Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-23

The absurd published reports that William A. Brady will present. his big revival of..Uncle Toms Cabin through the south next season have no foun- Iation in fact.
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 Way Down East" with it's three companies. is booked for two seasons ahead in this country. and William A. Brady is being negotiated with for US production in England and Austfaila-
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 .That a play can keep an audience roarinr with delight says the New York Times editorially, ''and yet De absolutely pure and wholesome. IS nroyed bv Clyde Fitch's lovers Lane at the Manhattan.'
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 Klaw & Erlanger will continue Ada Rehan in Sweet Nell of Old Drury till late in May. Mss Rehan Will go abroad in June. os.d remain till the last of Septembe'. A new. but Eet nii- named. play has been secured for her for next season.
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 Blanche walsh'S production of a dramatic version of the novel. Joan
  /"t1ost important efforts to be staged next season. She will spend S"o.H'o on it. Her supporting company Will be a particularly strong one.
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 Not since the old days of Italian onera at the New York Academy of Music. has that mammoth establish ment housed such enormous crowds as Inv X . famous s'Uncle Toms Cabin revival. The receipts are record breaking.
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 Augustus Thomas is at work on the ] new comedy in which Frank Mckee will present Peter F. Daley next seal son. A preliminary outline of the new piece has been approved by Mir i, Mckee. AIr Daley will close his sea- son in Hodge. Podge X Co., at the Grand Opera house. New York, late in April.
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 The Klaw & Erlanger Opera con- pany. with Jerome Sykes in "Foxy Quiller" after playing in Indianapolis. Dayton, Columbus Toledo. Toronto and Montreal will begin run at the Boston Museum, opening there April : 18th. .sFoxy Quiller'' is attracting great attention at the Illinois thcater in Chicago.
 The Rogers Brothers in "The Rog- CTS Brothers in Central Park are playing a return engagement in Ihila- delphia to receipts which far exceed those taken at their visit earlier in the season. After week in Newark. N. J.. New York and in New England, at hh n. lis Street theater in Boston.
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 Grace George has a particularly sa- gacious bull terrier that is :: born money-maker. He astoniShed his mistress the other day, while taking a constitutional by bringing to her, with many excited and gratified tail wags. crisp new S2O bill that he had selected, with rare canine discrimina- tion. from the refuse of the gutter.
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 John F. Kellard. who starred in foThe Signal Code" earlier in the sea son. has succeeded to the role of Un- cle Tom in William A. Brady'S New York revival of Uncle Toms Cabin.'' and has scored as decisively as did Wilton Lackaye. whom Mir Brady has loaned to Jacob Lit for the Drury Lane melodrama. The Price of Peace"
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 When William A. Brady and Joseph s@R. Grismer produce Du Souchets new revolutionary play. Betsy Ross" at the Chestnut Street opera house. Phil adelphia, April 15. the American col ors used upon the stage will be the handiwork of a ineal descendant of the Quakeress heroine. whose fair hands sewed the original flag of inde- pendence.
 Fl: More than forty eight hours before the fiftieth souvenir performance of "Lover's Lane,' as presented by Will s liam A. Brady. in New York. the house twas sold out solid, even to extra chairs in the accustomed places of the mu sicians. Clyde Fitch's successful play , will also celebrate it's seventy fifth and one hundredth performances be fore it leaves the Manhattan. Fl:
 Mary Mannering has made hit in ~Janice Meredith at the Walnut Street theater in Philadelphia. She will remain there several weeks. Miss Aannering will continue in '.Janice Meredith" the greater part. if not all of next season. Frank Mckee has il hand three plays for her. one of whicl he may produce in the spring of next year. Mir Mckee will send out spe cial company in Janice Meredith next season.
 Fl: M The New York Mail and Express says: 1.-The late Maurice Thompson is known to haze expressed q desire fhnt Grace George appear as Alice il the dramatiZation of his novel, Alice of Old Vincennes.' which has finally gone to Virginia Harmed. If the full truth were known, we would doubt less discover that many plays now being seen have reached the stage un der very different circumstances thar those first intended by their authors
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