Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-29


 According to Frederick Edward Mckay, the bright young feuilletonist, most of tho handsome ladies of the stage are located as follows: Fanny Johnson in R. A. Barnet's "Prince Pro Tem," Anna Robinson with "A Temperance Town." Nannette Comstock with "Charley's Aunt" Alice Evans with "A Texas Steer," Percy Haswelt with Augustin Daily, Mary Hampton with Sowing tho Wind" Katherine Florence and Bessie Tyrce with the Lyceum stock com pany, Adele Ritchie and Lulu Glnser with Francis Wilson, Belle Archer with Sol Smith Russell. Edna Wallace and Jennie Goldthwaito with Do Wolf Hopper, Elita Proctor Otis and Katherine Grey with "New Blood" Josephine Hall with Shenandoah" Emma Pollock with Ed ward Harrigan, Grace Kimball with E H. Sothern, Annie O'Nein with w. H. Crane, Eileen Jewell with the Bostonians Lulu Tabsr with "In Old Kentucky Dorothy Morton with "The Fencing Mas ter," Sadie Macdonald, Louise Montague and Kate Uart with "Oh the Earth, !" Jes- sic Carlyle, May Stephenson, Gcorgie Den- min, Madgc Lcssing, Belle and May Stew art and Sylvia Thorne with "The Passing show" Villa Knox and Mario Celeste with Della Fox, Grace Emerson and Net tie Lyford with "Littlo Christopher Co- lumbus," Juliette Corilen with Rob Roy," Elvia Crox with Thomas Q. Sea brooke, Florrie West with "The Dazzler," Amy Busby with Richard Mansfield and Maxine Elliott with Roso Coghlan.
 Comic opera has had big boom in this country, and the men who concoct this form of entertainment arc particularly busy and correspondingly happy. Charles A. Byrnc and Louis Harrison, the coli brcttists of ''The Isle of Champagne" "Venus' and "Princcss Nicotine" have just completed another book, which Is called 'Tho Bangdoolah of Swat" J. Checvcr Goodwin, whose two works, "Thc Devils Deputy" and "Dr. Syntax," arc now on view In Broadway thcatcrs. was obliged by overwork, ns Is well known, to give up his contract to do ''Thc Little Trooper, and now hear that after n very short rest hc Is to begin another librctto for a well known star. Harry B. Smith has only recently finished ." Rob Roy, "but has, hear, started on another comic opcrn alrcady, and most of the other well known librettists are also very busy, though net to such an extent as the composers. Rcgi- nald dc kovcn has just laid down his pen on tho scoro of Rob Roy," but his timo Is pre-empted for at least a year or two. W. W. Furst will follow Tho Little Trooper" so it IS said, with something moro ambitious before the close of the season; Jakobowski has but recently | turned out The Queen of Brlilinnts" and "Tho Devils Deputy" and Is now doing two moro operas, with still further con tracts ahcad Ludwig Englandcr is finish ing a score for Thomas Q. Scabrooke and another, "Clcopatra, for Lillian Russell; Richard Stahl will, hear. soon emerge from his retirement at Hot Springs, caused | by i'll health, with n new offering; Wool son Morse has been obliged to refuse work, much of it with large sums offered in advancc of royalties; Percy Gaunt, tho | composer of the Trip to Chinatown and other Hoytian melodies, is busily engaged | fitting music to librctto by n well known New York dramatic editor; Otto Langcy | is completing an opera to which he has de- | voted his spare moments for moro than a year, and Charles Pucrncr is said to have | recently completed moritorious score, | which will probably have an early hear ing. Even Sir Arthur Sullivan, despite his split with Gilbert, has mustered ur courage to do m opcrctta-
 | Walter Sanford, the well known man. ager of real out and out melodramatic at- | fractions, has n stock company in this city which Is supposed to play only hero and | in Brooklyn. It is n really mcritorious | organization and Ia made up of actors most of whom arc known throughout the | length and breadth of the land. Miss Vic tory Batcman Is the leading lady, while tc Il Charles D. Herman, for many years with the leading tragedy stars of America, arc intrustcd the heavy roles. Tho man whc Is always the hero Is Harry Mainhall. He is not n newcomer by any means Ho has
 been on the stage for n very long time and has played in everything from comic opera up to tragedy. Mir. Mainhall, as tho load ing man of SanfOrd's stock company, has
 had tho first protrncted opportunity to show New Workers and BrUOklynites of
 what hc is capable. Tho nrsult has been emincntly satisfactory. MT. Mainhall is one of the very few really capable juvenile actors in this country. His method is mark