The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-01

been dressed on the stage. She expects to put
$1,000 or s. 900 on four costumes she wears in
the four acts.
The Dime Museum is drawing large audiences.
Among the recent eurioSities band of
Sioux Indians which attract much attention. A
decidedly clever entertainment is given hourly
in connection with the regular display. To-day
the doors Will be open from 10 to y this morn
ing, $50 TO 53O this afternoon and ESQ to $50 to-
night, The museum is patronized by the repre-
sentative people of the city.
Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Florence will appear at
English's Opera-house. and for the first time in
this city, on Thursday and Friday evenings and
Saturday matinee. in their new four-act comedy
especially written for them by Jessop and Gill,
entitled Facts, or His Little Hatchet" Dir.
Florence will appear as Pinto Perkins a champ
ion liar, and Mrs. Florence appearing as Miss
Matilda Starr, an English authoress, we know.
On Saturday evening only there will be repre-
sentaton Of WOolfs comedy, in four acts, en-
titled The Mighty Dollar Mr. Florence APP
pea1ing as Hon. Bardwe Slote and Mrs. Flor
ence appearing as Mrs General Gilhory The
advance sale Is goou.
New York special: Members Of the New York
Press Club are quite stirred up over the genius
of a new dramatic artistic who was the pro
gramme of an informal entertainment given the
club at the rooms Saturday evening. The
artistic Ida Hood Talbot, comes from lndianap-
Oils, and is about to go upon the dramatic stage.
Though she enjoys an enviabe fame a reader
in the West the journalists of the metropolis had
scarcely heard of her They are all hackneyed
play goerS, and usually as difficult to move emo
tOnally ms a stone wall, consequently were en-
trely unprepared for the way she aroused their
interest in her magnificent rendition of Jacob
Hurds child" The verdict Of all who heard her
was that in her the dramatic profession will Sc
cure genuine artistic.
Frank Chanfrau has grown son, Harry, who
has lived in a theatrical atmosphere since he was
born Travelling with his father and mother in
their winter professional tours, and spending his
| summers at their Long Branch home, in the
midst of show people, it might he supposed that
he would be able to step into view on the stage
with selfpossesson, if not with artistic aeeepta-
bity, whenever he chose, but on his recent debut
| he was stagefrightened AT the most dramatic
| juneture in his role he was to deity take one
! portrait from under curtain on an easel and
| substitute another. Two hands were not enough,
| and another one might not have qualified him
! for the feat so complicated did it become to him.
According to a correspondents description, when
he got picture in his right hand and the other
in his left the curtain fell over the easel, COM
| pletely frustrating him. When he tried to elbow
| the cloth aside one canvas dropped to the floor.
The heartless giggling of the audience increased
! his embarrassment, and he grabbed and fumbled
wildly. His fingers, which had all the time been
thumbs, were turned into mere stumps at the
ends of his arms, and his ruination of the scene
was ingloriously complete.