The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-22
member the Maine" will be at the
Grand opera house next week.

n,
Sam Bernard. the well known coined.
ian ofS''A Dangerous Maid,n tells of q r
experience he once had trying to get
seats to see friend who was PLAYING
last!y year at a theater in which the at
traction was controlled by two brothers
Some changes had been made in The
| box office staff, and Bernard did not
know the treasurer. and asked to see
| one of the proprietors, to whom he Ead
| once been introduced,
Il am Mr.. Blanks representative y
said gentleman with a beard, as he
peered at the actor through the win
doW. what can do for you?"
Il guess it must have been your
brother that / met" hesitatingly an
| sWered Sam
Perhaps so,'' said the personal rep
| resentative, but what can l do for
you?"
Il want pass for two seats.''
Who are you?" was the next query.
Il have no card, but my name is ]3er-
nard."
Who have you been with?"
Bernard looked blankly at his inquis-
itor for second, and then his appre-
citation of the comic situation came to
his aid
NO no, 1 really cannot tell the
story of my life for two seats" and
with that he walked away.
Miss Blanche Bates of Daly's COM
pany is an awfully pretty girl and an
aWfully clever one, but I'm afraid that
she is wee bit eccentric, and eccen-
tricity and Daly's don't rhyme smooth
ly, says writer in the New York Tele-
graph. All my life have gone about
nearing DAILY girls say disagreeable
things about Ada Rehan. 1t seems to
be in the Daily contract that other
ladies' in the company must scorch the
leading lady, and that's why 1 think
MISS Bates is eccentric. for she is
spending all her time-when she isn't
at rehearsal-in telling her friends Of
the gentleness and courtesy Miss Rehan
extends to the less famous members CT
the DAILY organization. Miss Bates
hasn't been at Daly's long, but she al
ready cites a score Of kindnesses re-
ceived at the hands of the leading lady
and 1T Is as much as ones life is worth
to suggest to the young Californian ac-
tress that Miss Rehan isn't Americas IS
greatest dramatic genius.
Jacob Lift, not content with having
made four new productions this sea-
son, has given out in New York that he
purposes to place two more plays on
the stage before the end of the season.
The first of these is an English farce
which has had long run at London
playhouse, where Mr.. Dingwall saw it
at the time he was abroad to purchase
Sporting Life" It is called 1.-The CLUB
Baby and it will probably be brought
out in the East. The other promised
production may be something he has in
view for next summer a. McVicker's.
He says it will be a romantic drama,
with Otis Skinner in the leading role.
For the present Mr.. Skinner is busy in
the South with John Drews old play,
Rosemary" but this tour will be COM
pleted before Mr.. Lifts plans for nin
are ready to be acted upon.
Concerning the latest war drama,
which is booked to appear at the
Grand on Feb. and 6, the Winnipeg
Free Press says: "The opera house
contained very large audience last
night. The Prisoner of Spain is a
drama founded on thrilling incidents
connected with the Cuban war and tells
most exciting story in which Old
Glory is exalted and the bloodthirsty
spaniards held up to scorn and execra-
ton. The vast audience heartily cheer,
ed the stars and stripes and the senti-
ments of the play. A machete fight
made very exciting climax in the last
act. The company is capable one and
gave good satisfaction
What Happened to Jones' was to
have been played at Park City, Utah, a
few nights ago, but Harry Corson
Clarke was sick at Salt Lake and the
manager of the opera house wouldn't
accept an understudy in Mr.. ,Clarkes
part, and consequently there was 10
performance.
1t is estimated that What Happened
to Jones" has been played to more than
one million of people-a remarkable
record. This successful farce has been
running since last July to crowded
houses at the Strand theater in London,
England.
Good Talker.
From the Yonkers Statesman