The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-10
DAN PACKARD GONE SAID TO HAVE LEFT HERE SAT-
 URDAY NIGHT. Also Reported That the Members of the Vaudeville Company
 Were Not Paid Their
 Salaries.

Dan Packard, manager of the recent attractions at the Auditorium, has left town. It is aHeged that the actors of paid, and that there is rent due for the use of the Auditorium,
 Packard came to Montgomery last the. public well knows, the title proved true. He and his company were strand ed here. Packard made fri ends who as sisted him and shortly afterwards he ap peared at the Montgomery Theatre, rose above his former title, and assumed the rule of Mikado. This part was too much and Packard was next helrd of in ''rhe these titles has left; his creditors are also left, and, as Packard said in his song. That's AL"
 are we'll known to the citizens of Mont gomery. He came here as Prince Pro Tenn. The bill boards told in flaming let ters about the prince and his court. The season. The pHblis was anXitu US to witness the last performance of the the. atrical season. and the night of the per- tormancc a large audience vas at tn. theatre. The orchestra played gaiiy. Visions of the great Prince and the finery or ms court danced merrily before the eyes of the people. In fancy they saw the Prince arrayed in royal purple. The ladies of his Court, gowned in silks and satins. courtesied at the foot of his throne. while gallent. knights. in ancient u.
 The overture had been played, the Su- dtence was awakened from it's dreamfuI anticipations by the tinkling of the curl snln,d snia nen' Instead of scenes of joyful danced vision of something. What it was none knew, but some suggested that Pereaps m 1t was a picture of Mardi Gras
 There. sat the great Prince" He wore an. ordinary suit of clothes. Gathered aoont him were men and women dressed erly used by the Birmingham Carnival Society. Others fared not so well.
 One man came out to sing He had 1nT1%n n1l,SHX hi mackIntosh over his person and he wore the macintosh no one knew. It was not raining in the theatre. but the people in the audience said 1t certainly
 And of the women some of the cos tumes fit. and some did not Their little Trilbies were unsafely housed in worn called shoes. the tops of which had been turnd down to resemble a slipper It was truly rag time" scene. Some words were said and some songs sung, ana, at the expiration of an hour or SO the affair was over.
 It was announced tha tthe baggage of the company had not arrived but the management of the show said 1t would be here the next day and the matinee performance would be put on with splendor." But the people heard that the baggage had been siietracked by a constable at Anniston, herice. there was no one at the matinee, which was de- clarod of. Thus 1t came about that Dan fackard and his comDa.iN "Fe stranded In Montgomery. Some members of the company were at hotels; some did not have the price.
 It was announced that monster ben. th sfit would Ido be given at neI MeDonslds ugLcr Blues, There was large attendance and the stranded play i2lk were ht Iped considerably, After this performance cry. One by one the members of his company left here on their way to New York. The deposed Prince resumed the name of Dan Packard.
 Everybody liked Packard. He Is n clever fellow and has pleasant and ge-
 He decided to give an opera. and. as- put on. and a splendid audience greeted the performance. At, the same house Packard next put on The Gilded Fool. and then followed several minstrel shows
 Some weeks ago Packard secured charge Of the Audi torium, and announced deville performance. which he did for four weeks. The last perfcrYnsoce was gwen Thursday night. though the show was advertised to play all during the week. It is said that two of the perform CTS left Montgomery Thursday. Packard was here Saturday, and the woman with whom he and his wife boarded on Dex- ter Avenue says that they left Montgom- cry Saturday night It developed yester- day that the performers have also left Montsomery. and 1t also became known that some of them went away without being paid for their services.
 Mi~9 Amv WhaIev. the soprano. board ed at the Exchange. and the clerk there says she left for Birmingham Sunday morning. He says che told him that Packard had not paid her salary. Miss Mhaley took tho affair good naturally.
 Miss Helene Delmar and Mir. George Mounts boarded on Court Street. and persons who boarded there say that they said that Packard had not paid them.