Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-21
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER

Francis Carlisle, Adelaide Prince, Marie Doro and Lucille La Verne are to play in the revival of Secret Sci. vice, which William Gillette is to make in London.
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 William Gillette is now using his sketch entitled The Painful Predica- ment of Sherlock Holmes as a curtain raiser to Clarice. at the Duke of York's theater in London. Irene yanbrIgh plays the part that Ethel Barrymore played at the Holland benefit
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 Kate Claxton has sued F. F. Proc tor in United States court for s1 200. which she claims as royalties on The Two Orphans Mir Proctor's answer is that he used an entirely different version in 1903 and that the new copyright had not reverted to Miss Claxton at that time.
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 Mr and Mrs Grover Cleveland. Dr and Mrs Joseph b. Bryant. General and Mrs Frederick D. Grant. General Horace Porter. Lieutenant Willough- by and Mir and Mrs Alton B. Parker occupied boexs at Walack's theater last "Wednesday night to see Thomas Jefferson in Rip Van Wrinkle.
 il: Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady decIar- cd in speech before the curtain of the Valentine theater. Toledo. on the occasion of Tim Murphy's production there of the writer-clergyman's play. A Corner in Coffee. that the possibili. ties of the stage fascinated him but he would rather produce a play than write one.
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 The secret is out Johnny Ray is not an Irishman He is Welsh. Says the Cincinnati man: If Sarah Bern hardt had confessed she was a Swede. or Sir Henry Irving had stated that he was Spaniard. it would not have more surprising that the statement of the man who made Larry Mooney that he was born in Wales"
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 Monday evening the Both inst. KIaw X Erlanger will present at the Broad way theater George Edwardes' com pany from the Apollo theater, Lon don, in the most successful musical production ever presented in that city "Neronique," which ran for over 300 nights MT Edwardes and the composer Andre Mesager. will come over to be present at the first night. The great cast of English principals includes Ruth Vincent Lena Malt land, Nalli Yalli. Deborah Volar. Az nes Vincent, John Le Hay. Lawrence Req, Aubrey Fitzgerald, Ralph Nairn, John Malcolm and James Grant.
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 \ dispatch from Astoria. Ore. states that Herbert H. Breed, an actor from Newark. \. J.. was shot and killed Tuesday night at the Grand Opera house while taking the part of the Yil- lain in Michael Strogoff. The reyOlyers were examined as usual before the shooting act and all were found to be free of all slugs in the shells but in this scene the villain was really shot. The audience did not realize at first that man had been killed When the curtain was pulled down Breed re- nained mOtionless until some one came to him and found him in the last throes Of death. The man who fired the shot was Frank Laughlin. of Butte. Mont. who declared he had no sllspician that the revolver shells were loaded.
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 Its funny what a difference just few years make.' said Homer E. Mason, q few days ago. in speaking of the changes that have occurred during the past few seasons. T was a mem- Der of the Beaux and Belles Octette in 1901. and when I heard the other day that Charles Goulding thought of re- viying the act with the original mem- bers began to do a little figuring. Here are the names of the members of the Octette with their salaries in 1901: GOldie MOhr. $2J: Daisy BeasIey, S2J: Marguerite Keeler. S25: Eleanor Burns S2j: Jack Mason. S20: Charles Gouh- ing. s20. James Gilroy. S2O: Homer R. Mason. S20 The total salary list was SlS0. Now for the difference: Goldie Mohr has been offered Sl.SOO a week in vaudeville: Daisy Beasley starred last season in The Mocklng Bird get ting S2OO week: Miss Keeler and I have no trouble in getting S350 week: Jack Mason is with Gus Hill at S75: GoudinG in now manager of the Ma testic theater In Philadelphia at so: and Gilroy is with a big advertising company receiving s100. Miss Burns is married and there Is no way of telling what she might demand. Without her the salary list would foot up S2.5T5. so 1t would scarcely pay Mr GouldIng to carry ont his plan. even If he could secure a substitute for Miss Burns at a small figure. The men who were in terested in the Beaux and Beiles four years ago were Sam s. Shubert. Mark Luescher and II. IT. MarConnell. Shu- bert is dead. but the salaries of the other two managers would add quite a tidy sum to the figures have men toned think that even F. F. Proc tor or Oscar Hammerstein would heSi- tate before signing q contract for re- viyal of this kind+