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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-19
Our Motto
Was Favored by Nature.

A dignified bishop, while passing along q London street, heard three vegetable peddlers engaged in rath- CT blasphemous argument Intending to rebuke them, he said to one of the offesders: My good man, where did you learn to swear like that?" Lord luv yer, guv'nor," replied the brawny peddler. clapping him genially on the shoulder, i've can't learn it; it's a giftl"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-19

Work by Japanese Women. The women of Japan are now argely employed in telephone and post offices, and they are said to be excellent bnokl5eeners.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-19
Mean Joke on Good Man.

The maddest man in Kansas is a gentleman named Martin, of Holton. He is such rabid prohibitionist that he wouldn't use whisky to kill bedbugs. Almost every day he receives word that some Kansas City or St. Joseph whisky house has sent him jug Of liquor by express. He never calls at the express office for it, but other par ties call and sign for it, using his name, and trot off smilingly, anticipating delightful jag.
 FIatfery.
 It fatters man to be asked his advice, even if he knows nothing at all about what you want to know Washington Hal Democrat.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-19

was impressed. Immediately after the McGovern- Sullivan bout, February p, the physical and vocal exercises will begin.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-19

Bath, Me, Feb 19.-Twin Sullivan de- feated Billy Jordan of Boston in the fourteenth round last night. Sullivan forced the fighting from the start. The match was for fifteen rounds.
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in love with the supposititious Johns
ward, Ernest, on the strength of his de-
scription of him, and has decided to
marry him or nobody. Cecily is Johns
ward. John is in love with Gwendolen
Fairfax, and his friend Algernon Mon
crief is in love with Cecily, and learning
of her infatuation for Ernest introduces
himself to her as brother Ernest and
then the complications begin in earnest
John, having decided to marry Gwen
dolen, resolves to turn over a new leaf,
and to do this he has to get rid of the
fictitious Ernest. He decides to bury
tentions of Moncrieff, John sole.enly an
nounces the sudden death of his brother
OF course this makes trouble but after
series of funny complications matters
are Strengthened out, and both men mar
ry their sweethearts and settle down to
a happy domestic life.
Miss Crosman in 'MadeIine."
On April 81, at Gloversvine, ". Y, Hen
rietta Crosman produced a new play,
called Madeline by Mrs. w. K Cliff.
ford, of London, who also wrote Shades
of the Night, which the Kendals did
Madelfnes is in two acts, and preceded
by 'Nance Oldfeld." a comedy that
Miss Crosman will keep for next season.
and will make feature of them at mat
mess.
When Mis- Crosman closed her New
York season at the Theater Republic, on
April 49, she had made the record run
OF Shaksperean comedy in the metrop-
once was this equaled, and that by Ed
win Booth. in Hamlet, at the old Winter
Garden. Miss Crosman's Rosalfnd has
met with universal praise and has placed
Adelaide Nelson and Mary Anderson
When Maurice Campbell announced that
MISS Crosman would put on "As Won
Like IT. in New York for a run, he was
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terest and deals with the intrigue and in
fractions of social obligations Of and by
Etephanie de MohrIvart, an adventures
Of the most daring type, who at one time
held an enviable position in respectable
society, and who, through her own mis-
deeds, as well as those of a reckless hus-
band, was forced into retirement It is
in this woman's efforts to rehabilitate
herself that the chief interest Of the
play centers. OF course this character Is
portrayed by Miss Coghlan herself, and
in it she dominates the piece from first
to last.
Plays are few in which the leading role
gives such excellent opportunities for a
display of emotional ability, and actress
es who are capable of taking full ad-
vantage of these opportunities, as does
Miss Coughlan, are stin more rare Miss
Coghlan has in all probability been prom
inent as an emotional actress longer than
any other woman upon the stage, yet
time has robbed her of none of the
personal charms or other attributes that
helped to make her famous. On the
other hand it has given the maturity,
finish, force and variety to her acting
that is almost always lacking In her
younger contemporaries. Always a
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gracious and deliberately dressed figure,
good to look upon, Miss Coghlan makes
the leopard-like viciousness of the adj
ventures seem almost alluring even
when the passions of revenge and hatred
she SO dominantly displays bury all con-
sideration of sex.
Lady Barter" was originally produced
in New York at the Fifth Avenue
tkeater, with John T. Sullivan, Thomas
Whiffen, Aubrey Boucicault, Effie Shan
ncn, Charles Coghlan and Ely Coghlan
in the cast. Miss Coghlan that her pres
ent supporting company is equal to that
which assisted in the premier produc-
ton. On that occasion her superb act
ing exquisite gowns and experienced
handling of the title role earned repeated
expression of approval from a fashion.
able first night audience. Lady Barter
ana Countess Stephanie de Mohrivart in
Forget Me Not are welcome char
acters, when portrayed by Rose Coghlan.
who has created, improved and brought
an the splendid power and knowledge
that experience gives to bear on these
two parts.
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AT new YORK THEATERS
''fHh IMPORTANCE OF BEING EAR
NEsP' BRIGHT IN EVERY LINE
Contains Pretty, Sentimental
Theme Which Is Charming1y
Worked out-Henrietta Crosman
In "Made1ine"-"DoIIy varden,s.
Receipts Steadily Increasing.
Special to The GIoha

