Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-21

As soon as the words were fash ed over the wires from the stricken city on the Golden Gate, George M. | Conan started to think of way in ] which he, too, might lend his aid to those who are helping the sufferers in their hour of need.
 Conan is essentially a boy--de- spite the fact that he has many shows on the road-and is perhaps the best known of the younger generation of actors. So the newsboy idea came to him, and he quickly put it in execu- tion.
 Procuring an express wagon and large supply of papers, he started his rounds. In front of the Herald Square theater, where he is playing in his own musical comedy, George Washington, Jr," MT Conan estab- lished his stand, and was his own 1 first customer.
 He paid $1.0Oo for the first paper. MT Harris did the announcing. Joe Humphries also spoke. The crowd, quick to realize the actors work, rushed forward. Greenbacks poured into the newsboy's pockets, and peo- pie in every station of life answered the call of charity.
 Eight chorus girls from Weber's Music Hall, returning from the Broadway theater, where they had been performing for the benefit of the Destitute Crippled Children, saw the crowd and headed by one of their number, Miss Evelyn Mitchell, charged the Conan wagon. The oth- CT girls in the party were Misses Minerva Cloverdale, Vonnie Hoyt, Airline La Crosse, Grace Spencer, Georgia Barton, Fay Tincher and Eva Francis. The girls enriched the fund by $16.
 Leaving the theater, MT Conan and his team went to the Metropole, at Forty-second street and Broadway. Here a ready greeting was found. While the mob was thickest, pretty little woman pushed her way through and paid a $100 bill for a paper which on the street costs one cent. it was Miss Vesta Victoria, the Eng fish actress. Morris Mendham, the broker, passing in his automobile, duplicated Miss Victoria's gift.
 George Considine passed out a five-spot. His brother John threw in a ten, with the remark, Five bet ter"
 Five better'n you!" yelled George, and See you!" came back the reply. The brothers thus gave $15 each.
 Others in the crowd who gave from $1 to $10 were Eddie Burke, Sam Bernard, Fritzi Scheff, Fred Mills, Julius Hurtig, l.. Lawrence Weber, George Cray, the newsboy; Lee Harrison, Ethel Levey, who contrib uted $20; Thomas E. Shea, John, the barber, and several fashionably dressed women who would not give their names, only saying theyawerH from San Francisco.
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 Maxine Elliott has taken a house in Hallam street, London, for the season, and intends to entertain ex- tensively. ..
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 Maude Adams is to have a private Pullman car next season, it is said. that will be combination of living apartments and theater equipped for rehearsals. It will be known as the Tinker Bell"
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 James 0'Neill had narrow escape from death in hotel fire at Lex ington, Ky. on April IS. He got out Of the room just in time to escape being suffocated by smoke. No one was injured the fire.
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 Late advices from Boston are to the effect that Ethel Barrymore will be able to leave the hospital on Sat- urday. Her health is improving and her progress is so encouraging that the physicians say she will show no i'll effects from the operation for ap- pendicitis.
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 Morris Gottlieb is in the insane pa- vilion at Bellevue hospital because of his unconquerable love for Maude Adams. He was assistant electrician at the Empire theater and managed the spot light that indicates Tinker Bell in Peter Pan" He applied of his own accord to the hospital for treatment.
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 Miss Marie Narelle, the Irish bal lad singer. sailed for England on the White Star liner Cedric last Wednes- day. Miss Narelle will fill import ant engagements in England for the next two months. thence proceeding to Sydney. Australia. to join Fred erick Shipman. under whose manage ment she now is. for tour Of Aus tralaisa and the antipodes.
 al: Lillian Russell is to forsake musi- cal plays and will become a star in legitimate comedy. She is to ap- pear next season in "The Happiness of Women" an English adaptation of Les Bonheur des Dames," in which Jean Granier made a hit in Paris last season. She will be under the management of Joseph Brooks, who claims that he is not associated with any one else in the plan.
 1T: The twenty-seventh annual Feis Cecil Agus Sesnaehas of the Gaelic ] society of New York was held at Car I Regie hall on Sunday evening last in he presence of very large audience. 4 The artists who appeared were Flor ,nce Turner-Maley. soprano: Helen )Donnell. contrzlto: Lloyd Rand. enor: F. ]. Budelman. tenor: 3d. yard 0Mahony. basso: John Che hire. harper. James Scznlzn. piper: laruard OrnnrneII aecoransnfsf and