Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-04
THEATRICAL CHATTER

Since Fritzi Scheff has been in this country, she has sat for no fewer than 72O different styles of photographs The picture showing her beating the drum in the Charles Dillingham; pro- Guction of Mile Modiste" has been picked by artistic judges as the most pleasing of the wide collection.
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 On Christmas afternoon Joseph kuttner was in the gallery on atheat- CT, and amused himself by throwing money at the different performers, who were greatly annoyed, as the coins were of the one-cent denomina- tion. The identity of the penurious prOdigal was not discovered until 1 the performance was almost over, when he was taken off to jail. In the night court he explained that he was an EnglI~man and that it was a custom in his country to throw mon ey to favorite players. He was dis charged with a reprimand.
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 1 delectation this season, has q not too intimate acquaintance with the Eng fish language. Strange! Strange." was his comment strictly interpreted. 'l have heard that you Americans were Puritans. Now I am sure of it. For every other double door I pass has the right door open, as though inviting, and on the left, up high, is the word No Your doorways are like women: With their eyes they in vite, and with their voices they re- pei. It is strange. On every other door is No Why don't they have on some American doors the word Yes" :II:
 As the Adriatic plowed her way through soft blue summer seas, a group of tourists in the smaking room talked of the horrors of fire on ship board. Fire in a theater is bad thing, too," said Clyde Fitch, yet it has its funny side. remember an incident that happened in Concord. The william in melodrama as he lighted his cigarette. set newspaper ablaze and great fire scare arose. Amid this scare, as the panic strick- en audience struggled and howled and fought. fat man galloped up to the box office and shouted in an angry and accusing voice. 'Theater's atire. Gimme me money back"
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 There was a most unique ceremony on the afternoon of December 24 in the subterranean passages of the opera house in Paris. It consisted of de- posting in specially prepared vault a talking .machine and discs bearing records of the voices of the greatest singers of the twentieth century. Tamagno, CarusO, Scotti, PlancOn, De Lucia, Patti, Melba. Calve and others are represented in the selection. The disks are in double boxes each sepa- rate from the other. Neither light nor air can penetrate the coverings and it is believed that they can bc thus preserved for century. At the end of hundred years they will be opened and the people of that age will have the opportunity of hearing voices of this era as we'll as seeing the talking machine as manufactured to-day.
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 Richard Mansfield insisted on good figures" said a former manager of the actor. He would not permit his players to get too fat or too thin. Some he made diet, some he made ex- ercise. And, to show the figures i'm portance. he used to tell them a story about Henry Irving-a story told by Irving himself. Irving. when he was young was a very skeleton. He once had chance in the provinces to play Hamlet. The salary was good. for the province-I think Mir Mansfield said 1t was sS week-and if the actor got on well the first night his for. tune would be made. But. when IrvIing made his first nights appear ance fin the black tights of the Danish Prince, one gallery god shouted across to another: ''Is that him. Bill?" "No. Bill roared back. 'Them's only the young feller's clothes. They'll shove him out later on"
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 In moving from Alexandria. La. to Beaumont, Texas. the Edgar Selwyn Strongheart company was obliged to lay over at Lafayette for two hours Mir Selwyn made himself as comfor- table as possible on a baggage truck and buried himself in a magazine. In a few minutes a typical Texas rancher planted himself on the other end of the truck and opened up q con versation. He shortly discovered that Mir Selwyn was not a Texan and re- marked: You all is a travelling man. guess" "I travel sOme.' replied Mr Selwyn. What with?" asked the other. ''Strongheart. said Selwyn. There was a pause of some few sec onds and it was evident the raneher was doing some deep thinking. Fin ally he answered. tn a sort Of apOlO- getic way. "I don't know nothing bout that. but took three bottles of Swamp Root once and they tlhln't do me a d. bit of good co
 :Il: Ellen Terry had reached the mature age of j years when she made her first appearance upon the stage. and Flea nor Robson. Ethel BarTym0rp and other actresses made their first ap-