Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-24
Theatrical Chatter.

offers for engagements this season. His mother has decided to have him continue at school for at least anoth, CT year. He is barely seventeen years old. l3
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 Denman Thompson celebrated his seventy-Hfth birthday last Wednes- day in his usual manner. He play. ed matinee and evening perform ances of The Old Homestead at the Academy of Music.
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 Isabelle Evesson and her sister. Estelle Clayton Evesson, grand daughters of Abraham Bassford, are endeavoring to establish their claims to large amount of real estate in New York city. A stock company has been formed to further their in- terest. 1t is said.
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 Billie Burke has received a post card from Armond Caillavet, one of the authors of the original of Love Watches. It was the French play wright's first attempt to write Eng lish, and read: Il am charm that you are so success with L'Amour veille. You must be a great actress, don't your"
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 A matinee maid wandered back after the first act of His Wife's Family" and admired Arnold Daly in the splendor of his red velvet dressing gown made up as spend thrift Major Desmond. You are a hugable old man." purred the girl of many matinees. Yes" returned MT Daly, "even my wife likes me in. this."
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 Tn spite of the threats to indict managers and spectators, the thea tres in Memphis were open on Sun | day. the managers wishing to test the law. Arrests of the managers were quitely made, but the police | refused to take in any of the pat rons. Judge Moss charged the | Grand Jury to indict the police for disobeying orders. The moving picture houses were open and all poster forfeits.
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 Blanche Walsh will open her sea son in "The Test" at Atlantic City on October 30. The play is a strong drama, by Jules Eckert Goodman, dealing with the sociological condi- tions of to-day, and Miss Walsh re- gards it as the most suitable vehicle in which she has ever appeared. The scenes are laid in New York. Miss Walsh is surrounded by an excep- tionally strong company. l Fl:
 The main tent of the John Rob- inson Circus was blown down on October IA at Columbian, Ala, dur ing the afternoon performance, and several people were Injured during | the panic. George Jennier, a tra- l peze performer of Cincinnati, fell l thirty feet, to the ground, and had both ankles broken. There were about 5000 people present, and many of them were crushed in the rush to escape.
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 First night spells agony for the actor and anguish for hls friends in front. There is one exception to this rule. She is that fine looking dignified matron who often accom- , panies Billie Burke to the theater. She is the widow of the first Billie Burke and mother of the second. { T never feel the slightest nervous ness" she says with pleasant pride. T know what my daughter can do and I am not in the least afraid that she won't do it. That is the rea> son that Mrs Blanche Burke sits as { unmoved at a first night as a rock in turbulent sea.
 Fl: Ryan c. Quinn of Rockville Cen ter. l.. l., until recently treasurer of the company of Andrew Mack, the comedian, which is playing Ser geant Devil M'Care" on the road, was arraigned in Jefferson Market police court on October 13 and held in $2.000 bail for trial on the charge that he put to his own use 1,400 of the company's money. Mason Peters, manager for Mir Mack, was complainant against Quinn. He told the magistrate that Quinn had admitted the embezzlement and had explained that he gambled the money away.
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 Nance O'Neil, who with Mckee Rankin, has been indicted in Cali fornia, charged with infringing the copyright privileges of Hermann Sudermann of "The Fires of St John," waived examination before United States Commissioner Shields Saturday morning. New ball was set at $1,000 in each case by Commis- sioner Shields, and both Miss O'Neil and MT Rankin were released for trial on November 16 in San Fran cisco. Both, though objecting, agreed voluntarily to present them selves within the jurisdiction of the federal court of California.
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 Margaret Ellington is seriously i'll and has been obliged to leave her company and come to New York with her husband, Daniel Frohman. It is likely that she will be unable to re- sume work for several months. She is suffering from nervous break down, due to the strain of playing in "The Thief for so long. Last sum- mer she had a short rest, but not enough for her to recover from the effects of the winter season. She will go into the country, where she can haya comnlete duiet Helene