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

defense. and I've picked out Ophel1a Tor
mine. / can see myself right now COM
ing, you know with that bunch of flow
ers and saying: Here's carnations,
they're for cheap guys, and roses,
they're for swells.' Well, l guess that
would be about all. / don't see where
any of these other dubs could play in
my theater after that kind Of an
Ophelia, Ell? These women who have
been putting on Ophelia don't under
stand the character. l do. They seem
! to think she was a flower girl or some
thing like that-one of these Mister,
please buy bouquet kind. Bill didn't
intend that. I've been talking it over
with Primrose, and he wanted to have
me put Ophelia on in black face as a
sort of afterpiece to our minstrel show,
| and gag the part and ring in a couple
of songs, but / couldn't see it that way
George has gone to Europe to see Bern
hardt play Hamlet and I guess he's
got his eye on Portia. He'd be bully in
the part where she calls down the Jew
peddler, although he insists on doing
a sand jig before the close of the scene"
Miss Clara Thropp is looking for a
new hacker. This condition is, per-
maps, not so unusual among the young
women of the theatrical profession as
to call for any great expression of sur
prise. But in Miss Thror-'s case it is
which are rather interesting.
l understand. writes Leander Rich
ardson, that she had secured a faith
full promise of financial support and
had booked tour through the North
west and clear out to the Pacific coast,
through territory with which she was
already familiar, when the financial
part of her structure caved in, leaving
nothing but a bleak outlook and a
route shee-. 1t is owing to this some
what meager equipment that the young
lady is now seeking a new financial
pillar of strength. Miss Thropp doesn't
appear to enjoy very good luck when
she goes a-starring. On her last visit
to California there was developed a
tendency to put her In Jail that was
for time quite painful. She then mar
ried the son of a st. Paul railroad
man, who brought the young couple
home, and Clara for quite a time sang
sweetly in the choir loft of a Mime
sofa church. Now she wants to star
again.
true story was lately told about
Augustin DAILY going to Charles Dana
of the New York Sun and sayiag:
Your dramatic critic OUGHT to be dis
charged" Mr.. Dana, who was a per-
sonal friend of the manager, replied
''I'll talk with him about it, and if he
thinks he should be discharged. then
I'll discharge him." Mr.. DAILY en-
ployed what is called a press agent,
whose duty it is to send to the news
papers all the particulars of forthcom-
ing performances and other things, the
publication of which would benefit the
'theater. These paragraphs are used in
some journals while in others they go
invariably into the waste basket, after
any desirable plain facts have been
taken from them to rewrite. Mr.. DAILY
engaged the late George Parsons La
throp for that work, and expected that
Mr.. Lathrops reputation as writer
would save his matter from rejection
even by editors whose rule against
press agents articles was prohibitive
Cant you make an exception Of this
exclusive screed?' was inscribed on an
exclusive article about a portrait of
Ada Rehan. why, yes" was the re-
ply The panegyric was published. it
is true, but in the form of signed
communication from Mr.. Lathrop. Mr..
Days remarks, as Mr.. Lathrop after
wards said, were melodramatic-
very"
Writing from England, Frederick Ed
ward Mckay says that Lakewood, the
summer home of Mr., and Mrs. Nat
Goodwin at Blackheath, on the out
skirts of London, is an ideally quaint
estate. THE Goodwins," he adds, ARE
not in the least neighborly. Shortly af-
ter their first arrival at Lakewood
they We're apprised of the fact that the
local minister had made 1t point hith-
erto to call every Sunday afternoon for
tea. Mr.. Goodwin called one of his
head servants to his side, and assuming
an extremely morose cast of counten-
ance, informed him that it would not
be necessary to get out the family car
riage for Sunday services, as he and
all his family were atheists. The man
seized with avidity upon this intelli-
gence,' and it was not long before the
entire community was trembling with
the news that the latest arrivals were
outside the pale. And so it is contin-
ued the actor, that we are left to our
selves. My only unhappy moments in
this connection are when l occasionally
see little children pointing me out to
another in a shocked manner and hur-
rying to the other side of the roadway
quite as though | were witch.
Fayne Moore, notorious through her
connection with the badger game"