Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-29

Mascagni, the author of "Cavalleira RusticaIla," is the latest to go into politics. He is candidate at Pesaro, Italy, for the chamber.
 I:
 Achille Dumont, French portrait painter, has arrived from Paris to paint Richard Mansfield as Tzar Ivan, Shylock, Beau Brummel, Richard Ill and Baron Chevrial.
 Fl:
 Mrs William Mckinley, wife of the late president, attended performance October IS of Paul Gilmore in the Mummy and the Running Bird'' in Canton, o. This is her first appear, ance in a theater since her husbands death.
 II:
 Tim Murphy has secured Joseph Jeffersons form of his famous reper- toire to produce next season. Those included in the contract are: The Cricket on the Hearth" Lend Me Five Shillings, the Rivals" and "Da. vid Garrick.'' Mir Murphy will have present each play with the usual ac> cessories.
 Fl:
 Thomas Noonan, business manager, and James E. Cummings, stage car penter. who are among those held re, sponsible for the disaster at the Iro- quois theater, Chicago, last winter, will be brought to trial in Peoria, III, instead of in Chicago. The change of place was deemed necessary because of the strong feeling in Chicago over the disaster. Peoria was decided upon only after long wrangle among the lawyers.
 II:
 J. Sheridan Knowles, the author of "Virginius," "The Wife" "The Hunch- back" civilian Tell" ''The Love Chase and other dramas, was born in Cork, Ireland, in 17S4. He played his own pieces in this country in 1884. His success as a dramatist, in which Ae was unrivaled in his day, was great CT than as an actor. He never lost his brogue. He returned to England, abandoned the stage, and became Baptist minister. He died in England November 30, 1862.
 l:
 The newspapers published in Glas> gow. Scotland, on September B, con tained long and interesting accounts of a new feat performed by Houdini. It was nothing more nor less than an es- cape from q large wooden box, the lid of which was nailed won in full view of the audience by eight honest car, penters. The announcement of this ssstunt'' caused such rush to the the ater that the traffic of the street cars was impeded and the police had the time of their lives keeping the crowd in order. As one paper put it, You might have walked on the heads of the surging. struggling. swaying mass or people from Georges Cross to the Nor mai school.'' Houdini manages to keep a little. ahead of the times, and this new tficRTofahis seems to be the one big sensation of the season in Europe,
 Fl:
 The role of Catherine the Great of Russia. which Mildred Holland DOT trays in her new play, 'The Triumph of an Empress is most majestic and interesting one. While the gener- al opinion is that Catherine was se- were and cruel ruler, this belief scenes to be erroneous. 1t was the boast of the great empress that she had never signed a death warrant 1t was only in exceptional cases that criminals were ever brought to the scaffold, and in these cases the empress, herself, refrained from participating in the ma chinery of the law. In general sne substituted transportation for capitai punishment. 1t is known that Cath crime was resolutely opposed to all forms of torture and coercion.