Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-31

Chameleon Is the stage name adopt ed by Ballard McDonald who has a new transformation act that he will present this season on the Keith and Proctor circuit.
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 Oda. Neilsen, the celebrated Danish actress, who last season appeared ill this country, is negotiating with James Forbes, author of "The Chorus Lady," for the rights of that play for Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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 Hattie Williams has appropriated the clothes of Patricia O'Brien, and | has added the now famous Rose StahI characterization to her limitations in The Little Cherub.' Patricia of the chorus, while made famous in both America and Europe by Miss Stahl, has been the subject of more initators than any other character ization of the present day. Miss Ce- celia Loftus was the first in this coun- try to give limitations, of Patricia.
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 James K. Hackett has engaged Fan nie Ward, an English player, for the principal part in X Fool and q Girl" which will be produced September 90 in Washington. The play is by David Wark Griffith and is set in Mexican California. Miss Ward attracted the attention of the London managers some time ago when she appeared in ''The Bishops Carriage" Miss Wards engagement with Mir Hackett is lim- ited, it is announced. as she has to return to London early next year.
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 All good stage hands-if there be such-when they die doubtless expece to go to Tonopah. At least they will try to book route in that direction after learning the union scale of wages prevailing in that settlement. Joseph NJ. Gaites has been in negotiations with the local management for the presentation of several companies there later in the season. A letter offering satisfactory terms was re- ceived, but Gaites' hopes were dashed to the ground by the postscript, which read as follows ::''Dont't forget that stage hands here receive So an hour" ~ - Fl: laa |, In a sanitarfrlm at Burlington, N. H., Margaret Daly Vokes, the comedi- enne, lies seriously i'll, and it is feared that she may never recover, She was removed to the sanitarium five weeks ago, suffering from pulmonary troubles, the same ailment that finally caused the death of her brother, Dan Daly. Mrs Vokes and her husband, Harry Nokes, were booked for a long tour in, vaudeville. On account of her illness their engagements have been cancelled and Yokes is now idle in Boston. Fortune. has not, smiled on yokes since his separation from Hap Ward. His tour with Will West, in "A Pair of Pinks,' was a financial horror. .-.....
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 Leon Martin, husband of Nan Pat terson says he will sue for divorce. Martin is employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad company in connec- ton with Japanese who have cross cd the border from Mexico. He says he is still devoted to his wife and would welcome hers gladly, if., sine wpuId come to California and join him as he expected her to do when he came west. He has not heard from her since early in June but reports reach him about her. ''I am afraid" he says, that she will be brought up again for trial by Distr..t Attorney Jerome as the indictment against her i has never been dismissed. It has been held as a meP-S of insuring T quiet life on her part regret more | than any one that I cannot live with l her. II would make me very happy. Martin had received information that Nan Patterson had left Pittsburg for 1 her Washington home.
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 King Lear" was announced by l posters and placards h Yonkers for | Saturday night. AS early as o'clock | a stream of people made their way to | the hall, and by the time for the cur talG to , up there WIS standing | room only" It was a happy, good. natured audience, hut as the minutes passed and the curtain did not rise the crowd grew impatient An hour passed without a change III the situa- ton. Then came the runor that the manager had fled with the box-ofiice receipts. The audience, upon hear ing this reoprt, threatened the lives of the actors and the treasurer. The assistant manager, woman, turned over to the crowd as much money as