Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-29


 land, will shortly return to this couu- ! try, having played all inc leading mu- , sic halls while abroad.
 :I: The Daily sisters, Lizzie and Vinie, are on the Hopkins circuit, playing St Louis this week. and still doing excel lent work with their dancing speciality.
 Il: The Elks of Alexandria. Ia. cOntem- plate building q SIC OlO theater i'll that city and together with others have al- ready subscribed in stock $2J,UGu for that purpose.
 II: A woman sitting in the front row of the balcony of the Duquesne the;i- ter, PittSburg. Penn, recently laughed so heartily that one of her gOlG-tillCd teeth became luOSencl and fell to tilr floor below. The matter was I"poriC!. to Resident Manager Scott. who sent two ushers to recover the truant to0th. No trace of it could be found. Tlt next morning q letter came to thr theater incloSing lhe tooth. the sender stating that he found it ill his cc,!t pocket
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 Elvira Frencelli does not believe in
 
 she does not mind wearing those Of ier friends in that con%picuouS place. Miss Frencelli hGs q fad fer collecting silver hearts, and her collection now num'sai's about one hundred. She has nra2Iv all of them attached to 2 chain hracr- let which she wears on he" wrist aI- though il is quite heavy. and takes tho greatest delight in showing 1t to hrj' friends. She also has q few hearts "f 
 chain. The one sine prizes mCSt is q feart-shaped lOcket. given her bv Mag gie Cline. which contains q picture Ur the Irish Queen"
 During the summer days past. Maude Odell. now leading lady with the Imperial ThGater Stock ,ompany. St Louis. spent her vacation :.t hgl. home. Beaufort. s. c One SuuLlr. strolling chnrchward. the actress en- countered two very small boys who had been to Sunday school To tiic lin- fest of the pair Miss Otlell addr. @sed herself: ''So you've been to Sunday school" said she: 'have vou been baptized?" The tiny one WIS thrown into great confusion and found no words to make reply. Tell me" re- peated the actress. 'haven't you been baptized?' ''Yes'm. he has, then explained the elder of the pair. he has three times. but it didn't take,''
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 Theater hats have been the most discussed recent feature ill Boston. and all on account of FliZa-I mean Mrs w. F. ApthOrp. Wearing q chip on her shoulder and her own patent hat warranted not to obstruct the vision of any and to adnrn the feminine fuce Q- ', ', q
 cake could do, she went to the Hollis to see All on Account of Eliza" Her husband is the critic of the Transcrinr and took his wife witl, him on q pass. but that made no difference. When the usher came down with the DCIi1e " Worded card, she insisted that she would wear the hat It seems tEat she had champiOneG the cause of a low hat before the aldermen and had assured them that there would he no possible objection to such q head GOV erlng- This made her all the more determined, and. in spite of the man. ager'S polite requests. she insisted on keeping the hat on the head or leaving the theater. She left tito theatcr 1)al7s- Ing ill the managers office fol. 2 few words of emphatic exclamation J1r+ she proved entirely in error when sue said that her husbands paper would have no criticism of the play as q re- suit of the episode. Evidently sIn constituted herself the Lillian Clayton Jewett of the theater hat. for the next night she wore it to the Museum where her husband went on anothe, pass to criticise Hearts Are TiunlD> ' This time she called the manager out and asked him what he was going tC do about it. She had q long talk and finally. as maie-shift arrang; ment Mir Field the mana ger. took her tc Iii, box, while Mir ADthorp went down tc his regular seat in the orchestra. Pu- she was not satisfied and she yrrote 1c the papers, she was interviewed an. she went around to see managers Those who have been able to coun heir patrons on the fingers of ont and were firm in declaring that thcy ever would ask any one to remove $ at They never will. Meantime the Hollis. Museum and Eeith's continue their rule of no hats which has beer generally approved by the tJeatey goers. and tie new Colonial will have the same policy.
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 "Something amusing as a related ey perience. but not so amusing to tht victim occurred to me two or three sea sons ago in Colorado" said Manage Smith Turner. T was making juml and saw fit to stop in q little towl called BreckenbriGge. There was little money in it for the. show and i broke the jump. I was in advance. arrived in Breckenbridge when due !; one of the two trains that break tn silence of the town diurnally-one SC ing each way. I found a solitary Dc tel, kept by a miner, who was landlord porter, chief clerk, night clerk. bel boy, cook, bottle manipulator and Do; tie washer in one. and he did the bes he knew how to entertain. I transact ed my business and. that being done naturally wished to get away Th only train-and thus the train that wished to take-passed through at 2:3 a. m, and left a call for that convey ance. I got to bed betimes. for ther was nothing doing and I had been U much of late in larger communities and. as the silence was soporific, I sleI like a top. I was awakened at 2:3 by vigorous knocking on my dool Hey. there. Your train will he in i twenty minutesv cried the knockel