Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-02

larger than last year. This well-tried organization never waneS in it's we'll deserved popularity. The \lcefoS and Robin Hood are the most Ill de- mand of their repertoire. Il: Blanche Walsh has ill hand dra- anatic version of Marion LaScout by Beryl Hope. which she contclnpiateS producing. She has made q great sue cess in More Than Queen ;lnd Will continue in this production for the resi- of this season. which embraces T TOUT of all the principal cities Of the Pacific coast and will not end till fate in May.
 Ada Rehan closed I two weeks en- eaganent in Boston at the Boston Museum Saturday evening, the 2:'u inst, to gross receipts of over S2l.COo for the two weeks. the largest busl- ness she has recorded in Boston iii many years. sweet Nell of Old Drury' with Miss Rehan as Neil Gwyn' turned people away it every performance.
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 KIaw & Erlaneer have purchased | great white camel tO take the place of the magnificent animal. "Ben Inr. that recently died in Boston. he price paid was S1 SD0. ''Rcn fur was valued st S:;0Ou. The new camel JS now seen in inc play Zen Hur at the Colonial theater- Ben Eoal. the second camel carried by the company. is again an undcrStudy-
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 Klaw & Erlan@cr'S production of s'Ben- Hur'' closed it's tenth week ill Boston Saturday night. the 2' inst To the. largest receipts of its brilliant ell gagement in that city. The box o1ilrr returns for the week We're Sl'.ipi- "Ben TTur'' has played to an average business of over Sl1.t'tD :tf 1hr toi- onial theater. Every indication points to this attraction making the longest run recorded in Boston ill the past five years
 :,!: The New York .Iourncl cditorialiy colnbate q clerical connection made before the Acters Church alliance: that managers produce impure plays simply because the public demands them. It points out that wholesome. moral plays like Way Down East ''The Old Homestead. ''ShOre Acres and Clyde Fitchs new "lovers' Lane are packing the theaterS in which they are given. while the farce of friVolity f declining.
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 The seeming recklessness of Will liam A. Brady in securing cast or the highest saIaried players in America. and risking $25.O00. on a production of "Uncle Toms Cabin at the New York academy. is not regarded as ;t shrewd. far-SeeiDg business moVe There is enormous interest in the affair. for several generations of young CT New Workers have never seen the great moral drama, and the remark able list of people secured, including Wilton Lackaye Theodore Roberts, Odell Williams. William Harcourt. l.. R. Stockwell. Emily Rigl.. Mrs Yea mans. Mabel Amber and Maude Ray mond. has keenly whetted public cur 1osity.
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 Harry Mitchell, leading support of James J. Jeffries, in 'The Man from the West" who was thrown from q balloon Thursday evening, regained consciousness yesterday afternoon and the physicians now state he will live although it will be many months be- fore he regains his former health. Mitchell is suffering from concussion of the brain. During the third act of the play .TeTrieS is supposed to throw Mitchell from the balloon while sus- pended several feet from the stage, but that evening the aerial device be- came unmana gable. and. instead of landing upon his feet on q cushion. as is the custom. Mitchell struck upon his head on the floor.
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 Claude Hagen. the master stage ma chinist of the Ben Hur' company. and his assistants. made the cham pion record for quick shifting of scenes at the Colonial theater ill Ros- ton at the evening performance Wash fngton's birthday. There are six acts and seventeen scenes ill this play. The fotaf actual time occupied between the six acts in changing the scenes was fwenty-one minutes They made the change between the arena scene of ]. the chariot race and the scene of Hur Palace ill Jerusalem ill six and one half minutes. This required them to clear. the stage of the racing parapher- nalia, to replace traps covering al- most the entire stage, to remove the eight race horses from the stage. to erect all the platforms for the Mount of Olives scene and entirely set the palace scene. The previous best rec ord for this shift was ten and one half minutes made in Philadelphia.
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 It is curious thing that the stage favOrites who are most admired by the matinee girls turn their attention to dogs The list is long one and includes E. H. Sothern. Jdhn Drew. William Fayersham. Guy Standing and the Earl of Yarmouth, all of whom have their special admirers and are fond of dogs. Mr Sothern's pet dog is little fox terrier called Ferry. He first appeared on the stage ill q little One-act play written by MT Sothern called 'I Love. Thou Lowest. He Loves" and. although there were but two characters ill it-Sothern and Ferry-it was q love story, Ferry play ing the part of the lovers confidant. : John Drew always has been fond of dogs His favorite is q little Skye ferrfer with the unusual name of BozaFus. The Earl of Yarmouth has IT black French toy bulldog for a E3lsRk She is a great favOrite with the