The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-28

"Why, bless my precious heart and
i've left the stage, and haven't said
Good-byer"
That sounds ungra teful-but, to be
quite plain,
[ hoped l might be coming back again,
And would not speak the word one can't
recall.
Till "Good-b meant Good bye" for
good and all. n &
Good ye"'-an easy word for you
to say I'm.
Sorry you're going, but you've had
your day.
Next, please!''-And the obedient pro-
fession
Supplies newcomers in prolonged sue
A thousand fair ones for your smiles
contesting
CA hundred acting. and nine hundred
''resting;D
But when l say Goodbye" in falter-
To you-the truest friend I've ever
The friends whose warmth expressed
in gladdening chime
Supplied the sunshine of my summer
time
see,
I'm losing you-youre only losing me!
But this won't do at all--I'm off the
scent,
My lines light comedy not sentiment.
My future tense seems cheerness to
lack.
And 50. I won't look forward-I'n look
back.
What changes have I seen since that
dim age
When little Geldenhair tripped on the
stage!
The drama, struggling then in lodgings
shady,
Has made her fortune and is quite
the lady,
With endless hosts of highly cultured
friends.
Think how she dresses now, and what
she spends
On vast dramatic shrines-in sumptu-
Gus salaries
+ In real Venetian-leathered pits and
galleries.
In plays that run a year to houses
| And cost to stage, thousand pounds
an act!
| Stage management-that has advanced
a bit
! Since poor Tom Robertson invented it
Tom Robertson, whose histronic chick
ems
| We sheer a noW-but then we sheer at
Dickens!
| Knighthoods for actors of pronounced
ability
Earls: countesses, engaged to play
.'utilityi'
1bsen-a seat for jaded appetite:
No fees-half guinea stalls-electric
Matinees twice a week, and, sad to
say,
Matinee hats-I see one here to-day;
| Stock companies completely out of
date.
Burlesque quite dead--Gt never risked
that fate
When Talfourd, blanche, Brough and
Byron made it.
| And Rogers, Clarke and Marie Wilton
played it,
| Then, strangest change, of playhouses
vast crops!
| Playhouses plentiful as grocers' shops!
| Ten in twelve months. Well, l don't
want to pirate,
| But if new theaters crop up at that
rate,
| Where will you find your pieces if you
| please,
And where your actors and your act
| resses?
Ten months will build a playhouse per
contractor
| 1t takes at least ten years to build
an actor,
And, as our best authorities insist,
| Ten times ten years to build a dramat-
list!
| Well, if too long I've babbled of my
youth,
I'm rather loath to go, and that's the
truth.
| Still, we must part-it's idle to DELAY
it;
I've come to say Good bye!-so let
me say it,
| The link that binds me to you must
be broken
| Come now, come then, the last word
must be spoken!
| In no light mood the farewell nhrase
| fall lob
God bless you God bless me! God
bless us all!
| David Henderson has taken advan-
| tage in New York of the United States
| bankruptcy law to secure final ad-
| justment of his financial status. There
| are some unusual features about the
| case. Mr.. Henderson is the first theat-
rical man to become bankrupt with
! assets larger than his liabilities His
| schedule shows an indebtedness of
| $3.50, 1854. rs. with assets of 1882, 500. These
| include his equity in the Duquesne
| theater in Pittsburg, which is now in
| litigation, but which Henderson has al
| ways maintained must ultimately come
| to him. He has turned over for the
| use of his creditors every piece of prop
| erty of every kind that he owns.
THE reason for the bankruptcy step
| that l have taken,' said he, lies in
| probable action on the part of Ada
! Dow Curriers' lawyer. You remember
| the case, which occurred during an
| engagement of Julia Marlowe at the
| Chicago opera house in 1889, I think.
! Mrs. Dow, who has since became Mrs.