Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-18

May g. Rumors of her death have had no effect upon her health.
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 James K. Hackett will appear next season in new play by Louis N Parker, entitled Mir George. He will open his season with John Glayde's Honor, and the Parker play will fol- low.
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 William Seymour, understudy for l George M. Conan In Little Johnny Jones, will play Cohan's role in the piece when 1t is sent or the road next season under the management of Jos eph NJ. Gaites.
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 Samuel L. Clemens (AIark Twain). has been invited to Oxford university to accept the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He expects to sail the lat ter part of June Mir Clemens has 1 leased the Voss villa at Tuxedo for l the summer. His daughter will pre- side over the new home.
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 | Ethel Barrymore tainted at the end of the second act of Cousin Kate on Friday night, but recovered suffi- ciently to continue the play. She spent every afternoon at the Actors Fund l fair last week, and the double work of selling photographs and appearing in her play was too hard for her.
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 Arnold Daly, who Is now playing the leading role in The Boys of Com pany at the Lyceum, will retire from the cast at the end of the pres | ent month. Jack Barrymore will take l his place. Mir Daly says his retire ment is due solely to his dislike of playing during the hot months. He l will spend most of the summer in London where new play is being written for him, and in which he will appear next fall under the manage ment of Frohman.
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 \"Uncle Toms Cabin without real Siberian" bloodhounds seems to us of this enlightened theatrical age pretty much like gin rickey minus the gin. Nevertheless, the version to be pre- sented at the New York Majestic theater next week lacks the dogs, the dOnkeys, the trained ice, the extra l Topsy and superfiuous Marks, and all the trademarsk that helped make the civil war famous. Incidentally, Mary Hampton and Marguerite Starr will have principal roles in this literary version.
 H :ll. A dispatch received from Paris yes terday confirmed the report that Os- car Hammerstein has secured Mary Garden, prlma donna of the Opera Comique as -one of his leading sing CTS at the Manhattan next season. Mir Hammersteln announced that Miss Garden was on his list some weeks before his season closed. The contract was signed yesterday. Miss Gardsn, 1t is understood, is to make her New York debut in the name part of Car pentier's Louise" after the New Year. She is Chicago girl but has never sung in America.
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 Even though the censors make a strong protest about certain plays when they are first presented, ln- variably after they are on the road for any considerable length of time, the objections begin to wane. and after q time the play is presented without any fuss being made. When Mrs War ren's Profession" was first enacted, such howl arose that its echo Is still ringing in the air. Yet the play IS to be presented in this city during the coming week and though there is very little change from the play as first presented, the As You Like Man has heard scarcely a word about it since the date was announced for this city.
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 A very shabby looking man calling himself John Morrissey applied to John D'Alma on Wednesday last for a position at the tent in the Bronx in which the D'Alma Dog and Pony circus was exhibiting. Mr D'Alma saw that the man was experienced in the work and as he needed a man he told the stranger to go to the mess tent and get his supper. and assigned him to a bunk. At his own request on Thursday morning be was permitted to give an exhibition of his skill as a rider, and on the back of one of the trick ponies he made the circuit Of the ring several times. doing some tricks that astonished everybody. Just as he was about to finish his performance he threw up his hands and fell from the back of the pony dead. Nothing could be learned about him and the body was sent to the morgue. 5l:
 After negotiations covering a period of several weeks the United Booking offices have secured the signature of May Irwin to a contract that calls for her appearance in the houses control led by the Keith-Proctor-Hammer- stein Williams interests for q period of twenty-five weeks next season. The salary has not been announced but t is safe to say that it Is fin the neigh borhood of $500 per week. Miss IT. win has refused any number Of biz offers in the past. but the conditions surrounding the contract for next sea son were so alluring that the cOnRedi- enne could not resist. and she will le gathered into the fold carly in the fall. During the summer she will select from hundreds of manuscripts a repertoire of new songs. but will probably retain a few of the dittIes that she has been Identified win in the past It is expected that as a drawing card May Irwin will break an records.
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