Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-13

May Irwin, from that silver gir, green Eden of hers among the Thou. sand Islands, sends curious form of invitation to her friends to come thither: Come up. The garden wants you"
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 l William Lawrence, as Uncle Josh in The Old Homestead for the past four seasons, will sail on the Saxonia from Boston on June 30 for Liverpool He will remain abroad until August 29, touring England, France and Ger many, returning to open with ""The Old Homestead" company at the Bos- ton theater on Labor day, September T.. He will be accompanied by his sister, Mrs s. M. Brown of Brookline Mass. ~
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 H. B. Warner has converted the of fees of the Shubert enterprises into grove like that which Plato walked and talked. Facing the door is a platform on an easel. Every day the platform bears new original inscrip- tion designed to tighten the load of care and stimulate the mentality of the visitor. Yesterday the Warner ian legend was, ''It takes two to make a quarrel and peacemaker to start a riot" ...
 -... ,"s :II:. .~ Donald Grey" Milton w, Hyatt) announces to his friends in the pro- fession that he has left the stage and returned to his first love-" the church, and is now stationed at Starkweather. N. D. He would be glad to hear from any of the friends who might care to write, and extends a hearty welcome to any members of the profession to visit his church with the full assurance that there will be no roast" coming. ' Fl: D.
 Reginald Barlow, the actor, son of Milt G. Barlow, one of the pioneers of minstrelsy, has decided to give up the stage for the pulpit, and will prepare for the Methodist Episcopal ministry. MT Barlow is a descendant of Bishop Barlow, who was prominent church. man in England in the reign of Henry VIII. He began his stage career as a boy soprano in his fathers company at the age of 9 years. He won a medal for bravery during the Boer war as member of the Royal Cana dian regiment.
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 s. R. Henry and William Cahill are | the lucky winners of the prize offered by Frederick Thompson for the best song submitted. dealing with the at tractiveness of Luna Park. The win ming ditty is called Take a Trip Down to Luna With Me-" and was se- lected out of a batch of 12S songs received. Its nearest competitors were Luna Park By the Sea-" by Frederic Chapin, and Waltz With Me, Lena at Luna" by William J. O'Gorman The five bands at Luna Park will play the new song morning. noon and night, and will do their ut- most to push 1t into popularity.
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 They are teaching fiction nowadays in the public schools as we'll as nature lessons, and to make the thing more difficult they are also having the tots | imbibe notions of what is what in the musical line by listening to canned samples of Paderewski. Caruso, Sem brich, Flames, Joe Sheehan and other classy musicians. You doubtless know lots of true stories about the slaughter and carnage that nature lessons wreak on the infant under standing, but here Is one told by Eleanor Moretti about a tot who came home from the kindergarten the other day bursting with information about Robinson Crusoe. And who was Robinson Crusoe?" asked a proud and sympathetic mamma of her fact fed offspring His real name was Defoe; he lives on Barren island and sings at the Metropolitan opera with his man every Friday" triumphantly roared the youngster.
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 Fitzsimmons has developed a mania for clothes. This is not lanky Bob. the pugilist, but Fiizsimmons, the orang outang. who has a plot as- signed him on the HammerStein farm adjoining that allotted Cor della, the COW. Fitzsimmons formerly ap- peared in his native state, that is he appeared when he could be induced to show himself. Truthful John Pol lock suggested to William Hammer stein that perhaps FitzsimmOns kept out of the way because of modesty. Thereupon NIT Hammefstein pur- chased for Fitzsimmons much gor- geous raiment. Last night ne held court in blue suit with yellow but tons. The night before FiJzsimmons appeared in red. while on his first night of wearing clothes Fitzsim- mons was brilliant in green Fitz- simmons now no longer hides from the populsee. but courts scrutiny un- der the glare of the electri: light.