Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-25

William Gillet;e's new comedy
That Little Affair at Boyd will
| have a special production at the Be,
lasco theater in Washington next
month, with Cecilia Lotus as the
s.ar, under the management of Win
| chell Smith and William A. Page
who have secured the play from Mr.
! Gillette.
III:
! Six of Miss Beatrice Herford's mon
ologues are to be published this spring
| Among them are ..rhe Professional
Boarder," "An English Lady Packing"
Piazza Ladies'" etc This is the first
time that any of Miss Herford's mon
ologues have been published in book
| form. The illustrations are by Miss
Herford's brother, Oliver Herford
II:
Standing room was the situation
in the Yorkville theater, Chicago
when Mildred Holland inaugurated
| her spring and summer season OF
| eight weeks, the first production be-
| ing The Power Behind the Throne
| Mildred Holland on this occasion
was honored by Shrine family the
alter party given by Mecca temple
of the Order of the Mystic Shrine.
II:
Julia Marlowe left New York last
week for her country place in the
Adirondacks, to recover from a ner-
vous breakdown. Miss Marlowe's
tour was Cancelled on April 10, and
| she went to New York, at once. At
ter arriving there she grew worse,
and the company was given a two
weeks notice. Miss Marlowe's ply
sician, DR. M. Allen Starr, said that
her condition demanded complete
rest
III:
Maude Adams has accepted an in
vitation to appear a. Yale univer'
sity in Shakespearean role, follow
ing her appearance at Harvard. The
Yale performance will be given on
the campus ON the evening of June
5. At Harvard three performances
will be given in Sanders theater on
June 3 and 4. At both places the
attendance will be limited to men,
bers of the faculty, undergraduates
and representatives of the press.
iii:
Word was received yesterday that
Judge KOhlsaat, sitting in the United
States Circuit court of the Northern
District of Illinois, had decided that
Henry w. Savage alone is entitled to
produce THE Merry Widow waltz.
The permanent injunction issued by
Judge Kohlsaat is directed against
Robert T. Motifs, proprietor Of the Pc
kin and Columbia the; tiers, in Chica-
go. The Pekin is the leading play
house of Chicagos colored folk, and
in a financial sense has been immense
ly successful. Motifs has been pre-
senting at his two theaters a piece
called 1.-THE Merry Widdower." intro
ducing the famous waltz. with the
pastures and incidental business" of
the Savage production.
81:
Several thousandl orphans and
cripples, inmates of various char
table institutions. were entertained
by the Barnum G. Bailey manage
ment at Madison Square Garden on
Tuesday afternoon last. II was a
sight worth going many miles to see,
as the youngsters leaned over the
edges of the seats in front of them
and eagerly watched the perform
ance. They were hushed into awe
at the daring of the aerialists, but
the tension was frequently relaxed
by the clowns, who provided many
special stunts for the occasion. Rip
pies of laughter and shouts of glee
greeted the men in motley as they
capered around the ring. each man
trying to Guido his neighbor. Even
the ticket spectators were touched
by the spirit of the occasion and
provided several wagon loads of
peanuts that were distributed to
the children as they entered the
building.
III:
On the very threshold of her ar
tistic career an accident has befal-
len Marie Dressler. the talented
young unknown who made her first
bow before a public audience at the
Colonial theater last Monday. When
Miss Dressler was making her way
toward the Colonial Wednesday
night a bunch of cnTls blew OF the
top of her head and before the ma
chine could he stopped they had
been hopelessly lost in the thick
jungle on Claremont avenue. near
street. Miss Dress
Ter was distracted. and she caused
TO he inserted an advertisement Of
fering a box at the Colonial theater
20 the finder. Up to late hour last
night the person who found the curls /
had not returned them. However. 1
Miss Dressler was persuaded to go
on for the two performances. She I
will probably survive. but her nerves
were in a terribly shaken state yes /
terday afternoon.
III:
The Marquis de Castellane. Is one
of his letters TO newspapers sent
from Paris. saws that Never more
will Madame Sarah appear in those
boyish roles which so pleased her
public. You will never again see
her as the slim Aiglon-nor as
Faust. And the reason is that the !
left knee of Madame Sarah Bern +,
hardt has retired from active serv-
ice" adds the Marquis. 1T has been I
stiff for some years Now at last it 1
IS hOpelessly swollen and crippled. 1
owing to long-continued rheumatism. I
Even on the stage she is obliged to /
support herself by chairs. tables. /