Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-06-02

ago. gere totally unknown TO fame.
1 started the late Charles CoshlAn on
( = stellar tour. Then they promoted
Viola Allen TO her proper rank among
4 American stars. Securing control Of
+ the tours OF James o-Neill. they gave
( him his most successful spectacle
( The Muskstesrs- They then as
+ sumed the Management Of James A.
Herne. and produced his latest sue
/ cessful play. Sag Harbor." Regard
less Of precedent and prejudice. they
I produced Zangwill's dramatization OF
his own Children of the Ghetto"
which scored success in Washington.
Baltimore and Philadelphia. and has
recently been INDICATED in Chicago
and other American cities. Lastly,
Liebler & Co have just launched an
other successful woman star in the
person OF Sarah Covell LeMoyne.
Olga Nethsrsole, who, with other
members Of her company, was ae-
quilted by New York grand jury for
producing an alleged indecent play on
the stage. is the daughter Of a Lon
don lawyer. and was born in Ken
sington- She made her debut on the
stage when she Was Is and scored
great success in London From Lon
don she came 20 New York several
years ago and appeared in The Trans
gressor-" Her acting in this play was
not accounted success. nor did she
especially signalize herself in her sub
sequent role as Camille in ia Dame
aux Camelias." On her second visit
to the metropolis she found herself in
reality a -uransgressor. having been
indicted for her presentation of
"Sapho."
While the grand jury calls the play
disgusting and several other things,
it viii strike the ordinary reader that
the manner in which the Indictment
was drawn is itself disgusting. No
doubt il follows legal form, but that
doesn't remove the disgust Here in
part is the Indictment:
That the said Olga Nethersole, etc.
did unlawfully commit a public null
sance BY then and there unlawtully
doing an act which then and there Of
Tended public deeeney. and did then
and there unlawfully, viekedly and
scandalously exhibit. show and repeat
and cause and permit to be exhibited
and shown and repeated for lucre and
gain in the sight and hearing and view
Of a large number Of persons In the
said public place aforesaid (Wallaek's
theater), then being, and Of any per-
cons and person willing and DESTROYS
o. seeing and hearing the same, and o.,
paying for their admission. divers in
decent. lewd, filthy. baTGy and OBJ
scene representations. practices, per-
formanees and evil conversation. in
that at the time and place last afore-
said, the said Olga Nethersole. and
the said Hamilton Revelle. ard divers
other persons, whose names are to the
grand jury unknown. did then and
there, in certain exhibition, perform
ance and entertainment. OF the stage
commonly called -Sspho.' in a Iewd, in
decent, obscene, filthy scandalous.
lascivious and disgusting manner.
make divers lewd. indecent, obscen.
hlthy, scandalous, lascivious and dis
gushing motions. and assume lewd, in
Decent, obscene, filthy, scandalous,
laseivious postures and attitudes. and
repeat and utter indecent, obscene.
filthy. scandalous, lascivious and dis
gushing words and Conversation All
OF which said, acts, words and CONVEX
sations then and there GENEROUSLY Of
Tended public decency. and which said
motions, postures. attitudes, words
and conversations we're and are 90
filthy, nasty, corruptingly obscene and
disgusting that more particular de-
scription thereof is not fit To be SET
down in these allegations o. sursad
upon the records of this honorable
court, against the form Of the statute
IN such case made and provided. and
against the peace Of the people Of the
state Of New York and their dig
nifty"
The verdict Of the petty Jury IS an
indictment Of the above on the part n,
the grand jury.
Eugene Field used to pose as lacking
in familiarity with dramatic and mu-
steal matters, to the amusement OF bis
readers and equally to the disgustsd
amazement Of foreigners who we're not
in the joke. One Of MS memorable Of
forts was phillipic against wasting
time on Boston symphony concert
With gleeful seriousness he lsmented
the time devoted 70 three hourg and
only four pieces Of music. when an
equal amount Of time and energy an.
piled to the art Of hog-sticking AZ the
south side abattoirs would accomplish
a remarkable total in prepared pork,
Henry V. Esmond. the author Of Ma,
foodwin's when We Were Twentv-
one, came to write the piece under
rather odd circumstances. II was dur
ing the London run Of IAN American
Citizen" which was taker by acclama-
ton to the London boso,n NJ r.