The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-21
Green Room Talk.

The season at MaEuirc's opera house
In Butte will open a week from to-mOr-
row, Aug. %, with Hoyts "A MIX
White Flag The company this season
is headed 10y John w. Dunno and Mary
Marble. The comedy is one of Hoyt's
best and has been generally credited
with being the most popular of his
farcos. Ia moves with a dash and vim
and is filled with a number of mirth-
provoking situations. one admiring
critic of Miss Marble says of her: Her
appearance charms and pleCtriiCs an
audience and her personal magnetism
would go far oWard making any play
"A success.
Following \ MIX White Flag" clay
Clement in Old Dominion VIII be at
Maguiro's. appearing the same week
and opening on the LIST of September.
Manager Mcguire, during the closed
season, has made many Improvements
I'm IN" appearance of his house. IL hay
ing been thoroughly renovated and
painted inside and out and the dressing
rooms pnpcTed. The house will present
a new and attractive appearance when
the doors are again thrown open.
They are telling many stories of Rich
ard Manstield.s eoccntricitips. To the
people of the little town Of Rye. y. Y.
where the actor has his country home,
ne is "A constant cause of wonderment.
Some of them think he is queer" and
they are always on the lookout for
some freakish exhibition. Recently ne
~telephuned 20 the Rye hotel and asked
that a carriage be sent over 10 his cot
tage.
I want the very best YOU nave. I'M
derstand," he said.
The l4nIlFrl lUItygf,tI aud B4.3 1Bs
man hitch up the sioekost team i'm thc
stable To the shiuieSt RIG.
The coachman then drove To the cot
taEe. Mr.. Mansfield met him at the
front gate.
"Heah. he said, "hcah's "A quawtah"-
giviuE "A bright new - cent piece To
the follow. You walk back; | will
drive"
The actor then got into the carriage.
said Gee up in his best voice, and,
craoking his elbows a Ia Fifth avenue. /
drove the three miles to the hotel at a
Eeutleman's clip,
Reaching the hostelry he pompously
called for 10 cents worth of CLANS. tell
ing the landlord, who was all bows and
bends:
"Delivah the goods m my residence"
Then he drove back home.
Going To the telephone again he call
ed up the hotel
send a man 10 get this CaWiaEe." he /
said: and send the bill with him"
L. cost Mr.. Mansfield for telephone.
tips and carriage hire $i55, for which
he got a dozen CLAIMS.
Ii is rarely that the manager aud the
are merged IN the man. Ju-
reph Jefferson has the faculty of maxi
"a contract 50 as to always get at
least his share of the bargain. but all
the funny folks are not built that way.
instance there is George Wilson. I
minstrel comedian. the funniest Of
who ought 10 have nothing but
bonds, MORTGAGES and wealth
but for his lack of the peculiar
gift Of knowing how 10 manage. Just
the lack Of a manager Wilson has
escaped reaching the million mark; but
with an eye 10 the fuJure he has taken
a partner IN W. =. Cleveland, of great
managerial fame. and the two united
ought 20 and viii lather In shpkals
enough 10 satisfy any w men. Wilson
IS as popular as ne Is funny and CleNe-
land has no superior as "a man Of bust
ness affairs.
Jacob Lift is one OF the most enter
managers in the theatrical bust
ness. n will he the employer Of more
h~igh-priced actors and actresses than
any other single theatrical manager the
season. Here is a partial list
and i'm each Instance the salary Is well
IN the three figures Elita Proctor otis
md Rob- H.lilaTi viii play the ltads
Sporting Life" Henrietta Crosman
and Charles Dickson will head Mis-
takes VII Happen and Mary Hamp-