The sun., 1905-11-25
ACTOR DANIEL BANDHANN DEAD.
Famed Tragedian Succumbs to Indig estiOn
and Heart Failure.

BUTTE, Mont, Nov. A.-Herr Daniel Z.
Bandmann. at one time world famed as
tragedian and Shakesperian actor, died
on his ranch five miles from Missoula, at
II o'clock last night, the result of an acute
attack of indigestion and heart weakness.
News of his death did not reach the city
until 8 o'clock this morning, when a ply
sician who had been summoned returned
from the ranch.
Daniel Bandmann had an unoommonly
picturesque career even for an actor.
He was a native of Cassel, in Hesse, a Jew,
and began to act at Neue Streitz in the
Court Theatre. SHe made some reput alton
there, but soon decided to come TO this city
where he played in the first German COM
pany ever organized in New York Its
performances were given then in the old
Turn Verein Hall When the Stadt Theatre
in the Bowery was opened he was one of
the principal actors in the troupe and by
1863 had gained sufficient popularity to
justify his appearance in English He
played Shylock at Niblo's Garden. He at
tracted the attention of Edwin Forrest, and
for five years acted prosperously as a star
travelling to the different cities and making
his greatest impression in Hamlet, He
learned after a while to speak English al
most without trace Of accent; so in 1869
he went to London and played in his own
adaptation of the old Pompadour play
which he called -Narcisse. He returned
to Germany, acting "Othello" and Hamlet I"
He made various tours through the English
provinces and at that time married Milh-
cent Palmer, who continues to delight
Stoke Pogis and Blackpool to this day with
her performance of Hamlet She has played
the part more frequently than any other
woman.
Backed by Ion Perdicaris, whom he had
met in England. Bandmann came back here
in 1879 and played "Narcisse" at the Standard
Theatre, then under the management OF
William j. Henderson. Nard Almayne,
stepdaughter Of Ion Perdicars, was in the
afterward made a reputati n here. Shortly
alter this engagement Mr.. Perdicaris's s
daughter married Nelson Decker and the
two disappeared simultaneously from
theatrical history.
Then Bandmann stole march on Richard
Mansfield, who had just made a great sue
cess in the dramatization of "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.. HYDE" and planned to win his coveted
London cachet in this play Bandmann
made himself play out Of the unprotected
novel. took the Lyceum Theatre in London
and made success there impossible in Lon
don. When he came back to this country
after an Australian tour, in which he made
small fortune, it was to play Shakespeare
in the cheap theatres. He had been di-
vored from his wife, and with Louise
Beaudet, formerly an operetta singer in the
leading roles of his performances, he trav-
elled all over the country.
He was especially prosperous in the West,
and Bandmann's name stands to-day in
the theatrical business as the symbol of
what may be done by men who produce
the Shakespearian plays cheaply. Band
mann made small fortune and invested
his earnings in a Montana ranch, He re-
turned to the stage six years ago to act
in vaudeville, where he gave scenes from
Shakespearian plays.
Bandmann leaves two children by Milli-
cent Palmer, who claimed to be his wife
to the end. He wrested his ranch from
the possession of Louise Beaudet. who
claimed the actor had given it to her. His
last wife was an actress named Mary Kelly,
whom he is said to have married several
years ago in spite Of the protests of his
from her.