The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-20
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.

Nat Goodwin hiss reached old England
with out q scratch.
Fanny Davenport Gays she will play in
Fedora" and Fedora" only the coming
season.
PIT. Barnum lost $1,000 tent by fire in
Chicago and secured $4,000 worth of ad-
vertising. How fortune does favor this
mani
Miss Kate Csatleson says she hates the
duose, who crowd the private boxes ct the
theatres where che performs, and ogle the
actresses.
It is stated that Mary Anderson will rs-
turn from Europe in one year, sndathat her
first appearance before the LondOners will be
as PaTthenia.
Z. d. Davies, the ventriloquist, who is now
in England, was arrested in Queenstown.
The customs authorities took some of the
parapheinalis for dynamite machine.
The thesters generally are closing up for
the summer. In the large cities of PhiIadel-
phis, New York, Boston and Chicago, bat
few remain open, and these are not literally
patronized.
An actress named Gufsie De Forrest
bases her claim to distinction upon the
ground that the gold filings in her teeth
cost over thousand dollars. This fact will
be remembered in the programme next sea-
SOD.
Miss Lillian Russell, in clipping with the
Semitic fiddler, Mr.. Solomon, demonstrates
that she understands the true art ofthe comic
opera singer-frst secure notoriety. When
the airy, fairy Lillian returns to this country
the managers will be able to raise the price
of seats in the front row.
A lady who sympathizes with Mrs. Lang
try arranged dinner party in her honor the
other day, and asked some prominent peo-
pie of Murray Hill to be present. Mrs.
Langtry declined at the eleventh hour, and
when the dinner hour arrived three out of
the sixteen invited guests were welcomed by
the hostess.
Msry Anderson's brother explained the
absence Of professional people from the pier
when she sailed for Europe by saying his
Hsistah was high-toned, sab, and neVah made
friends of the professional theatrical people,
sab" Either Miss Anderson is q spoiled
fool and snob, or she has fool brother on
whose CAB she should put quietus at once.
Chattanooga Times.
At Dousi railroad station, last month.
Sarah Bernbsrdt secured two seats, one for
her secretary, but on entering the carriage
found a gentleman there She told him
who she was and asked him to leave, which
he sceommodstingly did. Presently an
other gentleman entered, and she asked him
| to do likewise; bat he, seeing four seats
empty, declined. Sarah thereupon left the
| carriage and, rushing to the Office, took the
whole compartment.
The famous Cologne Choral Society will
visit England this month, and will give s
| dozen concerts. Their first visit was in
/ 1853, when, under the conductorship of
their founder, Franz Weber, they gave con-
certs at Exeter Hall and Her MajestY's
| Theatre. In 1858 they returned and sang
for the Queen at Windsor. These male
choral societies are the successors of the
Liedertafel, founded at Berlin by Zslter in
1908, at whose concerts smoking end drink
ing we're enjoyed, after the fashion of the
far older English glee cubs.
Arkworth Crsbtree, says his sister Lolita
has not the remotest idea of retiring from
the stage. He says she ia not such goose.
When woman can realize S43, 900 in
four weeks in Boston, and $1,000 in any
one week she chooses to play In Pnila-
delphis, she certainly would be very foolish
TO leave the stage. This has been the best
sesson she has ever known, but strange to
say, New York ia the worst city for her in
which she appears. Some of the papers, said
the brother, have had my sister dying fol
the past six or seven years, but she Is ac
tough as a little horse. She will rest il
Europe for enc year.