Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-01
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER

E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe ended their tour at Wheeling, W. Va, June 23. Next season Miss Marlowe will play Portia to Sothern's Shylock. Twelfth Night and Tanning of the Shrew will be in the repertoire.
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 Gladys Wilson of Berkeley, Cal, who is said to be only fourteen years old, has written a play called Doro- thea, romance of an English maiden of the eighteenth century. It is to have a trial by stock company in Los Angeles
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 Emma Calve sang Carmen before one of the largest audiences in the Thursday. This should set at rest the many misgivings regarding tSe diva's voice. She will arrive in New York some time in October to fulfill her concert engagements under the direc- tion of John Cort and $. Kronberg. She promises new role, something after the style of Yvette Guilbert.
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 The action brought by the heirs of the Bush estate in Denver. against Peter McCourt resulted in verdict against that manager, for over sixty thousand dollars, together with att0r- ney fees and other expenses. The action was brought in the Federal courts; the Bust estate claimed to own an interest in the Broadway the ater. MT McCourt is to appeal the case to the United States supreme court. Meanwhile the affair is one of the sensations of Denver.
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 Mrs James Brown Potter's house. hold effects and furniture were sold at auction on Friday under a bill of sale which she signed "TO pay the poor people working in the theater." Nothing was omitted from the compre- hensive catalogue, from 'six brown ware teapots with only three covers" !" in the kitchen to 3 new Panhard motor cur in the coach house. Other items included an old Chinese screen pre- scented to the actress by the late Iii Hung Chang, Golfers portrait of Mrs Potter as Mladi. three horses and four carriages. Bray Lodge itself will be sold next Thursday.
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 Never played to finer audience in my life" declared Andrew Mack when | he stepped off the stage at the end of his first nights performance at Her Majesty's, Melbourne, Australia, says | the Melbourne Critic. '"They told me over in the states that you people out here in Australia were cold and criti- cal and gave man as little encour- ferent tonight, didn't it? Why, those people In front never missed point of the whole shOw-and laugh! Some. times they began to laugh before the joke was off any lips. never want to playsbefore anybody better, amI lei me tell you this-Tom Moore. though written by an American for the Amer. jeans, never went better over there than it did here this evening". I'll put some of those croakers who filled me up with gloom on the right track when get back to them."
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 | Oscar Hammerstein took a trip tC Coney island one evening last week and while passing the new PoconC | House. a concert hall on Surf aven ue. was attracted by hearing n voice of remarkable strength and much sweetness. He stepped inside. ex- pecting to see man. and to his sur prise saw that the singer was a wo man. The manager became enthusi astic, and the next day sent an agent to see the singer, whose name Is Flos sic Crane. with an offer of S1OO n week to sing at his Paradise gardens. Tn, girl was stunned, and at first consid cred the matter huge joke as sh, had been warbling at Coney Islant for years and no one had ever noticed | that her voice was out of the or,li nary She was finally induced to com, to New York and give trial perfor nance for Mir Hammerstein. whicl was so satisfactory that she was i'm mediately engaged. Miss Cranes grandmother was a full blooded Shin necock Indian and her features. whil, not lacking in comeliness. show hel origin unmistakably.