The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-28
NEWS bF THE THEATRE
MT. Tim Murphy to Play the
 An-Water Route Next Season

An interesting offer has been made to MT. Tim Murphy for eight conse- cutive weeks of his annual starring season. an offer which would Rtrical faction and enable him to live like the river barons of the middle of the last century. There Is a ship broker in New Orleans who has fit ted up one of the Mississippi River steamboats as a theatre, the dimep- sions of the stage and auditorium of which are approximately those of the Bijou Theatre, this city. He has his own electric and heating plant aboard of course, and cabins for artists and artisans to the number of thirty.
 His offer to MT Murphy Is to break move his company and productions aboard the steamboat, and during the next eight weeks play the following river cities in this sequences: Baton Rouge, Natchez, vicksburg, Greenville. IArkansas City. Helena. Memphis. auaey E.ouf ss hou1s Fort AUa Msd lison. Burlington. Muscatine, Rock Is iland, Moline, Davenport, Clinton, Du- IbuQue. Prairie du Chten. La Crosse. Winona. Wabasha, Red Wing, St. Paul, Minneapolis and. if as success full as- hoped. back over the same Mes Bessie Mccoy, the dancer, who treturned yesterday from Atlantic City with the ziegfeld '.Folies of 1911" company, will be the stage sponsor lyoungster of 14, Tommy sharon, a district messenger boy of the seaside resort. who came to New York on l the same train fn order to make his vaudeville debut under the managerial direction Of the fair actress. At least 60 Miss Mccoy announced last night in her apartment at the Hotel Van ] Cortlandt
 Last Sunday night, in Atlantic City" said Miss Mccoy. while the dis frict messenger boy, still in uniform. hdgeted on a chair, T had a dinner engagement with a certain gentleman who lives in New York. At the last Haoment I got a wire saying he had missed his train. hate to eat alone. % I rang the call box for a district messenger boy, determined to have the first boy that answered act as my es- cort rmny was the lucky boy. Dur ing e: r. which l am afraid scan dalize le hotel guests, found Tom my st":.i an entertaining talker, with such an original flow of slang that I told him hes ought to go on the stage --yzot to act, but to be his real self. He told me he could dance, and ac- fually he is a splendid dancer. having QlCASu up dl lAc StCpS WdlCH- ing vaudeville artists. I thought it might be good idea to help him get into vaudeville. so I decided \ to get some one to write sketch in which ans actress. disappointed in a dinner enga cement. rings for messenger boy to take .sfer to dinner, and that brings on the boy, Tommy, with a wonderful flow of slang talk. have already commissioned Ray L. McCar- dell to write the sketch, and Pat Casey Is going to book the act. Tom my is a clever Syoungster and I am sure he will make good. I'd like to play in vaudeville with him myself. But any actress who wants to take a dip into vaudeville with Tommy can drop me line care the Jardin de Paris, and perhaps I will turn the sketch and the boy over to her. Il am glad to help him, because he is so clever"
 William Faversham, who is now at | HL NI-s 4~-- e-q