Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-31
THEATRICAL
 CHATTER


boards, Clara Morris. "She is the
 only player I ever knew whose act ing affected me while I was on rne stage with her." said he She is the
 most moving player In the world.
 And yet we say an actor must feel to make others feel. While Clara Morris lay at my feet in Miss Moulton
 crying in q way that made me choke
 For Gods sake, Maurice, let me see
 my children. I was so moved I
 couldn't speak. The wonderful, thrill
 ling voice-the most thrilling voice I
 ever heard--ceased. The marvellous.
 mournful eyes looked up for an in-
 stanct into mine and she whispered
 Watts de matter, cullT It was as though some one had emptied q bar
 rel of ice water on me My speech
 came back. At another time she
 sat opposite me seemingly searching
 my miserable soul for it's damned SC.
 crets, and l, overcome by her acting,
 was staring at her as a charmed bird
 stares at serpent that Is about to
 swallow it. Looking straight at me
 she paused after one poignant sen tence long enough to whisper. Gull, cast your brigs on the man in front
 In the front row sat a man down
 whose face was pouring a flood of tears she had set in motion"
 Fl:
 Frank Melville. the equestrian director at the New York Hlppro- drome, accompanied by his stock oi one hundred and three Hippodrome horses, has returned to New York, after having spent the summer at New Canaan, Conn, where the Hip podrome horse farm is located. The horses are all in fine shape for the coming season, prominent among them being new Ally by the name of Dynamite, on whose training Mir Mel vile won bet of S100 with Dr Bruntlage, the veterinarian surgeon of the Hippodrome farm. It seems that Dynamite was a particular vicious sort of an animal. ready to kick up and blow up at moments notice, and the people on the farm were un- able to do anything with her until Mir Melville arrived. Then he began training the animal himself making s bet with aDr Rrundage that in tine course of four weeks he would have her .as gentle as a lamb This feat hsa been accomplished, and Mir Mel vile says that she will go through her parts in the battle scene in "Pion- ger Days" as we'll as any other horse, will lay down, will he shot at, and will gallop across the stage without exhibiting any kind of distemper. The fifty Indians used in Pioneer Days" arrived this week from the Standing Rock agency in charge of Dr Martin Potter the Hippodrome veter- marian surgeon.y The HlppodromcA opens for the season tonight .i
 Fl:
 Plans for a season of vaudeville such as this country has never seen were completed in New York this week at one of the most remarkable | conferences of amusement managers ever held. At the meeting, which | was held in the United Booking off, | ces in the St James building, was nearly every man who has had part l in advancing vaudeville to the place | 1t occupies as the most popular form i of amusement now offered the Ameri- | can public. Managers representing | over 150 theaters in different parts | of the country were present for the | purpose of pooling their interests, so that all would be able to present the I. very best bills, possible with the big | gest vaudeville acts now on the stage ! in this country and abroad Presid- l ing over this meeting of managers was B. F. Keith, said to be the rich est theatrical manager in the entire world, owner of twelve theaters in | this country and in London, and part ner with F. F. Proctor in six others In New York; F. F. Proctor, who be- sides the theaters he is interested in with MT Keith. has five which he owns personally; Percy c. Williams, who has a circuit of high class theaters in New York and Brooklyn; Oscar Hammerstein, who is as deep Iy interested in vaudeville as he is in grand opera; s. 2. Poli, who person. ally owns eight theaters in the middle and New England states; Harry Davis of Pittsburg; P. B. Chase of James F.. Moore of De- .roit and Rochester: James Herman, 1f Baltimore; Michael Shea of Buff 'alo and Toronto; while from the west were Kohl and Castle of Chi