Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-08
THEATRICAL
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Kate Claxton is said to be contem- plating vaudeville debut in a one-act play in which she will impersonate a character somewhat on the order of Louise in 'The Two Orphans"
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 Mrs Gilbert will follow Cecilia Loftus at the Lyceum theater, filling in the three weeks before the begin ming of Sir Charles Wyndhamis en- gagement. Her new play, Grandma was to have followed John Drew at the Empire theater. The failure of the Zangwill play gives John Drew three weeks more time in New York. Fl:
 Daniel Sully has commenced rehears- als of s'The Pastor the new play writ ten for him by Jerrold Shepard. In this production Mir Sully will again depict the character of priest. The scenes of the play are laid in a small mining town in Idaho. s'The Pastor'' will have it's first production early in October and will probably be seen in son.
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 Maude Adams will open her season
 
 the south before going to the Empire theater in December. Her company is now rehearsing in New York 'sThe Little Minister" L'Aiglon'' and "'Op O Me Thumb" which will be the re- pertoire for the season. It is arl- nounced that William Gillette is writ ing new play for Miss Adams, which she will appear in during her term at the Empire.
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 Chauncey Olcott is a good comedian, but he does, not know everything, that is, where old Neptune's sons are con cerned. While cruising in his yacht last summer, he met an old salt whom he hadn't seen since his last trip there. How are you?' said MT Olcott. Pretty fair, but a little deaf in my left ear" well, you're no longef young, you know. and-'' "Divil a bit it's the age" interrupted the old sailor, "sure me right ears as old as the left one, and can hear fine in that"
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 Charles A. Mason, of Mason and Mason, tells this one: "At school, little Charlie, being one of the geography class, was deeply interested in learn ing the points of the compass. Said the teacher: You have in front of you the north; on your right, the east; on your 1 left, the west. What have you behind your After a moments reflection Charlie exclaimed: "A patch on my pants And to make the information more binding Charlie continued in a sharlefaced manner: I knew you'd see it; told mamma you would.''
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 Mrs Estelle Mortimer, one of the most accomplished and popular char acter women on the American stage died in St Joseph's hospital. Kansas City, Mo. after day of acute suffer ing with Bright's disease and diabetes, on the morning of September 2S. She was a member of the Bird Center company. playing the important role of Mrs Withersbee. Two nights be- fore her death she appeared at the I Willis Wood theater, and though suf- fering greatly she managed to get through the performance. The follow ] ing night she went to the theater. but was too i'll to appear and Mrs E. J. Connolly went on in her stead. Late that night cTuesday) she was taken to 1 the hospital and at 5 o'clock the next morning she passed away. II:
 Lionel Brough has just celebrated the f1ftieth anniversary of his debut on the stage and is now appearing in the role of TTfnculo in Beerbohm Trees revival of "The Tempest in London. MT Brough made his first ] appearance in 1854 at the London Ly- ceum. He forsook the stage soon, however, and devoted himself for two 4f. 4@4 40.s, in 1858, he returned to the Lyeeum to originate part in bis brother Roberts burlesque, "The Siege Of Troy,' he was obliged to appear as Lionel Por- ter" because his elder brothers insist I ed1 that there were already enough Broughs on the bill Through his long public career Mir Brough has been asso- ciated with the greatest of English ac- tors and holds high position in the esteem of British playgoers. l II:
 I Speaking of cool call downs," said .I Charles Hawtrey few nights ago, l sI think the hardest that ever an actor got occurred to a well known English man who once called to see Louis Wal 1 Ter. The actor is well known, but for ' obvious reasons it's just as well not to mention his name. He had written to Waller. asking for an appointment to talk over part which he hoped to play in a coming production. And now,' remarked Waller. after the pre- liminaries had been discussed, what salary do you expect?' Well, couldn't i think of playing for less than 30 pounds a week. was the answer MT | Waller suddenly became engrossed in manuscript on his desk. Please close the door as you go out, MT Blank was all he said. Needless to say, MT Blank sought another engage ment."
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 Thomas Jefferson has this story to tell of an incident that occurred al Buzzard's Bay, near his favorite fish ing grounds last summer. The hero was a shop keeper who, among other things, sold fishing rods. For the pur- pose of advertising them he had q large rod hanging outside his shop with an artificial fish at the end of it | aY4a r,{rrh% 3i0xx,rG rVhn had