Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-26

Amelia Bingham gets $1.OOO a week from Proctor at the 5th Avenue. so does Richman. This stock experiment will be watched with interest.
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 William A. Brady may be sorry he sold out his interest in De Wolf Hop. per to the Shuberts. They say Hop. pers new play is rehearsing remark ably well.
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 A. l.. Erlanger is the hardest work ing "opera house. man in New York He rehearses continually, besides con ducting 75 per cent of the show busi ness in America.
 Maud Adams will sing and dance Tn "Peter Pan." Miss Adams will sur prise some by her ability in this direc- tfon. As child she was a clever mn- sician and dancer.
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 David Belasco. Lee Shubert. Harri. son Grey Fiske, Frank Perley, John C. Fisher and Sam Rorke will be the chief hustlers to supply anti-syndicate attractions for the ''outlaw" theaters.
 II:
 Robert Mantell is booked in several cities against Richard Mansfield Let us hope there will be no repetition of the Forest Macready riots What fine combination Mantell- Mansfield would be.
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 Grace George refused fabulous salary to create Thora in "The Prodi- gal Daughter" and remain only during the New York season of the play. She has great confidence in the Marriage of William Ashe''
 II:
 Sara Bernhardt will play most of her tour in one night stands. appear ing in halls. auditoriums. tabernacles and the largest buildings that can be found. Sara is the right sort She would play in tent if she gets the money.
 II:
 They say that Brady has discovered another Way Down East" in As Ye Sow" that will shortly be done in Chi cago. It was written by a clergfman and Joseph R. Grismer has an interest in it and has elaborated 1t; so have few others.
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 An impecunious individual of the panhander type. who has been both ing Sam H. Harris all summer for small change. walked rather nnsteadily Into the lobby of the New York the ater one day last week and gave the manager of Little Johnny Jones" an. other rnb up for the price of "skilly." The genial Sam handed him quarter. and almost passed away when the tipsy one said, thickly, Haven't you got half;"
 :II:
 Miss Nella Bergen. an actress and singer. who in private life Is the wife of De Wolf Hopper. is the latest play CT selected for star. Henry E. liar ris has signed contract whereby she passes under his management for term of five years Miss Bergen will be presented at the head of her own company in new romantic opera of which Stanislaus Stange will write the libretto. and Mr Harris Is negotia ting with John Philip Sousa to collsborate with a1r Stange.
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 No young American tenor of recent years has made more marked advance in his profession than Ellison Van Hoose, who will again devote the com ing season to concerts in this country. Mir Van Hoose has added greatly to his reputation by his artistic success. es with Mine Melba last season. This tour comprised sixty-fwo concerts and covered the entire continent. and in every concert Mir Van Hoose shared the honors with Mme MeIba He Is of Holland descent. hut being born in Tennessee he can justly he claimed hy America.
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 The king is dead. long live the king Berry Wall was known and acknowl- edged the king of the dudes for years. He sci the fashions for the young men of New York's smart set and his every mannerism was int tated. But now comes George NJ. Cohan. who. in the matter of clothes snd the knaek of wearing them, can rive Berry the fifteen ball and a dis count and then beat him to il. George has swagger walk. too. that you can zee being copied by dozens of youn- swells almost any night around the New York theater or over at the Hotel Astor.
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 Last season a new woman violiBist came into the view of the musical world quite unheralded. This was Marie Nichols who. an American girl had lived and studied abroad most of her life Her hrst great successes were made in Europe and were con frmed when she made her first appear- ences over here with the Boston Sym phony orchestra in New York. Boston. Philadelphia. Baltimore and Brooklyn. These successes were followed by oth- CTS in various parts of the country. end now we have the remarkable art isfe announced hy her manager. Lon ion c. Charlton. for sn enfire tour of the principal cities of this country.