Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-26

roles Tuesday Other members of her company are Miss Beverly Sit greaves, Miss Adelaide Nowak and Frank Craven Miss Nethersole began rehearsals of the new play Thursday, and it will have it's first presentation on any stage at the Co., lumbia theater, Washington, Janu- ary II.
 Molly Hillman, who for fifty years. up to 1880, appeared in America and Europe as one of the foremost circus performers, died Monday night in the poorhouse at Greenfield, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. She was in her 93rd year. In her day she was one of the most famous equestriennes, and for years star in both the Bar mum and Forepaugh circuses. She was married four times, and each husband met violent death. She was the daughter of William Cook, d blacksmith, of Newark, N. J., and her mother was a great granddaughter If a chief of the Oneida tribe of h. dians.
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 The Kendals. among the best known actors in England, have an nounced that they are soon to quit the stage for good. Mrs Kendall comes of famous family of actors. Both her parents were on the stage, and the late T. w. Robertson, the dramatist, was her brother. She made her first appearance on the stage when a child of , in 1854, and fifteen years later, when she was making a name for herself as Madget Robertson, she married w. H. Ken dal, whose family name was Grim ston. Since then they have acted to- gether. They were co-lessees and managers with Sir John Hare of St James's theater from 1879 to 1888. and since then have been in manage ment of several other London the aters. Their influence was an impor- tant factor in the presenting of Eng fish comedy, and no better school of acting than their company was to be found in the country. They are said to be among the wealthiest managers who have ever retired from the Eng fish stage.
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 Over 400 small children were made happy the day before yesterday at the Majestic theater, New York, when De Wolf Hopper gave special per formance for the little ones, and at it's conclusion, attired as a real Santa Claus, distributed gifts from five Christmas trees. The entertainment began with the nursery scene from The Pied Piper" in which MT Hop per and all the children of the play appeared. This was followed by a playlet written for the occasion en- titled An Afternoon with the Fairies" One after the other Mir Hopper introduced the famous char acters of the popular fairy tales. There were Fuss in Boots, the genii of Aladdin's Lamp, the Seven League Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Gin derella, Jack Horner and Blue Beard. Jack Horner came in with huge pie, which was divided with the children While the presents were being dis tributed Marceline, the Hippodrome clown, performed funny stunts. In addition to the child patrons who re- ceived gifts there were 100 children from The Hebrew orphan asylum guests of the management and Mir Hopper.
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 Judge J. H. Light of Boston gave the fifth lecture in the North end lec- ture series of the Third Universalist church at the church Monday night. on "The Women of Shakespeare. The large attendance attests the pop ularity of the lecture course among local people. By way of introduc tion to the discussion of the topic, of the evening, Judge Light spoke briefly of Shakespeare in general. He said that while Dante was an Italian poet and Milton an English poet. Shakespeare was world poet: that Shakespeare's knowledge of the world and its great men made him the universal poet. He said that the