The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-09

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 The demand to see .Fiorodora'' ih Bos- ton was so great that although the en- gagement does not begin until tomorrow the house has been sold out for the en- tire week. The musical comedy will be presented in the Hub by the Eastern company.
 Accounts. from Paterson. N. J.. say that Della Fox has a very poor comedy per says she has completely lost her singing power and that the audience re- ceived her efforts in silence.
 The coming of the Hoppers is likely to be the slogan. Edna Wallace Hopper mans management. De Wolf Hopper is to star and the confusion of both hap penIng to play the same town at the same time would be interesting.
 George W. Lederer will produce a new opera caller The Wild Rose" in Phil adelphia on March A in conjunction with Frank L. Perley, for which Harry B. Smith and George V. Hobart are to sup ply the book and Ludwig Englander the music.
 With her most recent play, Under Southern Skies," Lottie Blair Parker has come to the front as a dramatist. She and she will be still better known after J. W. Rosenquest produces her latest output new rural drama.
 There was a pathetic scene at the bedside of Thomas De Angelis at Lud- low Park, Yonkers. last Friday. for the young man who had been i'll for many months longed to see his father. Jeffer- son De Angelis. before he died. The comedian hastened from La Crosse. Wis, but arrived too late. Although. 8 step-sop, Jefferson De Angelis idolized the boy. and for many years gave him the benetit of fine education and sincere friend ship.
 Miss Adelaide Thurston and her pretty play, Sweet Clover" are going to be seen for the second time here this sea- son at the Montgomery Theatre early in March. The charming little actress and her wholesome play have travelled very extensively and have met with unusual success since their engagement here last autumn. Sweet Clover'' Is stilleremem- bered as one of the very ,daintiest plays of the season.
 Richard Mansfeids new play, Ivan the Terrible" may become one of the histor- ical classics in his hands, Victor Smith thinks, for Ivan the Terrible was the Louis XI of Russia, and for him there is as much to be said as for the cruel king of France, who united her fragments and made her great Mansfield has gone up a long ways since he was Tn Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera sixteen or seventeen years ago, the writer mention ed continues. In the same company with Mansfield in his comic opera days was Hattie Delaro. who married Billy Barnes the fattest and the most popular man in Harvard in the middle of the sos. He was president of his class for four years and grand marshal al the class day ex, ercises. Billy Barnes's father, General Barnes of San Francisco, and the most prominent lawyer on the Pacific Coast. moved heaven and earth to break on the match between Billy and Hattie De- iaro. He cut off Billy's allowance in an attempt to starve him into surrender, hut BiIly's heart was true. to Pol. He went to work for himself and made hit at practicing law in San Francisco; He married Hattie Delaro and was elected District Attorney of San Fran cisco against the opposition of his father; The match was not a happy one, ana Mrs Billy Barnes sued for her rights aud fnr dana ReS,