Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-18
THEATRICAL CHATTER.

pIdy dn 1flSn4 COHeuy pdrJ Ill My Lady Molly" an English musical com edy now running at Terry's theater, London, which is to be presented M Boston in December, and later taken to New York.
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 Henrietta Crosman now comes out with the positive announcement that after her coming tour of ''As You Like It. next fall, she will never again ap- pear in "breeches part'' on the stage. Miss Crosman started the craze for this, style of part with her Mistress Nell'' three years ago. Now every actress of note is anxious to appear in such roles. So Miss Crosman has de- cided to give them all clear field and confine herself to skirts only.
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 The Howard county court at Fay cite, Mo, at Wednesdays session placed a prohibitory tax of $2OO per day upon Uncle Tom shows so- called, about which the ante-bellum feeling is still high. Howard was the largest slave-holding county in the state before the war, and its citizens regard Uncle Toms Cabin'' as a gross libel upon the existing conditions of slavery days. Two other counties of the same state have also placed a sfm- liar ban upon the play, varying in amount from $1OO to $2OO, though | many of the old shareholders were in favor of fixing the tax as high as $500.
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 Joseph F. Hall, the publicity pro- moter for Mildred Holland, Katherine l Willard, and William Bonelli and Rose Stahl, has for the firm of Shroop and Hall, since June 1, written the ad- vance notices for forty fractions, in l cluding the Sullivan, Harris & Woods, Gus Hill, Forester & Mittenthal, John l J. Brophy, Frank w. Caldwell, Weis 1 terprises.
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 The ubiquitous panama hat of last | season, when it was the extreme of l good style to wear one, is this summer conspicuous by it's absence, while the regulation straw hat has resumed its 1 sway. The estimate in which it is held l as ''back number was amusingly H. lustrated by colored bell boy belong l ing to the Marlborough hotel. Lew Dockstader who lives there, returned late one afternoon last week from his rehearsal, held in preparation for the next two weeks engagement at Man haitian Beach. To the bell boy, who looks after the interests of this popu- lar minstrel manager, he said: "Sam, did anyone call to see me to-day?' "Yes, suh," replied that individual, l rolling his eyes. Three men called to see you, suh." "Ah," said Dockstader, ''three men" ''Yes, suh," interrupted Sam, thar wuz three-two gentlemen and one man with a panama hat 1:
 Some of the players who have reach ed the stellar ranks and who will be exploited in new plays next season are l pretty well known throughout the country for their admirable work either on the legitimate or the vaude- ! vile stage. Among those who start before the first of January are Grace | Van Studdiford, Charles Richman, Maxine Elliott, Edna Aug, Kathryn Osterman, Charley Grapewin, Charles A.. Loder, Marie Tempest, E. J. Nor gan, Christie Macdonald, Raymond Hitchcock, Virginia Earle Ethel Levy, | Paula Edwards, Marie Dressler, Der tha Galland, Orrin Johnson, Fay Tenn pleton, Selma Herman. Others who go back to the stellar ranks are Madge Carr Cooke, Walker Whiteside, Alberta Gallatin, Wilton Lackaye, Henry E Dixey, Maclyn Arbuckle, Percy Has well, Richard Golden, Grace Cameron, Mary Shaw.
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 Ali Holt relates the following inci- dent, which occurred while he was playing with Hoyt's "A Day and 8 Night" company. A performance was to be given in a little Minnesota town, called New Rochester. As the com pany arrived late in the afternoon the property man had his hands and time full preparing for the evening. The local property man was also kept busi- | ly employed till the show was actually | begun when he stationed himself in l one of the entrances to watch it. Holt l who in the second act did whist1ing speciality, which included bird imita- tions. usually gave one among them of the bird most familiar in the town | where the company might be playing. Tn his desire to make his act locally popular, it was his custom to ascertain through one of the stage hands which bird was the best known in the neigh borhood. On this occasion Holt ap- preached the local property man and asked: "What bird is found in great, est numbers in your town? Do you have robinsT at the same time imitat- ing, as only Holt can, the chirp and song of the robin. At this the weary property man who had been kept SC busy hunting up numerous props" for the performance, gave the whistler an impatient look, as he answered: "Sure l we've slews of lem hereabouts, but why on earth didn't you tell me this af. ternoon that you wanted lem: how dc you expect me to get lem now?" "A
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