Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-19

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 Gertrude Coghlan has sold her summer home at Pleasure Bay, Prince Edward Island, for $125,- 900. Traces of platinum were. found on the property recently, and after careful survey was made Mon treal company made her an offer for the place. The estate consists of eight acres of land and house, and was legacy from her father, Charles Coghlan.
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 Wagenhals & Kemper have by spe- l cial agreement with Klaw & Erlanger arranged to present Eugene Wal ters's great American play, Paid in Full" at Polls theater, Friday even ing, October 16. Waterbury is one of the few cities outside New York. Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago to be favored by an appearance of this remarkable play, which has broken all dramatic records by playing near ly year in New York, where 1t still continues to be the sensation of the metropolis. It Is also now the reign ing success of London and is to be done shortly in Germany, France, Austria and Australia It's engage ment in Waterbury will be the event of the winter season.
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 When Blanche Bates makes her metropolitan debut in ."The Fighting Hope there will be missing from the audience one whose criticisms than from all others. This was handsome, sprightly woman, her mother, Mrs F. M Bates, star of another generation. Mrs Bates left this stage for another on Memorial day, while enjoying at the Bates farm at Ossining the reunion with her daughter who had two days be- fore returned from abroad. The thought of this passing and of her intense succeeding loneliness has dimmed Miss Bates pleasure in her newest success. "If mother could , only see me in it." she exclaims. Tt is exactly the kind of part she all ways wanted me to play" Per- haps she will see you,' said one who : had known the tender, ambitious, 7 indomitable little mother Perhaps she will" assented the star of 'The Fighting Hope" T hope-oh, I hope sol"
 Arnold Daly never enters the stage door at WalIack's without "a greeting to and from an old friend. friend whom he always introduces to any companion who may cross the threshold with him. This, sir" he says of the friend that Is fervent- ly rubbing his knees and clawing his trousers legs into the semblance of pepper box lid, lis Thomas of Wal lacks. Thomas of Wallack's is nom. inally cat, but he is really the re- incarnation of King Alfred the Great. He. is an indomitable war singer of midnight nocturnes, and a faithful friend. Are you not, Thom. as of Wallack's? Thomas remem- bers every actor who has ever play ed at Wallack's. He came here of his own choice. He is like Topsy in having no visible parents. Osten- sibly he is six years old, but he is really as old as the world, and much wiser. Aren't you, Thomas?" "Mr-r-r-r" is the murmuring reply of Thomas of Wallack's.
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 William H. Pascoe died of paraly- sis of the stomach on August 7, at Louden hall, Amityville, L. l., after an illness of eight months. For seven years he was associated with James O'Neill and afterward became leading man for Madame Mojeska, Amelia Bingham, and Viola Allen, beside holding many prominent stock engagements. In 1901 he married Helen .Iar Wilcox and for the past two seasons they were en- gagged in vaudeville work. He ap- peared last in "The Fifth Command ment." MT Pascoe won considerable reputation as an amateur in Boston when J. M. Hill discovered him. He was engaged by Mir Hill to play Dick Hertel in A Possible Case, and the hit he scored secured him the part of Granville Orton in Reckless Temple. He next assumed the ju- venile role in The Clemencean Case. and soon after a similar part in The Power of the Press. These metro- politan appearances brought him to the notice James O'Neill. He was engaged and remained with Mir O'Neill for more than six year. playing Laertes in Hamlet, Icilins in virginius. and leading parts in 1 Monte Cristo. Richelieu, Louis XI. ' The Prince of Ulster, and The Courier of Lyons. (
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 Echoes from the Catholic school at Lake Champlain, where Frank Keenan is a summer visitor, say that the celebrated character actor did not do his best work as Jack Rance in "The Girl From the Golden Vest" nor as General Warren in ( "The Warrens of Virginia" but In ( The Orange and the Green" play ( by Seumas McManus which he pro- I duced at and for the benefit of the ( summer school Mir Keenan, who I says there are lot of thrills attend f Ing a mans first production, played c Dennis O'Donnell, an Irish father. who saves the life of his beloved ' sons murderer. Seumas McManus i came knocking at the door of the , keenan dressing room at the Stuy- ' vesant one night and asked his half . Hiberian brother to read his plays. :. Mir Keenan, detecting the rich roll in 2 he McManus vocabulary. consented, though he knew little then of his visitors fame. "I am going back to a teach in tho same liftlo school in