St. Paul daily globe., 1896-01-06
SHOW WILL CLOSE
"A RUNAWAY COLT, WILL END HIS
CAREER IN MINNIE
APOLIS.
ANS0N'S BASE BALL PLANS
NECESSITATE HIS LEAVING Eop
THE SOUTH WITH THE
OTHER COLTS.
1T WAS BOOKED FOR THE EAST.
nc company Has Been Running at
Big Expense-Whnt Manager
Dasher Says.

Hoyt's "a Runaway Colt" will ,r,a
his mad career with the termination
of the Minneapolis engagement Sat
urday night. This step was practically
agreed upon by Manager Bert Dasher
upon the receipt of a telegram from
Mr.. Hoyt's partner, Mckee. last night
advising that if Anson could not be
persuaded to appear in the Cleveland
ana Flttsburg engagements, to close
the show and send the people home.
Conditional notices We're posted last
night In the Metropolitan opera house
where y Runaway Colt" was put on.
ana occasioned considerable consterna-
ton among the members of the com
pany. The people in charge of the
play, while they insist that the piece
has been an artistic success. freely
admit that it is too big and too cum
bersome to profitably take out on the
road. There are thirty-five people in
the company, a number of them re-
ceiving high salaries. There are two
carloads of scenery, designed orig
inally for the American theater in
New York, where it was thought the
play would have a long run, and
third car in which is carried the prop
critics and personal baggage of the
members of the company. It was
stated last night that the expense. on
the road approXimated So, 500 a week.
and that the business has not been
such as to make the venture profta-
BILE
Capt. Adrian c. Anson. who plays the stel-
lar part, has a blanket contract with Mr.
Hoyt which permits him TO leave the COM
pany March l. when he expects to take his
Chicago base ball team South. During March
"A Runaway Colt" was 10 have been played
in Kansas City. ST. Louis, Cleveland and
Pittsburg. Capt. Anson has agreed to remain
In the bill until the middle of March, so as
to appear in Kansas City and St. Louis but
withstanding the fact that Manager Dasher
VIII not be able to appear after that; not
used his utmost endeavors to persuade Presi-
dent James A. Hart and eX-President Spauld-
ing. OF he Chicago team, to allow the big
captain to hold the boards until April /
Mr.. Dasher was seen last night at the Metro
politan hotel and said to the lob e that
the notices that the company would quit after
the Minneapolis engagement were conditional
and that II Mr.. Mckee could sign contracts
with Cleveland, Pittsburg and other places.
without Anson in the cast the season might
be continued, in which case the company win
work west, making Lincoln, Sioux CITY and
Onlaha. IL mas been the intention, he said
to play an indefinite engagement at the
American theater in New York. but the busi-
ness did not warrant any longer engagement
than Dec. % at which time the company left
Tor Chicago. Anson's home. where it played to
the biggest week since the close of the worlds
rair Mr.. Dasher says that experienced the
afer managers in the East are of the opin-
ion that the play is winner, and that the
iact that the play has not made as distinct a
it lIt as other plays OF Hoyt is due solely to
hard times. AS supporting this idea Mr.
Dasher says that open time has been offered
Mr. Hoyt by Charles Frohman with the Bos-
ton Museum, Nixon Zimmerman I'm Phila-
! delphla and Hooley's theater in Chicago.
MI Dasher will today wire Mr.. Mckee at
New York that Capt Anson will not he aha
70 play later than March 10. and the future
pans OF the company will depend largely ON
AT. McKee's reply, but It is thought that
Runaway Colt" will make the last circuit
OF the bases: for some time at least. next
saturday night in Minneapolis. Mr. Hoyt fs
In Boston. where "A Contented woman Ia
having an indefinite run.