The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-26
Notes of the Stage.

The Grand Opera house will be closed during
the greater part of election week.
Gunthers ID. A. NJ" company has laid down
to rest in consequence of financial syncope
And now it is said that the Bunch of Keys is
a direct plagiarism from German farce known
as THE Hotel Linbush"
The Bertha Welby company has disbanded in
Macon, Ga, on account of the illness of the star
and continued bad business
Manager Dickson's scheme of putting young
lady ushers in his theater does not meet with I'M
qualified approval by his patrons.
Mr. E. E. Rice is thinking of reviving ''Evange-
line" on a spectacular scale before long. He
thinks it has never been properly done in New
York. Some people will think "Evangeline"
played out
Lolita says that this is her last professional
season. She will positively and permanently re
tire to private life next year. Few woman have
been SO successful as Lolita by simply avoiding
some of the pecularities of actresses and stick
ing to her own. One of the pecClarities of ac-
tresses is acting
This is the way in which the critic of Mon
tana paper thus described the prima donna of
burlesque opera company: Prom her clear,
bird-like upper notes she would canter away
down to the base racket and then cushion back
to a sort of spiritual treble that made every man
in the audience imagine that every hair on his
head was the golden string of a celestial harp,
over which angelic fingers were sweeping"
Chicago News: We have an idea that the
Abbott opera company ought to give very in
teligent performance of ''Semiramide." AS we
are reliably informed, most of the venerable
young ladies connected with the Abbott chorus
were on terms of personal intimacy with the
famous Assyrlan queen in her palmy days and
are able, therefore, to give valuable suggestions
as to the proper representation of the scenes of
the beautiful opera that is founded upon an ep-
isede in her majestys career
With something more of honesty than dsere-
ton the Kansas City Times says of recent
Joseffy recital in that municipality: "Newspa-
pers are very fond of that word, culture. We
confess that the Times would have been glad to
have said yesterday morning that our cultured
community turned out to welcome Josefy, if
the fact did not remain that our cultured citi-
zens were in another part of the city, whOoping
it up for Jumbo and the Nautch girls. That was
temporarily wet blanket to our use of the word
culture"
Under the heading, 1.-THE Prima Donna Who
Loves Art" Freund's Weekly says that Nine.
Materna will start for New York on Nov. "a.
Her engagement at the Metropolitan Opera
house is for twenty performances between the
first week of January and March !, with an OPP
ton for twenty additional performances between
that date and May 10. She is to appear in
opera or concert as desired, and is to receive
81, 900 a night $500 for public rehearsals, the
penses of the journeys from Vienna to New FORK
and return for four persons, and $500 a month
for hotel expenses. A deposit of So, 600 has been
made with Vienna banking house.
Amusement Editor of the Journal:
Will you please settle dispute by stating
where the parquette, parquette circle. dress
circle and family circle are located in a theater2
The dispute is in regard to the Grand Opera
house, and arose because the holder of a family
circle ticket was sent to the top gallery.
READER
In the Grand Opera-house, tho front rows
down stairs, back to the sofa-chairs is the par
quette, back of this, extending to the entrance, is
the parquette circle. The dress and family cir
Gle are the same. i. e.. the first gallery Ii the
holder of a family circle ticket was sent to the
gallery, it was evidently mistake.
Mr. Osmond Tearle the handsome young lead
ing man of Wallack's theatrical company, is q
father once more. His present wife, who was
Minnie Conway has just presented him with a
son. Mr.. Tearle has now wife and offspring in
every grand division of the earth's surface he
has made his home. A good story is told of lit
tie Joe Levy, Minnie Conway's little son by her
first husband, the famous cornetist The child
playing in the rotunda of the Windsor Ho-
tel, at Denver, year ago last spring. the very
day his mamma married to Mr.. Tearle.
AHA, young man" cried one pleasant old gen
tleman, whose little boy are your The preco-
cious youth replied very promptly: Please,
sir, was papa Levy's little boy yesterday. and
1 am papa Tearles little boy to-day; don't know
whose little boy I'll be tomorrow"
Speaking to one of the Boston managers when
in town in September, Chanfrau commented on
the fact that he did not draw nearly as much
money as in past seasons, and said with sad
ness that seems now almost like premonition:
''Ah, we'll, suppose next season, at this time
shan t come back to Boston, as | have for thr
teen years. So great was the popularity of
Frank Chanfrau's Nose" that whole series of
plays of which he was the hero were written.
There was "a Glance at New York in 1S4S"
New York as it Is Mysteries and Misery Of
New York" ''Mose Married" and "Mose in Cal
iforna" At the time the first two plays were
running in New York in 1913, at the Olympic
and Chatham, respectively, the bills were so ar
ranged that Chanfrau played at both houses. 1t
is said that Chanfrau selected as his own epitaph
a quotation from Kit" II done my level best.
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