Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-13

Hobart and George BrOadhurst. Mis Russell will have the role of wo man lobbyist.
 It is rather startling to note tha Trilby last year earned for her own CT, w. A. Brady, $S,000, this afte twelve years service. Such popu larity seems more than mere fad.
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 Giacomo Puccini, the composer, ,ha finally decided to write an Americal grand opera, with the gold miners 0 California as the chief personages He is now at work on an opera of tn life of Marie Antoinette.
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 It is stated that the king of Eng land has honored Caruso by conferr ing on him the Royal Victorian Ord CT. The honor is especially to b. noted from the fact that the tenor i the first singer to be so distinguish ed during the reign of the presen king.
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 Egbert Van Alstyne, author of 'I1 the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Back, Back to Baltimore" ant Navajo" and his wife, formerl, Louise King, an actress, were divorc ed in Winchester. Va, on June 27 On the day following the granting o the divorce Van Alstyne married Mabel Carolyn Church, dramti reader at Kenosha, Wis.
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 A French manager has mounted ; stage on an automobile for the pur pose of touring small towns. Othe automobiles will convey the company scenery and accessories. It is bu another phase of the life of the stroll ing players of an older time, whel vans transported the theater to be nighted quarters and actors. unde certain conditions, were forced t walk.
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 Julia Marlowe sailed Saturday ol the Red Star liner Vaterland for Dov CT. She was accompanied by Mis- McCracken, her companion. Part o her time she will be in England ant afterward will go to France. Tn, greater portion of her vacation, how ever, will be spent at her villa on tn, Riviera. She will not return unti November when she will organize he company and begin rehearsals fo her first appearance as sole star il two years.
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 Lawrence J. Cartwright last weel began an action in court to prove hi right to the services of Sober Sue, tn, colored girl who cannot laugh, ant who has been on exhibition at Ham merstein's Paradise Gardens for tn, past two weeks. MT Cartwright al leges that on March Is he entered into an agreement with Sober Sue who in private lifeis known as Susal Kelly, by which he was to have tn, exclusive control of her services fol two years.
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 An example of the cordial relation ship which is beginning to exist be tween the church and stage was giv en on July 2, when the Rev Horatit Mcguire. pastor of the Calvary Epis copal church of Bayonne, delivered the dedicatory address at the laying of the corner stone of a new theatel in that city. Mir Mcguire said tha playhouses devoted to high class at fractions were needed In every city and that they were powerful factor, for the good or evil of the people.
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 George Hanlon, the veteran panto mimist, gave a reception and dinner on July 4 at his home in honor of tn, seventieth anniversary of his debul on the stage. Mir Hanlon was borr in 1885, and when he was two year: old was carried on the stage in { play called Rolla. MT Hanlon is stil as hale and hearty as many men les: than half his age, and is devoting hi. attention to promoting the interest, of his son. George Hanlon. Jr. who i: to make pretentious production in vaudeville next season under the watchful eye of his parent. who for the past twenty-seyen years has been very prominent in amusement circles in this country.
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 In his quarterly report filed with Mayor Mcclellan on Friday last, Po- lice Commissioner Bingham strongly recommends the suppression of the fiye-eent vaudeville theaters that are so numerous throughout the city. Their elimination. the commissioner declares, would be prominent fac tor in the betterment of city condi- tions, and he earnestly expresses the hope that the mayor will not be lenient in permitting the renewal of the licenses of these places. Some time ago the heads of the fire. health and police departments held a con- ference regarding these resorts and while no course was decided on. it was agreed that the city would be better of in every way without them.
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 The Widow Bedott was first pre- sented by Neil Burgess on March 2s, 1879. at Providence. In its original form the title. Widow Bedott." was used over a series of papers in Neal's Saturday Gazette of Philadelphia. This was published about 1852. In 1869 R. D. Locke. better known by his nom de lettres. Petroleum Y. Nssby. dramatized the Widow Be- dott papers For years he sent hts play about. but was unable to get any one to produce 1t because it's princi- pal character vas such that only a very cid woman could play it Thus one day after he had kept the piece