Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-11

Ill with cancer of the throat. He is at the Palmer house, Chicago.
 T: Miss Burlington retired from the stage in 1S97 Her sister. Kate, with whom she lives, will share in the for tune.
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 Sarah Bernhardt will make her first appearance at the Comedie Francaise, Paris, in twenty years at the forth coming benefit for Madame Baretta- Worms.
 Lillian Nordica, on her recent vest ern trip, bought a necklace twenty eight inches long, containing over two hundred pearls taken from clans found in the Mississippi river. The necklace cost $1 ,500.
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 A report that Julia Arthur was i'll with appendicitis was denied last week by Miss Arthurs husband, B. F. Cheney. One of the periodical ru- nors that Miss Arthur was about to return to tie stage was also denied. Maude Adams, who did not give her contemplated performances of As
 
 ISnickerbocker, will be seen as Rosa lind, it is said at the opening of her next seasons engagement in New York.
 Local patrons of the theater who have never witnessed a performance of Della Fox will have an opportunity to do so shortly. The little comed1- enne will appear here for one night only in Little Nam selle," comedy drama in three acts which is being de- clared everywhere the best vehicle she has ever had for her delightful talent.
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 When Tim Murphy was playing "A Capitol Comedy in Chicago a draft for $1,600 was stolen from him. It was in his street suit, which he had changed for his dress suit before going to the theatcr. The sneak thief also got away with about $3 ill change. Mr Murphy makes it rule to keep the numbers of drafts, so he at once stopped payment and says he would cheerfully lose the $3 to see the thief try to collect the other.
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 Miss Amelia Bingham's forthcoming appearance in .'The Climbers at Polis theater on Tuesday, February 4. will afford her admirers here the first opportunity to see her in her new capacity as Americas only actress manager. Miss Bingham's company contains a group of distinguished play CTS who have been strikingly success full in the roles assigned to them in Clyde Fitchs brilliant play of social life. The production will utilize the same scenic and sartorial appoint ments as employed during it's POO night run at the Bijou theater. New York. The engagement is limited tc one night only.
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 They have made a very clever rura comedy drama out of the book Quincy Adams Sawyer and Justin Adams who made the dramatization, seems tC have kept the proper atmosphere il putting the book to stage use. II Worcester where the play was offered last week, it seemed the audience be came quite enthusiastic because i seems the scenes of the book are fol lowed just closely enough to retain 1t chief features and yet liberty is takel with the dramatic version sufficient t make it somewhat better than tn book. The title role is in the hand of Charles Dickson and Sadie Cor molly has a character part which well acted One of the Worceste newspapers, in a review of the play said: Ut is clean and wholesome and leaves a pleasant taste, and wi prove by it's merit that it is worthy c high rank in the list of book plays.
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 ->-A Lexington, Ky. Jan 11.-LeXingto chapter. United Daughters of the Cor 1.s,s ffn11 to Charles B. Scott. manager of th Lexington opera house. asking that th play +.Uncle Toms Cabin'' never b played again at the opera house her They give as reasons that the bes citizens and old families living in an about Lexington were once slave owI CTS, that the incidents of Uncle Tom Cabin' are not typical of slave life the south, but of isolated cases; ths the production and it's advertisement with bloOdhounds and pictures of a old negro in chai- and slave ownt with whip in his hand present false idea of the history of the time to the children of the city and are disrespect to the southern gentleme and good citizens and their families this part of the country. The petite Is signed by four of the most prom nent women of the chapter and is ii -dorsed unanimously by the member It has created a sensation here
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 According to the Richmond Dispatc Sally Burlington, the actress who W: the idol of the south during the civ war, will probably inherit by the deal of relative in New Jersey an esta valued at $2,OOO.O00 For sever years past Miss Burlington has bee in very straftened circumstances. little Virginia farm she owned W, sold at public auction four years as to meet note of S67 For this tri ling sum the last property that tl actress owned was lost to her. Mar times she had osven far larger amour to aid the suffering soldiers. Mi Harrington be0a' her stage career Richmond. She was born at Islin ton. England. and her family move to Virginia when she was a chil There were four children-Jenni Kate. Mary and Sally-and all went the stage. Only two Kate and Sall arc now living. Sally made her d but at Marshall's theater, Richmon in 'sBlack Eyed Susan" Later sl V1 n-r4 ~A