Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-07

s"The Conuuerors." when he played Erie and Viola Allen played Yvonne. there occurred q scene where the he roine in moment of great passion, stabs the hero in the back. It was n9t trick affair and during one perform ance Miss Allen plunged the knife so deeply into his back that 1t required assistance back of the wings to draw 1t out. On another occasion while play ing in 'Phroso,'' in which he played the hero and Guy Standing the villain, the latter in the cembat scene stabbed stiletto clear through one of Alr Faversham's hands. On the occasion of the first performance of Romeo and Juliet, st the Hollis street thea ter, Boston, when he played Romeo to Miss Maude Adams's Juliet, Camp bell Colin, who played Tybalt, in the duel scene with Romeo, stuck the point of his sword clear through Mir Faversham's lip. This is undoubted- ly an unequalled experience which is probably not envied by any other ac- tor.
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 One of the musical hits of Nixon and Zimmerman's production of the London Gaiety theater success, The Messenger Boy at Daly's thea ter, New York, Is a song rendered by James T. Powers. May Robson and several principals. entitled Have You Seen My Cat:' This song has attract ed such wide attention it has even led 10 practical jokes being played on Mir Powers. 4 week or so ago q rival comedian, now playing in New York, thought to have q little fun at Ml Powers expense and put an adyer- tisement into the leading newspaper: requesting persons owning frightened cats to bring them for sale at a mat inee performance 10 the stage door of Daly's theater. Result-the theater was actually stormed by a large nun Der of persons who brought cats Of va rious colors and markings for MT Pow. CTS inspection. He was greatly an noyed by the importunities of the cai vendors. Mir Powers is now assidu- ously playing the part Of Sherlock Holmes on the Rialto trying to dis cover who turned loose on him the i horde of cat vendors
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 Several years ago the Herald offered q prize for the best one act drama submitted. The award was made to 1 the play called '.Chuns y now used in ] vaudeville by George Leslie. Recent. ! ly Town Topics made an offer of $1, COG for the best play submitted, to be pub lished in It's Christmas number, which 1 appears this week. The committee including David Belasco Acton Da- vies and d. H. Hummel, gave the de ! cision to Alfred Allen. who wrote i ''Chivalry." which has for its theme ] the eternal fight between the whites I and the blacks in the southern states as g result of the internal conditions 1 that the Radical party imposed upon the vanQuished confederacy. The au. thor of "ChivalryH has dealt with the subject without the slightest timidity or squamishness, and his play is sure tc make a sensation, pleasant or other wise, in the south The scenes 1T which the heroine is assaulted by iht negro. Saul Carleton. q state repre- sentative. and the subsequent lynchins Of the fiend who is burned at the stake with fires lighted by the hero ines fance-are thrilling and blood curdling in the extreme In the opin l ion of the four or five judges the play is one Of the strongest and most nofa ble American plays ever written, and when presented on the stage will stii the country.
 ;, VAUDEVILLE Ar THE JACQUES
 This weeks fine vaudeville show a1 the Jacques will be presented for tht last time this evening, giving way then - ft 4 E 4