Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-28
Theatrical Chatter.

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 The school board at Manitowoc, I Wis, has served notice on the teachers l in the high school that the faculty must not attend theaters or other places of amusement except Friday and Saturday nights.
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 A play called "Unjustly Accused" dealing with incidents of the civil war, was produced by amateurs in Denver last Thursday, and so much merit was found ill it that an offer has been made for it's use by professionals.
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 A play called "The Fatal Scar" de, lscribed as realistic of western life, cir GUS life and life in a great city, was produced in Hartford, by q local stock company. but the audience was so small that little has been said of the piece.
 Madame Janauschek has written to a friend in New York to the effect that had she known that the surroundings of the Actors Fund home were so have been among the first to become
 
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 A local critic in the south discovered that 135 murders were committed upon the stage during the season in melo- dramas to which this house caters. There were sixteen railroad wrecks, fourteen ahductions. two tank dra- mas, two plays with locomotives and five shipwreck scenes.
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 The W. c. T. U at Springfield Ohio, has decided that Othello deserves 1 to be classed with "blood and thun- der plays, and at a meeting held re gently condemned the piece and asked the mayor to prevent the presentation of this masterpiece by travelling com pany.
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 | Mrs Claire Beecher Hummer is at work on comic opera which she eX- lpects to have finished by September. to l be called "Father Noah," which has lbeen secured by Charles Frohman. The lady is niece of William Gillette, who is said to have given her some as- sistance.
 l Wright Lorimer's production of "The 1 Shepherd King" will only be seen in l four of the large cities next season. Boston Philadelphia and Chicago will probably be the only places outside of New York which will have the oppor- tunity of seeing this magnificent spec tacle before season after next.
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 A man approached the box office at | Chase's theater in Washington and l said: 'Inasmuch as you advertise that you have polite vaudeville, will you please tell me where 1 can find an lm- polite performances! The question worried the box office attendant and he promised to send the answer by mail.
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 l George Khnt. the German actor. who. with Alma Hearn, heads his very successful production of William l.. Roberts's play. "On the Bridge at Mid night" relates how recent matinee performance, at Fall River, was inter- l rIpted The driver of coal cart, an 1 old man who evidently had never seen the inside of theater, entered the stage door, having just completed the l delivery to the theater of several loads of coal The doorkeeper being absent | from his post, the old man asked the first man he met who happened to be l the stage carpenter, where he should % to collect his carriage. You'll nave to 90 out in front for that" replied the carpenter, and. with wave of his hand in the direction of the front of 1 the house, he turned away. not obsery- 1 ing the fact that the driver took him at his word literally. not understanding the theatrical vernacular, "out front" l Walking on to the stage, where scene was in progress, he approached one Of I the actresses, who seemed to be the 1 greatest in authority at that moment, and. in voice audible to the audience. l he said: 'I want the pay for haulin' | the coal" The actress addressed quick l ly grasping the situation, quietly di- rected the man to the opposite side of | the stage, out of sight of the audience. l where he was detained until the fall of | the curtain. The audience, though per | haDS mystified at the Interruption. would not have realized the significance | of 1t had it not been for the unre- i strained laughter on the part of the l orchestra director. in which they too ] joined as soon as the cause dawned upon them.
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 Perhaps many persons never stopped to consider the amount of trouble at tached to putting on the boards an amateur dramatic performance. Many i there are who have attended such per formances and have been delightfully."- entertained never gave the subject much thought and probably imagined that 1t was just as easy to place a