The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-14
WINTER PLEASURES.

Written for the indianapolis journal by Mary Dean.
''Fheres pippins and cheese to come" The
campaign is forgot its songs are no more. The
live Punch and Judy show of orators with their
heads all santed one way on a lamplit platform,
is a thing of the past Blaine, who rushed upon
the stage with his graceful ardent gesture and
sent a strange thrill through his 2O,O 900 audience
is in the limbo of the unregarded
The seasons entertainments are in full food.
The lecture going crowd of coughing folks are
coughing through their winter course of lectures.
Charity begins to hum. The Flower Mission
fair is at hand. Dainty concerts are heard from
the matinee musicale. Mrs. SewalIs school,
whose pupils resemble an antique chorus NOV
ing sedately to ''some old, forgotten phrasing Of
Orphic hymn" will soon be dedicated. The
Symphony Society is giving beautiful
and unusual music from Cherubini, Auber
Belini, and other great masters, too seldom
heard. The symphony Society's grand, flowing
melodies and million-mouthed harmonies are a
relief from the usual noises of our theater Or
chestras. This is the way the theater orchestra
generally plays: at first the leader plays pleas
anty enough, then he says Let 'er go, poker
and tongs, siam bang! This orchestra is just 60
ing to show what noise it can makel' There
upon the big fiddle jars the windows the brass
horns shake the chandeliers and the drums rattle
the walls, while the people feel for their ears and
think if they live through that they won't come
there any more
When the orchestra is done playing at the
theater ''the air blossoms into joy" In the bal
cony the pale blonde with the pale blue eyes, the
rosy blonde with the rosy cheeks, pink
eyelids and warm golden hair, and
the black-eyed brunette with the blue
black hair and scarlet cheeks, each begins
to smile The man who explains the play to his
wife begins to explain. The woman who talks
through the first scene begins to talk The bad
person who insists on telling what's coming next
begins to tell. The young couple who have
brought book Of the play put one eye on the
stage and one on their book. The gods overhead
commence to be lively who the regular thea
ter goers, which includes most of the art assoc
citation, lay their play bills over their knees in
serene indifference to actors names, play synop
SEES and other play bill information, and begin to
enjoy life.
This year, cheerful thought brings almost
the same entertainments as last Mrs. Langtry,
the abused of the newspapers, will not get round
this year with that head so beautifully poised,
that neck so bare of ornament, and
those eyes, which battle the scene in
their light. Mile. Rhea, the bigh bred
and elegant, the dehcatefaced and slender
handed, will come, bringing her third rate COM
pany in which she addresses her one villain as
you two villains We shall see brave Barrett,
the most imprisoned of declaimers, who keeps
on trying new plays year after year He too,
travels with poor company of cat-clawing arm
swinging creatures, running about the stage on
hen canter all the evening. Fanny Davenport
brings Fedora again. This play illustrates
the 6lunders of an impulsive and incautious per-
which the interest con stantly increases the in
cident, grow more and more entangled, and
oaIb incident throws light on the central figure.
T"nnv has one-entire-and perfect chrysolite
company trained by herself. Nine ModJesAa