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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1900
Page
8
A sweeping mix of stage notes and star moves runs through recent chatter. Ellen Terry advocates fencing and stagecraft while stars like Cora Tanner and Ada Rehan plot new tours and marriages loom for De Wolf Hopper and Minnie Maddern Fiske.
Mark Twain's London banquet speech to Sir Henry Irving sparks laughter as he jokes he has written 400 dramas and offers critique of dramatic art. He praises Irving's rise, claims to have helped place him at the pinnacle of the profession, and suggests Mr Pinero will follow.
H J Leslie once built wealth from the light opera Dorothy after buying it cheaply and promoting it at the Prince of Wales theater. A later hit by Hayden Coffin sparked fortune, enabling further ventures including the Lyric theater. When Dorothy waned his luck ended, and he died bankrupt the same day Coffin sought payment.
An essay notes the decline of small sovereignties as larger nations absorb or threaten to absorb them. It cites Hawaii, Samoa, the Philippines, Santo Domingo, several South American states, and the Acre republic in Brazil, warning that such tiny states face eroding independence and tenuous futures.
Miss Jane Yatman plans a New York to Chicago record attempt for women after Miss Margaret Gast set a 1000 mile 113 hour 37 minute mark. She will pace with the Century Road Club, may ride 100 miles daily or complete the trip faster if conditions allow, route via Albany Buffalo Cleveland to Chicago.
A gold penny, valued at 20 pence, brought $1,000 at a England auction. Calmly written by order of Henry II, the piece is one of two specimens known. The two are housed in the British Museum.
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