0PCCAAA 10 1he Globe.
NEW YORK, April 26-There is no lack
OF business yet visible at any of the met
ropoiitan theaters. The third NAV nre-
scented by the Empire Theater company
inns season is the comedy, 1.-THE Impor-
lance of Being Earnest. This is a play
OF the light and sparkling order, with
dialogue which is bright in every line
and that is brilliant with the wit and
repartee for which the writer of the COM
edy was famous. There is, besides its
amusing features, a pretty sentimental
theme that is charmingly worked out 1t
is the sort of play in which the players
of the Empire organization have always
trlumphed in a marked degree, and it af-
fords Margaret Anglin and Charles Rich
man unusual opportunities for the dis
play of their cleYerness. The characters
in which they are to appear in the COM
edy are of a different line from any they
have vet been seen in. The other mem
bers of the Empire organization, inclu-
ing William Courtenay, w. H. Crompton,
Ethel Hornick, Margaret Dale and Mrs.
Thomas Whiffen, have more important
work provided for them in the play than
they have yet done this season. The
production of this comedy was determin-
ed upon by Charles Frohman before he
sailed for Europe, and he announced it
for presentation at this time.
story of a Double Life.
The story of the piece concerns the
double life led by John Worthing, a
justice of the peace who, while a. staid
and dignified man at home, as becomes
his respectable station, really enjoys the
wicked ways Of the world while in Lon
don, to which city he makes frequent
trips, ostensibly to visit his brother En-
est, who is the scapegoat of the family,
and is made to bear the burden of all
Johns offenses. Cecily CareW has fallen
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American. Though she has sung almost
constantly in Europe, France. Austria.
and Italy since her debut in La SonnaIn-
In May, 1880, with the exception of her
visit in this country in 1884, her career
mas been of character which has kept
her fame pretty constantly before the
eyes OF the rest of the world. The Beliini
statue incident was an object lesson
whose effects were felt everywhere
Another incident of similar Importance
was the linking of the names of Bern
hardt, Nevada and Duse at the head of
the programme which all Paris witnessed
Tor that reason quite as much as because
Inc occasion was benefit to raise funds
Tor monument to Alexander Dumas
Nevada was once called by Ambroise
III the only. Mignon. When Ne
yada dies" he said, ''Mignon will die ).
This fact will most likely be realized
unless some young singer arises to take
her place, for she is the last of che great
school to which the operas of Thames
belong eeu
It Is Of this style of work the New
York Tribune referred, when it said in
a review of her last appearance in New
york: Such miniature work las never
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"Nor GUILTY. HERE IN A WEEK.
Will BE Put on at the Grand, Be-
ginning With Sunday. Nav a.

