Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24

he was In. Chicago. In fact, L alI4Ost
hate to go as far back into the past as
it will be necessary for me to do to tell
of the time 1 first met Edwin Booth, II
was in Manchester, in 1860, when l was
a youthful member of the stock company
there. Edwin Booth came as a star,
playing a S~hakespearian repertory; l
played Polonius to his Hamlet, If l. am
not mistaken, and had parts more or
less minor in 'Richelieu' and 'Othello.' l
don't recall that I attracted his atten.
ton in any marked degree. L thougn
him a great tragedian, and l never
changed my mind. It was four years be-
fore that, however, that I met the first
American player. 1t was Charlotte
Cushman, and she was appearing as Meg
Merrilles, in Guy Mannering.' In a
tour of the provinces. My part required
thai I should sing as well as act. was
not pleased with it, but after the en-
gagement ended Miss Cushman was
kind enough to take me aside, coMpl1-
ment me for some of the things l a
done, and point out where I might i'm
prove. Keep on she said. and you will
be heard from some day. I wanted no
higher praise"
M. Rostand's new play, "L'Aiglon," is
being rehearsed at Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt's theater with much secresy, SO as
to preclude any attempt being made to
1 spoil the effects of the first PERFORM
ance. The author of "Syrano' is sedu-
ously directing the preparation of his
latest production, which will be in keep.
ing with the melancholy career of the
Duke Of Reichstadt, says a London news
paper. 1t will, in fact, be a play which
| will call for the energetic employment OF
pocket-handkerchiefs on the part of the
more tender-hearted portion or the audi
ence, and there may even be some scenes
likely to .moisten the eyes of strong men.
A good e. is expected from a dream of
l %l,o <1~o ~ tho q west NYo~o1aon x,ho fhfn1c
that he hears the soldiers who are dy-
ing on the battlefield uttering impreca-
lions against his father, whereas the
stricken warriors are feebly murmuring:
give rempereur!" The dresses for the
| play have arrived from Vienna, and were
used by Nine. Sarah Bernhardt and her
company at the latest rehearsal. Ham
let'' is now withdrawn from the Theater
Sarah Bernhard, after a most success
full run.
Mr.. Joseph Bennett says in The Lon
| don Telegraph: "Although Nine. Melba.
when interviewed on the subject of a
truly ridiculous rumor, denied the report
of her engagement to DR.. Joachim, and
although the denial was published in this
journal and others. the canard managed
to live on. Some people, indeed, were
ready to give chapter and verse In proof
of the stupid story. 1t was well, there
/ lore, IOT Inc ulStluS uIS1lCQ - OCdlAo ~
speak again, as she has just done In a
letter to Mr.. Hermann Klein. That epis-
| tie contains a simple statement beyond
| which we need not go. When the Cornish
| Mayor, receiving Queen Elizabeth, stood
prepared to assign nineteen reasons fOl
not ringing the church bells. and men
toned as the first of them, thai there
were no bells to ring, her majesty OBJ
served that he need not rouble himself
| about the rest. On all tours with this is
MINIS. Melba's quiet but conclusive re
mark. IT am already a married woman
Nothing more is needed"
A recent editorial in the Dramatic
| Mirror on THE Vulgar Laugh" refers to
the "undiscriminating theatergoer, who
carries his laugh with his opera glass to
every performance, tragic, poetic OF
comic, that he elects to witness. If he
may not laugh with the actor he is pre-
pared to laugh at the actor. He Is ever
on the alert for a chance to belch forth a
british guffaw over the slightest mis-
take on the part of the player. He e
permits himself to become sufficiently
engrossed in the human interest of a
scene to overlook the most trivial pre-
text for laughter. A mouse running
| across the stage during the death scene
in King Lear, no matter however splen-
| didly the scene might be acted, would
turn an average audience instantly from
the contemplation of the noble emotions
expressed in the play to a state babyish
| enjoyment" The Mirror does not ex-
aggerate in the least the attitude of the
thoughtless laugher toward the play
ers and toward thai part of the audience
who are sincerely interested in the play,
and a curious commentary on it's re-
marks was furnished a day or two after
it's editorial appeared. The Japanese
players, who were certainly received
here with respectful consideration,
opened in New York, and according to
the press were received with shouts OF
laughter, ever the modest explanatory
speech of the interpreter before the cur
tain being punctuated with outbursts OF
merriment. 1t is interesting to see an
audience with an appreciation of humor,
but it is hard to comprehend why the in
terpreter should have been made the
subject of 1.-THE vulgar laugh" even
| though the ~unusualness of the Japanese
play may have been provocative of
mirth.
MUSIC IN GERMANY.
The following appalling statistics re-