Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-05
Gricyc, BiSSct & Holland
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER
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Robert B. Mante1l is spending the summer in Brooklyn. He will play i'll New York in the fall.
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 Lulu Chaser will sail for Europe on the Kronprinz Wilhelm July l. She will divide her vacation between Paris and the ,owiss Alps, returning to this country the latter part of August.
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 Richard Mansfield will close his west ern tour of nine weeks in Montreal, July 4, after which he will leave to 1 join Mrs Mansfield at their villa on the Thames, near London, England.
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 Ada Lewis is spending her days of recreation with her family in San Fran a cisco. Miss Lewis has signed with David Belasco for next season, but the exact nature of her work has not yet been announced
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 Miss Marie CahiIl. who has achieved success in 'sThe Wild Rose" is to at tain stellar rank during the coining season. She will appear in "Sally in $ Our Alley" which opens at the Broad way in August, playing Sally. After the run of that musical comedy she will be put at the head of her own ' company, and she will appear in plays like those in which Miss May Irwin has been uccessful-comedies, with in cidentaI music.
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 Contracts between Klaw & Erlanger and the Rogers Brothers were signed Saturday, June 2S, by which these en- f<oT agement of this firm for period of five ,-years from the opening of the season of 1903-4 in September, 1903. On that day an agreement was also reached whereby the Rogers Brothers will be come part owners of the new theater the Klaw & Erlanger Amusement Go is to build for them in Forty7second street, ten doors from the New Amster- dam theater the Klaw & Erlanger Con- struction Go is now erecting. The Rogers Brothers have now played un- der the ulrection of Klaw 6 Erlange1 for four seasons, having one season of their original contract yet to fill, open ing at the Knickerbocker theater Sep, tember with sThe Rogers Brothers in Harvard' as their vehicle. John J MeNally, the author of all their farces is now at work on the scenario of the
 
 son under the new contract recently signed.
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 The new musical comedy by Harry B. Smith and Gus Kerker, in which Klaw & Erlanger will present Jerome Sykes and their opera company, mex! season. will be called '"The Billionaire,' instead of The Money Burner" as previously announced. Klaw SS Er danger promise that this production vii Fbe a sensational novelty in the fullest sense of that term. In one of it's acts they will present a scenic feature of [ magnitude never before attempted ir a musical piece. "The Millionaire" it is predicted, will be an instantaneous success and attract unusual attention Mir Sykes, whose inimitable drolleries as the comic detective in Foxy Quil Ter" conyulsed great audiences for two ,seasens. will play the title role. Those sfamiliar with the story of 1.-The Bil -lionaire" expect he will make a re markable hit in this part. The people Flaw & Er1anger are engaging for MI Sykes's support, and the elaborate pre- parations they are making for the pre- .sentation of this piece early in October indicate that it will be one of the larg est musical productions they have ye made.
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 "Ben-Hur," which will open the new Grand opera house in Cincinnati Sep tember lo, will make the most exten sive tour it has yet played since it: premiere three years ago. It's first sea son was filled entirely at the Broadway theater. The following year it was presented only in Philadelphia and Bos ton. and last season in Chicago. S Louis. Pitrsburg. Philadelphia, Wash fngton. Baltimore and Boston. Up tC this time in three years it has beer seen in but eight cities. This season after three weeks in Cincinnati, it vii be presented in Cleveland. Rochester Buffalo, Detroit. Indianapolis, Milwau kee, St Paul, Minneapolis. Omaha Kansas City. St Louis, Memphis, New Orleans. Atlanta. Louisville, Columbus O., Toledo. Toronto, Montreal. Port land, Me. Springfield, Mass, Providence Hartford and New Haven The en. gagement in Cleveland Buffalo De troit. Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City. St Louis. New Orles<s and Toron to will be for two weeks. all others one week The production will be present ed in every detail exactly as staged in New York. and with the same com pany of $50 people employed during ths past three years. Its transportation will require nine baggage cars, two cars for the trained horses and camels and three Pullman and three passenger coaches for the company-seventeen \ cars. This will be the largest organiza Afxon ever sent en tour in the world.