Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-13
Theafr1caI Chatter
BY BRANDON.

has completely recovered rom ms re cent illness, which was greatly exag- gerated-
 Fl: Ernest Gros is painting the scenery for Frank McKee's special production of "Janice Meredith" in which Amy Ricard will play the name part
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 Peter F. Daley will begin rehearsals of ..Champagne Charlie" August 19. Augustus Thomas. the author, will di- rect rehearsals and stage the produc- tion-
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 John B. Park, formerly prominent member of "The Geisha' and '.The Runaway Girl' companies, has been engaged for Nixon x Zimmerman's production of '.The Messenger Boy.
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 Adolph Zink, the liliputian comedian of the opera company in Foxy Quiller, is spending the summer fishing on the Maine lakes He recently sent Ben Teal a photograph showing two great trout he had caught. The fish were nearly as long as Zink himself.
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 Klaw & Erlanger have engaged Jep- son to play an important role with tile Rogers brothers in .'The Rogers Broth CTS ill Washington" MT Jepson was for several years q member of Angus tin Daly's company and last season played in support of Maude Adams.
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 John J. McNally author of the new farce in which Klaw x Erlanger will present the Rogers brothers next sea- son. stThe Rogers Brothers in Wash ington.'' is in New York assisting Ben Teal in rehearsals, which began last Monday at the Knickerbock theater.
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 May Robson. the comedienne. will play Mrs Bang. the mother of 'The Messenger Boy,'' in the English musi- cal comedy of this title. to be pro- dueed in New York at lDaly's theater in September. Connie Ediss made a big hit in this part on the other side.
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 WOrkmen are engaged night and day digging and blasting a big pit forty feet long. twenty feet wide and twen- ty-four feet deep. under the stage of the Broadway theater. for the Crystal palace scene in the Drury Lane pro duction of The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast,' which opens the regular season at this house November 4.
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 Flora Zabelle, who sang san Toy" last season and will appear in s'The Messenger Boy'' in September. is the daughter of an Armenian clergyman named Margascar Mangasarian, for many years leader of the Ethical Gull ture society in Chicago. now the head of the Independent Religious society in that city Miss Mangasarian made her debut in Chicago two years ago. Early last season she was given the part of Poppy in "San Toy" and later followed Marie Celeste in the title role.
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 Mary Mannering has never yet been seen on the stage in male garb. When her new play. "Graustark." is pre- sented she will have an opportunity to appear as a young military officer in the incident where the Princess Yetive aids Grenfall Lorry, the Amer ican. to escape from the Graustark jail to the monastery on the mountain overlooking the city. LOrry is charged with the murder of the princess's un- loved betrOthed, who is really mur- dered by jealous rival prince on the eve of his coming duel with the Amer ican champion of Yetiye.
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 Five years ago at the Hotel West minister in Los Angeles. De Wolf Hop per, the famous comedian, separated from his little wife. Edna Wallace. The separation Occasioned a vast deal of gossip The papers were full of ;he story Hopper's company was singing Fl Capitan" at the Los Angeles rhe- ater then. To friends Hopper confided that Mrs Hopper did not seem to real 1ze what a "snap" she picked up when she married the big comedian and star of great opera company. Hopper then thought that Edna Wallace should believe herself in luck because o- her marriage, and he apparently fig ured 1t out that a separation would near much greater loss to her than to him. He thinks differently to-day For Edna Wallace's mother has just diec in northern California and Edna Is richer by several millions than she was before De Wolf Hopper's for tunes have waned. meanwhile. and he is now simply a salaried man in W NeDer & Fields burlesque company in New York Thus does the whirli- gig of time make changes. Hopper ad At-.t~ dS tHutH ulMSelT now. His efSt- while wife has been in John c. Fish CTS "Florodora'' company at the New York Casino for six months. Her mothers death sent her to California The mother was Wally WalIace's wife when Edna was born. Wallace was head usher of the old California the afer when Barton Hill and John Me Cnllough were there as managers. Tn after years Mrs Wallace was married to Alexander Dunsmuir. the coal mag nate. who owned the Wellington and other big collferies on Vancour Island When Dunsmuir died he left his prop erty to his widow. Now Mrs Duns muir Is dead and Edna Wallace Hop per inherits- jointly with her brother the great estate made in the colleries of British Columbia. The whole thina reads almost like a tale from the Ara Dian Nights. Beginning life in needy circumstances Princess Fertunata has brought the world to her feet by hel talent and now wealth comes roIIina i'm upon her unasked It is better tf be born lucky than rich Edna Wal lnce Hopper will now. of course. be in dependent of theatrical managers.
 MEETINGS TONIGHT.
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