Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-08
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER

Cecilia Loftus is expected in New York this week, and will spend the summer with May Irwin in tue Thou sand Islands.
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 At the Hanscom park in Omaha. an outdoor performance of AS lou Like It was given on June 27 Uvercoats and heavy wraps was the order Of the day.
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 Maxine Elliott will remain in Eng land for month. and will then return to New York. She will be back in London next Spring and will then star in Clyde Fitch's new play, Mainly Con- cerning Jo.
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 Madame Calve says she will have a programme of popular songs in ten or twelve languages and an orchestra of various nationalities. Each song will be accompanied by a musician dressed in the appropriate national costume.
 :II: Harry Clay Blaney. after five years of success in Across the Pacific. will produce August B. a new naval come dy-drama, The Boy Behind the Gun. in which a scene of Admiral Togo's flag ship will be produced. showing that monster sea-dog in action.
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 Jem Mace and Tug Wilson. the for mer seventy-five and the latter sixty nine years of age. are now appearing in a sketch in which boxing is feature The two veterans give an exhibition Of the old style of fighting, and later on two youngsters exhibit their skill with the mitts. using the most modern methods. The act has met with great approval in the halls where it has been shown.
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 The Shubert Brothers signed June 2S a contract with Sarah Bernhardt for en American tour of thirty weeks. ro begin at the Lyric Theater. New York, on November next. Madame Bern hardt will bring her entire company from the Theater Sarah Bernhardt at Paris. and will be seen in her revival of Victor Hugo's Angelo, and also IT. her own production of Adrienne Le- couvreur, now running in London. i:
 Maude Fealy has just returned from her success in London with Sir Henry Irving as Fair Rosamond in Tenny- sons Beckett. and is now in Denver to play short engagement in Mice and Men. She will return 10 England in time to join Si. Henry Irving in Sep
 s.. s,,np-h-' JNraEHnplal tour. She will also be seen with this distinguished actor during his Ameri- can engagement, which will begin next January.
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 James K. Hackett had to pay three visits to the Garrick Thester in Lon don. to see The Walls of Jericho. ow- ing to the illness of Arthur Bourchier. who was out of the bill. He was sui fering with a bad throat Mr Hackett is convinced that the play will prove popular in this country. especially s" because of the appearance of his wife. Mary Mannering. in the cast. IL will he the first piece offered at the Sayo! Tbeater of the Hackett season.
 :: After almost twenty years litigation the case between the Due de Choiseui and the opera Comique of Paris IS about 10 he settled. The former Due family presented the ground on which the theater Is built to the city of Paris on condition that his family should own a box in perpetuity. When the theater was rebuilt after the fire of Iss7 The new box was not well situated nor had if the same commodities. hen.-e the litigation for 20..s francs tSio.- pnp damages The opera Comique has now agreed to rebuild the box oR its old lines
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 No surprise is created nowadays when announcement Is made of the engagement of this or that famous star for vaudeville. and when il was ruruored last week that Lillian Russell had been offered very large ssIarT hy F.F. Proctor scarcely an eyebror-Ess raised in consequence It appears ac- cordinz to reports. that Mr Proctors agent several months ago offered Miss Russell S26ssl a week and that the prims donna refused tc make the s-plunge- for less than SAl6sl- II Is possible that the difference may bel split. and that Miss Russell may con sent to work for the same smo1nt of uouev that Mrs Lsnztry is to receive in vaudeville next season which is <3lsH q uees Nor that Mrs Potfe- fs a rsudeViIIisn over in London it uav become the fad for prominent stan to take . dip into the -eonsdna-