Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-13

sible that a new opera will be tried the latter part of next season. The Organization will not go to London as originally planned.
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 Newton Clarence Chisnell, an actor and writer. died Thursday at the home of his parents in Akron, o. The cause of death was dropsy. About ten years ago Clrisnell married Miss Susan Par ker, an actress. His newspaper stories and sketches of stage life gained con siderable popularity.
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 James A. Herne has announced his permanent retirement from the stage His part in "Sag Harbor'' for the bal ance of the season will be played by George Woodward. Mir Herne says he has two objects in life-one to see his daughters married and the other to write a few more plays,
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 Beerbohn Tree, Cyril. Maud, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry and Charles Hawtrey are among MT Frohman's English certainties for America the next two seasons, and it is said he in tends making Mrs James Brown Pot ter an offer. This has not been con- | T visiting New York again, time having healed the wounds which caused her to vow to remain on the other side of the Atlantic.
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 The widow of William NJ, Paul says that the melodrama, Across the Trail,'' played this season by w. G.. Ceilings company, is her husbands play, Lucky Ranch,'' for which she has the exclusive right. Lucky RaneR' was presented at the Grand theater. Boston. last week by Thomas and Watson, who have had the play on royalty for several years. Mrs Paul claims that MT Ceilings has no right to present the play, and that in doing so he is guilty of piracy. Lucky Ranch'' was played in Waterbury in the old rink some years ago when Mir Paul was alive, but after two perform ances the theater management de- cided to turn it down. 1t was pretty bad. S4
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 Wilton Lackaye is of the opinion lthat an average actor has greater ! lease of big bead, tOsdip into the slang of the day, than is to be found in any lother line of occupation. Those are lnot Mir Lackaye's words, but they 1represent his point. This is evidenced in his opinion by the fact that the vast majority of players are convinced that every one with whom they come in contact is perfectly aware of their identity ssNow,' says Lackaye, sI lpresume I am entitled to consider my self as well known to the public as lis the average actor one meets in a Iday's outing. Nevertheless there is lscarce1y a soul in the apartment house in which reside who is aware that I am Wilton Lackaye who plays lead Ling roles in acceptable companies. Not that this upsets me in the least; it merely servec to set me think ing of the players I have met who think the universe is eyeing them steadily. A few of the old great stars lwho- have been on the stage some time are of course household words and faces. But the rest of us are after all just mere drops in the bucket"
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 Two little Indians arrived from Eu-. rope last week and made their first ap- pearance at ~Proctor's 125th Street Theatre yesterday. They are Fatma and. Smaun, and, though aged nine teen and eighteen respectively, they are only about twenty inches in height. They are of the Indo-C Chinese origin and were discovered in, Burmah in company with Burman married couple. who declared them to be their . own children. The couple had an- other child, boy of sixteen and of normal size, who. they affirmed. was born in the period between the births of the two midgets. Some enterprise ling person corralled the two little ones and brought them to to Europe, where 1 cesses at. the Berlin Winter Gardens, , the Paris Folies Bergere, the London HiDpodrome and other principal , Iplaces. Shaun, the boy, does q re- , lmarkable ring act. in which he is tably assisted by Fatma. They speak ; 1 the Rurman idiom, but have picked , up a smattering of German and French. which they wield with con , siderable acumen and in most charm ing fashion.
 l How the mighty have fallen. Listen r to this criticism of the once popular Marie Dressler. by the dramatic critic of the Hartford Times: A fairly large F audience occupied most of the parquet and almost entirely the balconies at Parsons's. last night, when Marie Dressler. a New York burlesque opera , singer of considerable date, and some : reputation. appeared as the star in [; new piece specially arranged for her , and entitled Miss Prinnt." The piece , is manufactured to her measure and it's only tendency is to give her oppor- tunity This. tendency is simple and : followed to the letter. It, consists ol ; cheap jokes that have generally noth- . ing to do with the action. of horse | play more or less drastically carried out, and of coon songs; half recited to ? the accompaniment of the cake walk. Miss Dressler is a hearty looking. TO
 bust woman. who still appears young and who displays glitterlng and very , effective apparel to advantage. She speaks and acts with an assured air of pleasing her audience, and sings in a hearty. substantial voice, still very passably. Vocal deficiencies are well eked out by. excessiveness of gesture and bearing. and the 'eooIf quality was exaggerated both i'll the walk and eX- I pression until it became broad bur lesque. No grooming tone. or soft ne, . gro voice-color. such as fascinate in Miss Irwin, who keeps well inside of probability lines in her character sketches.
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