Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-12
Hotel Gossip

At the Butte. carpenters We're at work
today in making alterations IN the lob
by. The clerks desk has been moved
from it's position on the right. as one
enters the hotel. back TO the end of the
lobby and facing the entrance. The cigar
and news stand will be moved from its
position at the immediate left of the en-
trance to the place where formerly stood
the clerks desk. Othr alterations are
contemplated.
Frank Is. Skaters. representing the
E.ugenie Blair company. which appears
at the Gran dior an engagement Begin
ring Friday was at the McDermott last
hight.
Talking about the star he said that
Miss Blair at times becomes too realistic
in a Lady of Quality" and her leading
man. Carew is fully aware of it. Carew
has felt the sting of a whips butt, and
now wears protecting pads on his Shout
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When Miss Blair made heI appearance
| il the third act of the play of "A Lady
of Quality at the Grand opera house
in New York at the opening of the seas
OH, the high heel Of her white slipper
caught on one of the entrance steps and
she narrowly escaped making a more
sensational appearance in the rose gar
Gen than is usual in her natural, we'll
balanced playing of the part She Stun
hled and nearly fell Yet she cleverly
turned the misstep to good account with
| the audience by covering 1t with low
| courtesy to Sir John Oxon, who was
| facing her. At the CLOGS OF the act lift
from the heel of her slipper found on the
,y,5i faI ha of no
| ~
| In scenes where rage is simulated, as
/ in the fourth act. when as Clorinda
/ Waldairs she kills her constituencies low
| er in a fit of passion. an actor of emo
| tional power frequently becomes SO en-
crossed in the part that the minute in
! 6identals of stage business escapes
them. though they may have thoroughly
assimilated them in rehearsals and per-
| fcrnances. Passionate attacks on the
stage have frequently resulted in some
i thing more than acting. This is par
/ ticularly true when the player has a
/ ccngenial part and has grown enthus-
iastic enough to actually reach the state
! CT exaltaton he is portraying. Such oc-
| ours in the fourth act of "A Lady of
! Quality"
Mr.. James Carew. the leading man of
| the company, now wears heavy pads
of felt on his shoulders and arms in
| the fourth act, since an experience he
went through in Baltimore. After a
! scene in which she is soaded to des-
/ usual. He lay for twenty minutes ten
1 ing whip ana strikes -ir John ONon.
1 With a few blows he is killed. During
one of her Baltimore engagements Miss
/ Rlair's rage approached point border
4 ing on reality Her first blow raised a
/ large welt on Sir Johns head the sec
| ond put his arm in condition for
| arnica and bandages; the third sent an
| electric shock Tar O.gh his shoulders.
! His death that night culmina ted more
suddenly. though less realistically, than
usual He lay for twenty minutes ten
tative!y nursing his bruises under the
sofa. where Clorinda hides the body.
The actor before Mr.. Carew found it
| unnecessary al one performance TO pre-
1 1end death. Miss Blair was in good
i spirits with an appreciative audience,
4 and as she worked up to the climax.
i threw all the energy of a highly keyed
sensiblity into her attack on Dixon. a
misiirect blow put the actor into in
Il sensiblty.
Il The rarity of this occurrence is the
| JUNCTION that CareW feels that he may
not be dealt with as his predecessor
II Mas. Besides that, Carew has more
elf-possession than some of the great
, American actors have.
! ="
4 James Clark of Philadelphia is at the
! Butte. Mr.. Clark represents house
1 engaged i'll the manufacture Of tailor
| m>.de garments.
I I.econ.!y convention was held in
the Quaker City of merchant tailors.
| under the title of the Merchant railors'
! National Exchange. Five hundred
specimens of work of many of the lead
ing tai'ors of the United States We're
en- exhibition.
Probably the most striking garment
| shown" said Mr. Clark, lis single
| breasted cutaway coat, with flaps drop
ped two inches below the waist. vari-
alton OF the conventional frock coat
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