The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-10

staff and wears his coat fastened in at
| the waist with a bit of rope.
His home is little cottage on the
edge of town, where he lives entirely
alone On almost any warm afternoon
| he can be found seated before his door
| reading, but he is ready enough to talk
with the chance visitor, whose curiosity
| to meet the composer of one of the ma
| tional songs of America has brought
| him out from town.
| Asked to tell how Dixie" was writ
| ten, he said:
"On Saturday night in 1859, as I was
| leaving Bryant's theater, where / was
playing, Bryant called after me, I want
a walk round for Monday, Dam The
next day 1t rained and I stayed in
| doors. At first when I went at the
song I couldn't get anything. But
| line, I wish I was in Dixie kept re-
1 peating itself in my mind, and l finally
took it for my start. The rest wasn't
long in coming, and that's the story
| of how Dixie was written. 1t made a
week everybody in New York was
whistling it. Then the South took it
up and claimed it for it's own. I sold
the copyright for $500, which was all I
ever made from it. III show you my
| FIRST copy He went into the house
and returned in moment with a yell
| low, worn-looking manuscript in his
hand.
CHATS Dixie" he said, holding it
up fer inspection. Il am going to give
/ it to some historical society in the
, South one of these days, for though I
was born here in Ohio, I count myself
a southerner, as my father was a Vjr-
| ginian." Half a century ago Emmett
| was a famous 'nigger' minstrel.
Strangely enough Dixie" or Dixie
| land" referred not to the South or to
any part of the South. 1t was the
name of an estate on Manhattan island.
the property of a man by the name of
Dizzy, who was one of the largest slave
I holders of his day, until the rapid
growth of the anti-slaveFy movementin
p the North compelled him to sell his
4 slaves South. 1T was from these blacks
and their descendants that the word
"Dixieland" came, expressing their love
and longing for their former home and
master.
Another interesting announcement so
far as Washington Is concerned, says
the Post, is a runor which was circu-
lated last week to the effect that T.
Daniel Frawley, the eX-Washingtonian
who has been highly successful man
aging a stock company on the Pacific
coast, and who was the first manager
who ever made money out of a Wash
ington summer stock company will
probably inaugurate a winter season
with stock company at the Lafayette
Square opera house. Mr.. Frawley was
in Washington the early part of last
week, and the rumor had it that Mr..
Painter of the Lafayette talked with
him about the stock company project,
the scheme being to run the rest of the
season and as far into the summer
months as possible. Mr. Frawley has
70 unity hi tool
pany in San Francisco Tomorrow
night, and his engagements out there
cover a period of a least two months.
Definite information at this end is lack
ing, inasmuch as probably no definite
agreement has been reached. but that
such an enterprise would be highly
profitable seems to be the general
opinion locally. Mr.. Frawley last
spring, at the Columbia. won the Wash
ington public with his excellent pre-
sentation of the newer standard plays.
If any one Is to inaugurate a winter
stock company in Washington, no one
better fitted to do it could be found.
If there really is such a deal under
consideration, and it goes through, IL
will be a very interesting announce
ment for Washington.
Wagenhals & Kemper's production of
''The Winters Tale is one of the most
pretentious Shakespearean revivals of
recent years In q season which has
many big scenic productions it is among
the most important and conspicuous.
Everything that pictorial and scenic art
can supply has been bestowed on the
production in a prodigal manner. The
play is done in five acts and II scenes.
The first scene represents the portico
of the palace of King Leontes in Stella.
Act H. shows Queen Hermione's apart
meOtS the gallery of the god ApOllO
and the storm scene on the coast of 3D.
hena. In each of these scenes color has
been used with splendid effect The
storm scene is particularly realistic and
effective and remarkable from its free,
bold beauty. In act Ill, where the trial
of Hermione takes place, is represented
the court in the Sicilian palace, which
is shown with marvellous discernment
of color and scenic illusion. In the
change of light at the climax of the
trial is an especially beautiful effect.
One of the most beautiful and effective
scenes is said to be the repository of art
in the palace of King Leontes This
scene is notable for it's Instructive
| value in an historical sense, and for
elaborate interior detail has never been
/ equaed.
The entire production is by Bradley G
Corbett the whole illusion is Grecian
| and classical, to a degree, embellished
| with costly Grecian antiquities.
A special feature is the Bohemian
sheep shearing Festivities in the last
act, where the peasant dance is intro
| duced The dance itself consists of an
| ENORMOUSLY devised and deliberately
| executed series of WRITINGS, racings
| and rapid voluptuous movements
Two new farce comedies will be pro-
duced shortly in New York. One is "a
| Singed Cat" which will be put on in
January. and the other. the scenes of
| which are all laid in a newspaper office,
will probably be produced in February
| or March. The part of an editor in the
| latter play was specially written for