Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-22

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 Thomas Jefferson will make a tour of the Pacific coast this coming season in an elaborate production of Rip Van Winkle. MT, Jefferson will, as usual be under the management of William L. Malley, who will also | handle Shadows of a Great City, an other of Mir Jefferson's productions. | This play was written by the late Joseph Jefferson and L. H. Shuel. The season will begin at New Haven, on Labor Day, while MT Jef- | ferson's season will not open until | November 3. In the meantime, the actor will remain at his summer home at Buzzard's Bay, Mass.
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 Junie McCree, who has made an enormous hit in the role of Con" Ryan, the leading man in the musical play. The Girl Question" at Wal lacks theater, New York, was sit ting in country hotel short time ago beside a man whom the waiter apparently could never satisfy. Af- ter several meals had passed the stranger called over the darky who had been serving him and said: Sam, ], was going to give you a dol lar to-day, but you always spoil my meal You know always order milk and l want it to drink while I'm eat ing, but you never give it to me un- til after l am through Now, if you get 1t right to-day I'll give you the dollar. Bring me some cold roast beef, some pie, some succotash and some sardines, and don't forget the milk. The darky moved away. The stranger called him back and en- phasized the importance of the milk once more. After he had gone all over 1t he said, Now do you under stand? Don't forget the milk. {" Once more he moved away. Again he was called back and his instructions were repeated. Finally he got to the kitchen door, stood in suspense for moment and came back apolo- getieally. "Escuse me, boss" he said what was it you wanted with that milk?"
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 One of Americas most famous CO., medians is the hero, if the hero be a human one, of this story being told on the Bois. The comedian who has been doing Paris more thoroughly than judiciously, has bought an in- telligent French poodle that literally will not leave his masters side. AL ways when the comedian drives on the Bois the poodle, much curled and h!rsute about head and shoulders and tip of tail, but pinkly naked in the intervening spaces, sits beside him on the seat, peering through tangle of silken white bangs at passers-by. One evening the comedian went forth in quest of adventure and found 1t with companions of his own taste for pleasure. At a cafe at Montmartre they drank and drank. and drank, until one of them suggested going elsewhere to drink, and drink and drink. They called cab and the trio climbed into 1t. The dog tried to follow. but there was not room for him. His master drove away and for got him. The dog sprang into a cab that stood behind theirs and follow ed. The cab driver followed the comedian and his friends into the next cafe, showed them the dog, and demanded his fare. The comedian refused to pay 1t. The hot tempered gesticulant cochere brought in a gem d'arme who arrested him. The come dian appeared in court. The Paris judge ruled that while he need not pay the cab fare he must pay the costs of the suit. These were eight and half times the cab fare for the languid poodle. There was no ap-
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 Klaw & Erlanger's massive pro- duction of Edmund Days western drama. The Round Up." the great est dramatic success of the past sea- son. will begin a limited engagement al the Academy Of Music, New York city on Monday evening. August 3I. The Round Up" is the great Ameri- can play of the hour. Every charac- ter and scene in the piece breathps the life of the great southwest. It is so realistic in its every aspect that the audiences who witness it forget for the time being that they are in a theater. become translated to tho locale of the story. and, in their iu- tense interest. actual participants in exciting happenings In real life. The enthusiastic interest displayed by every audience is the most fiattering endorsement this really great pro- duction can receive. The battle scene in the third act Is a stupendous stage effect, the like of which has never been seen before The ap- pearanee of twenty mounted In- dians riding along a ledge of rock far above the stage level is a thrill indeed. but it is far surpassed in the great incident at the end of the act. when Slim" Hoover. the sheriff. and a troop of cavalrymen are shown in an actual hand to hand fight with band of Apache Indian marauders escaped from sthelr reservation. There have been great thrills pre- sented on the New York stage in years past. but nothing that touches this in point of realism has ever been seen in any theater in the world. In the last act a group of cowboys are shown riding bucking bronchOs. This. too. is novelty never before seen in what is termed an indoor attraction. The brarfnK. vigorous atmosphere of life in the open is preserved with startling fidelity and truth The cast includes Maeiyu Arbuckle as Slim" Hoover. the sheriH. Orue CaIdsra. W. F.