Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-27

. .F.ss..sF i .s.ss*ss *s#ssss's' 4 Charles Frohman has made an ar engagement with Henry Arthur Jones that as soon as he has finished the work of his new plays which he has in hand for production during the coming sea- son in London he will write new piece which shall receive its first pro- duction in New York. Mir Jones has agreed to go to New York to'.produce' ! this work. Mir Frohman's rights of the play however, will only be for America, the author retaining those of England.
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 The following engagements have been announced: Lillian Norris, re-en- gagged. for .The Power Behind the Throne; George Morris will be stage manager for "The Sorrows of Satan; Emerin Campbell, as Mrs Splurger for the summer run of 1.-The Burgomaster ill Boston,: Dorothy King. with Across the Pacific; Pearl Beware, for "Trip to Buffalo''; Lotta Faust, for ''The Liberty Belles''; Douglas Patter- son, for Shipman Brothers Pudd' 'nhead Wilson; Engene Burns, with the Arm strong Warren Stock company; Neil 1 Florence for Lord Cloves in Janice Meredith"
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 Several sensational papers last week reported that William H. West the minstrel, was dangerously ill with q cancer, which report Mir West and his manager, Sanford B. Ricaby, emphat- icaIly deny. The best proof in the world of the unreliability of the report { is the fact that MT West is daily re- ] heasing his company at Benssonhurst, { l.. l., where they will open on Thurs day. There appears to be great enthu- siasm over next seasons company, the members agreeing that it wifi undoubt- edly be the greatest singing and come dy performance seen in years in the minstrel line.
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 Hip Song, Chinaman, who has a garden truck farm on Long Island was one of the heavy winners on Compute in the $15,000 race at Sheepshead. He cashed in S8.000 and for most of it got as high as 20 to l. Hip played Com pute to win and was persistent in his belief that the horse could not lose. There was much ejoicing in Chinatown last Sunday and Hip told how he hap pened to pick the winner, saying-fnd five flo leaf cloyel, Sousa play San Toy mluSic alice samee time. Have hunch on Compute likee Melican man. Flo leaf cloyel means good luck; San Toy means good luck; how can lose?
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 When the theatrical season opens Sis Hopkins will again be one of the chief attractions. Sis Hopkins was one of the very few really great sue cesses of last season, 6 and So many managers asked for time for the sea- son of 1901-02 that MT J. R. Stirling, under whose direction Miss Melville, the creator of the character, has be- come known from the Atlantic to the Pacific, decided to send out a new edition of the wonderfully popular play In Buffalo, from where the tour of Miss Melville is directed, stage carpen- ters, scenic artists and costumers are hard at work building up new dress for the prettiest play that has been written in years.
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 What is agitating us just now is, will Harry Hamlin come to New York with Lorna Doone? It has been given out in Chicago that MT Hamlin intends to invade this part of the country with the Academy of Music as his stamp ing ground. He has a big production with tons of scenery and fairly good play. It needs the approval of the gall lery gods of New York to make it an assured success upon the road, and there are enough local favorites who might be secured to give the piece a lift, for the fact that it is born in Chi cago is of no particular advantage. Olive May and William Courtleigh will most likely be retained in their present parts. The balance of the com pany now in Chicago have engage ments elsewhere for the winter.
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 The time of action of DeKoyen x Smiths new opera, Maid Marian sequel to Robin Hood,'' in which Klaw ians in Philadelphia in November, is . will be told in three acts. The scenes will be great stage pictures of beau tiful old English park and castle, camp of the crusaders in Palestine with the walls of the fortified city in the distance and an English baronial hall, fine old mediaeval banguetting room. Some of the characters will be those with whom the admirers of comic opera became acquainted in Robin Hood"-the sheriff of Nottingham, Little John, Will Scarlet, Friar Tuck, Allan Dale, Guy of Gisborne, Marian Lady Vivian and Dame Borden. Arch aeologists and artists are now at work on the models for the scenery and de signs for the costumes.
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 Andrew Mack's performance inf Tom Moore" at the Herald Square theatre, August 31, will mark the first appear ance of an Irish star on Broadway in years, and the only one on upper Broadway since it became the tneatri- cal center of the metropolis. This fact brings to mind memories of John Col lins, John Brougham, Barney Williams, William J. Florence, and Dion Bouci- oar.1f Tho o1ifo of fho f1aaafro n0fr011c-