Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-06
THEATRICAL CHATTER.

uh6 BurdiCk murder has finally reached the stage. the same as all sen- sational events of the day. A piece called 'sThe Buffalo Mystery was of fered at the Academy of Music in Chi cago during the past week, and it was agreed that the play was about the worst concoction of melodrama ever put together.
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 Since May Irwin has announced her Intention to retire from the stage, there has been much curiosity as to who will take her place. While many comediennes would not hesitate to step into her place, Miss Irwin evidently wishes to retain the plays in the fam fly, as she has given her sister, Flo IT, win, the rights to all her successes, in cluding the costumes, scenery and properties complete. Flo Irwin, who has many of her sisters mannerisms, and is not lacking of magnetism, will be seen next season in the Irwin plays.
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 Fanchon Thompson will sing at the Metropolitan opera house, New York,
 next season. Although Heinrich Con. reid Is not yet ready to make the mat ter public, he has secured the sigma lures of the singers to contracts. Calve has not appeared in New York in near ly two. years, and Fanchon Thompson in nearly twelve months longer. The French soprano left the United States in a huff because the papers were drank enough to say that her art was not what it once was and she made a spectacular declaration at the dock that she would never cross the Allan tic again Calve will be glad to leave France once more, on account of the humiliating termination of her recent love affairs with Henri Gain and Jules Bois. She would have signed with Mir Conreid long ago but for the ques- tion of terms. She demanded $2,0O0 a performance. which is $250 more than she was given by Maurice Grau. The new impresarfo has declared that he will not go above his predecessors S figures. It is said that a compromise has been effected.
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 The Irish Literary Society of New York, which was recently organized, presented at Carnegie Lyceum on We'd nesday and Thursday of this week, three original Irish dramas by W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet, with picked cast composed of professional actors. The first of the plays is the Pot of Broth, in one act. 1t deals in hum orous way with the manner in which shrewd and wide-awake began gets his dinner from stingy housewife by means of a magic stone warranted to produce anything that it's possessor de sires. The second play is Cathleen-ni- Hoolihan, a one-act play dealing with the troubIous period of 179S, the be witching of a young man on the eve of his wedding by Cathleen-ni-Hooli- han, the spirit of Ireland. and his leav- ing his bride-to-be to fight and die fer his country on the morrow. The third play is The Land of Hearts Des- ire, which created such favorable i'm pregsion on its previous representation at Wallack's theatre some two years ago. For the latter play the society was fortunate in securing the child act \ ress. Mabel Taliaferro, whose orgiina- ton of the fairy child in the produc- tion two years ago was regarded as ? consummate bit of poetic characterdza- tfon. Among others who appeared in these three plays were Mrs Mary E Barker, who for a decade of years was associated with the late Dion Bouci- cault in his Irish dramas; Nora O'Brien lately of Mrs LeMoyne's company norothy Donnelly, who has been. for \ j&he past season leading woman for Mir |I Aobert Edeson: Frank Mccormack, kustag age-manager for Mrs Fiske in her
 productfon of Mary of Magdala; Will
 alfam F. Kitts. Moira l.. Ray, and oth-
 ers. The society secured the services
 .bf Henry F. Gilbert, the composer of
 Boston, who gave for the first time his
 overture founded on Sir Samuel Ferg-
 sson's "Lament of Dierdre," and who
 lso conducted the incidental music of
 he plays. These plays, together with
 fr Yeats Hour Glass. were recently
 fven by members of the Irish National
 Theatre Society in London under the
 ugpices of the London Irish Literary
 ociety.
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