Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-24
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER
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GzEzz ss sss sss sss zzzzG s'The Major and the Judge" a new musicaI farce comedy by Will J. Cres- sy will be. sent on the road at the be- ginning of next season. Tom Lewis and Sam J. Ryan, in conjunction with Maud Huh and many other popular fayorites, will make up the all star cast.
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 An amateur dramatic club gave a performance in Baltimore last week which so displeased August Earth that he threw cabbages at the actors. He was fined $1, and told the magis- trate that he presented several of the actors with bouquets before throwing the cabbages and believed he had as good a right to punctuate the per- formance with cabbages as well as with roses.
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 The Jefferson sons-Joseph Jeffer- son, jr, and William efferson-haye made their start as stars, and papa looked on with joy. More money will flow into the Jefferson c5ffers and that makes papa happy. And what is more delightful is that the Jefferson boys has a play called ''The Rivals on which there are no royalties to be paid, and as for the scenery and cos tunes, they are papa's alse
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 Mir and Mrs Kendall had a dispute over dressing rooms with the. manager L1~<- n era house, May 3. After the per formance that night when Mrs Kendall started to make a speech demanded by the audience, the house management turned out the lights and the orchestra drowned Mrs KendaPs voice. The audience showed it's resentment by { pelting the musicians with fruit and biscuits.
 John Wanamaker overcame his re- 1igious scruples sufficiently to make <all the costumes for "A Chinese Hon eymoon." with the result that they are the most gorgeous things ever seen on the Philadelphia stage. One ] writer says: ''The Chinese Honey moon makes San Toy look like eight cents, The Messenger Boy like four cents and The Toreador' about like. a farthing. It is better than all of them put together"
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 s'In New York Town" one of the most elaborately equipped musical productions Illustrating the frivolity { apd high life of tha Bohemian set of Slhe American metropolis will make it's debut in the early part of the coming season. The corridor of the Wal dorf-Astoria: a typical Bowery con- cert hall; New York's famous Essex market court. and Manhattan Beach at midnight will be among the many z picturesque and characteristic scenes
 After a most successful engagement along the Pacific coast the Williams : SE Walker company under the direction of Hurtig & Seamon will close theil season in Chicago June 21. Early iT the fall the company will be seen il new musical comedy having as 2 plot the story of Captain Kidd's lost treasure. The production will bt called "In Dahomey., The book is by Paul Lawrence Dunbar while VII Marion Cooke is responsible for tht music.
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 President John T. Heating of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. in a re cent Chicago interview. is thus quot ed: We don't object to our people being shown on the stage, but we dt object to those things they callr1risl co1nef1ians' which are dressed as nc Irishman ever dressed and are paint ed up so that they. look far more like monkeys than men. We have no faul to. find with Dion Boucicaults play: and characters, nor those shown b. Chauncey Olcott and Andrew Mack But when it comes to some of them Mr Keating held up his hands in dis may. The secretary to Martin Beck of the Orpheum circuit. requested t e1ve bis views upon this war of tn Irish upon the Irish said: "Tak' dwav the Irish comedians2 Well well go ont of business when that i done Why. sixty per cent of ou acts have Irish comedy in them, ans nearly every team has at least on' Irishman in it. The people who pla. these characters are Irish by birth fo tue most part. and they couldn't d. another turn in a thousand years It just happens that this week w .z< haven't an Irish act at the Chicag' onera house. the Haymarket Q {51vnDIc fheaters but this is an ex cenfiou. The A. o. Fl people mus < haye been looking at some pretty bat