Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-07
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER
qEat't VsaE'tafatai'1a3s'93

Lew Dockstader's company will number sixty-ive people, not inclld- ing the working stan of ten men, who are to handle the scenery.
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 Marah Ellis Ryan. whose play, Told in the Hills. Is now running at Pow ers' theater, Chicago, is the widow of the late Sam Ryan, who was very prominent comedian during the close of the last century.
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 Jmes O'Neill is rubbing up his French in Paris at present. After 4 run through Ireland in his automobile he will return to New York and begin rehearsals on Monte Cristo and his new biblical drama.
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 Maxine Elliott has bought every thing there is to buy in Paris, she has seen everything there is 70 see in Lon don, she has been every place there is to go in England, and Is now con templating a visit to retired glade in Switzerland for the rest of the sum- mer.
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 Babette Rollo, formerly of The Sign of the Cross company, has been se- cured by James K. Hackett for one of his melo-dramatic productions. Miss Rollo Is on the continent at present, perfecting herself in the French ton plp of which she Is said to be already quite mistress.
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 In the frightful accident which oc- cured at Salisbury, Eng, on Sunday to the passengers who sailed on the steamship New York, among those re- ported killed was Jules Keller, the well-known vaudeville actor. Mir kel- Ter was on his way to London to play an engagement under Ted D. Marks management.
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 George H. Primrose has started his minstrel company going and is now located at Manhattan Beach. where his many innovations and odd features in minstrelsy have been received with much approval. Mir Primrose has sur rounded himself with fine collection of well-known minstrel men and ev- erything is going along auspic'ously.
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 Henry R. Irving. who is to come here under the management or Nixon & Zimmerman, will begin his Amerl- can theater. New York. on October $, in Paola and Francesca, written by Stephen Phillips. Dorothy Baird will be his leading lady and he will have the assistance of an English company. During his season he will appear In The Lyons Mail. Charles I. Hamlet, Othello, Louis XI. and Maurecette.
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 Stanford White. who was shot to death by Harry K. Thaw on the roof of the Madison Square Garden on Monday night. 25th ut. was, as every theater-goer knows, the son of Rich- ard Grant White, the Shakesperean critic, who away back in 1870 wrote that Pauline Markham possessed a voice of velvet. A good deal of fun was poked at Mir White by the news papers at the time. but it did not seem to make any impression on him, as he continued to pun the fair Paul. inc whenever the occasion offered.
 II: "During the season (1905- 1906) just closed the different attractions under A. H. Woods management played 332 weeks (ecuiyalent to II theatrical sea sons) to a gross business of $1.331 ,13O. It required POS people to make up the different companies. whose salaries amounted to $288. 706.68 or an average of sa.e4O per week for salaries alone. "For printing and Photographic work the sum of $74,5OO.e6 was expended. m the different railroads which hand led these different companies $6o.6lV was placed in their coffers. For extra advertising $3S.614.s0; hauling bills to the tune of $15.262.40; to Theodore Kremer, Owen Davis, Arthur ]. Lamb. Hal Reid and E. E. Rose for putting their pens to the paper, just 2G.5GO: for having such massive pro ductions that the regular stage crews were not sufficient to handle the shows. the bills amounted to S6,S46,24: for props. etc. S2.p45.82. Express and | freight bills in all were $2.3S7.4.'
 Fl: Piteous and pathetic was a sight witnessed at the opening of Primrose's season of minstrelsy at Manhattan Beach the other night. One of the boxes at Mir Rice's little theater was occupied by a shabby little woman | who yainly tried to attract attention | of several former acquaintances scat tered through the audience. The wo- man was attired in a frock which | reeked of the slop-shop and wore a black sailor hat tried around with a | dirty white veil. Two dollars would | have paid for the imitation turquoise i heart which she wore in the place of | jewelry and when she removed pair of very soiled gloves she disclosed | only one ring besides a wedding cir clet. Two boys. odorous of cheap cig- | arettes and evidently clerks in a mus ic publishing establishment. accom- | panied he- and an untidy Noneolian maid dressed exactly like her mistress