Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-04

Sample of conversation heard ''Or the door" of a one-night stand theater: Fred Meek, manager of the Wizard of o. company. thrustlng back sophisticated youth whom his mother is trying to squeeze in without a tick ct: That boy is over age. Must have ticket.' ''He ain't : yet" He's 14 if he's day" The sophisticated youth: You're both liars. I'm 13."
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 There is one scene in Babes in Toy lrnd' in which there is a stage moon. The moon is worked by an electric light which shines behind the drop. Like all stage moons 1t will sometimes flicker. The other day Julian Mitchell witnessed the performance of the Babes" and flair Luna" acted in a particularly disgraceful manner. After the performance he called the cleo trician to task and said to him: You have very inconstant moon there. my boy'' "Yes. Mir Mitchell" re turned the electrician, but you know an incandescent moon never works we'll"
 When Lydia Thompson, the famous British actress of a generation ago, re- gently went behind the scenes of the Lew Fields theater. she gave the girls of the Tt Happened in Nordland" company bit of her wisdom. AS they clustered about the kindly woman, with her hair just turning gray. she said: "Now girls. remember this: MOdesty doesn't depend on petticoats and skirts, It's the way you behave in them, or without them, that really counts. My husband told me he'd rather I'd wear tights than ballet skirts. but that he didn't much care which I wore so long as I felt modest and acted modestly."
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 Anthony Watt aged 93 years, q charter member of Connersville. Ind. lodge, No 379. B. F. o. Elks, and said tn be the oldest Elk in the world, died Sunday, February 19. and was buried Wednesday. February 9. in Lick Creek cemetery, the funeral being un- der the auspices oi the Elk and Ma sonic lodges Mr Watt until his death was an active member of the lodge, at
 
 gatherings, and was one of the very prominent features of the grand pa radc of the Elk order at Cincinnati during the reunion last summer, riding in a carriage ahead of the Connersvillc lodge. bearing a banner inscribed "The Oldest Elk in the WOrld." when he re- ccivcd one continual round of applause.
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 They have a new play in London of returning compliments in exchange for ''roasts" hy the newspapers. The Daily Mail did not like the White Cat" and said so Tn d vigorous fash ion. Arthur Collins, who manages the Drury Lane theater, devised scheme which has set all London talking. He las given some lines to one of the principals of the play who steps down to the footlights and says: By kind permission of the Daily Mail,' anN then tells what things may be done. II is in the nature of d song and it is q bowling success. The attack of the newspaper on this piece has long been forgotten. but the song has had q ten, dency to cheapen the value of the newspaper in the estimation of many advertisers who say that this quiet re- taliaton in the way of a topical song is having q disastrous effect.
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 William M. Gray. general manager for Hamlin. Mitchell and Fields, flushed with the success of his story of having played in Astoria. Wash. to i!.2I6 pounds of salmon. instead of cash. when he was manager of '''rhe Cattle King" company. drifted back to Lew FieldS's dressing room during q performance of Tt Happened in Nord- land" Friday night, and clearing his throat began: .'It was on that same trip in the northwest that our train was stalled by a freshet at point on the Columbia river. The water rose higher and higher until tt was swiftly rushing by to the height of the car windows. We were without food. and if was tantalizing for us to see lus- cious salmon. and fine. speckled trout being whrled by. and We unable to catch them. Suddenly brakeman told us that the big fish and beef can ming factory up the river was heinz swept away. and an inspiration came to me. Tearing one of those little hammocks which the Pullman people so obligngly place beside each berit in their cars. leaned from the win dow. and soon had a pile of the finest canned salmon, lobster and cooked corncd beef you ever tasted" ''I sup pose" said Mir Fields. who is naturally Q. somewhat suspicious nature" that you had q can opener as q charm to your watch chainy' "No." answered Mir Gray. but in the forward ear was a lot of Italian immigrants. who wore hob-nailed shoes. So had them walk on the cans, and opened them that