Will BE Put on at the Grand, Be-
ginning With Sunday, May 4.
mot Guilty" new four-act melo-
drama by Joseph LIE Brandt, author of
ION the Stroke of Twelve will be pre-
sented at the Grand opera house follow
ing the engagement of THE White
Slave by a large and competent COM
pany and complete scenic invest.ture.
Not Guilty is blending of rural and
city life. The first act, being laid at
Sheldon's Corner, Pennsylvania showing
the quaint old court house, the vi iage
tavern, the blacksmith shop with the
smithy at work, stretches of green fields
and the river winding about distant hills
like silver cloud takes US back to our
childhood days. Act second takes us to
New York, with its teeming life and noise
and hustle, making a marked cont. asst TO
the green fields and shady Iares of old
Pennsylvania. Act third takes us back
again near the scene of the first act, ex-
cept this time instead of peaceful lanes
and quiet streets, we now see the grand
er, wilder mountain views of the Key
stone state; rocky gorges and deep
ravines with caves and dark hooks, giant
blasted trees that cast startling shadows
in the weird moonlight. There is trouble
In the air, too, for the miners are on
strike the most! terrifying catastrophe
that can happen in. the coal regions as
the people of. the anthracite regions have
good cause to know; they are waiting
with fear and trembling for the outbreak
which happily in this instance is avert
ed by the liberal fair-minded employer
granting the miners just demands. Act
fourth with its beautiful church vision,
the choir singing, the discontinue of the
villain and the triumph of virtue and
marriage of the lovers form a fitting CHI
max to an almost perfect performance.
Inc vast amount of speculation that
was at large as to how drama dealing
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house. The tone, which was made part
of the humor introduced by those come
dams, is initiated all over town and
should serve as a label Of merit.
Rice and Barton return to the Star
theater beginning with the matinee to-
day for a week, with their big Gaiety
Extravaganza company. nd the reputa-
tton of which this mention is a part,
will do much toward drawing audiences.
The programme presented now is said to
be more enjoyable than ever before. 1t
includes an olio, in which is heard Eek
hoff and Gordon, musical laughmakers;
Esther sisters, the undisputed leaders of
negro buck dancing; Miles and Raymond
presenting a skit, the Original Baby in
the Cradle" Mullen and Dunn, dialog-
lists; Rice and Elmer horizontal bar ex-
perts, introducing a rube to Chinatown
and Miss Idylla Vyner, the Southern
coon shouter. This olio is preceded and
followed respectively with two burlesques,
the first of which is entitled Brown
Among the Daisies" and the second
Raiding the Tenderloin.' All the en-
tertainment is of such quality as to- prove
entirely enjoyable.
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cOat-of arms vexes the American very Sc
riously. Originally all bookplates were
heraldic. That was in an age when peo-
pie generally could not read, and when
the blazon of each family as shown on
wearing apparel or small belongings, was
as well known and quickly distinguished
as an autograph or photograph today. In
the main, 1t is safe to advise Americans
not to use coat armOr on their bookplates.
The uncertainty of the actual right to
ANS, and the extreme difficulty Of get
ting a drawing that one knows is unde-
niably correct in every detail, are strong
reasons against its use. Heraldry is too
exact science to admit of liberties, and
1t is no small achievement to draw the
coat-of-arms with absolute correctue ss
and yet with artistic feeling.
Though 1t is not very generally prac-
ticed, it is legal to copyright the book
plate design. At least two plates are so
protected in this country. This would
seem to leave a door open for those who
wish to secure for themselves a personal
distinguishing mark, a -heraldry-
for the drawing may be In heraIdic form
as well as in any other.-Century.
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Commencing Thursday night Rose
Ccghlan viii appear at the Metropolitan
for three night performances and q
matinee Saturday. Forget Me Not"
written by Herman Merivale, will be the
opening play and viii be produced for
the bargain matinee. Lady Barter"
written by Charles Coghlan, leading man.
bon vivant, man of letters, and, at all
times graceful and accomplished, will be
produced Friday and Saturday nights,
preceded by a one-act comedietta, BE
tween Matinee and Night" produced by
Miss Coghlan at the Keith and Proctor
vaudeville houses. Miss Coghlan passes
from comedy to tragedy with ease.
Forget Me Not is something of a
cross between society drama and a
problem play. 1t is full of suspensive in
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slave and mistress, seeks to install in
her place a beautiful slave he had re-
Gently bought. The audience at the first
is made aware that this girl is neither
slave nor negro, but pure white, the child
to hide the shame of the parents But
for this confidence with the audience, the
hase proposal by the master and the hon
eorable proposition of love and marriage
tolerabIe. Under deft treatment by the
dramatist, this confidence is withheld
from the people Of the play not concern
ed In maintaining the story. The play
moves through a series of dramatic sit
nations which tell powerfully on the emo.
tons of the audience The villain meets
his death finally, the lovers learn the
truth of the girls birth, she is restored
to liberty and marries the man she loves,
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MANSFIELD IN "BEAUcA1RE.n
To lie Here Three Performances Next
Week, Tuesday and Wednesday,.

