Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30


 atrical magnate, now in this country,
 is negotiating for productions of Way ! Down East'' and "LOvers' Lane" in
 Melbourne and Sydney. The company l will be rehearsed ill New York and 1 sent intact to the Antipodes.
 l :II:)
 1 The popular playwright of to-day
 seems to be Clyde Fitch. None of his
 efforts have found quicker or more cor
 dial appreciation than Lovers Lane.'
 which is crowding the Manhattan the
 ater, New York. in it's third month,
 and will finish the season at that
 house.
 The enormous crowds that flock to l the revival of Uncle Toms Cabin at
 the New York Academy of Music fur
 nish fresh proof that after all "old | things are the beSt.' No new play of l the New York season has attracted so
 many people within corresponding
 period.
 According to Ireland's Records or
 the New York Stage.'' the first theatri- | cal performance given in New York | city of which there is any record was
 Richard TIL" played at an improvised 1heater at what is now 64 and G6 Mas
 sau street, on March ,. 1750. The
 New York Weekly Postboy of Febru
 ary 26. 1I5O. contained the following i editorial announcements: Last week
 arrived here company of comedians
 from Philadelphia. who we hear have i taken a convenient room for their pur- l pose in one of the buildings lately be- ! longing to the Hon Rip Van Dam. Esq.
 deceased, ill Nassau street. where they
 intend 10 perform as long as the se.- | | suitable encouragement" In the same | issue of the Postboy appeared this ad-
 vertsement: By His Excellency'S
 Permission. At the Theatre in Nassau Street. on Monday, the 9th day of March next, will be presented, the His torical Tragedy of King Richard Sd! | Wrote originally by Shakespeare and altered by Colley Cibber. Esqr. In | this play is contained the Death of | King Richard Glh:-the artful acQuisi- i ton of the crown by King Richard: l the murder of the Princes in the Tow
 er;-the landing of the Earl of Rich | mond, and the Battle of Bosworth Field Tickets will be ready to be de- livered by Thursday next. and to be
 had of the Printer hereof Pitt, , shiI- lings; Gallery. shillings. To begin precisely at half an hour after six | o'clock. and no person to be admitted
 
 was managed by Murray and kean, both of whom were actors. and in- | cluded also MessrS Tremain. Wood
 ham. Jago. Scott, Leigh. Smith. Moore Marks. Washer. Murray. Misses OS-
 born and George and MeSdames Fay Tor. Osborn. Leigh and Davis. No
 casts of the play given are on record At the company's opening perform ! ance the role of Richard III. was l 1N1n !, ued to take the leading parts. The
 season continued until July $, 175l The Murray and Kean company pro- duced the first opera ever sung in New York city. Gays "The Beggar's Op- l era.' on December 3. 175O. This work was also the first English light opera
 ever written. and had it's initial per | formance in England in 172S.
 II:
 In the Dramatic Mirror is printed q reproduction from a photograph of
 Mrs Ezra Kendall (Jennie Dunn and
 the ''siN little Kendalls.'' four boys and two girls, ranging in height from two 1 feet up to four. and in ages from 13 to g. On the fifteenth day of this month | Mir and Mrs Kendall celebrated their fourteenth anniversary of marriage The nameS of the children. beginning With the eldest in the order in which they stand. are: Royal Arthur, Nir- ginia Gladys. RoXanna Permelia. Ezra Ferris. Lewis Clark and Willis New ton Kendall. Jennie Dunn Airs Ken dalD is taller than her diminutive brother, Arthur Dunn. Her last ap- pearance was made in vaudeville with | her brother nearly three years ago. When but II years of age Jennie Dunn went from an east side district school to the stage of HaverlyS Fourteenth Street theater New York, and became the prima donna of Haverly's juvenile Pinafore company. singing the part of Josephine. Her brother Arthur will be remembered as the Dick Deadeye. Following the Haverly Pinafore con- pany's season came engagements with the Miles Juvenile Opera company. the Braham and Scanlon Opera cOmpauy and then the brother and sister devel- | oped into soubrette and comedian and accepted engagements in farce come dies-''A Bunch of keys.'' "Peck's Bad Boy. Pop. Tillotson and Fell's con- bination. and then in vaude rille with Miners Comedy Four company. In 1SS6. Mir Kendall engaged the brother and sister for seasons tour with his company. playing "A Pair of Kids.'' The following March Miss Dunn was pronounced bride by the pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Chicago. In speaking of the Pinafore | days. Mrs Kendall said: "There were
 113 children in the Haverly company, and some of them today are stars 1 Annie Russell and Willie Collier-while | many of the others have made names l for themselves" In the Miles Juyen- ile company there was one little girl whose name is now Julia MarloWe. For the stage" said the little mother. my liking is as strong as ever and may return to it some day. And the | stage seems to have special fascina- | tion for all of the children, but it is too soon yet to say for what they are best fitted. I myself shall not. and I
 know MT Kendall will not. oppose their
 doing whatever they can do the best"