Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-02
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER

It is reported that Lionel Barry more intends to quit the stage and devote himself to art He will study in Paris for the next year and then return to New York to take up work at his new profession. II:
 May Irwin has been booked for an extended stay at the Bijou theater next fall, when she will appear in a new play written by George " Ho- bart which will not require a chorus or any coon songs.
 Fl:
 Nance O'Neill took the poor deb- tors oath at the Pemberton Square court in Boston on May 22. She lost heavily in the San Francisco fire, nearly everything she owned in scenery, costumes and stage effects being destroyed. Her step was un- avoidable, she says.
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 George H. Primrose and Mrs En- ma West, widow of William H. West, have sold tract of fifty acres in Mount Vernon, adjoining the proper ty of the late James A. Bailey. The buyer of the tract is syndicate rep resented by Aaron Weinberger, and the price paid was about s200,000.
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 It developed that it was serious mistake to change the late James A. Hernes Shore Acres" for its Lon don production. The scenes were al- tered from New England to a Corn wall farm, and the characters were also switched about to suit the Eng fish locality. The result was disas- trous.
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 Ethel Barrymore has given up her contemplated trip to Europe and will spend the summer this year in this country. This is the first time Miss Barrymore has done this in a num- Der of years. She has taken a sum- mer residence in Maine, and leaves this week to remain until her next season.
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 A small sized cyclone struck the Feast and Furies" tents in Lexing- ton just before the performance Thursday night and as a result the first performance of the spectacle was postponed until last night. Hen- ry M. Ziegler, the Cincinnati theat- rical manager and turfman, who is financing the organization, direct ed his men in saving the parapher- nalia and no serious damage was done.
 II:
 The funeral of Mrs Margaret Brennan, mother of Chauncey Ol- colt, was held Thursday morning from her late home in Buffalo and from Holy Angels church. Father Fallon ofiiciated, assisted by Father McGrory and Father McKenna. In 'terment was at Holy Cross cemetary. MT Olcott was overcome with grief during the funeral services at the church. Several of his theatrical friends attended the services.
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 San Francisco will have two thea ters under canvas by the middle of next month. A company has secured the immense tent used by Sarah Bernhardt in her Texas tour. It will afford seats for 1000 and will be put up on the site of the old Gen. tral theater at Eighth and Market streets. It was in this tent that the benefit for the fire sufferers of San Francisco was held at Chicago and $15,000 netted. A smaller tent has also been secured, which will be raised where the Majestic theater stood at Ninth and Market streets.
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 Joseph Vernon, who died from uraemia poisoning at the Homeo- pathic hospital. Pittsburg, Tuesday night, was puzzle to his friends and acquaintances. Vernon had said that he was a theatrical man and his father was a leading pho tographer in New York city. He never told his right name, saying he did not want his family to know about him. When he be- came III he promised to tell, but be- came delirious and died with his se- cret. He had told Eils. with whom he worked. that several years ago he played in the Trent theater, Trenton, x. J.. under the name he bore and that he was known on the stage by that name. He was about 30 years old. He seldom wrote or received letters and the few he did