Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-18

"Sp0deSS IoWn niiS >uohe 'i' heavy business at the Alhampra Ill Milwaukee. This should make Jim Reilly smile a few times.
 :Il: Frank Bush secured divorce rom sthis wife, Grace Bush. in Chicago OH September 26. and on October | was married to Maude Parker or Boston, at Red Bank, N. J,
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 Edward Potter, half brother of zBishop Potter, has composed an opera in three acts which he calls 'Altrla' 1.-Two acts have been produced in New port in private. The last was sung gSthere Friday night MT Potter is an Invalid. @ q :lI:
 Maggie Cline, who was the head liner at the Avenue theater in Detroit last week. got such an ovation thar q she responded to fifteen curtain calls. She consumed so much time that six facts had to be cut out of the bill. Fl:
 Robert Edeson's Soldiers of For Hume" company carry with them on gstour all the paraphernalia necessary for gymnastic sports. The outfit con itains punching bags. boxing gloves. foIls. Indian clubs. dumbbells, basket lbaIl and the inevitable ping pong set Fl:
 Charles B. Blaney has accepted a 5rompanion play to sMonte Cristo. en- .saitled "Haydee. Countess of Monte Cristo,'' by ]. R. Abarbanel1, editor of s,fhe New York Family Story Paper. isThe play is of the spectacular order, hntroducing Amazon marches and a ballet.
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 Miss Alice Fischer's cordial recep- ffion in her new home at the Victoria theater has been considerably dimmed lan her eyes by the loss during the jour- sney uptown from Wallack's of a much prized mascot. The charm in uuestion was an ersmeled ivy leaf the 1nsignia of the Twelfth Night club, of which she is the president. It was presented to her on the night of her debut as a star in New York and all the Twelfth Nighters ascribed her great success in. "AErs Jack'' to the pc tency of the emblem of their club.
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 Feminine theater-goers who were
 
 pretty figure made by Miss Elizabeth Tyree in the quaint costumes she wore as Avonia Bnnn in t'Trelawney of the jVells' will be delighted at the intel 1igence that in s.Gretna Green" her gowns will reflect the fashion of fhe early Victorian age when the modish bellies wore enormous coal-scuttle bon Iets. ringIets immense .Duffed sleeves and skirts so distended by hoops that they cleared the ground in much the same way as did those worn by the original Rainy Daisies"
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 Henrietta Crosman's popularity in New York was strikinglv illustrated last Saturday night. October 11th Ii had rained hard all day and toward evening the storm settled into a driv ing deluge, yet despite the fury of the weather every seat in Wallacl's the afer was sold long before the curtaIr went up on sThe Sword of the King and hundreds were turned away, una bie to gain admittance to the play house. Ticket sellers at the theatel estimate that the crowd that was turned away numbered at 1east hall as many as the entire audience. Car tiages stretched in double line from the Broadway entrance to the theatel through Thirtieth street all the way 10 Fifth avenue. It was 9 o'clock be Fore the last of the audience was able fo force it's way into the theater.
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 Harry King of Lafayette, Ind. { #Qung trick bicyclist. will undertake tt make sDiayoIo's loop act look like th, HxcFeEDIaI 30 cents. He has undei construction an apparatus in fhe form e< B aouble 1oop. The structure vii te twenty feet higher at the top o. 1te Incline than that used by Diavolo *n8 <he first loop will be much larger f<er making the first loop King ex efz5 #o go down. another incline anf