Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-08

The title of The Poor Devil. which was produced in this city last week has been changed to Poor John. H:
 Rogers Brothers will open their sea- season on August 19 in "The Roger Brothers in Panama by Sylvester Mcguire and Aaron Hoffman.
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 Billie Burke, who has been playing the leading comedy part in MT. George at the Vaudeville theater, London, has been engaged as leading woman for John Drew next season. She will sail for New York in August.
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 Mrs Flexner, who collaborated with Mrs Alice Hogan Rice in mak- ing the play of Mrs Wiggs of the Cab bage Patch, has been asked to col laborate with Mrs Rice on another play for Madge Carr Cook.
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 Well" said the orchestra leafef, you certainly do play the cornet to beat the band.' "Ah!" delightedly cried the new man after his first con cert rehearsal. Yes" continued the leader, you can't keep time at all" | Fl:
 Nile Genee, the celebrated premiere dancer of the London Empire, has been engaged to come to America next sea- son, to appear as the fairy in "Alad- din" Mile Genee is Dane, and is said to be the most beautiful and accom- | plished ballet dancer in Europe.
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 Oscar Hammerstein and Mary Gar den, who is to sing the leading opera comique rolls at the Manhattan Opera House next season. were thrown cut of Miss Gardens automobile at Yer sailles, France, on May P. They both received a severe shaking up.
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 Sam Bernard on May 20 received permission from Justice conlan in the city court to change his real name Samuel Barnett to his stage name. of Bernard. Tn his petition Bernard said he was forty-four years old and was born In Birmingham. Englapd. Y
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 Fritzi Shelf has had second at. tack of peritonitis since arriving tl Paris, and has been taken to her home in Frankfort, Germany, where she Is under the care of physician. \ | cablegram received last week stated | that she was recovering and would be able to sail for America in August.
 al: gsi..-5s There was an interesting book salt at Sotheby in London. on June l. 4 first folio .Shakespears brought S2l, ,00t kA Aofrvtveditien.o of .Yorke and Lancas' ster, the foundation of Shakespearc's Henry ", was sold for S9,550. 4 play. Arden of Faversham," dated 1892 and originally attributed tf Shakespeare, went for S6,050. A copy of the rare first edition of King Leai was knocked down for S1,250. A tint quarto Merchant of Venice" fetched S2,55O. The original manuscript oi Sir Walter Scott's History of Scot landr sold for s2.550. A third foiit Shakespeare made record price ol ts1,75O A number of pre-Shakespcr' can and later English plays also realis ed high prices.
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 It has developed that the suicide oi Arthur R. Lynds. stage manager oI "The Stain of Guilt company, whiel played HavlIn's theater last week was caused by the actors dread ol approaching blindness. He left note to his friend, Frank Talbot oI the Lyceum theater. in which be said See that the Actors Fund is notified won't you? I can't struggle alons any more. especially now that an blind. or nearly so. So am eSini out into the dark. reckon 1 will b, as happy there as 1 have been here. Lynds had an addiction to morphine He had been treated at "cWx' with apparent success and then N lapsed. He killed himself with aI overdose of the drug. Ills mother and brother say that be had suffered great ly from depression of late.
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 Boston. the home of the famou Boston Symphony orchestra. the Han del and Haydn society. the Kneise quartet and the New England Con servatory of Music. is celebrated ns 1 center of musical education and cul ture. The musical features of thi old home week next month will therefore. be important. Besides 1 series of sixteen band concerts at diff ferent points during the week. th' music incidental to the oration vii be we'll worth hearing as an exampl' of highest class orchestra and chora music. There will be a picked or ehestra of fifty muscans. the major ity from the Boston Symphony or chestra and a chorus of between tw, hundred and three hundred traines voices from the Handel and Haydr society. Emil Mollenhauer. one o the most popular orchestra conduct ors in the city will wield the baton or this occasion. There will also be { concert recital in one of the smaller halls illustrative of the musical edu eationsl work of the city music de partnent
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 Alphonse Dumont, of Hartford Conn, has h bis possession . clipping from a Hartford paper of December | 1874. giving an account of an enter. | tafnr,enf vsrc, af Sfaxsns' hail Crofa.