Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31

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Colonel Baden-POwell, the d defender OF
Mafeking. became famous as an amateur
actor long before he was well known as
a soldier. A few months after the siege
of Kandahar he arranged for q perform
ance Of Patience" in that city. He him
! self appeared as Ruth On another &C.
given. it was discovered at the last mo-
| ment that there were no royal arms. He
| collected a few crude colors fro m the ma
tives in the district and painted the arms
with an old shaving brush. M
Charles Frohman sailed for London,
where after arrival his attention will be
given principally to the production OF
MADAME Butterfly" and the placing in
some prominent theater of his most re-
cent acquisition. Edmond Rostard's
! in London it is not improbable that he
will arrange for the ~presentation of some
of his American productions. He will
also make occasional visits to continent
al cities, with a view of obtaining new
attractions for this country. Mr.. Froh-
man was accompanied by Charles Dill
bingham, manager Of the Critic rion the
alter.
The reform Is on in earnest in the
metropolis. Inspired by the genius OF
Miss Nethersole, who shelved "Sapho"
for 1.-THE Second Mrs. T%anquerary." the
closed the run of 'Papa's Wifi =" on the
ground that it is too suggestive, and SUBJ
stituted Wine and Women The title
had doubtless been Wine, w omen ana
righted. All of which goes to prove that
they are very low out there, !" as MI.
Dixie is made to say in "Oliver Gold
smith" concerning he forehea DIS of the
audience.
One of the few instances OF the law
being enforced against ticket specula-
tors occurred in Atlanta recently, when
William Kean, a newspaper man, was
fined 500 and sentenced for thirty days
for specializing in theater tickets. Mr..
Kean had four men in line for Richard
Mansfield's engagement, n thus Sc
cured forty seats, which was an fnva-
sion of the ordinance permitting only ten
tickets for any one person. The mayor
later RENTED the thirty days. but forced
| payment of the fine.
The latest press agent gag is that
Lillian Russell has received fl rom Paris.
| from some one whose name is not dis
closed, two packages of gems. One On
tanned a diamond collarette co imposed of
70 diamonds, each of one and one-half
carats, n 1880 smaller stone s. In the
other were two jeweled sapphires, tn
other of emeralds and damon ds. The
value of the Is estimated at
$40, 600.
A wandering item is to the purport
that Russian own Of more han 5000
Inhabitants are to have theat tiers main
tanned by the government In order to d.
minish drunkenness, which has increased
greatly among the peasantry during re-
cent years. The price of tickets Is to~be
about 8 cents in American NOR ey for the
best seats in the theater. This plan was
tried several years 6 in One of the
Russian provinces and met with such
success that the saloon keepe rs had to
close up and sued the actors for such
interference with their business.
Henry w. Savage, manager Of the Cas-
tie Square Opera company. was asked
the other day If he knew all the people
in his companies. He answered.: "An
of them, down to the stage hands and
supers. My choruses, you kno w, are my
special pets. I take a lot more interest
in them than do in the principals. Per-
haps that is why you hear SO much
MES. 1t isn't because WI know more
about training them. bu b because we
take more interest in them. Once a
week we have a little meeting behind
the Genes, at which we give the. chorus
people a hearing. The object is to de-
or men has been studying a part, he or
she is given a trial, with a view to an
understudy's part, and the understudies
are given a chance to develop into prin-
CIpdiS. III HIS way we MAKE discoveries
which are both pleasant and profitable >
T. This high testimony Clement Scott
bears to Blanche Bates in the Belasco
Japanese play, NINE. Butterf "" Miss
Blanche Bates is never at fault from
the rising of the curtain to the fall. Her
accent. half English, half Am erican. il
! exactly correct. She might nave lived
in Japan all her life and even If she had
she could not better have imp e~rsonateo
the ideal Geisha. The shutting walk, the
mock servility. he pride. the hate, the
yenge the passion for the child, the
determination to die when night creeps
on, are as true to the poem as to the wo-
man realized before us. This is a crea-
ton that may be commended to all stu
dents of acting. Let them WI tch it In
it's light and shade, in its infinite varie-
ty, in its nature, its absence of trick and
artificiality. and then they will know
what cultured acting is like. What a
relief such art az this. wholesom me. pure,
and natural after the miasmiatics swamp
In which we are sometimes compelled to
grope in order to find a trace of drag