The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16

1T is. likely that Manager Mcfarland
will shortly have another brief season
of summer entertainment to offer the
patrons of the Grand in Butte. The
Bittner Dramatic company, which has
played with such marked success
throughout the Sound country, and is
now playing it's sixth week at Spokane,
Will probably be induced to come to
Butte. The present intention is to have
the company open at the Grand on
Monday, the oath. The Bittner is
composed of lot of clever actors with
established regulations, and a number
of them are old Butte favorites. Their
repertoire of plays includes score
of the most successful productions,
among them such pronounced hits as
''Charley's Aunt" the PARTISAN Prin-
cess" "Pygmalion and Galatea," and
many other good, clean and wholesome
plays
Mrs. Mark Swan, wife of the author
of Browns in Town" is known on
the stage as Jessie May Hall, and will
be remembered by many of the the
alter goers in Butte. A few years ago,
before she became Mrs. Swan, while
travelling through the West with a
repertoire company, she met in Col
orado young mining man who be-
came greatly enamored of her He pro-
posed marriage and was rejected, and
went away to forget his disappoint-
ment. Miss Hall returned to New York
and, so she confesses, soon forgot even
the name of the man. His name and
the love affair were both recalled to
her mind in a strange; romantic and
wierd manner a few days ago when
she received a package from Grip
pie Creek lawyer accompanied by the
following explanatory lettpr.rF. 70
Dear Madam am sending you to-
day by express a package containing a
gold heart filled with the ashes of my
late client, Robert Conklin, who died
here three months ago. 1t was his dy-
ing wish that his body be cremated AMI
part of his ashes placed in the gold
locket, which he had purchased before
his death, and forwarded to you, in the
hope that you would keep them as a re-
minder of the days when he knew you
in Colorado. ti prtur
1T was his desire that the ashes of
his heart alone be sent you, but this
was impossible of accomplishment
Mr. Conklin had prospered some
what few years before his death, and
his fortune, amounting to about $751;
OOO was left absolutely to his mothe:
who resides at Belchertown, Mass.
Trusting you will acknowledge the
receipt of this letter and the package,
servant, RAYMOND G. DWYER.
''P. 81 experienced much difficulty
in learning your address, hence my de-
lay in having carried out the wishes OF
my late client. r. G. D."
Mrs. Swain was amazed and not alto
gether delighted with this strange
souvenir of an old lover. 1t seemed "a
not yet opened the golden heart and
probably never will, and while she
thinks kindly of her old lover she
wishes he had bequeathed her some
more cheerful legacy.
Now that Bernhard is playing Ham
let, and other great actresses have eX-
hibited yearning for leading male
roles in Shakespearean revivals, the
Chicago Chronicle has interviewed some
of the shining lights of farce comedy
and minstrelsy with a view to ascer-
tanning what Shakespearean roles they
would prefer to interpret.
Among the more conspicuous artists
who are quoted are May Irwin, who
doesn't see why she shouldn't make a
heavy hit as Othello; Lew Dockstader,
who has picked out Ophelia as his ia
vorite role, and Pete Daily, who thinks
he is cut out to play Rosalind. Says
Miss Irwin apropos of Othello
IF | do not put on my Juliet, which
l talked about some time ago, I don't
see why Othello shouldn't catch 'em. 1t
ought Ito be right in line with this rage
for coon stuff. We could fix it up to
date, you know, throw in a little rag
time music when Desdemona is getting
the worst of it with the pillows and
have few coon songs. Say, ii ought
to be great, Ell? Just imagine me as
. 9thello walking up to Iago and singing,
Why Don't You Get a Lady of Your
Own?' That ought to be the hit of the
piece. Then / could have little chorus
work. you know After l get rid of Des-
demona 1 could have the bunch line IN
near the back drop and sing, You'll
Have to- Choose Another Baby Now.
Othello is where I'm going to make the
hit of my life"
Here Is what Dockstader says:
II have had my eye on the trend of
things for long time, and L saw it was
coming to this. With Bernhardt playing
Hamlet and the rest of the girls
threatening to get into the game as
Richard ILL., and Henry VIII and all
that, what is there left for us? We've
got to play the women's parts in self