The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-25
"That's the Way to Play spartacus."

Inat's the way to flay Spartacus."
These were his last words in public
from the stage. The applause this time
was ringing and admirative, and John
Mccullough, with all his splendid dig
nifty, made his last exit from the stage,
Half an hour later he emerged from
his dressing-room refreshed and smil-
ing. That's the way to play SPARTA
cus!' he said, Il never acted so we'll in
my life" He had already forgotten the
troubled scenes of that awful night.
He held his last rehearsal the next
day. Never was a sadder scene en-
acted in theater. 1t was mock re-
hearsal. Again the tragedians memory
was blank. At the end OF the first act
he suddenly demanded a rehearsal of
"Richelieu." 1t had barely commenced
before he strayed off into the fourth
act, where the decrepit Cardinal States
man is intercepted in the Garden Of the
Louvre by Baradas. The arch plotter
says to his companions: His mind and
life are breaking fast"
Pathetic End of the Noblest Roman Of
Them All.
The tottering churchman, oyerkearing
him, turns with reviying energy and
cries:
Irreverent ribald!
If so, beware the falling ruins Hark!
l tell thee scorner of these whitening
hairs,
When this snof melteth there shall come
a aood
Avaunt! MY name is Richelieu! I defy
thee!
AS he muttered these words his voice
n NOT A
later he turned and left the theater.
Every one present was in tears. Half
an hour later. at his hotel. the great
tragedian was told that he must take a
rest. Fourteen months later the noblest
Roman of them all quilted the forum of
this life forever.
"Fritz" Emmett Another Victim of tha
Pace.
In little rural cemetery near Albany,
Is the grave of another stage idol who,
went the pace that kills. 1t is I'M.
marked, the last resting place of Fritz"
Emmett, but in the summer you will
find 1t strewn with posies that fair
hands have scattered there.
You'd be surprised" says John Nc
Kinney. the cemetery keeper. were
you to watch the goings on of all the
P~oF'S 'AAO o01A W AAoSC lic Grave O1
Emmett pointed out to them. Some Of
them make me feel a bit queer, and
ony young lady went on so the other
day that had all I could do to keep
from weeping. President Arthur and
Thurlow Weed are inferred here, but,
one hundred people ask to be shown the
grave Of Emmett to one who inquiries
where Weed and Arthur are buried
The Last Stretch-Paresis; The Fin.
ish-Death.
Incipient paresis, the result Of drink
and irregular living. sent Emmett to the
nadhouse twice. He could no. drink
In moderation. When once he took q
drink of wine 1t was the beginning OF,
serious debauch. His designations
made him notorious in Europe ana
America, yet the people loved the mag.
netic fellow. and his name, like Scam
lan's was a household word Ten
years ago he died. his body shattered.
dis mind wrecked
The story of BARLEY Campbell, Of
"Old Hoss" HOey. of George S. Knight.
of Tony Hart. of Harry Kernel, Of
Charlie Hoyt is the story with few
variations, of Barrymore, Seaman, Nc.
Cullough and Fritz" Emmett. It Is the
story of the pace that kills. Those who
enter the mad race usually go to the
finish. The last stretch is paresis, the
finish is always death.