Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-09

Mrs NIollie Spooner has secured q long lease of the Park theater Ill Brooklyn. and will continue the thea ter as q stock company house, starting on February with ''The Soldier of the Empire" The company will in- clude Edna and Cecil Spooner.
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 Etta Reed. the wife of Corse Payton, is seriously ill in Scranton with the grip. Matte CEoate Was sent Tor from New York and hurriedly got up in the part in time to play the n9ht performance last night. She will con tinue in Miss Reeds place until the latter recOverS.
 Hope Booth has re- engaged her hus- band. James E. E. Earll. whom she is suing for divorce. Miss Booth hasIens to say that she has not engag- ed him in his capacity of husband. but her manager, and that the legal pro- ceedings will continue. When Miss Booths divorce action was begun she discharged Earn- who was looking af- ter her business interests.
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 . How much longer the members of the Olga Nethersole ''Sapho' com pduS VIII COHllAue to ultN Sdidi iSS from Louis Nethersole as manager of the organization is still problematical. IL was said yesterday that the players would be sent here after two more weeks tour and receive their release It all depends on Miss \etherSoleS progress toward health. Miss Neither sole last night would not say at what conclusion she had arrived. To per sonal friends she said her physical con ,3i 1,, yet tell whether il would improve sufficiently for her to undertake emo rional roles again 1hiS season.
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 William A. Brady is making ar engagements for an elaborate spectacu- lar production of Uncle Tom Cabin'' The production will be made at the Academy of Music. March + and will be kept on for a run. IT is Bradys intention 10 present the old play with the strongest possible cast. In addition several hundred persons will be employed ill the plantation scenes. Particular attention is to he paid to the scenic equipment of the pieces. The engagements already made are Wilton Lackaye, Uncle Tom: Odell Williams. Phineas Fletcher: Mrs Annie Yeamans. Aunt Ophelia; Maude Raymond. Topsy. Several Evas are under consideration.
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 When Melbourne Mcdowell lef: the Theodora company he became the leading man at the Hopkins theater in Chicago, which is a cheap stock coIn- pany organization. He brought with him 10 the Jheater the manuscript of Fanny Davenport's old plays. and started in with Cleopatra" the rights of which belong to Clarence Nj. Brune. MT Mcdowell had scarcely started when an old complaint of his made it's appearance with the result that while he was endeavoring to address the audience last Tuesday night the cur tain was rung down and he was drag ged off the stage MT Mcdowell has been dismissed from the stock con- pany and Richard Buhler of the Quo Fadis'' company has replaced him.
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 Floy Cromwell. the well-known act reSS and wife of Edwin Dudley. died at Los Angeles, Cal, on January 3l, of consumption. She had been ill ill health for some time and had gone 10 California in the hope that the eli mate might benefit her. She gradually lost strength, however, and to those near to her her death was not uneX- pected. Miss Cromwell was born in Cleveland, o. and after gaining some experience as an amateur she joined q small western stock company. During q period of ten months she played more than thirty leading roles ranging from Majorie ill The Rough Dia- mond'' to Lady AudIey and Isabel Shortly after the close of this en- gagement she came east and toured the New England states with her own company. She soon became a great favorite in that territory and she play ed chiefly there during the rest of her career. Among the roles in which she was most successful were Clyde Har- rod in "A Romance of Coon Hollow:" Claire in 'The 1ronmaster:' Alma Terra in '.The Queen of the Night" and Ruth Hope in ''The Wages of Sin" Fl:
 George Levy. the racing man. who Is better known as "Chappie" Levy, announced yesterday that he will re- tire from the turf forever if he can accomplish his present bushes pur- pose. This appeared in a letter which he wrote to Mrs Carrie Nation. the kansas woman with a hatchet" offering her S1 900 a week for next season if she would star under his management in the well known play Ten Nights in q BarrOom.' The let ter have just mailed,'' said Levy. contains q straight out and out busi- ness proposition to Mrs Nation and if she, undertakes it 1 will guarantee to quit the season ahead of any man who wagers on a running horse. There is no reason why she should not take the offer. The play in which 1 will star her is. according to competent critics, clean and wholesome one It appeals to the home and the tireside. It should receive the indorsement of ministers, the press and the vice con- mittees. 1 will surround her with q splendid company The best actor prOcurable for money shall be her lead The best actress in the country shall support her. The barroom scenes will be made up of real bars and for the scenes shall provide real drunkards l can get some. 1 think, along Broad way. Then, again, l can add some in- terest to the production by having q hatchet drill or q competition in sa-