Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-26

I who has returned to the stage to play an important role in ''The Secret Or chard," celebrated his seventy-first birthday on Oct. 13.
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 E. H. Sothern has engaged Frank Stayton to write a play for his use next season. During his New York . engagement he will produce play by MT Stayton, entitled Two Pins"
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 The family of Madame Louise Hom- CT, the contralto, and Sydney Homer lthe composer, was increased last Tues day by the arrival of twin girls. They are to be named Katherine Hum and Anne Marie. Madame Homer expects to be able to sing again soon after the opera season opens.
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 Heinrich Conried was sued on Oct 16 by Pietro Floridia of Cincinnati for $5O,OO0 damages on account of the disappearance of a libretto and score of an opera founded upon Flaw thorne's Scarlet Letter." which the composer said had been submitted to the impresario two years ago. MT COnried denied any recollection of having received the manuscript.
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 Wright Lorimer has decided that ''The Quicksands" is not to be offered as sacrifice to the precarious busi- necc of the one-night stands,and made l cnonio1 frip t0 oit tu 1oe Thursday to consult with his manager Ernest Shipman, with view to bring ing the company to close until de- sirable bookings could be secured This has been accomplished by mu- tual arrangement with all booking managers, and the company terminat- ed it's present tour at Kingston, N. Y. on Saturday night. The play has made hit, it is said, and its early appearance in New York will be ar ranged for.
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 Mrs Leslie Carter, the foremost emotional actress of our time, will appear in this city in David Balasco's play, "Du Barry" on November 20. Mrs Carter's wonderfully prismatic temperament is shown to better ad- vantage in this play than any in which she has yet appeared. Mar vellous as her success in ''Zaza," Mrs Carter has laid it in the shade with her later impersonation. The situa- tions in this splendid drama move as briskly as revolving fireworks. Indeed, there are in this play some of | ha 10cf hri rrylt l,o, o1: maXes known to the modern stage. Mrs Carter is surrounded by a very fine company, and the production is the same that she has used since her debut in this wonderful drama Fl: Two hundred and forty-five years have passed since Moliere with his wife left Versailles for Paris to ap- pear in "Vinceslas" and Les Tach- eux." For eight days they had the honor of playing before the king, and l for all the performances the receipts | amounted to 165 livres. Each actor i received as his share livres 1 o sols. | Later Moliere and his company re- turned to Versailles to play again be- 1 fore the king and his guests, appear | ing in "Le Prince Jaloux," Ecole des Maris,' "Le Depit Amoureux" and l "L' 'Impromtu." For these perform ances the king presented Mons Po- quelin, this being Moliere's correct name, with the sum of $500 livres and each of his actors received as his share 231 livres. And today? In ] the Theater Francais, where a sort | of cooperative system is in opera tion, there is a good deal of disatis- | faction this year because each per former received as his share but | 1000 francs.
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 "The Round Up," which was transferred to the Broadway theater . last Monday evening. will begin the . second week of its run at this house . next Monday. This is the greatest . dramatic hit of the season in New l York. Its remarkable success shows the desire of the theater going public for strong plays of genuine human in- terest. That it meets this demand is the secret of its phenomenal public |, favor. The Indian battle in the third . act is the greatest feature of this kind . ever presented on the stage and far suTpasses in thrilling realism the bat tie scenes in all plays in American stage history. The scene is a wonder fully graphic stage picture and is photographically true representation of the bad lands of Arizona The opening incident in this act is the ap- pearance of sixteen mounted Apache Indians moving along a cliff on the mountain. This is a thrill in itself the Indians appearing riding on a ledge of rock at least thirty feet above the stage level.
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 Reheasals of "The Coming of Mrs Patrick" the new Lawrence prOduc- tion at the Madison Square theater. are progressing most favorably. The production will be made within the next fortnight Laura Nelson Hall who Is to appear as. Mrs Patrick, has the role of a professional nurse. Miss Hall believes in knowing precisely what she is about and. instead of merely imagining what it must be like to work as a nurse. she has re- gently visited several of the large hos pitals in the city ~I have been so disgustingly well myself that have to borrow my sick experience" says Miss Hall: I saw an operation at the Roosevelt hospital the other day and now I know what sort of a vO- man a good nurse must be. to be able to endure such things as that