Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-17
THEATRICAL CHATTER


'Her Mad Marriage has closed it's tour and the company has returned to New York.
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 Harrison y. Wolfe, who has been struggling with Hamlet" left his company in 3 stranded condition last week.
 The tour of Lights of Home has come to an end, having played all the original time booked by Harry Doel Parker.
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 In settling up the estate of the late Henry M Bennett, one of the owners of the Bijou theater in Pittsburg, 1t is said Laura Biggar will receive $260. GOO for her share.
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 Anna Held is so pleased with a sta tuette of herself which she recently had made in clay that she will have it reproduced in silver, and 1t will be nsed as a Christmas souvenir.
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 E. Fl. Sothern and Jnlia Maelowe will next season add Macbeth, 7 The Merchant of Venice,' and "The Tam ing of the Shrew'' to the Shakespear- can plays that they are now acting.
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 A company which went out few weeks ago to play 'Richard III'' in towns of from 1.50O to 2,ooO popuIa- ton, found it q difficult task to edu- cate the farmers and gave up the at tempt in Petoskey. Mich, last Friday.
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 Willie Collier, who has never before acted outside of America, will /play "gThe Dictator in London next sprng and summer. Kyrle Bellew in ''f2af- fes'' and William Gillette in a new piece of his own will also play in Lon don next summer.
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 A story has been sent out by ". X. Brady to the effect that he is nagoti- ating with Israel Zangwill for a new play for Wilton Lackaye to be called '"The Jew" Mir Lackaye had some experience In the ZangwiIl drama, '"The Children of the Ghetto.'' and it is Mir Brady's intention not to use the play until season after next.
 af: s...s s The dea&h of Mrs Gilbert narrows down the number of elderly actresses to three: Mrs w. G. Jones. Mrs Sol Smith and @"Aunt Louisa Eldridge. Each of these old ladies has passed the three-score and ten which is consId- cred the allotted time for usefulness, but each of them is still hale and hearty and apparently able to enter tain us for many years to come.
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 Ansaudience of about 5000, at $le a head. filled the Grand Central PaiaCe New York, to the bursting point on Tuesday evening las when l,lay called Under the Green Lamps" written for the occasion was present ed by members of the New York po- lice station, and the characters intro attached to the department The drama, which was a picture of real life in New York, was written by New ton MacMilIan and Paul Armstrong, The scene is laid in the Tenderloin l1O- lice tsation, and the characters intro duced are those that appear there ey- cry night in the week. A bit of patiios was introduced at the end of the play to show that the lbluecoats have hearts as we'll as helmets and brass buttons 1t, is needless to say that the presenta- ton met with the emphatic approval of the audience.
 :Il: Eleanor Robson last Thursday night closed her extraordnary engagement in Merely Mary Ann" at the Duke of York's theateI.. The event was notable for the most remarkable ovation that, has been ac- corded an American actress in Lon- don in many years. Miss Robson was called before the curtain dozen times after the play was ended, so en- thusiastic was this last audience and so warm place has the actress rlatie for herself in the BritIsh metropolitan heart. Long continued applause was accompanied by persistent cries for q speech. To this demand Miss Robson finally yielded. She made n brief but very pretty address. T wish.r she said. ''that could tell you how much I thank you. The simple words, T thank you seem wholly inadequate in view of all your kindness. Everybody has been so good to me. (Cries of ''You deserve it.''l The lit le birds of my heart will surely sing when they hear That I am to coIOa hacIy o0o s, ts