Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-26

Tie Klaw 6 Erlanger comedy com paly with the Rogers Brothers con- tiuuA their record-smashing career. Last Monday evening they set up new opening score at the Montauk the ater in Brooklyn borough. After 2 week at Newark, N. J., and at the Har- lem opera house, New York, this com pany will begin a four weeks run at the Hollis Street theater in Boston, opening Monday, November Il.
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 In writing "The Liberty Belles," Harry B. Smith eliminated the chorus usually seen in musical comedies on the assumption that a small number Of pretty girls actually doing something on the stage are more attractive than larges number of 'smerry -merries'' who are merely automatic lay figures. Therefore, there, is no chorus in 1.-The Liberty Belles,' but nineteen parts are pEyed by young women who possess a wide reputation for personal beauty and who have been the highest sal aried chorus girls in New York dur ing the past three years. Raised to the dignity of principals, each insisted that she should have a colored mad. This resulted in. oyercrowding the dressing rooms at the Madison Square theater and in much irritation, which Klaw X Erlander promptly eliminated by limiting the maids to one to every three girls.
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 k1aw & ErlangerTs presentation or the Drury Lane fairy extravaganza, 'sThe Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, at tie Broadway theater, November 1. will Ilark the first direct exchange of attractions ever made between Ameri- can ana English managements. When Klaw & Erlanger arranged with Ar thur Collins, managing director of the Drury Lane theater, to produce Ben IItIr, in London next April, a reciprocl- ty agreement was entered into under which they were to present the Drufy Lane fairy extravaganza ill this coun- try. The result of this agreement IS that on November 4 an English Christ mas spedtacle will be produced for the first time in America, and in April the Elclish public will see for the first tine the best American example of TO- n,antjc drama and advanced stage craft. The understanding between I<law X Erlanger and Mir Collins also contemplates future exchange of at. fractions and the coming great produc- tions of these two great interests Win be made with this arrangement in view.
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 A party of travelling men who were pleasuring in the Catskills during Au- gust decided to walk to Hurley and procure conveyance to Woodstock, where they could take train to New York. They found that most of the farmers and their teams were i'll the hayfields Someone suggested they go to the Dan Sully farm and try there. They were met at the farm gate by an individual whose garments betrayed his ccupation-haying- and whose three weeks old beard added to his unkempt appearance. While wait ing for the team. which the individual assured them he would hitch up and drive himself, the gentlemen were served with wet goods and excellent cigars. When on the road to Wood stock one of the number asked their driver about Mir Sully whose farm they admired. Mir Schwarz. the question CT. said: How long has MT Sully had this place up here?
 "A good many years,' was the reply.
 .'He can't be home very much.'
 '.From May until the last of Au- gust"
 "Oh! then he is at home now.n