The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-23
THE OTHER PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Notes of the stage.


Thg first regular entertainment of the Mpn-
nerchor Society will take place tomorrow night
Manager Gilmore has decided to make an an
mex to the Zoo, and put in it all the animals of
the Batcheldor & Doris show which spends the
winter here
Mr.. Will Fl. Gillette the dramatst, and Mr.
Frank Tannehill, ir., of 1.-The Secretary COM
pany viii be entertained while here with friends
in the city
Mrs Kate Tousey Morris, of this city, will
shortly become member of the Madison-square
''The Secretary" Company, of which Mr.. A. S.
Lipman is leading man.
1t is understood that Mr.. Joseph Arthur, of
this city, will shortly resign the business man
agement of Mckee Rankin's Third d-avenue Thea
ter, New York, and take his play, "a Play and
a Name" upon the road.
Emma Abbott is the champion opera house
dedicator. Within the past fortnight she has
opened the Masonic Temple Theater at Fort
Wayne, the new Music Hall in Charlottesville,
Ind, and Albaugh's Grand Opera-hous at Wash
ington -------.-
Mrs. D. p Bowers is praised in the highest
terms for her personation of the coaldealer in
La Charbonniere," the new French emotional
drama, which has achieved such pronounced sue
cess 1t is booked for the Grand Opera house
Dec. l, 2, and 3.
Inc neWeSI oook Oy 1uSn conway, VINO is the
author of Called Back goes by the name of
| Dark Days" and is said to have made an excel
| lent impression in England Mr. Comyns Carr
who made the Madison square version of Called
| Back" is already at work dramatizing Ozark
Days for the English stage. and his piece has
been purchased Tor the American market.
Clara Morris had had part of her private car
partitoned off, and the reserved space fitted up
as a studio. Here she indulges her fancy for
crayon-drawing and painting. She is very clever
with her pencil, and her easel is seldom unoccu-
pied. As she terms it-"All play and no work
makes Jack dull boy"-albeitit she admits that
THE play IS the thing" to stick to in her case.
Mime Rstori, says the London World, "who
can never be described as celebrity at home
so nomadlc are the habits of this wonderful
actress, has been interviewed previous to her de-
parture for America, and has spoken at length
in admiration of the talents of the dead Rachel
and the living Sarah, thus giving lesson to
| her sisters in art at home who talk publicly off
the stage"
| William Gillette who appears as 1.-THE Secre
tary" at Englishs, next week. is graduate of
Harvard, and is one of the few college bred men
| who have won substantial success on the stage.
| His dramatic writings during the last five years
| have placed him among the foremost American
| dramatists, since, during that time, few can
point to three such distinct successes as '"rhe
| Professor" "Esmeralda," and, last and best
THE Secretary"
| 1t is commonly supposed that Nat Goodwin
| Is an actor of impulse, This, it seems is mis-
| take, like others made about actors, He is more
| creature of machine methods than Henry lrv-
| ing, whom he is fiattered to believe he greatly
| resembles in artistic temperament. His re-
hearsals are conducted with the closest attention
| to detail and no point is left to the inspiration
| of the moment Mr. Goodwin has been known
| to chalk out the footsteps Of his subordinates
! upon the stage floor and keep them walking in