Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-01

| Alexandra Carlisle, who will star with Joseph Coyne in "The Mollusc"
 and Miss Gertie Millar., who will
 play the principal part in "The Girls
 of Gottenberg."
 .:.-.. .:H: .... | Among the musical attractions an- | nounced for an early appearance in America is Micaglio and his band. The organization will be heard in .he leading cities during the months of 1 September, October and November. i The conductor, Joseph Micaglio is 1 noted composer and bandmaster in Italy and has but recently completed tour of the old world meeting with signal success. At the last Mondiale International band contest in Paris. Micaglio with his musicians captured the first prize in competition with more than fifty other bands.
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 A bas le Merry Widow Waltz! It's doom has been officially sounded. So Tar as the city government of Cleve- land is concerned, it is no more, is extinct, dead, buried, with a tomb stone over it. Park Secretary Tom Moore was the executioner. The programmes for the band concerts Sunday were handed over to Moore for approval. In one of them was the Merry Widow waltz. With iron resolution Moore seized his reddest pencil and drew a carmine line right through the waltz number. The Merry Widow wasn't classical enough. Give 'em something real musical said Moore. Among the selections which are left are those classics: I'm Afraid to Go Home in the Dark" Down the Line,' Hits from the Hippodrome," Miss Dill Pickles" and Dear Heart"
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 After trying his hand as a house painter, journeyman tailor, candy maker, farmer, inventor, lightning rod agent, machinist, broker, novel, ist. historian, aged Thomas c. Rice, living in wealth and retirement at 2l4 West street, Worcester, Mass, has become a playright at the age of S2. After living the allotted four score years his wife challenged him i to try the vocation of playwright. He accepted, with the result that four dramas have come from his pen. TWO of these are founded on the | biblical history of Esther and Absa- l lom. "Savitor's Choice" IS Hindu | legend. The fourth is called Mex 1 it'll" and is founded on the conquest 1 of Mexico. This latter play is being | read by Boston dramatist and is | said to possess merit. .-.4
 . ,:Ilt s.. When iDode" Rock was playing in the western "The Time, the Place | and the Girl' company last season | one of the first speeches in the plece1 was spoken when the nurse girl in the play gives him the following cue: Let me take your temperature? The words are spoken as :Ie old man. impersonated by Rock, is about i to enter the hotel. The old r'an an- :, swers: Never mind. The landlord will take everything I've got any way" It happened that when the actor was injured in Chicago, and was compelled to spend several weeks in hospital, that the first words he had addressed 10 him in the institution formed his cue in the play. Let me take your tempera- ture," the nurse exclaimed. Then, to the astonishment of the physicians and everybody else present, the actor quickly answered.: Never mind, the landlord will take everything I've got anyway" When Rock ex- plained that he was an actor. and that he had taken his cue on the im- pulse of the moment, the hosnital people joined him in a hearty laugh. He is now fully recovered ard will be seen again this year in the same role.
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 "I Take This Man." a new play by Edith Ellis, was presented for the lrst time on any stage by the Hunt 'r-Bradford players at Springfield, Mass. on July 20, The comedy IS he property of Henry W. Savage md will be produced by him this all. The play tells the story of a ] 'oung woman, left alone by a clever ut vagabond husband. and wno works for the support of her desert d children by publishing a weekly newspaper in a gossipy village of In- liana. The errant husband returns fter eleven years of wandering (this B the first actl. and finds his wife fixed. The wife in the Irst shock of his return offers him
 place in her home as cook and hired girl" in the hope that he will efuse and go his way. His daush- CTS, one grown to be a sentimental nd discontented maid of Is. believe heir father tO be dead. and none of he villagers had ever know hfm. He ccepts the position and his presence 1 the home calls out the spitefnI ossips of the village scandalmon- CTS The woman editor IS support. lg the political ambitions of 2 young awyeT who is in love with her. but the end the barristcr develops a eilow streak and the Widow Per- ins chooses to take back ner prrant usband rather than let him Ienart nd give her opportunity for divorce. sS1@esNsNsss%sssneNs~ I"~~-~~--~~~-~-N~~~--~ ~~-~I