The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-15
Green R@0m Talk.

Palmer. An English gentleman is at
work on the version which we shall
use. our next season will open with
'Cyrano' at the Garden theater. oct. g."
1t will be put OH for "A rum"
Mi. Mansfield is opposed to long
runs on principle. He finds IL "A tenn
peramental need to keep doing some
thing new. Like Mr.. Sothern. he is an
active producer. He and Mr.. Sothern
have. I believe, made more new pro-
auctions h a N other actors of their
generation. The older stellar people
are satisfied TO give the public the same
roles, year in and year cut with which
their names are Identified. The young
err generation of stars are more ambi-
tious. Mr.. Mansfield has no less than
five new plays for next season. He has
a play by Mr.. Zangwili, the wen now
London novelist, and another by
George Bernard Shaw He also has an
adaptation of Robert Louis S~tevenson's
st. Ives Mr.. Mansfield will
give the public the best plays he can
procure and he will produce them with
ali care and thoroughness."
George Bernard Shaw. author of
Arms and the Man and THE Devils
Disciple" has published a book called
plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" i'm
a preface to which he asks the ques-
titH WHY ptopit Eiioui' NC
even to those OF his plays which are
pleasant. The main difficulty" he
says, lis the ~incapacity for Serious
drama Of thousands of playgoers of all
classes. With them | must
frankly take the superior position. l
m that many manager are wholly
dependent IN them. and that no man
ager Is wholly Independent of them.
but / can no more write what they
rs chan TnnahfEa aan NM nQi1a his
fiddle and oblige "A happy company of
bean-feasters with a marching tune on
the German concertina. They must
keep away from my plays, that is ALL"
Well. then do keep away from them,
so shaw ought to be happy. says the
Chicago Times-Herald. Richard Mans
field, who is "A genius, is the only man
able to make a success of n of the
Shaw plays. and in this case people go
to see the actor and not the drama.
Joe Murphy will never GO to the poor
house. He has made nearly a million
out OF Kerry Cow" alone. and IL has
brought him $50, 900 a year for many
years. He Is a frugal man. 1t is
told of him that IL was his custom years
years age to ostentatiously borrow 81
on the Rialto every morning from "A
certain manager, and always return IL
I'm rhe evening. A noticeable point vas
that in asking for the money Murphy
never lowered his voice or seemed To
want To keep the matter "A secret from
Outstanding actors. After this thing had
gone ON for some time the manager
asked for an explanation. We'll. you
See said Murphy, III these fellows
though l had money about me, they'd
strike me for a loan. hut when they
see me borrowing myself, they think
it's no use"
OF Miss Franci of Yale" which
comes To the Mcguire soon. the New
York Times says: The farce is full
of movement and hustle. The perfor-
nance provoked a great deal of hearty
laughter. The development is thor
ough enough. and every humorous pos
sibility of the ~eXtravagant theme seems
To have been reached. The principal
parsonage Is embodied with becoming
seriousness, with an air of injured in
%nocence. with agility, and many other
excellent qualities, by Etienne G%irardot,
Tho was the ambiguous hero of Char
Laws Aunt"
This sounds like Mansfield. but II is
credited simply to IA prominent actor"
Asked his opinion of a brother artists
performance. which ne evidently did
not admire. he said; Yes. IL is all very
nice: but doesn't IL rather remind you
Of some one trying to play IA Beethoven
sonata on a typewriter"
Francis Hartman. who is taking San
Francisco by storm in mis- musical com
edy, The Purser." which lis crowding
the Baldwin theater nightly. is an at
traction that will be at the Mcguire
the last week of May.
Robert Mantell will appear i'm Butte
for two nights in June. giving Mon
bars and The Face i'm the Moonlight"
1t is possible that after a rest the
months of July and August may be
filled by Manager Mcguire with a com
ic opera or a first-class repertoire COM
pany at popular prices.
Saharet made fame by dancing on
n platform I'm the public square in
Cleveland recently. and then drove
around town with a ~long-handled bas-
ket soliciting contributions for the
Maine fund.
Frank Henning. the Skakespearean
actor. who was Thomas w. Keen's
leading man last season. filed applica-
tion for a divorce from his wife i'm New
York on the grounds of inidelity.
1t is not at all unlikely that Elvia
Seabrooke will once more rejoin her
husband, Thomas q. Seabrooke. and
play her original role in The Isle of
Champagne"
Grant Stewart and Charles Dickson
have written a comedy entitled Mis-
takes VIII Happen" in which Mr.. Dick
son will star next season.
Louise Moore Is the ms prima
donna in America. She claims TO know
SO operas.
TIE BUCCANEERS.
Historic Adventure and Happenings in
the Caribbean Sea.
From the Chicago Chronicle