Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-20

| the last few years he hGS been keep ing small restaurant on L'Isle Adam.
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 Jean Brooks, a Denver singer, has been engaged by Recordi to sing at La Scala, Milan. She has aslo signea a contract to appear in Nice the con- ing winter. Miss Brooks career has been startlingly successful. It was only few years ago that she was the contralto in a Denver church.
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 An open air performance of Rip Van Wrinkle will be given at Paien- vile, near Catskill N. r., on August 3. l Palenville claims to be the originai village of Falling Water of Washing ton Irving's story. George Ober will play Rip and Gretchen will be port rayed by Lizzie Harold Campley. :Il:
 The Fife Lake CIich.) Monitor says of "The Theater Pest" Any one who can attend an extra good cnterta;..- ment and sit and shuck peanuts or carry on conversation through the most enjoyable parts of the program. ought to stay at home with the fam | fly cat. It would greatly please those of the audience who care to listen." | s.. :II:
 Viola Allen, who has been appear ing on tour for thirty-one weeks in Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, As Yau Like It, School for Scandal, and other l plays in her repertoire, ended her l season i'll Duluth, Minn, this week, ] after having travelled more than 30000 miles since October 1, when she began in Washington. Miss Allen will like i ly go abroad for the rest of the sum- mer.
 Fl: B. D. Stevens, Richard Mansfield's manager, received letter from the actor last week, from Sussex, Eng land, in which Mir Mansfield said he would soon be his old self again, and while he would not act this season, he would surely fill the engagements for the season following T am getting on we'll" he wrote, 'and will soon he my old self again. l expect to re- turn as soon as am entirely well, but in deference to the wish of my phy- sician will not act until the late au- | tumn of next year.
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 An orchestra of fifty men, d chorus of forty voices and several soloists under the direction of William Furst, gave a private rehearsal of the music for "The Christian Pilgrim" dram atization of "The Pilgrims Progress" in which Henrietta Crosman is to ap- pear next season. There were pres ent only Miss Crosman and Maurice Campbell, her manager. and very few close friends. The music was written by Mir Furst and Miss Cros- man had expressed desire to near 1t played and sung. so the rehearsal was arranged for her benefit.
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 At the close of his engagement in Auckland. New Zeland, Andrew Mack was presented, on behalf of the Irish citizens of Auckland, with green stone casket in token of their appre- citation of his work. The casket Is a duplicate of the one presented to the Duke of York on his recent visit to New Zealand. The silver work Is em- blematic. by fern and shamrock. of New Zealand and Ireland, and the or namentation includes representation of Auckland harbor. The inscription is: Presented to Andrew Mack by the citizens of Auckland. May, 1907"
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 A report from London says that Michael William Balfe. son of the famous composer, is now living in poverty and suffering from illness. He is now seventy years old. Some twenty years of his life, from 1S65 to 1875, and from 1879 to 1880, he spent in this country. He declares that his condition Is partly due to the exces- sive generosity of his mother, who spent s3,OO0 of the money left by Balfe in establishing Balfe scholar ship in the Royal Academy of Music and in other disbursements for the purpose of preserving her late hus- bands memory. The sons income is only few shillings week, cOntri- buted by sympathetic friends.
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 A busy season has been mapped out for John Philip Sousa and his band, beginning with their seventh annual appearance at Willow tirove park, near Philadelphia. Ia. on August 10. This engagement continues twenty four days. or until September 2. On September will begin the organlzi- tion's eleventh annual engagement a, the Western Pennsylvania Exposition, Pittsburg. Pa. ending on Sept 20. when the route leads to Mitchell. <. D.. for a week of concerts at the Corn Belt Exposition.
 From Mitchell the itinerary com tlnues 10 the Pacific caost, then hack to New York for a Christmas tide con- Cert at the HippodroIne on Dec. Ia Then fellow two weeks of rest over the holidays. or until Jan. 5,when second tSur begins that will carry fIle hand through the New EngIand states. southwari tO New Orleans and aus h. ward again to New York city for q closing conect at the Hipposirome on Feb. 23
 This will be the Sousa Bands thirty first semi-annual tour and its eight time across the continent. making a total of more than T.E00 coacsr4s. given in ssl different cites. since sIs. | bands organization on August I. IsSl2. 1
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 EIita Proctor Otis. on her tour with 1