Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-24

ANNA Held has, through her managers,
been talking about a life-sized gold
statue of herself for the Paris exhibition.
There was some hitch and the exposition
decided to go on without 1t.
Twenty-four actors and actresses and
IS managers nave filed petitions in bank
ruptcy since the national act was passed.
However, the number of petitions filed
by all classes of debtors was only 1874.
Mrs. Richard Mansfield, who was Miss
Beatrice Cameron on the stage, was
really Miss Susie Stegeman of Troy. She
has just bought in, under foreclosure OF
mortgage, for $4,000, the home of her
childhood, where her father still lives.
Mr.. Ziegfeld, Anna Held's manager,
says that he is through with the SUCCESS
tive farce. He complains pathetically
that the newspaper denunciatiOns of such
entertainments We're so severe as to
make the profits enormous and the
temptation Irresistible.
David Warfield, whom David Belasco
proposes to take under his supervision
as a stellar probability, was II years g
an usher in the Bush theater, San Fran
cisco. His first New York engagement
was for a Hebrew impersonation; sal
+ So.
victorien Sardou contemplates a his
torical drama based on a sensational
poisoning case in Trance during he reign
of Louis XIV, when Mime. de Montespan
dominated. The dramatic possibilities OF
the Molineaux case are still awaiting
ploitatiOn.
John Oliver Hobbies play, 1.-THE EN-
b~assador," has been produced by Daniel
Frohman at Days theater, New York.
The critics say he is a worthy successor
to Daily, the play was so beautifully
staged and acted. 1t is, however, said to-
be an artificial comedy.
Sarah Bernhardt has instituted at her
theater in Paris a series OF. matinees of
ancient and modern poetry. She recites /
poems, assisted by a number of other &C.
tors. Prices for tickets range as low as
10 cents.
A Berlin dispatch says: "The report
published in the United States, that the
newspapers have announced that Nine.
Nellie Melba, the opera singer, is en-
gagged to marry Dr..Joseph Joachim, the
violin v%irtuoso, is wholly fictitious. DIR.
Joachim is now in Italy. An intimate
friend of his. Councillor Blankenburg, said
to a correspondent here of the Associated
Press today: The news of the betrothal
is absolutely baseless. Not a single Ber-
lin newspaper announced the engage
ment.'"
1t is estimated that there are in the
United States more than 5000 theaters.
Of which perhaps 1000 may fairly be
classed as legitimate.
Mr.. Irving. has determined upon his
next production upon his return to Lon
Ion 1t will be "Bluthochzebt"-'The
Crimson Nuptials"-by Albert Lindner,
the poet, who at one time promised to be
a classic of modern Germany until in
sanity clouded his great mind.
Mr.. Lewis Waller appeared at the Corr
onet theater, Noting hill, London, Feb
ruary 8, in H. A. Kenmedy's version of
Tess of the D~'Urbervilles." Mr.. Ken
nedy has followed Thomas Hardy's novel
very closely. save in n particular. It
will be remembered that Tess writes to
Angel Glare the night before their mar !
riage, telling him of the past, but sees
the letter unopened and knows tina she
is becoming his wife under false pre-
fences. The dramatist, however, makes /,
Marion, the Jealous dairymaid, steal and
burn the letter, and Tess becomes Angels
wife, believing that her husband knows:
her gradual awakening to the fact that
he is deceived forming one of, the dra-
matte interests of the story, which ends
with the death of Tess.
zone of h worst things that have
been said about the theatrical trust in
America" says the London Mail, lis the
defense of it which has appeared in a
pocket journal of the trust. In this, open
boast is made of the number of dramatic
critics who have been dismissed by their !
editors because the writers considered
the syndicate inimical to art, and said
SO. The suggestion is. of course, that
the trust Is such a large advertiser that |
the newspapers in America pander to it.
1t is a very sorry Defense" This seems
to be a case where to get the news one
must go away from home. Who4on this |
side of the ocean has heard Of any such
dismissals?
Jane Coveney, who died lately in Lom-
don. at the age Of 76 years, had been an
actress from her eighth year. In her
youth a singer and excellent musician, |
she appeared in opera and b~urlesQue; |
subsequently, she went in for tragic
LEADS" playing with Macready, G. v.
Brooke. Charles Pitt, Charles Dillon, and
CreSWick. /
AN OUTRAGE.
Some people have very crude notions
OF the way 1T is permissible to act in a
civilized country. What a disgusting !
THING tho cto ri IN q - that $50 - <Vo,t