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

recall that I attracted his attention in |
any marked degree. I thought him a
great tragedian, and I never changed
my mind. 1t was four years before that, |
however, that I met the first American
player. 1t was Charlotte Cushman. and
she was appearing as Meg Merrilies in
Guy Mannering'- in a tour of the prov
inces. My part required that I should
sing as well as act"
An amateur performance of Hamlet"
took place in the private theater of the
Hermitage, st. Petersburg last week,
when the Grand Duke Constantine, cousin
to the car, played the title part, using
his own Russian translation. His inn
perial highness appeared tall compared
with his fe~llow-actors, who were all well
known in ST. Petersburg society, and his
step on the stage was rather uncertain.
The costumes We're magnificent, ana the
scenery is said to have cost the emperor
over 500, 900. Captain Teploff of the
Izmavlovsky regiment of the guard was
First Gravedigger, and the queen was
played by of the empress pages. AT
l O'Clock in the morning supper was
served in the picture gallery, which was
brilliantly decorated with flowers, all
those who took part in the play appear
ing in their stage costumes. During the
repast the emperor walked round the
| gallery, addressing a few words to each
of his guests, and co~mplilnenting the
1 aristocratic amateurs upon the way in
which they had performed their parts
Clipper.
Hillory Bell asserts that even the origi-
nal SapphO, famous though she was,
hardly anticipated that she would raise
all this fuss in a country unknown at
the time of her career. SapphO flourish
ed six centuries before the Christian era.
antedating the period of Ben Hur" and
the Quo Vadises,' as we'll as the birth
, Of Joseph jefferson and Barnabee. She
was a lady of impassioned temperament,
like Olga Nethersole, and she had as
much trouble as Fanny lie Grand with
Jean Gaussin. Her spiral staircase was
a steep cliff on the promOntOry OF Leu
cadia, which she climbed alone; ter
! PhaOn refused to reciprOcate her love,
and, despairing at his neglect, she leaped
into the sea after the fashion Of Senta in
1.-The lying Dutchman" and Fro IN Sig
Mancinellis opera. The Greek poetess
was a more considerable woman in her
time thar even our Ella Wheeler Wilcox
or Laura Jean Libbey, but her renoWn
has reached the common people only az
| this late lay when she is attacked Nv
jaundiced journalism, sat upon by judge
and jury and performed in three Broad
way theaters. Two thousand six hun-
dred years ago the poetess, who, lack
ing Phaon's arm, climbed unaided up her
pedestal of woe, had no idea that at inc
end of the nineteenth century she would
be lone in German at the Irving Place,
in Japanese at the Bijou, in French at
the knickerbocker, in English at Wal
lacks, in burlesque at Weber and Fields
and in virtue at the Comique. Nor are
these all her modern appearances, for Q
sort of ~"Sappho' rash has broken oul
over the face Of America. Byron dit
much for Sappho, Daudet did more
Nethersola did most. Olga is now about
the same age as the Greek pOe-ess was
, when she went to her death, but Dig
| makes more money and win wider j
less permanent fame.