Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-22
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER

SalQ prominent actor, but l ind on looking up statistics that it is apt to prove too costly. Some $50,OOO.OO0 a year, it is said, is spent in golf. Of this, $20,0OO,OOO goes for Scotch, $1O,- 100000 for rye, $5,O0000O for Times and lemons, $S,OOO,OOO for ice, and ST. 100000 for tobacco. So it looks as If I couldn't afford it."
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 Last season when the Weber X Fields organization was booked to play in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lew Fields, in Los Angeles, Cal, received a letter from Mormon friend of his ill Salt Lake, requesting two passes for the show. MT Fields hates to issue passes, but this gentleman was a par ticular friend of his, so he made an ex- ception in his case, and forworded, by special delivery letter, this pass:
 Admit Bearer
 and ONE wife.
 Lew Fields.
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 Madison Corey, the manager of Ade's Peggy from Paris" company, vouches for the, following incident. The com pany left Scranton, Pa., at. 6:25 last Saturday morning to play matinee and night performance at Troy. N. Y. The bassoonist failed to catch the train and instead of applying to the railroad agent for transportation as is usrlal Ill such cases. he bought a ticket as far as Binghampton and finding that he had not sufficient funds to buy ticket to Troy, telegraphed his wife in New York for $1O. She sent same by mail which he received Monday. and having forgotten the cOmpeny's booking for Monday, he went to the New YorH, of flee for the information. Corey and members of the company were mucn puzzled to know what had become of him and were delighted to see him walk into the orchestra rehearsal in New Britain on Tuesday, and when he was asked why he telegraphed his wife instead of the management or some one of the company, replied that he couldn't remember the managers name, and had forgotten the leaders name also; but he can remember every card played in pinochle game.
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 John J. McNalIy, who is busily en- gagged writing the boook for Lifting the Lid," the new production which Klaw X Erlanger will present at the New Amsterdam Aerial Theater this summer, and for the Rogers Brothers new piece for next season. 'The Rog- CTS Brothers in Ireland" relates fun ny story concerning the recent visit of A. l.. Erlanger and himself to Ireland. We stopped at the Shelbourne hotel in Dublin," he said. "This was recom- mended to us as the best hotel in the city, which is about the worst thing that m enemy of Dublin could say about it. and at the Queens hotel in Queenstown. We expected to find some choice specimens of Irish brogue among the walters, and possibly pick up few bright bits of Irish With and repartee. We were very much surprised to find that the walters were all German and spoke English with a German accent that would make the Rogers Brothers stage lingo appear as excellent English composition.
 ''To show that Ireland is proper place in which to secure atmosphere for all Irish play. the bills of fare were all printed in French. The cOmbina- ton Irish dishes set forth on menu card in French, served by German walters. was too much even for us. There was little flavor of Ireland in the dining room of the Queens hotel. however, because one of the German walters spoke Frence with decidedly Irish accent
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 One mid-May Sunday afternoon about five years ago. when the bloom ing laburnum and red-flOwering chest nuts were turing the crowds from Lon. don to the beautiful villas of the Thames, Evie Greene, who was then playing the principal-boy role IF "EAmour Mourille." was with party on the river who were out for a week. end holiday. Some friend brought Leslie Stuart. the composer, to her and introduced him. MT Stuart was sur prised at the extreme youth of the girl. whom he had seen play in IT. Amour Mouille' a few evenings before. and remarked. Well. you are q youngster.. Miss Greene was then not nineteen.
 She answered, with her delicious Dublin burr. "I am not an old granny vet. No doubt you will want to write all opera for me before long" Mir Stuart was amused at the youthful Celtic mn nertinence of the girl and assured her that he would very much like to see Ter in an opera of his.5 Miss Greene took the matter seriously and said that she could introduce him to man who had n very good book for an opera. Shortly afterwards she arranged to meeting between Mir Stuart and Owen Hail, who wrote the liberetto of "Florodora."
 This meeting between MT Stuart and Mir Hall resulted in the former writ ing the music for "FlorOdora" and il! elaborating the role of Dolores. which Eyie Greene originated and in which she scored so heavily on it's first night at the Lyric Tbeater in London This was the beginning of her remarkable rise on the stage. her subsequent sue. cess fin '.The Duches of Dantzic bring ing all London to her feet Her long stax at Daly's in New York this sea- son has served to establish for her large personal following in this coun- try.
 urrrr1cS TO- NIGHT.