Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-09
THEATRICAL l
 CHATTER

I Jerrold Shepard il occupying Dan iel Sully's country home in the Cat skills, and will remain there until he has finished writing the new play which MT Sully will produce in the spring.
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 Isabella Urquhart, the actress who had been i'll at the Rochester Home opathic hospital for two weeks and had been operated on for appendici- tis, died suddenly Thursday night of internal hemorrhages Miss Urqu- hart was playing the part of Aurora with Arnold Daily in How He Lied to Her Husband" when she was talk en i'll.
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 Ian ColquhOun, the famous Irish baritone, who is said to be the great est singer of Irish ballads in the world, arrived on the Teutonic last week. He came over at the solicita- ton of many prominent Irish Amer jeans, who wish to institute revival of the old Irish songs. MT Colqu- houn will appear at concerts throughout the country.
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 On his way to the theater in . Wisconsin town recently, Ben Greet saw an urchin of 12 or whereabouts intently gazing at one of the Greet advertising Autographs. It's wording included the phrase Shakespeare plays as Shakespeare wrote them" As the actor-manager passed he was amused and pleased to overhear the boy say to himself, Well, how else do they want 'em?" How else, in- deed?-says Mir Greet.
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 Lew Dockstader, the famous min- strel, recently purchased 100 acres of the choicest wheat land in Texas, about fifteen miles southeast of Wichita Falls, and the product is the best that comes out of the Pan Han dle of Texas, the famous wheat belt of the Lone Star state. DOckstader Is so favorably impressed with the quality of his wheat that he declares he Is going to flanufacture d break fast food which will be called "Dock-O.'
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 Mrs Sarah Cowell Le Moyne has been engaged by E, H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe to join their company, and will be cast for several import ant roles in their different plays. Mrs Le Moyne will make her debut with the Southern-Marlowe organization at the Lyric theater on Tuesday night. when she will appear as the old witch Wittiken in "The Sunken Bell" During the earlier perform ances this season as we'll as during Mir Sothern's presentation of the play seven years ago, old Wittiken was impersonated by a man. This will be the first time in America for the character to be played by a woman.
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 On Saturday, January 26, the Ben Greet Players gave a performance of Hamlet" from the full text of the 1894 edition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The perform ance occupied five hours, being given with an intermission for dinner as in the case of "Parsifal" at Bey- reuth. The aim of the presentation was to revive the Hamlet of the old Globe theater when Shakespeare played "the Ghost" Mr Greet hold ing that the ordinary acting versions 1, of the tragedy, by their subordina- tion of the other characters to that of the hero, gave a distorted view of Shakespeeare's play and its meaning. | This was the fourteenth dramatic performance given by the Greet Play | CTS at Michigan university.
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 Edmund P. Price, we'll known lawyer and formerly a pugilist and died on January 31 of apoplexy while in a cab on his way to the New York hospital. He was born in Wales seyenty-four years aso. but he came to America when a boy. When a youth he was prize fighter and afterward was manager for Nor. rissey and John c. Heenan. Later he became theatrical manager for John l.. Sullivan. and wrote two plays. Honest Hearts and Willing Hands" and Ore of the Brayest." In New York Mir Price studied law, and Tor twenty-five years he had an ofiice In the old Clipper building. His home was at the southwest corner of Lex T lngton avenue and Twenty-eighth street. His wife died at Glen Head last summer. He had considerable property, part of which was a theater in Williamsburg. The only known relatives are a niece and nenbeu, fn