Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-09
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alter in London, and was selected by
Pinero to play Mirnie Gilfllan IN
"Sweet lavender at Terry's theater.
A season at the Lyceum with Sir
Henry Irving and Miss Terry, where
she played all the parts second to the
latter, and a season in light comedy
with Charles HaWtrey at the Comedy
theater, had also given her very valll-
able experience. Miss Irish's beauty
and talent attracted Immediate atten-
ton in New York and on the departure
of the Kendals she was induced to re-
main in this country. In 1894 she Gre
ated the leading woman's role in 'The
District Attorney in New York, then
played a season with both the Lyceum
and Empire theater stock companies,
and followed these engagements by
creating Marion in s'Tess of the Dur
bervilles'' at the Fifth Avenue theater.
She impersonated the widow with w.
H. Crane in ga Virginia Courtship,"
played a season with John Drew and
the leading role In Because She Loved
Him So'' with Mr. Dodson. Then fol-
lowed two seasons in 1.-THE Climbers
She also appeared as Nerissa with N.
G. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott in the
all-star cast production of "The Mer-
chant of Venice"
III:
The story of 1.-THE Rogers Brothers
in Harvard" the new vaudeville farce
in which Iklaw & Erlanger will present
the Rogers Brothers during their fifth
annual tour, which begins at the Star
theater in Buffalo, Monday evening, the
25th inst, opening for a New Y ork run
at the Knickerbocker September /, is
the most humorous John j. McNally
has yet written for these comic enter
tainers. One might think from the
title that the new piece is intended to
be a skit on college life and
that Harvard is the only institution Of
learning that will have a place in the
story. AS a matter of fact, it will not
in any way satirize students or college
life and all the prominent colleges, in
Guiding those for women, will be rep
resented in the story, music, costumes
and specialties The foundation of the
idea on which Mr. McNally has erect
ed his structure of comicalities is the
passing off of two German walters,
played by the Rogers Brothers, for
Harvard professors, by two. young men
supposed to be at college, but who have
never attended, deceiving their uncles,
who are their guardians. The return
Of the uncles from Europe makes it
necessary for them to cloak their pre-
tensions, and as part Of their scheme
they Introduce the German walters as
their instructors. Those familiar with
the stage methods of the Rogers Broth
ers and Mr. McNally's adroitness in
originating humorous complications.
can Imagine the funny situations and
amusing mistakes of the Germans
There is a sub-plot, of more than usual
Importance in stage creations Of this
which involves the guardians and two
fashionable dressmakers who have be-
come involved in New York in COM
plications of the customs laws. Those
who have seen the new piece in re-
hearsal are unanimous in the opinion
that 1.-THE Rogers Brothers in Har-
ward will excel in it's book, in the at
Effectiveness of its music, in the daz-
zling brilliancy of its costuming and
in the effective pictorial manner in
which its great chorus of young wom-
en- are handled any of the previous re-
markable successes associated with the
names of the Rogers Brothers and
Klaw and Erlanger. The scenery will
be especially pretentious and the spec
ialty features will be even more nu-
merous and novel than in the past