Everyone will be glad to see Mansfield
in comedy again. When he comes this
time it will be in his happy triumph in
''Beaucaire.' The comedy is a bright,
scintllating story of Englands famous
watering place, Bath, when wit was pow
erful as swords, and the droop of a fair
woman's eye behind a little jeweled fan
vanQuished both. The character of Beau
caire affords Mansfield a scope for light
err wittier and more playful moods which
he has not enjoyed in some years. And
it is the most thorough and popular hit
which has crowned his work. He brings
a magnificent production of 'Beaucaire.'
The comedy will enlist much larger
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so strongly with the affairs of the church
would be taken by patrons of the tneater
ed and it has been most happily proven
that 1.-THE Volunteer Organist'' is just
the play that the people have been wait
ing to see@eaStWise, one would judge so
by the phenomenal business accorded the
attraction wherever it has been present
ed. There is such a thing as too much
of a good thing but 1.-The Volunteer Or.
ganist' will not be found too ''churcny"
as there is goodly portion of comedy
throughout the piece, thus relieving that
which a too critical audience might term
somber. 1t will be seen at the Grand
opera house for one week commencing
Sunday May 49,
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SPRING SEASON AT THE GRAND.
The Percy HasweII Stock Company
to Open on the 25th of May.

The Percy Hasven Stock Company
to Open on the 25th of May.
The Percy Hasweu Stock company.
which is to inaugurate a spring season
at the Grand opera house, May 25 closed
its long season in Baltimore last night,
and today will start on its journey to
st. Paul. Several weeks will be filled in
in st. Paul only short time before the
opening night. The Haswell company
goes first to Richmond and Norfolk and,
after producing several plays in each
city, will make the trip to ST Paul.
This jump from Richmond, Va, to ST.
Paul, will be one of the longest ever
made by a theatrical organization. OF
course, there have been cases where COM
panies have jumped from New York to
San Francisco but these have been ex-
ceptional cases. and even then, the play
ers went separately. and acted together
for the first time after arriving at their
destination. The Percy Haswell COM
pany however, will come intact after
season of thirty-five weeks in Baltimore.
Moreover, the schedule for the trip to
St. Paul is arranged in such a manner
that the least delay might prove serious.
For instance, the company will play its
last performance in Richmond, Va, on
Wednesday night May q.
On Thursday morning the company will
go to Washington to take the through
train for Chicago, which will be reached
sometime Friday. Friday night the COM
pany will leave for st. Paul, and will ar
rive here about noon Saturday if moth
ing happens to cause delay Saturday
night May "a, the company will hold
dress rehearsal of the opening day, and
ter-gOers will have their first opportunity
to see the HasweH company of which so
much has been printed. The opening
play has not yet been decided upon, but
will be announced in a few avs. The
spring and summer stock season at the
Grand promises to be highly successful.
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NOTES OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Georgia Waldron ore of the stars in
up York State" is slowly recovering
from a critical Illness
A. E. Lancaster, the we'll known New
York dramatist, is writing o new play
for May Edouin, (which she will use dur
ing her next tour IN this country.
A summer term of the Stanhope-
Wheatcroft Dramatic school in New
York begins May1. The first public mat
1nee of the students of this term will
be given at the Madison Square theater
early in October.
Although Joseph Jefferson, the dean of
the American stage, and the most be-
loved of all English speaking actors is
seventy three years of age, he is just as
strong and vigorous as he was twenty
five years ago.
Edward McWade has secured control
or Winchester, his successful play.
and is booking it for a long tour, begin
ming Sept: 1. Miss Margaret May, who
dolph will again be the star of the com
pany.
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BARLEY CampbeIFs Great Play
Scheduled for a Week Here.

