The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-13
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
strength.

THE Dime Museum" has number of excellent
attractions this week. and the attendance con
tinues to be large both afternoon and evening
Marie Colomber has organized troupe to
travel IN Europe and America with Richards
drama, The Contes of Edgar Poe" which is now
rehearsing.
Nine. Theo will come back to this country next
season, under the management of Mr.. Maurice
Grau, who is now mapping out a tour of Amer
lea for her
Miss Charlotte Thompson will be at English's
Theater the last three nights of next week. pre-
senting THE Sea of Ice,' Nell Gwyne," and
East Lynne"
The Clio Dramatic Club will present the Irish
drama, Eileen Oge," on St Patrick's night at
Englishs Opera house, the proceeds to go to the
Little Sisters of the Poor.
Walter Deane eileen Oge) won the barrel
race at the Park Theater, last night, after a he
roic struggle. Tonight the Chinese Carnival
will take place, and the polo games with the
Dayton club to morrow and Saturday nights
The first three nights of next week Rehan's
Seven Twenty Eight company will he at the
Grand, presenting that comedy which met with
such general favor here earlier in the season.
The latter part of the week Lizzie Evans will be
the attraction in 'Foggs Ferry" and Dew
Drop"
Louis Harrison and John Gourlay will begin a
producing for the first time in this city their
new farcical comedy, called, Skipped by the
Light of the Moon" which is said to contain any
amount of unalloyed jollity. Those that go to
the theater to laugh will probably find that this
is the play they have been looking for. The ad
vance sale of of seats is very good.
Nine. Modjeska will go to Europe after her
spring season, which has been extended for a
period of six weeks beyond the time originally
set. She does not expect to play in London or
Paris. her first engagement being in st Peters
burg, next winter. Her agent says she will not
again return to America to play her repertoire.
IT she should find on the other side of the water
any piece like Fedora or Odette she may buy
the American rights and come back for a tour of
the large cities. She is done forever with the
one-night stands
The New York Times says of Mr. Charles
Pidgin, who dramatized "Peck's Bad Boy
| MIR Pidgin is a person who has an Unsuitable
desire to copyright vague titles and dramatic
| everything he sees. General Buffers inaugural
| address upon the occasion of his ascendency to
the governship of Massachusetts, is spoken of as
the only composition since the Declaration of In
dependence that has escaped Mr.. Pidgin's eager
pen. He has dramatized everything else, in
Guiding the bylaws and constitution of the Char
ter Oak Insurance Company"
Mr. E. E. Rice will return to burlesque next
season. He expresses himself as having suffi-
GENTLY investigated the field ofcomc opera to suit
his tastes. 1t will not be an English bur
lesque company 1t is Mr.. Rice's undying belief
that there is quite as much cOmlealtv IN legs OF
the American pattern as there is in the imported
article And as by his theory people go to
| burlesques which are chiefly composed Of those
useful anatomical adjuncts solely for purposes of
! laughter, they will flock to positions of observa
| ton quite eagerly when the company is Amer
lean they would if it were of the Rule Britain
MIA order.
| Mr. Irving will travel through the United States
next season under his own management, and
! wholly without the assistance of Mr.. Henry Alb
hey. 1t is Mr. Irvings firm impression that he
can make quite as much Roadway alone as he
can with Mr.. Abbey's help and the proposed
rangement will have the additional effect so far
he is concerned, of keeping the profits entirely
within his own control. Mr. Irving has closed
an engagement with Miss Mary Anderson, by the
terms of which that young lady will remain in
London, at the Lyceum Theater during his tour
of the United States. Mr.. Irving plays an en-
gagement there in the spring and summer, and
for that period Miss Anderson will rest part of
the time, and star through the provinces for the
other part Her dates in this country for next
season have been transferred to Mr.. Irving 1t
| is fact that Miss Anderson's receipts in London
are considerably in excess Of those taken by Mr..
Irving in the same theater for any similar period.
His determination TO stay here next season is
occasioned quite much by anxiety to keep
Miss Anderson in the Lyceum Theater as it is by
his own wish to remain in America.