de Bergerac the KING
of Rome hung upon the wall of the bed-
room he occupied when a child. But
this is the time for saying things ABOUT
Rostand. ~
Beerbohm Tree will produce the B9uci-
cault-Jefferson version of RIP van VIM
kle' at his ondon theater within six
weeks or so, following it with the new
Benvenuto Cellini drama which relates
only to Cellini's adventures during ms
residence in France, where he won Tor
himself the friendship of Francis I and
the enmity of Nine. d'Etampes.
The aged mother of the Coghlans has
been kept in ignorance OF the deaths OF
her son Charles and her daughter emily,
the latter the favorite of her children.
Mrs. COghlan is more than 80 years OLD,
and has heart trouble, so all news of an
exciting nature is kept from her. Her
daughter Rose reads to her pretended
letters from her absent children.
A rash paragrapher is responsible for
the assertion that there is more envy, |
hatred. malice, and uncharitablenes in
the cast of one grand opera than in the
average fashionable church congrega-
ton !
A western newspaper say Henry IT.
wing will make $780, 900 on his American
season. The Dramatic News says: Mr..
Irving's profits will be about $4,000.
John w. Blaisdell, one of the two sur
viving members of the original BLACK
Crook company, is an electrician in the
office of the city electrician. lie mas
| been in the support of John MCCULLOUGH,
Cushman. Lucille Western, Charlotte
Champion, Mrs. Jean Davenport, Julia
| Bennett Barrow, Mrs. J.. w. Wallack.
| Mrs. E. L. Davenport, Eliza Logan, and
| Mrs. j. H Farren He left the stage at
| the wish of his mother.
The rumor will not down hat Blanche
| Walsh and Melbourne MacDowell VIII
/ part after the expiration of their present
season. Ben Stern will manage Miss
Walsh next season, but no definite an
nouncement has been made regarding
the plays she will use.
Emmett Corrigan, the actor, who was
"rudely shocked" by a man breaking in
to his room with a cOterie of officers re-
Gently and demanding to see who occu-
pied the room with him, only to find that
the officers had mistaken the actors wife
for his runaway spouse, has sued the
man for $25, 900. He is a tea merchant or
makes cheese or something in Upper
New York. r-
A movement is on foot to secure a par
don for James B. Gentry, the actor who
has been in a Philadelphia prison for five
years or having killed Madge York.
Gentry's professional friends lave sue
ceeded in securing his release from soli-
70 vyy confinement and he iS now work
ing in the green house of the penitenti-
airy. The reports are that his health is
shattered from confinement, and that it
would be a mercy to let him out on pa
role or commute his sentence.
The long,, solemn gentleman with the
piercing eyes tapped gently on the
shoulder of the encore fiend in front of
him.
"Allow me to present you," said he,
handing the applauder a small ape
package.
What does this mean?" asked the re-
cipient, wr%athfully, as he opened the
package and found about 81 in dimes and
nickels.
1T means this" replied the solemn
gentleman. Il have noticed your earnest
; efforts to have everything twice. There
fore, 1 nave taken up this small collection
in order that you may come tomorrow in
: stead of trying to get your two perform
: ances in one evening."-Indianapolis
: Press.
For the last Is years Alexandra Bison
: the author of Because She Loved Hin
&c. has been turning out farces, most o
t which have been successful, not only or
the Paris stage, but all over the world. A
least half a dozen of them have been seer
in this Countrywide Masked Ball,"'.O1
{ and Off" and Because She Loved Hin
So" having made the most pronounced
= impression. A French account of Bis.
sons career credits him with having
3 written more than a hundred plays il
the last 20 years His income today il
nearly, if not fully, as large as that o
SardOu, for he draws more royalties from
England, America and Germany thar
y he does from France; last year thes'
k royalties were said to exceed $50, OOO
e Bison was born near Paris in 1848. an,
: went to that city in 1869 to become an EN-
e ploye in the ministry of public instruc
ton. 1t was not long, however, befor
d he gave up his clerkship for playwritine
and after the production of Les Sur
prises du Divorce" his fame Travelled a
over the theater-going world. He is a
v enthusiastic musician, and has writte]
several books upon music.
The will of Dan Rice, the famous clowr
If was probated in Long Branch, N. j.. o
n March 30. 1t was made in June, 1879!
r and directs hat his entire estate b
given to John H. Brown and his siste
Elizabeth, with whom he lived, charge
- with an annuity of 81. 900 a year to hi
~ daughter. Rice's property is said to In
:, clude 10000 acres of land in Louisian
and Texas. He also left the manuscril
of a book of "reminiscences. which is no,
=, in the hands of a publisher.
" IT first met Edwin Booth" said Henr
Irving. 'in Manchester in 1860. when
was a youthful member of the stoc
err company there. Edwin Booth came q