BARLEY CampbeIl's Great Play
Scheduled for a Week Here.
BARLEY Campbell was the best melo,
dramatist of his day, and those of this
day all are inferior to him. With him, to
construct a play was to be both architect
and builder What does the great middle
class of humanity like best at the thea
ter? This question was his starting point,
and he answered it rightly. They want
something to rouse their senSiblities to
unusual interest and excitement. They
want the terrific eruption of a volcano,
not the inconsequ entail fame and fare
of a limekiln. 1t was Mr. Campbell's fac
ulty to supply the volcano. He did not
He hewed his spade to the shape of a
spade, and each scene in the development
of his cardinal theme was strongly indi-
y!duahzed as it were, so as to have, a
other circumstance of the play. His best
production on this line is ''The White
Slave, which begins weeks engage
m m Mt at the Grand tonight, with the usu-
In writing this play, Mr.. Campbell bore
In mind the sensitiveneSs in the South
about slavery delineations in fiction on
the stage, as a result of the grave and
abominable falsltiesN which have been
perpretrated in appeal to the unfriendly
and un1nformed sentiment of the North
on on this subject. He tried in 1.-THE White
Slave" to deal with a form of moral
abuse which had some existence in sIav-
cry days, but was no more generic as
applying to the character of Southern
people at large than to depict q Norfbern
drunkard would be to IMPLYING people of
the North. Viewed then as confined win
in its own boundaries, the play can he
properly, called strong and vivid relos
drama, bringing into action the liveIiesf
interest mi and sympathies Of human nature
The argument of the play is better In
ENACTMENT than in recital. becensa -
coldly analyze it's motif and its devei.
ment is to find defects, ethical and co,-
TeseGtaion which DO not appear in the
young planter. firing Of his 'u oct taaasn
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company than might be expected. There
are tWenty-six speaking characters and and
silent, but significant, roles of the tops
and bellies of fashionable Bath of Beau
Nash's sovereignty. The comedy is
Louis XIV. period, for, although Beau allo
CARES royal cousin was king of France,
he was monarch of all the fashionable
world. "Beaucaire,' it is announced, is
tual dramatizaticn of Booth Harrington s
Monsieur Beaucaire,'' the book is in
reality a scenario of the play. Mansfield
will be at the Metropolitan two nights
and one matinee Tuesday and Wednes-
day, May 6 and Z.
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treated with scant courtesy, but since the
nrst night the critics have all taken off
their hats and kept on saying lots of
nice things about the performance
MISS Crosman quilted New York only
because Oscar Hammerstein is under con-
tract to deliver the Eheater Republic to
David Belasco for alterations this month
Mr.. l4ammerstein wanted Mr.. Campbell
70 consent to move Miss Crosman and
AS You Like IT, to the Victoria Thea
ter after the French opera finishes, but
cut of town contracts and managers
would not be put off further, and so Miss
CfoSman. VIII finish her season on the
road, as originally laid out.
"DoIly Varden's" Great Run.
Dolly Warden" is booming along az
the Herald Square to steadily increasing
receipts. and nearing the three months
mark in its remarkable run. During the
past week there were eighteen large the
alter parties in attendance and Miss Gla-
ser was the recipient of an unusual num-
Der of bouquets of flowers.
Messrs. b. c. Whitney and Sam S.
Shubert are having manufactured a
unique souvenir to be presented to the
lady friends of Lulu CHASER on the coca
sion of the Tooth performance of Dolly
Warden" at the Herald Square theater.
which will take place Monday evening.
May 5th
Fay Templeton is to leave Weber and
Fields combination and return to the
vaudeville stage
Upon his return from Europe Mr.. A.
l.. Erlanger announces that he has Sc
cured the American rights to BLUE
BEARD, the latest Drury Lane spectac.
ular triumph, which will be the open
ing attraction next season at Klaw and
Erlanger's New Amsterdam theater, to
be erected on Forty-second street
Ada Rehan, under the same direction
will appear in a dramatic version of
George Meredith's famous novel, diana
Of the Crossways."
Book Plate Fad.
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been heard here for years past. as Ne
vada gave US on Monday night, and by
finishing and coioring of tone, to it's finest
and most delicate points. Nine. Nevada
is entitled from the character Of her work
to be ranked among the best of living
singers
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RICE AND BARTON AT THE STAR.
"What Do You Think of That:" to
BE Heard Again This Week.

Few of the patrons of the Star theater,
ever alert for catch-words, can have for
gotten the "what-do-you-ever-t hink-of-
that?" A sound half way between
grunt and groan-which came to be a
sort of trade mark for the work of Rice
and Barton in the last few years Of that