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Show i.gaid pasha" Opera "Company Wrecked By Bad Management and a Drunken Advance Agent. IKUS 6IBLS LEFT DESTITUTE. Benefit Concert on Thursday Night To Help Them ; Out., hit pcrfonnaueo of "Said '! 0'ccui'n'd Satimlay night, after 'l, tho California Opera company il to exi . The causes which led '"the disaster may be summed up hi words but in order to arrive ut a elusion a reporter of Tut Timks rht t Manager Peyser yesterday luid a talk with Mm. . ,, iwscr began his story by a vin-illU vin-illU of himself, wheii not a word-liriisiiid word-liriisiiid to him indicative of sus-in sus-in as tu 111 conduct. He. said that l'iloiie everything it was possible 1,1,,, to do to keep thu company to-pr to-pr When in Ihitte ho had received lm from Johu Kreling to get to lake where he would lind a check 10UO, There was no money to pay ,ui fares uml tho company too, so wmt let Hie company go ami 'he railroad fares. To do this ho w paw n his 300 gold watch, a gift Mi dead mother, and he also had i .Manager Burgess to advance him on tlie prospect of good houses in jko. With this money ho brought vinpatiy hero, but found no $1000 mole and telegraphed to Johu ng, hut could gel no reply from Finally, as a last resort, ho tele-ad tele-ad his wife in San Francisco to roling personally, but up to last n he had not heard from her. j he settled up with Manager Bur. Mturday night he had a balance ! 3d, and this he divided with the iuv. Tho principals and tho i, never agreed, and when the final up occurred the former declined anything for' the latter, even in ay of giving a benefit perform- reporter was not satisfied that jtlt Peyser was entirely, blame-in blame-in liie matter,- and ho found Miss Carrol Crouse. i talk with this lady resulted ivvealiug evidences . of bad ueiuent. Miss Crouso has long connected with the stage on si-itic coast, and is a woman of ex-cc. ex-cc. She said tliat the company had icon paid a ceiit of wages in four . At least the chorus had not, icivasof opinion that the prima-mil prima-mil heen better looked after, "else mild they go east, as they intend tomorrow morning?" "Mr. lJey-Iks lJey-Iks fairly enough," said the lady, Ms explanations are not reason-lean reason-lean attribute our financial dis to but one . thing, and to but oue thing, ami is bad management. When hiywl 111 Helena our advance was in Butte, ami wo discovered iielerc he .hilled the town he laid 1 at saloons drunk all the Wc were billed Friday and I Monday. What kind of ader-do ader-do you call that? Then: there numerous bills incurred by the ce agent, one for $70 or over for and expanses, and another for y tor (iiite a sum. . These Mr. rpaid and let the salaries go. '"tunics for the "Brigand"' came i San Francisco to Butte by i;x-I'. i;x-I'. 0. 1). Here was another bill which Mr. Peyser paid. . Ho af-ils af-ils scnt the costumes back to Mr. !! Our company was not nearly i iKMi.irh to piay tho Brigands,'' -inlc my protest, which I thought j in'rit'tiee warranted mi) Iu mak-I mak-I r. Kreliug insisted on our play-' play-' ' "Brigamls." Well, we played riiitting out some of tho best Mil with a dclicieiit company t; result was failure, v.Wc hadn't m Ihe house. I suggested ' Kivling that some lighter wttlil be played instead of tho , something like "Tho May i"i' instance, but he wouldn't '1, wc came ou to Salt Lake and whur lioib'i's, but ut tlic close ''I'gagenici.t there Avas tho old t uu moiiey. - Then theeompnnv "P- The troublo between tho ,!lLi , and the . chorus js of long-It long-It began 'in St.Paiil and' '"t again in San Francisco. The f wanted Ida Mullo and Jief dismissed, and because tho wouki not stand in with them 75j' t play unless thev were dis-'; dis-'; Wfi feeling arose, "l'ou can't fie chorus, who only get from ''i week, for not wanting to go I nke' business. . evening after the break up "l':lll.V held a r..eoliug to deter- 1,e P'aii of action. Mauager as most kind and offered tho y "!c opi'ra house for a beue- he principals would not ?Yr- h'Waite, speaking for J;;'1"""1 1 aid the chorus ill any 1 uuirsc the youug men of the" 1 'ke care of themselves, but .'filial the girls, who are all ;l and cxem)larv young ladies, II 1'0W" uestitute upon their If Z many hundred miles Iwo of them, tho Misses fr mW i'-ilt tllc Mfltropolilan hotel 'iti '-l0 re"'ain there for tho i, .,, i is sil'k! two are at tho . i;,'1",' th,; proprietor of the hotel , ' "'" today not to worn- i " "f roni rent, as thev could r oo,n fop a M - take,, euro of by a pri-i4 pri-i4 in 1 IM,lon't j,,st know what in, n(;iU ,l0- a right - iP 'ltt,li,-,s,okto mc lor " he i Brgessi8jiwt as C-idc h?. be- allcl tomorrow we -fl lm - crit best to Uke up-m up-m Mbiness If weplaysome- iZhi" ""I musical lino must hve. ,fmt think of it, , ' raised a purse of $42 lhc 1 ie girls, and after-, ad 'Anne 'eU-& Hart company. I thev fV'f ' sent two of thenl' 1 i liad a stage acquaint- j |