Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-02-04
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Stray Leaves From q Reporters Note


Stray Leaves From . Reporters Note
Book.
"THE Colleen Bawn," which will be
presented at the City hall on Thursday
evening by the Acme Dramatic club, is
the best known of the Irish plays of
of a generation ago. It was first pro-
duced at Miss Laura Keene's theatre, on
Broadway, N. Y, afterwards known as
the Olympic, on March 81, 1860. The
cast included Boucicault as Myles-na-
Coppaleen, Agnes Robertson as Eily
lOConnor, Charles Wheatleigh as
Danny Mann, Charles Fisher, as Kyrle
Daily, and Laura Keene as Anne Chute.
1t proved one of the most successful of
all Boucicault's plays, and has had in
America and Australia. The rapidity
with which the piece was written is
striking proof of Boucicault's remark
able facility in dramatization. When
"Vanity Fair" proved unsuccessful,
Laura Keene urged Boucicault to sub
| stitute piece to save the season. The
irrepressible Dion rummaged among the
| cheap novels of Brentano's small sta
tionery store and selected, with a few
other books, 1.-THE Collegians," by
Gerald Gaiffin. The next day he wrote
the following letter to Laura Keene:
My Dear Laura:
scenes around Killarney. Get your
scene painter to work on them at once.
I also send book of Irish melodies,
with those marked l desire Baker to
score for the orchestra. l shall read act
one of my new Irish play on Friday; we
rehearse that while l am writing the
second, which will be ready on Monday,
/ and we rehearse the second while I am
doing the third. We can get the play
out within fortnight.
Yours etc, d. B.
Boucicault and Agnes Robertson re-
turned to England during the summer
/ of 1860, and in September of that year
commenced an engagement in the
colleen Bawn" at the Adelphi theatre,
London. AT the close of the Adelphi
season Benjamin Webster announced
from the stage that Mr. and Mrs Bouci-
cault agnes Robertson) had performed
in the colleen Bawn" in London and
the provinces for more than 800 con-
secutive nights-at that time the longest
run on record.
To my mind this street railway bust
ness is being overdone. 1t appears to
be the fad of the season. The lobby of
the general assembly is overrun with
persons seeking charters and municipal
authorities on every hand are being
petitioned for rights of way. Every
little village in the state has it's electric
road sin esse'' or "in futuro." Before
long there will be a branch into every
body's back yard from Woodtick to
Hopeville. There must be some limit to
the needs of the public in this respect.
Charters and franchises should not be
granted without guarantee that those
| applying for them mean business and
are not merely trying a secure privi-
lege for speculative purposes.
WHILE in another town the other day
happened to pick up physicians pre-
scription blank on which was printed in
red ink the line: "This prescription not
to be refiIled." This being a custom not
generally followed l asked the genial
doctor if it was scheme on his part to
make patients pay for another prescrip-
ton when the medicine they had taken
helped them and perhaps another bottle
| of the same kind would effect a COM
plete cure. mot at ALL" said the medi-
cal man. "The physician is alone re-
sponsible for the good or bad effect OF
medicine he prescribes. 1t is therefore
manifestly unfair to him to permit the
unrestricted refilling of his prescriptions
without his knowledge or consent. Fol
he is thereby placed in position of re.
sponsibility with regard to matter over
| which he can have no control. Pres
criptions have in many instances within
my knowledge been refilled and the
medicine taken, to the lasting injury OF
| the patient and to the great discomfort
of the medical attendant.