Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-03
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER

The first of the Jeffersons who was an actor was Thomas Jefferson. He was born in England in 172s.
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 Maurice Bsrrymore's real name was Herbert Blythe. He was born in India in 1847, and was educated at Harrow and Oxford. Fl:
 Jefferson De Angelis and his com pany made the trip from Easton. Pa, to Philadelphia in automobile on Oc- tober 21. The company may make all short jumps by motor cars here after.
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 l Sadie Julia Gompers. daughter of Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, will make her vaudeville debut in sing ing act at Chase's theater, Washing ton, D. C., on November 5 :lI:
 Fritzi Scheff was born in Vienna; Frank Daniels in Boston; Fred Stone in Topeka, Kan; David Montgomery in Denver Col; Robert Lorraine in Cheshire, England: kyrle Bellew in Calcutta, India; Paula Edwardes in Brooklyn. N. Y., and Mrs Leslie Car ter in Lexington, Ky. I :H:
 Sir Thomas Lipton attended per- formance of the Rogers Brorthefs in Ireland" at the Illinois theater in Chicago on October IT, and was pre- sented with miniature yacht by the comedians. He thanked them in a speech in which he said this was the first American made yacht he had ever owned
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 David Montgomery stepped into New York bank last Monday to cash Charles Dillingham's check for the comedian's share of the preced- ing weeks profits of The Red Mill, :" the new Montgomery and Stone hit, now at the Knickerbocker theater You'll have to be identifled!' said the cashier. Montgomery directed the teller's attention to portrait poster of himself on dead wall op- posite. T guess thatll dol" said the cashier.
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 Ada Reeve, whose popularity in England Is unbounded, and who re- gently returned to her native land after triumphant eight weeks en- gagement in South Africa. for which she is said to have received $25,00O. is considering an offer from promi- nent American manager to play few weeks on this side of the ocean. The terms offered are said to be the larg- est ever given to foreign artist, ex- cept the ones exacted by Yvette Guil- bert from Oscar Hammerstein on her first visit here. Miss Reeve thinks very favOrably of the offer and will probably accept.
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 0ctavia Labare, comedy young Frenchwoman, appeared as the plain tiff last week in suit against Bar mum & Bailey, Limited, for 91,6S7, alleged to be due her on a contract that she said had been broken by the circus people. Mile Labarbe claimed that she had been engaged to ride in the automobile in the Dip of Death act, and that she had not been al- lowed to carry out her part of the arrangement The defendants con- tended that Mile Labare was too heavy; that she weighed 14S pounds, and that the automobile was capable of carrying a person weighing only ninety-eight pounds. The jury found verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $720, but Judge Bischof set is aside immediately on the ground that the verdict should have been for the full amount or nothing
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 The feeling in Pennsylvania against exaggerated caricatures of the Irish race seems to be pretty strong, even at the present day. Har- ry Sloan, who assists Mile Sousa in her vaudeville act, found this out at the Family theater in Mahanoy City on Tuesday ever last. when sev- eral eggs that had outlived their use fulness as table decorations were thrown from the gallery amid a chorus of misses. The throwers were poor shots, or Mir Sloan was a good dodger, as the scenery and furniture received the mussing that was in- tended for the comedian. who uses a red wig and whiskers and a super abundance of powder on his face. with . few strong lines of grease paint to emphasize the character. Tt is needless to say that the act was brought to a sudden finish by the bombardment.
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 Amateur Night" at the Murray Hill theater on Friday evening last | was made very interesting for the aspirants to fame and fortune on the vaudeville stage. The trouble began 1 with some gsod-natured '.joshing" by the boys in the gallery and ended ! in small riot. One of the upstairs l with a fine sense of hu- [ nor. had provided himself with a few overripe lemons. which he threw | at c youth who was struggling with l Waiting at the Church." and this . row in which the chief | gallery usher took part. using a club 1 on the head of one of the disturbers l with such good effect that the ann ] bulance was summoned. The crowd 1 waited in the street for the usher i and ct upon him in a body. He vas Al u