The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-14
Green R@0m Talk.

This is a new story about Richard
Mansfield. The actor was stopping at
the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago. A
Western man. whom the story teller des-
ignates as a cowboy, was waiting for
the elevator. When il came down one
of the passengers to step out was Mans
field. He was dressed to the limit. In
his right eye rested a class "A" monocle.
in his hand was a class A" stick, in
short, he was Beau Brummell in real
life. He stepped out of the elevator
with a naughty tread, and, like a
man-o'-war in a transport fleet, moved
in grandeur through the corridor. The
cowboy saw him., his face lighted into
wonderment. his eyes seemed glued to
the vision Of loneliness. When the vision
moved the cowboy moved. He followed
IL 10 the large front doors. He saw il
step grandly down to the sidewalk.
Great Cod exclaimed the cowboy
in a holy contempt.
The vision heard the words. Ii turned
around, grandly. 1t raised its hat,
gracefully.
Thank you, it said. CURLY, for the
recognition"
The most successful run that any Chi
cago theater has had since the worlds
fair year has just been completed by
Jacob Lifts company i'm Shenandoah"
at McVicker'S theater. Mr.. Lift made a
very elaborate revival of Bronson How
ards war play and engaged as good a
company as he could get together. The
play ran for 10 weeks to a gross of
$4,000. and was taken off at the end of
that time only because the actors were
tired out and would no longer consent
IN nl0 Mr. Il q aAH1. - 4
upon the road this season. playing the
principal cities only. The company will
be headed by Maurice Barrymore and
Mary Hampton.
The famous pickaninny band which !
mas always been one of the features of
In Old Kentucky" will continue with
me organization the coming season.
Many of the original pickaninnies have
too big to longer serve. but they
have been replaced by new colored
youngsters. The boys are hard at work :
al their headquarters in Cincinnati =
for the coming season. 1t is
aid to be one of the sights of that city
N the summer time to see them work.
They are at ii all the time. The sixth
season of I'm Old Kentucky" opens
early in September.
W. s. Cleveland and George Wilson,
he minstrel folk. who have ever been
II dagg6rs drawn. are going into the
iual instead of the duel business After
out for blood for years they have
'ombined for cash in a union that prom
SEES TO be a happy and successful one.
Wilson has always suffered in all his
managerial ventures for the lack of a
manager. and he has found a shrewd and
apable one in his new partner-a tire
ess worker and a hustler from Hustler
own. There Is no more popular come
ian who blacks his face than George
wilson. and he is now bound to make
un and fortune at the same time.
j. II. Delcher. the man with the cast
nerve, is one of the nag of
ihmore a Leonard in "Hogan's Alley"
'elcher is the man who "borrows"
from newspapers, reprints them
n a typewriter m then works them
n on other newspapers as the clever
roduct of his own brain.
Mistakes Will Happen" a new far
ical comedy by Grant Stewart, will be
reduced at McVicker's theater. Chi
ago. in September. After it's Chicago
reduction, the play will be taken to
he Baldwin theater. San Francisco.
after making a tour OF the coast.
Ill visit the principal cities of the
ountry, playing the best theaters ex-
usively. The company will be a very
.rong one. headed by Charles Dickson
nd Henrietta Crosman.
Casey, who was immortalized by
ugene Field as proprietor of the table
hote, and still further by De Wolf
as a baseball player. has been
ven another lift on the ladder of fame
: Robert ]. Donnelly. He has this
taken To himself a wife in the per-
n OF a Hebrew lady. "Casey's Wife"
Ill go out this seaso under the direc-
IN OF Fred Peel. and will make a COM
tour of the country.
IL is rumored that the production of
Life at the Academy of