The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-19

Caesar and otherwise prepared to sat
isfy the raging desire of the Quaker
City for the works Of The Bard. The
manager. Mr. James +. Crossen. ex-
plains the result in this breezy
ner: well, We opened at the National
theater. Philadelphia. 'OthelIo' was
the bill. and the receipts we're $62.S 81.
TIE four stars were to get s per cent OF
the gross receipts. On Tuesday night
we repeated 'Othello' to s32. 30. On
Wednesday. AS You Lik It drew
1880. Julius Caesar the next night
brought S103.S0. and repeated on Friday
night to S76. The receipts for Saturday
matinee were s22. 30. and for Saturday
night s122.20. The gross for the week
was $6o2.I5 and the company share was
1901 .3s. hen we went to Brooklyn. Miss
Shaw. n of the stellar quartet, had
meantime received an offer of a ten
weeks engagement with Shenandoah
at the Academy of Music. She offered
to play Rosalind in AS You Like It. at
the Wednesday matinee. II We would
release her from the rest Of the en-
gagement. She agreed to put aside all
question of salary. n we accepted
this magnanimous proposition. l need
ncs bother you with the weeks receipts.
1 have all the box office statements,
but they would make sorry reading.
Tn. Saxe-Meiningen scenery, which I
Onhtu w stipuidttu dkTttIltHl, was
solo for $50 to a manager in Atlantic
City. who intends to paint landscapes
and plain chambers on the back of the
Roman temples and Plains of Phil
lippi."
Stuart, who played the part of Queen
isabelle in 1872 when IL appeared In
Butte recently. strikes a writer on the
New York Telegraph in this way:
stuart, that masculine nightmare
known az the male Patti, is here this
week, and the audience. overlooking
the horror of his act. bestows on him
much applause, which is a strong argyll
ment against them, for surely no clean
ly-minded person can find in this act
anything worthy of honest praise, no
matter how closely he may approxi-
mate the real soubrette. 1t Is not to his
credit. n I would far rather see a
bona fide serio than a man able to sue
c~essfully sink his sex and masquerade
as a woman"
Ysaye found hat the declaration of
war with Spain compelled him to some-
what change his original plans for the
Pacific coast tour He had selected
Sobrino. the Spanish pianist, as his
accompanied for this tour. but owing
to the war scare Sobrino thought
America not the best and safest place
for him. and decided to return to Spain.
4 od.t udu u uO SOuut tdl nuSt-
ling to secure another pianist, and as
luck would have 1t, the great Lachaume
had not yet returned to Paris after his
engagement in New York. consequently
Ysaye's manager opened negotiations
with Lachaume, and at a great ex-
pense was able to secure him instead
of Sobrino. The change is a most
agreeable one to all concerned, mostly
because Lachanme is a superior artist
In every way. and was Ysaye's ac-
companist on his former tour to this
country.
Frawley's new company is composed of
Edward NJ. Bell. Fred Williams. Theodore
Roberts, Sam Edwards. Louis Payne. Da-
vid Conger. Robert j. Wilson. John T.
Burke, Alfred Hickman. Madeline Bouton,
Cora Tinnie, Maude Winter, Eleanor Car
ey and Fanchon Campbell.
Fol a person of no earthly import
ance, Harrison Grey Fiske is receiving
an amount of attention nowadays that
Is quite surprising, writes Leander
Richardson. The refusal of Daniel
Frohman M "Al" Hayman to serve
with him on the board of directors of
the Actors Fund was all right enough
on personal grounds, but the decision