Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-07
THEATRICAL CHATTER
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 Joseph Cawthorne and Queenie Vas sar were Married in New York May , 31. This is Miss Vassar's third mar riage. Her former husbands were the Henry Kernell and William Lynch, from whom she secured a divorce, Fl:
 One of the dismal failures in vaude- vile was scored at the Park theatre in Worcester, Mass. when B. J. Rad cliffe and Kitty Mitchell appeared in a sketch called rats. At the conclu- sion of the performance the gallery boys got up and yelled rats"
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 Nixon and Zimmerman have en- gagged Miriam Lawrence to sing the role of Mrs Hoppings in support of Francis Wilson in "The Toreador'' next season. She played this part in Ehe London production and also in the English provinces. Nora Cecil will play Teresa, the Carlist conspirator, and Christie Macdonald her character rf last season, Nancy Staunton. ! I:I
 Active preparations are already un- der way at the New York Academy of Music for Frank McKee's produc- :tion at that house on October 16 of Ramsay Morris new play, "Ninety and Nine," which takes it's title from Evangelist Sankey's worTd-famous hymn of the same name. The pres : ent stage at the Academy is being completely torn out, and a new one. as complicated with traps as a Chinese puzzle, will take it's place. This change IS made necessary by a. great sensa- tional mechanical effect which will be presented in the third act The seen cry. comprising four of the most eIab- crate sets yet seen on the New York stage, will be completed by June 12 and full scenic rehearsal will be held two days later.
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 Rehearsals are in progress in. Salt Lake City of "Corianton,, a new Mor mon drama by Arestes U. Bean. to be produced there during the Elks' na tional reunion in August. Joseph Haworth is directing the production. and with Agnes Rose Lane will enact the two principal characters. The characters of the play are those that figure in the Book of Mormon, and the author states that his work will have about the same relation to it's source as The Sign of the Cross, Quo yadis : and other similar dramas dealing win the Christian religion do to the Bible The characters are nearly all Aztec. and the period is about seventy-fiye | years B. c. The scene is laid on the z Magdalena river, Colombia, South America. The costumes will be his- forically correct and the scenery like wise. There is also to be a ballet of sixey people.
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 One of the most important and pre- fentious dramatic efforts of the com ing season will be Klaw & Erlanger's production of Mark Twain's "Huckle- berry Finn.'' It will receive it's pre- miere in Hartford next November. Lee Arthur, a young lawyer from Shreveport, La, who has done consid- erable, dramatic work of importance and has become quite widely known through several very clever stories of southern life, is at work on the stage version. Arthur Dunn, who will be remembered as the original ssDick Deadeye'' in juvenile s'Pinafore," will play the title role This story has charmed several generations of book readers and it's translation to the stage cannot but attract widespread attention. It is one of the best by America's greatest humorist The new play will be presented on a big scale in scenery and effects and a very strong company will be presented in the cast.
 The St Louis Mirror asserts that Richard Mansfield is this country's most successful cynic, and then pro- sceeds to pay him these compliments: He is a megalomaniac of stupendous proportions. He has illusions of gran fdeur, and he has so long affected the gloomy and peculiar that he has come fto believe that he is sort of com posite of all the great roles he has as- ,, sumed. He is more particular about his hotel accommodations than Prince Henry was He pulled the bell-cord con train. the other day, and when tile strain had stopped the conductor found ~that Mir Mansfield had been pafticu- lar1y struck by the scenery and didn't want to dash past the favored spot without a chance to see it. There is no other personality like Mir Mans field now on this planet and he is we'll Horthy of attention not only in his ac- k tua1~.daily life. but in the corrosive fstudy of him that the anonymous au- thor of "The Imitator"' has given the world in the character of Arthur Wan ! tAge