Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-18

follow closely in the footsteps of her mother, playing all the big cities in ] the wake of "Wildfire."
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 Henry Dixey's daughter is pirouet- ting in the chorus of Lonesome Town," preferring to make her own way rather than rely upon the fume of her father to advance her in the pro- fessiOn. Anent which Forrest Arden in the Chicago Examiner remarks: If she has to listen to Lonesome l Town" every night her sacrifice will be entirely too great. Someone should | telegraph to her father"
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 Henry B. Harris, when managing Henrietta Crosman in ''The Pilgrims Progress" was approached one night | in the theater lobby by a man he knew slightly who had occasionally asked him for seats at various shows. MT Harris" said the ''deadhead" deferentially, lis there any chance of getting a couple of seats tonight" "Certainly,' replied the manager gen ially, wont you take four rows?'
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 Lawrence d'Orsay is trembling on the brink of vaudeville. If he makes the plunge it likely will be in Chi cago in a playlet called Wanted, a COachman." But" he declares, "one cawn't ever tell what these vaudeville chaps want. Several authors have submitted one act plays to me and one or two of them have passed rawther good, but, 'pon my soul, there seems to be an awful lot of delicacy as to what will 'go.' as you say heah. How ever, we are still begging away and no doubt we shall shortly find some thing"
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 ''Is the doctor in?" inquired a Fluffy Rutfies who blew into the United Book ing offices yesterday. This is bus mess office,' said the boy. There's no doctor here" "Oh. know all about that. Here's the doctor now, she continued as Daniel Hennessy, the office manager approached. T know he's doctor because when I was here before 1 couldn't wait he took so long feeling a patients pulse I had to leave" Pardon me, young woman," said Mir Hennessy jelly. "Tm not doctor. I was merely shaking hands with an old friend"
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 Mozart was one day accosted in the streets of Vienna by petitionar for aims, who appeared to have seen bet ter days. The musician, who kept more resources in his brains than in his pockets bethought himself little and then begged the person to wait while he went to tavern. He then ; called for pen, ink and paper. and hav- ,, ing written an extempore minuet, re- , turned it to his petitioner and told , him to carry it to certain music shop. The poor fellow did so and obtained {, for it some double ducats. It was q l, remarkable for it's union | of grace and science, which the com I poser perhaps took q natural pride in I showing. !
 Fl: ' The stage and pulpit were compared ' last week by the Rev Father Vaughan Y of St Mary's parish, Janesville, Wis, in l n lecture at Bush Temple theater, Chi I cago. "I believe the stage is greater . than the pulpit" he said, and preach f es more deeply moral and Christian | sermons than come from fifty per cent I of the pulpits of the country, No greater mistake was ever made than when the church allowed the stage to drift from 1t and into the hands of the \ The stage in itself is not h immoral. If We find bad men and wo- :, men on the stage it is only as We find E them in other walks of fife" Father r Vaughan in his younger days was an h actor of known merit h
 Fl: s Little Donald Patrick. the five year e )ld son of Jack Patrick, manager of t he Bijou theater at Quincy, H., is a r rery interesting, made-Over and flat q cred little boy. 4 few days ago, a tI stranger passing along where little a Donald was playing stopped. patted e lim on the head, and said Hello. lit- e lc boy: what's your name?" Donald E eplied, My names Donald Patrick e I'm five years old. No, I don't go to h chOol No, have no little brothers D IT sisters. My papa's name is Jack Ii Patrick. He manages the Biiou the e tier. No, 1 don't want to go home n with you and he your little boy" '' Donald had evidently been quizzed be- n ore. D
 :ll: tC Thomas l. Ryan is a great believer n realism on the stage. In May lagerty's Father he has some busi- less in which real SJ bill is charged V The four S1 bills are placed on a table tl nd q gust of wind is supposed to ei arry them out of the window The al vind has been So strong of late that | Ir Ryan has been able to recover C, nly a portion of his money. as some tf f the bills disappear mysteriously a' During this season he has IOsr s2D n n this way. and he is thinking sprious- N ! of having a clause inserted in his OI Ontract calling for the supply of the ''l our bills ly the manager of the n Ouse who will thus he forced to see n hat the wind does not play any queer d ranks. tn
 Fl: th -where did Harry L. Tighc get his F 'oIIegians's- asked an innocent young l1 ngizE girl in the greenrOom of Keith M PrOctor's Fifth avenue yesterday. 9l Why. In Yale. of course said the d nnouncer for The Star Bout You .e. when Harry was playing the piano ! PoITs be'was a bigger hit fhsn the bow When a sinzer wanted Harry ar . hand Dim a Ifffle mnsir. D.. fnsf ee