Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-15

the only English speaking actor in the cast.
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 Actors from the Irish National Theater society of Dublin sailed from Southampton last Saturday to give series of plays in New York under the direction of Charles Frohman. They include Will and Frank Fay and Bridget O'Dempster.
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 May Irwin wants the name of her island changed from Club island" to ''Irwin island" The board on geo. graphical names has q rule that no is land shall be named after a living per son. Miss Irwin resents being called a dead one," so the island will con tinue to be called by the sandwich name. w
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 The biennial session of the district grand lodge of the B'nai B'rith at At lantic City, last week took up l report of their general committee in regar1 to the caricaturing of Jews on the vau- uCNllC OtdhC. lhC ACNolh mending that Jews be asked 10 cease patronizing theaters where Yiddish characters are held up to ridicule.
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 Margaret Dale, on the opening night of Father and the Boys," was un- aware where the laughs came in the play. Her third line in the opening scene with MT Crane was: Say, are you trying to string mel" The au- dience emitted spontaneous shout of laughter MT Crane saw Miss Dales head go back as if something had hit her, her eyes took on q glassy stare, and when she made her exit she burst into tears
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 The Pittsburg Dispatch recently de- voted an entire page to an interview and pictures of Marie Lloyd the Eng fish comedienne. Miss Lloyd confess ed that on her previous visit to Am erica one of the critics paid her the delicate compliment of saying she should be at home scrubbing floors with her grandchildren at her knee. Anent which Miss Lloyd remarks: "The scrubbing was bad enough-but the grandchildren-oh, my word" Fl:
 It is reported from Springfield, Mass, that new company is being formed in New York city for the pur- pose of taking over and running the Nelson theater in Springfield, which was seized few days ago from the William Morris Amusement company for alleged non-payment of rent. It | is said that S. z. Poli has been offered the management of the house, and that when it is reopened it will be of the family" variety, with enter tainments at very popular prices.
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 Charles K. Thorne used to tell the 1 following story: During a very bad performance of Hamlet by Q barn storming party fin one of the inferior towns of New York state, the audience in its entirety commenced to hiss with the exception of one man. At last the man next to him said: Why don't you hiss this tart show% It wouldn't hardly be fair he said, as I came in on a complimentary; but If they don't do better pretty soon, d-d if I don't go out and buy a ticket and join you"
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 | Florence Stone has a little nephew who is never put to bed until his prayers have been gone through. One night recently he was so sleepy that his mother had some difficulty in keep ing him from falling asleep. With his head nodding he said: "Now l lay me down to sleep pray the Lord my soul to keep:'' here he stopped and his mother saw that he was sleep ing. She shook him, saying, Don aid, finish your prayers" The little ones eyes barely opened as he fininsh- ed by saying. If he hollers, let him go, eeny, meeny, miny mo-"
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 James 0'Neill and William H. Crane played in stock together in a Chicago theater in 1S74-thirty-fou years ago and thereafter never met on the road until one day recently, when they came face to face in the King Ed ward Hotel, Toronto, in which city both were playing. The encounter was cordial, and adiourning to Mir Cranes room they were joined by Mrs Crane and happy reminiscence was the order of the day. Throughout their engagements they foregathered frequently and lived over again their early professional days in varied char | acter work.
 The musicians in the orchestra at Polls theater. Springfield, Mass. walk ed out last week when they were ask cd to play under Harry Heald. who had been sent from New Haven to re- place W. H. Mitchell. Heald is a mem Der of the union, but 1t was claimed that hIs transfer card had not been ap- proved by the local branch. Mir Poli went to Springfield on Thursday and | after a conference and some telcphOn- | Ing to the president of the American ! Federation of Musicians. who lives In Cincinnati. the matter was finally set | tied and the men returned to work with MT Heald fin the leaders chair.
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 One of the tiniest human beings In [ the world died in Chicago recently. She was Maggie Minott. a midget known from one end of the country to | the other. She passed away at the age of f0rtyseven years. at the home of her sister. Mrs Ida M- Well | den 0gT Lafayette avenue. and the