Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-16

Charles A. Bigelow will be the principal comedian with Anna Held in the new musical play in which she will be seen next September.
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 Marion Stanley, who for two years has been leading woman in "The Wizard of Oz," has signed for the coming season with Rogers Broth CTS in Ireland"
 Robert Warwick has been engaged by James K. Hackett to support Mary Mannering in her new play, Lady Betty" which will be produced early in the autumn.
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 Daniel Sully is actively engaged getting crops into shape at his farm at Woodstock, N. Y. He removed his invalid mother from hospital to his country home last week.
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 Christie Macdonald, accompanied by her husband, William w. Jeffer- son, sailed Thursday on La Touraine for London and Paris. Miss MacDon- aid while abroad this summer will take up vocal studies again with Jean de Reszke. Her stay is indefi- nite.
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 There is possibility that Sarah Bernhardt may appear in Tess of the D'Urbervilles," in which Mrs Fiske was so successful. Madame Bernhardt has applied to Harrison Grey Fiske for the rights of the Lori mer Stoddard dramatization of the Hardy story, with view to her ap- pearance in 1t in Paris. MT Fiske has sent her the manuscript, which she is now considering.
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 B. B. Rice has devised a new spec tacular vaudeville act, "The Animat- ed Cornfeld." for the Manhattan Beach theater. Frank Rafter is paint ing the scene, a beautiful moonlight effect, where farmer lads sing old fashioned ballads and the cornstalks become bevy of pretty dancing girls. The act was copyrighted months ago, and MT Rice Is in po- sition to protect it against imitation, which he hears is contemplated by a less inventive producer.
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 The agitation for statues of the- atrical celebrities continues. No sooner had 1t become known that a scheme was under way to erect one of Edwin Booth in Gramercy park when suggestion was made that one of Joseph Jefferson should adorn Central park in the character of Rip Van Wrinkle. This caused Stephen Fisk to come forward with the state ment that the proper place for the statue would be in the Catskills. The Jefferson boys say they know nothing of the scheme, and are not interested unless 1t is decided to have Mir Jefferson in bronze placed in one of our public thoroughfares.
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 Jim Corbett is responsible for the following: Several years ago I was filling an engagement in St Louis, Mo, and my daylight time was oc- cupied in getting a new play in shape. l was living at the Southern hotel, and generally reached the din- ing-room with about ten minutes be- tween my breakfast, me and the re- hearsal. had been assigned special waiter of the senegambian persua- sion, and we'll along in years, and discovering my identity, he was most attentive, and in turn was won't to slip him a piece of white money at every sitting. I came down to the breakfast room one morning later than usual and found a strange coon at my table. Looking around discovered my regular boy standing over against the wall staring at me, and in response to motion, he came over. What's up." l asked. "Why aren't you taking my order?" Well, sah, Mistah Corbet. it't gist dis way: I wuz planin' craps last night, and ah got down to pan. and ah played you agin half dollar, and ah done lose you"
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 One of the regular patrons of the Colonial theater. New York, during the past season was smart-looking little man, who came with unfailing regularity every Monday night. He always arrived early and walked up- stairs to the luxurious lounging room on the balcony floor. and, supplied with a pocketful of good cigars and all Of the evening papers, there he would sit until the performance was almost over, when he would make his way down to the front door. He never looked at any of the perform ances. and after several weeks the man who runs the cigar stand drew him into conversation in reference to his strange conduct. The cigar man learned that the wife and daughter of the visitor were very fond of the but that he did not care for it. As they would not go without him he hit upon the plan of buying two reserved seats and one admission ticket. The whole family were thus enabled to enjoy themselves. the wo- men by seeing the performance and the husband and father by smoking and reading as comfortably as he could have done in his own library.
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 One of the best story tellers in congress Is Representative Charles B. Landis. the silver-haired and sII- orator from the Ninth Indiana district. As a reconteur he Is regarded by his colleagues in the house as without a peer and in the cloak rooms he always is surrounded hy d crowd of eager listeners. A day pr two ago. Mir Landis. after listen Ing to some stories of dramatic ex- periences by Representative Bourke Cochran of New York and Represen- fative Kahn of San Francisco. both