Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-17
A YELLOW STORY
ARIZONA CRAZE TO BE DRAMA
 TtZED.
Calumet Genius Writing a Play Which Will Portray the Speculative cordi-
 tions in Arizona Properties Here.


 tions in Arizona Properties Here (Houghton Gazette)
 A Calumet genius is writing a new play which has been ordered by Will liam A Brady. the manager. Brady wants something. that will represent the modern speculative conditions and tell the story of the rise of Arizona as a mining country and the rise of Mich igan capitalists at one and the same time. He made the request to ths aforesaid local genius who has been working on the idea for a long time and now has the first raft of his nsw play completed and is putting the fin ishing touches on the heavy work Of the villain and waiting for time to prove what ought to be worked into the final act of the new drama. The new play is certain to make a great hit The first act represents three main characters. One is min ing captain working underground. An other is lawyer, sitting in his office waiting for clients to come around and wondering how under the sun he is going to pay his board nsxt month The other is q mercantile man. who is very busy trying to make enough to make the store rent good at the first cf the coming month. There are many minor characters. but the writer of the new play thinks the three named represent the most important types necessary to the Notation of an Arizo. Da mine just about this time Once in while a slight change may be no. ticed but not very often.
 In the second act the three most i'm pcrtant characters are represented as dIshing out stocks. Towards the close of the act they are all working big printing presses and handing out the stock certificates by the armfuls. All the employees are buying up the stocks as well as most every body else within many miles. The scene Of op- erations also enlarge during this act | and the craze for the stocks becomes worse than ever. The money is being shoveled out the rear door of the stage.
 In the third act conditions have changed somewhat. There isn't a cent of cash in the town People who want to go to the theatre hand the man at the box office one stock cer- | tificate if the show is of average stand ing and two or three certificates ii not. People are represented in the mer- chants store buying shoes and carpet tacks. and paying for them in Arizona | mining stocks. Change is made in 1 stock certificates One man who has been seen with a government note in req! cash is followed up and down the | street as curiosity until finally he is locked up in the jail by the mar. shal who believes he must have stolen it.
 The fourth act hasn't been decided upon as yet. The author is waiting 10 see how Arizona is going to pan out before deciding which of the two acts he has prepared will be inserted in the play. The first is going to be worked in if the Bisbee mines fail to make good. It represents a cemetery. Tombstones, all recently erected, bear the names of different mining corpora- tons with a black band of crepe at. tached- Through the cemetery can be seen a lengthy procession. The min | af hn the lawyer are at the head. They all look as if they might have worn bet. ter clothes at one time or other and they all look as if they had not only lost their best friend in the world. but their last dollar as well
 The other act which may be insert. ed represents Calumet after the Ari. zona mines commenced to pay divi dends. The mining captains. the merchants and the lawyers are all wearing good clothes and have plenty O. jewelry. The street scene shows nothing but automobiles. The daugh ters of the trio wear silks and satins and occupy the seats in the mobiles as
 if they had been used to riding in them all their lives They talk about
 grand opera and art and party gowns
 with an air that would do credit to a
 Fifth avenue resident Everybody
 is rich and everybody wants to be rich
 CT and everything is happy. The
 Calumet writer of the play says h.
 hopes the last act can be made just as
 he wants it.