Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-17


 l minister hotel, tho following Sunday, and it was at that rcpast that J. H. Haverly put in an unexpected appearance Ho | sought Locke to join him in what he called | a 'mastodonic production of |" Pinafore' l at his Fourteenth Street theatcr.
 He said he wanted to out" Pinafore" ! every attempt that had been made with | the extremely successful little opera. "Pin aforo" twice a day was, in short, Havcrly's | "mastodonic" idea, but the more conserv- ative imprcsario Locke, combated that idea as impractic icablc unless two companies | were organized, and that, of course, was out of tho question, in view of the aug mCntcd CxpenSe. Locke suggested, how ever, Il juvenile company for matinCcs alA an adult one for tho evening performances. This ITavcrly, after little persuasion, al,- proved of l was then and there commits siOnrd to ferret out whatever juvenile tal- | cnt there was obtainable in the city. l was amazed, before the first hour of my 1 search had expired, to discover at the agencies that there were cle%Rr profcssion al children in abundanceM Within two weeks thereafter the Fourteenth Stroot | theatcr was in full blast with the two "Pinafore" companies, and great was the sensation they created and tho business l they did at both performances for many l consecutive weeks. After protractcd tour | of the principal cities the anal lgamation of the Havcrly and Miles juveniles was COD ! Summated.
 want to tell you at this stage of my story what has become of the bright HaE- erly yOungsters Jennie Dunn, the tiny | Josephine, is now the wife of Comedian l Ezra Kendall, and up to last accounts was l the mother of four babies in close rotation. | Her brother Arthur, the inimitable Dead eyo, is scarcely any bigger, yet Is rated among tho Sl5C a week star comedians. | Frances Bishop, the Admiral, after two or | three seasons profitable starring in q rnllicking farce comedy, married Johnny | McKccvcr, enc of tho "Pinaforc' crew, and now treasurer of Palmcr's theater New York, as well as the proud parent of Ave or six tots. Poor littlC Daisy Mur- l dOch the dainty lIcbe, died about six years l ago after a brief but brilliant career in E | E. Rico's hurlesqucs and N C. Goodwin's | company.
 Zoc Futile and Eva French, the alter l hating Buttcrcups, have both married well and are living in retirenlent; two of Eva's sisters arc the wives respectively of COm6- dians Evans and Hocy. Emma Hanley, one of the ''sstCrs, cousins and Cunts, married Lawyer Louis Allen of Howe X | Hummcl hut was later divorced from him | and married to w. II. West of Primrose & | West s minStrCls after Mir. West had been | divorced from Fay Templeton of comic "p- | era rcnown. Previous to her marriage En,- | ma was James T Powers leading lady in l A Straight Tip" Her sister Josie anoth- l CT "cousin, aunt, etc, is the widow of
 tho late Manager John Donncly of the | Columbus the;itcr, New York. Grace | Swcatman, still another ''sister, cousin | and aunt" was tho shy, angular girl with Titan hair and polka dot frccklcs, who,
 during the tour of tho juveniles, married | kilkinS, tho business manager of tho coln- puny EilkinS died about tlVU years later. | His widow is now numbered among the
 classical stage beauties of tho day and Is | recognized as one of tho most accomplished
 of metropolitan stock actresses Her nRme | is Grace Filkins Willie Newman, the Cap tain Corcoran, has long been on the busi-
 ness staff os Gilmore & Tonpkins of the
 new Academy of Music. Willie is married,
 thrice 2 father ard has a real yacht. Otto Ahlstrom, the first Ralph Rackstraw, is prosperous wholesale dry goods merchant | in New York. His successor In the charac- ter, the slender young girl named Selina
 Rough, is married to Mr. Taylor. tho melo-
 dramatic actor, and she plays in his sup
 port. The fat boy and the thin one who
 used to do the pair of comical marines have gone in opposite directions. George | Brcening, twice as fat and much shorter; was up to a year ago Chicago street spec
 ulator in fruits, nuts and candies and is
 reported to have since joined Rosenfeld's
 Lilliputians. The thin boy shot up into
 the starral Armament one dark night in l New York and won fame as the princi-
 pal "Hoss and Hoss', in the business. His
 name is Willie Collier, and his wife Is Lou
 ise Allen of the famous California quin-
 tet of sisters of that name Gus Collins,
 the Boatswuin, was for long time treas
 urer of the Biiou in New York, and after
 ward drifted back to the stage for heavy
 villain parts.
 One of Haverly's first Josophines was
 Annie Russell, who awkwardly failed as 0
 cantatrice, but subsequently, achieved last
 ing fame as the sweet Esmeralda and Elaine
 of the Madison Square thcater. She is mar
 ried to Eugene Presbrey, the stage man.
 agcr of A. NJ. Palmers stock company.
 Another Josephine of brief span was
 Maude Osborn, who developed into Il Mad
 ison Square theater favorito as Hazel
 Kirke and just before her lamentcd death
 married Gustavc Frohman, one of tho not
 cd brothers of that name. A third Jose
 phine of passing connection with the Hay
 erly organization was Flora Walsh of San
 Francisco, who became tho wife of Play
 wright Hoyt and died little more than two
 years ago. 1 can only cite tho principals of
 the Haverly company. Of the chorus-it is
 on record that the majority drifted into
 other walks, while the remainder continued
 to pursue modest even way i'll their
 adopted profession. might except the
 flaxen haired Little Lord Fauntleroyish
 Harry Woodruff, whose membership in the
 chorus proved too rough and ready for his
 exotic attire. As soon as Harry's curls
 were cue and be took to wgaring longer