Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-04
THE DEMOCRAT. FRIDAY OCTOBER 88y
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.


 PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
 Blanche Marsdon is seriously Ill.
 Nita Sykes has signed with Augustin Daly | for three years.
 It is reported that Adele Palma will short ly star in ''Article 47.'' Major J. B. Pond has almost monopoly | of the lecture business. B. J. Kendrick, fat and smiling, is out l ahead of Mckee Rankin. Louise Sanford has made Q big hit as the | daughter in "Jed Prouty." Mrs. Langtry and Freddie Gebhard are | touring the English provinces. Frank Gayler is engaging company to play a repertoire of new pieces. Nonna Ferner has resigned as leading | lady witk Gilmore's 'Twelve Temptations"
 J. A. Wheelock has made decided hit as | Willett Chase in "McKenna's Filtration"
 Augustin Daly's great production this season will be revival of "As You Like ] It."
 Frank P. Bowers has been engaged as manager of Hattie Harvey in ''The Little Tramp"
 Mrs. Potter and MT. Bellew will star in "Cleopatra' through the British provinces. Poor Tony Halt has been remanded to the insane asylum at Worcester, Mass. Lillian Rutledge has been engaged for the forthcoming production of ''Tim the Waif."
 Marie Jansen, after an absence of ten weeks, has resumed her place in the cast of ''The Oolah.''
 Gilbert Clayton will go with the E. Harry Decker Musical Comedy Company in "Red Tape"
 Barney Pagan (with Primrose & West) has covered himself with glory in his latest march.
 Mrs. Dion Boucicault No. will return to the stage as member of one of the Lyceum companies.
 James R. Smith has signed with John A. Stevens to play the leading comedy role in ''Wife for Wife,"
 The next pantomime at Her Majesty's, London, will be ''Cinderella," with Mlnnle Palmer in the title role.
 Archibald c. Gunter has dramatized his novel, s'Mr. Potter of Texas,a and is going to play it through the country under his own management.
 Annie Lewis, of the "Later On" Con- pany, brought suit for divorce recently in Chicago against her alleged husband, Will ton Lackaye, 8 supposed bachelor Walter Damrosch, whom rumor persists 
 Secretary Blaine, positively denies the latest report of this sentimental episode. Bronson Towards selection of an English man to play Yankee Captain in "Shenan- doah" Is universally condemned. Such caricature as Mr. Selton makes of the part was never seen in active service. ! The "Old Homestead" appears to realize | the saying "too funny to live" A lady at Reading, Pa, laughed so heartily at q recent | performance of the play that she swallowed | her false teeth and chozed to death. | I Bessie Bellwood has received warning 1 from the London police for the rankness of | one of the popular songs she sings. Lord | Vaudeville, who travels with her and gets | her salary, is said to be the author of this l ballad.
 The English provincial press Is buttering Mrs. Langtry thick with praise. It finds l her as great an actress as Bernhardt. Mrs. Langtry evidently proposes for the present to work England for all it is worth, to make up for last seasons frost in America.-N. Y. Dramatic News.
 The N. Y. World in cablegram from l Europe states, as reason for Mrs. Potter's present retirement, that 'people who know | her say that it has been obvious for some time that Mrs. Potter could not return to the stage till next spring at the very earliest"
 The new part which Stuart Robson is to create at the Chicago Opera-House the week of September 30 in Steele Mackaye's 8 "An Arrant Knave,' is something between Theodore do Banville's Gringoire and Paul Terriers Tabarin-the two characters in which Coquelin displays the most powerful mastery of his art.
 Minnie Palmer did not sign to play in Cin- derella at Her Majesty's Theater, London, till September 5, and then only on condition that she was to receive percentage of the gross receipts. She refused @ certainty of e2OO for each performance with extra allowance for morning and matinee per- formances.
 ''The Brigands" at the close of it's very successful run at the New York Casino will be taken on tour of the principal cities, including Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, where it will be presented for four weeks in each of these cities. In Pitts burgh, Baltimore, Washington and Brook. lyn it will be given for one week each; this will be tour of only sixteen weeks, and is, without exception, one of the shortest tours ever played by any attraction. 'The Brigands' will be revived at the Casino l upon its return to New York.