Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-12

Andrew Mack, in From Moore" has closed his long run at the Herald Square theater in New York and has begun his tour of the principal cities of the country, which will carry him to the Pacific coast MT Mack met with success and great encouragement in his first venture as Broadway star and his return to the Rialto of the metropolis next season will be wei come event.
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 'Ben-Hur," at the Illinois theater in Chicago, is duplicating the marvellous record it made it's first season at the Broadway theater in New York Like at the Broadway theater, steady streams of people purchase seats from two box offices from morning till late at night. Last Tuesday evening, the Sth inst, the entire orchestra floor was occupied by the supreme officers of tue Tribe of Ben-Hur'' and their families, from Charlottesville, Ind, General Wal lace's home.
 The Klaw and ErIanger opera com pany. with Jerome Sykes in the role of Foxy Quiller," is repeating it's grand success of last season. This organization, the largest comic opera that has toured the country, is now playing in the northwest. From this section it will proceed south, reaching New Orleans December 1sr. This attraction is proving a great ire peater." Where it has revisited cities this season. like Rochester and Buff falo, the verdict was that both the company and opera improve with ac- quaintance.
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 The forty merry girley choristers of 'The Burgomaster' company is a re- ally remarkable aggregation, inas- much as but nineteen of them solely depend upon the stage for a liyeli- hood: Some have private incomes and merely sing and dance for the excitement of stage life, and others are more energetic and surprisingly different from the general class of chorus ladies. as they have been edu- cated or trained for various other professions and stations in life, some are artists, some teachers of elocu- tion, singing and dancing. three hold important positions on Chicago news papers, two (sisters) are designers of ladies' hats, one is secretary of charitable ice fund and eleven are models and make considerable money posing for artists, sculptors and de signers of advertising labels, and dis play pictures for dry goods advertise mentS in newspapers, as it is consid- cred absolutely necessary nowadays for every sale announcement of either skirts. corsets, shirt waists, hats, stockings or other ladies' wearing ap- parel to have a picture of a pretty face or form to display the article. Nat urally this little side issue is very re- munerative for the girls. but is the cause of much worry for Stage Mana ger Ernest Salvador, as their time IS ever coupled and he is never actually positive of their appearance in tine theater until he personally sees them, and last Saturday capped the climax, as eleven of these bewitching fascina- tors did not show up until two minutes before the time scheduled for the rise of the curtain for the matinee per formance, and when he reprimandcd them and asked for an excuse, he was innocently informed by one of them that they were detained because they had been posing for 'sbeer label"
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 Klaw & Erlanger are making most elaborate preparations for their com ing presentation of the Drury Lane fairy extravaganza. "The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" at the Broad way theater, November 4 They will employ company of over 400 people. The principals. with but two or three exceptions, will be native artists, many of them acknowledged leaders of the American stage in their field Charles J. Ross will play the queen: Harry