Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER


| A rumor that Peter Pan will be l produced as opera has been denied by J. M. Barrie, the author of the play.
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 1 Blanche Walsh at her home "The Lilacs," Great Neck, L. l., is conval- escing from what was dangerous 1 illness.
 Sarah Bernhardt has been elected i to the Society of Authors of France. She has always shown great interest in the society.
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 I Ernest Shipman has obtained the rights to "The Walls of Jericho" from James K. Hackett and will send two companies on the road with the play next season.
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 l A son was born to MT and Mrs Irving Brooks (Countess Olga Won 1 Hatzfeldt) at their home at Coytes- vile, N. J., on June IT. Mrs Brooks was formerly leading lady in The Dainty Duchess. The boy has been named Irving Won Hatzfeldt Brooks.
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 Joseph Brooks, who is now in Lon- don, has made arrangements with George R. Sims, whose melodramas are known all over the civilized world, to write four thirty minute 'thrillers" for presentation on the Klaw & ErlangerNcircuit next season. The first play will be ready for pro- duction in December.
 :lI: Denis O'Sullivan, one of the most popular Irish comedians and vocal ists in England, has been engaged ! for an, American tour. to begin on | December 2, in Carnegie hall He will give recitals of old Irish melo- dies and later go on tour in comic opera, Peggy Machree, in which he starred in England He wall also i appear in Irish plays of the Dion l Boucicault order.
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 William Hammerstein. whose joy over the hit scored by Barnold's dogs and monkeys has caused him to smile even at old jokes, announces a special matinee at II a. m. July 4, to which any dog of a size that may be held in the lap. accompanied by its owner or guardian will be admitted free of I charge. There are enough pet dogs in the vicinity of Times Square to fill the house, and it is expected that the Barnold act will be greeted with a chorus of approving yelps that will raise the roof.
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 The portrait of E. H. Sothern as Hamlet which has hung in the lobby of the Lyric theater was practically Iruined some time between last Sat urday night and the Tuesday morn- ing following. The head and should CTS of the figure were cut cleanly and completely out of the canvas. Wheth- CT it was an act of pure vandalism or whether there was personal animus behind it is not known. The paint ing is the work of Andrew Rouland. and the original cost was $l,000. Sothern has offered a reward of $500 for the return of the canvas. e ff" Fl:
 It is generally maintained that the first American play performed by a regular company at an established ] theater was a piece called The Contrast" written by Royall Tyler and presented at the John Street theater, New York, on April 16,1787. It was announced as "a comedy in five acts by citizen of America. !" Those in the company were Messrs Wignell. Halam, Riddle, Harper. Morris, Lake, and Mrs Morris, Mrs Harper and Miss Tuke. This com pany had come over in 1752 and had presented The Merchant of Venice" for its premiere. "The Contrast" had run of our performances and was much praised, though 1t now seems trivial and stupid. Its author was a we'll known jurist, wit and poet. He wrote several other plays, "Mayday, or New York in an Uproar," and Georgia Spec" He also wrote for magazines and newspapers.
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 Upon being released from jail at Middlebury, Vt, on June 23, John Winslow Keteham asserted that he would go on the stage and appear in play of his own production. Ketch- am was sentenced to seven years im- prisonment for complicity in the wrecking of the Farmers National bank of Vergennes. He has served five years and two months, the re- mainder of his sentence being com muted because of good behavior and bravery in helping to prevent the es- eapeof fellow prisoners. he has stead fly maintained his innocence and claimed that his downfall has been due to political machinations. He has written while in jail a book upon the bank failure. and has compiled and published a volume of laws re- lating to the duties of police officers. sheriffs and court officials in Yer mont. He has also written a play based on what he claims is the true version of the bank wrecking. and he proposes next fall to tour the state in l this piece In hopes of iustifying him. self and gaining again public es- teem. '.I have never been SO grossly in- suited since the first time I ever shaw ed,' said Alice. The Phenomenal I Result of Misplaced Capillary 1 Growth" as she Is billed in the museums. yesterday afternoon as she