May 30 Sunday — In Theatre Magazine on this date appeared the following:

Mark Twain is a humorist, as everybody knows. But everybody does not know what a clever, sagacious, hard-headed man of business he is. He will soon be one of the richest publishers in America, and he seldom makes a blunder in trade. It may be taken for granted, therefore, that, when he gave Mr. Daniel Frohman $ 1,000 not to produce his new play, The American Claimant (written in collaboration with Mr. Howells), he displayed extraordianary forethought. He came to the conclusion that, since he could not stand his own play, the public would not be likely to stand it [Encore by Daniel Frohman 1937 Lee Furman, Inc. N.Y. p.107-8].