Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-26

Iryings greatest productions. The man kicked his hat under char, snorted, grunted and growled before the curtain went up. Well, 'ere's 'alf crown gone to H."
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 A cable from London to the Her aid says that Joseph O'Masa. the singer. has interested Josepn l.ro"Ss and A. w. Dingwall, his managers, in project to form memorial to the late Sir Henry Irving. and that to further this they have bought the birthplace of the great actor, a quaint cottage in the village of Keniton, Vaudeville, In Somerset, England. The property had been on the market for some time, and the cottage bears no mark to show that 1t was Irving's birthplace. It IS purposed, 1t Is said, to restore the cottage and transform 1t into mu- scum for the display of Irving relics, there being various homely articles associated with his youth already at hand on the premises.
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 Edith Helena, who was the head liner at Keith's theater, Cleveland, last week, said in the course Of an interview on Monday that Ameri- can women had forgotten how to make their own bread, and that the rising generation suffers because of the lack of the wholesome home made article. The Cleveland women were indignant and wrote letters to Miss Helena saying that they could make as good bread as she had ever tasted. She came back with an of- fer of a private box at Keith's for the woman who would send in the best loaf of home made bread. The challenge was accepted and there was baking bee all the week, re- sulting in Miss Helena receiving more than 800 loaves of bread. She appointed a committee of leading citizens, headed by Mayor Tom l.. Johnson, to decide who was the wins ner. and said that she was only too glad to have aroused the women to proper sense of their home duties. The bread went to the needy poor.
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 There is great difference of opin- ion and much wild guessing as to the actual number of moving picture houses now being operated in the United States. A writer in an amusement paper that assumes to be best posted in this field recently estimated the number of theaters at between 5000 and 10000. The fact is, as the Mirror has discovered from its own being conducted through its extensive army of cor- respondents, there are not to ex- ceed 5000 moving picture theaters in the United States and Canada. This number is extensive enough. however, to cause wonderment. when We consider the short time that has elapsed since the first liye-cent the ater was started. The New York World, in commenting on the growth of picture theaters says: its success shows that 1t fills want. And can 1t be truthfully alleged that patrons of this form of entertain ment are less we'll rewarded in pro- portion to the price than frequent CTS of more ambitious playhouses?
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 The Lambs say the story emanat- ed from the Friars. The Friars re- pudiate it, hurling it back upon the Lambs, but both factions agree that Wilton Lackaye is the father of the quip, says the Mirror. Lackaye, the story runneth, was gazing dream fly over a delicate tinted creme de menthe, looking much as he did when he wrote Law and the Man. :" A young actor entered and saluted the preoccupied creator of Svengali. MT Lackaye grunted his reply. The actor persisted. MT Lackaye glow cred. After time John Mason. who by reason of being the oldest Lamb, is also the Great Pacificator, came and led the Lambkin away lest he be swallowed entire. When the thing of wool and bleat had been be- slowed in a taxicab and gone his feeble way MT Lackaye tossed down the remaining drops of his creme de menthe and epicureanly touched his lips with the tip of his tongue. "Thanks!" he grumbled in the depths of his lowest register. If somebody dynamited that fellows brain there wouldn't be enough ex- plociou to h10w hic noca p nrntfy