The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-02
THEATRICAL NOTES

for next. season, than appeared here
last winter.
Eva Tanguay. who appeared at
he local opera house a few years
ago, is now the highest paid actress
in vaudeville circles,
Sousa's famous Dand, Chauncey
Olcott, the famous Irish tenor are
among the bookings for next season
at the local opera house.
Alkaline Filds, primma donna SOU
brette of tne Manhatten opera com
pany, will star in Dolly Warden"
which is to be produced here next
season.
The old reliable "Forty-fve Min
utes From Broadway" will start its
fifth season in August. 1t will APP
pear at tae local opera house on Sat
urday. September 4.
Three Twins" by the way, knock
ed all Philadelphia records into frag-
ments recently when at the end OF
its sixth consecutive week at the For
rest theatre the receipts for the day
were exactly $3605.
Having ner picture in a paper is to
an actress like candy to a small boy.
The actors paradise-a bundle of
egotistic conversation, three square
meals a day and a New York en-
gagement-The Advance Agent
1.-THE Third Degree" which is now
appearing at the Hudson theatre III
New York will be produced in Lon
don next fall by an English cast. This
is one of the attractions Manager
Wood mas booked for next season.
Maggie Fielding, who will play
prominent character part in An
American Widow which will be
produced this coming season under
the management of Henry B. Harris,
was for many years associated with
Andrew Mack.
Klaw and Erlanger in other words
the theatrical trust, are having
hard time in trying to bulldog the
western managers. A committee OF
managers has been formed for the
purpose of bucking the trust and are
| succeeding remarkably well in their
efforts.
Rev. DR.. w. C. Stinson, pastor OF
the Bloomingdale Reformed church
in New York, says that the theatre
is rapidly becoming the competitor
of the church in teaching ethics and
higher morality. Out of last seasons
176 plays, 1863 were found to be un-
Objectionable.
Dorothy Donnelly. wno will play
Annie Jeffries in one of the touring
companies of The Third Degree
next season, sailed for London on
Saturday 26th. on the American liner
St. Louis. Miss Donnelly will spend
her summer vacation visiting George
Bernard Shaw and his wife at their
summer home at Surrey.
The New York World has offered
$1,000 in prizes for plots of new
plavs. There are TO be one hrst
prize of $500 and five awards OF
500 each. Mgr Harris well known here
on account of the many good attrac-
lions he has sent to Bennington, Is
to have the first refusal of all OF those
| selected for prizes.
In TO Rutland the other night at
one OF the hotels a real group OF com
mercial travellers were overheard dis
GUESSING "The Travelling Salesman
! They admitted that there were many
good things about the comedy but
! they seemed to agree that New Eng
Ian drummers do not display their
samples in the way tried in second
act of the play.
Wilson Day, who appeared about
% years ago in the first repetoire
show in this town at the Library
hall theatre, is now playing in In
berkshire Hills" At the time of his
appearance here Goldsmith & Wood
were managers of the Library thea
ire and it took much persuasion on
Mr.. Days part to convince the man
ager that the town could afford
weeks stand.
"The Travelling Salesman has
passed the first century mark and
will close its season at the Park the
atre in Boston next Saturday even
ing, July 3, with four months run 10
it's credit. James Forbes has become
an international playwright and his
Chorus Lady" with Rose Stahl. is
pleasing audiences in London while
| his Travelling Salesman is slilIult"
neously amusing Boston and chic
ago.
Cause says that singers who use
their voices properly should be at
the height of their talents at 40 and
keep their voices in full strength and
virtility up to at least so. At this lat,
ter age, or close after it, it would
seem well to have earned the right to
close ones career. A great artist
ought to have the dignity to say fare.
well to the public when still in full
possession of his powers and never
let the world appraise him of his fall
ing off.
"A Gentleman from Mississippi
has moved from the Bijou to the Aer-
ial theatre atop the New Amsterdam
hotel. This play began its New York
run at the Biiou last September and
has been playing continuously ever
since. The members of the cast had
a vacation of one evening only. Thos.
A. Wise, ouglas Fairbanks and the
others of the company have agreed
| - oortioiDota in the summer run so