The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-12
Notes of the Stage.


Notes of the Stage.
Kiralfy's Excelsior will be the attraction all
next week at EngIish's.
In London Ellen Terrv's salary is 1915 week;
while in this country she is to be paid 81, $50
Emboldened by the success of Called Back"
Messrs. Conway & Carr are preparing no less
than three other tales of terror to ii exile the
play goers' morbid nerves.
Two hundred and fifty theatrical compa MES
are now ''On the roads-the railroad, of course
Later in the season about onehalf will be com
ing back on the road2the wagon road.
H. L. Taylor is in town arranging for the ap
pearance of Joseph jefferson on the evening of
the goth at the Grand, in "Cricket in the
Hearth" and Lend me Five Shillings."
Catherine Lewis and her comic opera company
sang madame Bonifaee" in Newark three nights
and then disbanded. They had been three
weeks on the road On Tuesday evening there
was trouble about the salaries of some of the
singers, and the performance was delayed
John c. Freund: Mr.. Abbey ought to know
something about woman's nature with three
such actresses on his hands as Bernhardt Ander
son and Langtry The first is both genius and
q humbug; the second is neither genius nor
humbug and the last is humbug genius
Herman and Wills, the authors of Wilson Bar
rett's "Claudan, which met with favor in Lon
don, are hard at work on a new play for Brooks
& Dickson. 1t is a four act comedy drama of
the Charles II period. The time in which the
drama is laid is we'll suited for the rich scenic
effects.
During the coming season the Madisonssquare
management will adopt the English custom of
giving weekly matinees of new plays, either an
old comedy an untried drama, condensing the
frequent long runs at this house. This Will be
pleasing innovation and an excellent thing for
the actor.
Charles H. Day. of the Chestnuts street Dime
Museum, Philadelphia, appreciates joke, even
Rt his own expense. In answer to an application
for time, he sent a reply; Full for three
months.-Charles II. Day Back came the
tort Yes, you have been full for ten years.
Harry Stanwood."
Hugh Fay is so i'll that he was obliged to sever
his connection for the season with the Barry and
Fay Combination last week in Chicago He left
for Hot Springs. His malady is consumption. 1t
is to be hoped that the stage is not to lose of
it's very cleverest Irish comedians W. III.
Lytell has permanently taken his place in the
combination
Chicago News: "And what palt do you sing
in the opera, Miss PearlP
I'm one of the sopranos"
''Tm sorry to hear that"
''How sop
"Why can't help thinking that if your voice
was as low as your dress, you'd make wonder
full contralto."
The manager of Brooklyn lecture bureau re
Gently wrote to General Sherman asking his rates
for delivering a lecture. General Sherman
wrote in reply: dear Sir-My regular charge
for leeturing is million of dollars for outsiders;
for my soldier comrades, once a year, nothing.
For the former never has this fee been accepted;
for the latter my book of engagements is full for
the natural period of my life"
Pittsburg Dispatch: Miss Flora May Henry,
who has been charming the young men of our
city during the last week while with Robson and
Crane is in her nineteenth year. Her twentieth
birthday will be celebrated week after next
This is her third season on the stage, before
which she was quite society belle in Indianapo-
lis, Ind, where her mother now resides. The
front row dudes will long for her return.
At Waterbury, Conn, last Wednesday, while
Richard Clark of Caledonia, Canada, was walk
ing over the tops of Forepaugh's nenageris cars
at the railroad station opening the ventilators,
he stepped through one Of the ventilators into
the tigers cage. Two tigers caught him, one by
each foot, and succeeded in dragging him down
into the cage. Some citizens who were stand
ing by, reached in and pounded the excited ami
mails with iron bars, but could not rescue the
N an until both his legs and arms were terribly
lacerated.
Mccullough is generally reputed to be worth
$lO0,000 This money is invested in good Sc
curities The fact of his not being worth more
is due to the debt he contracted in San Francisco
while manager of the California Theater or
rather to the debts made for him by his EN-
ployes. 1t took two or three seasons of profit to
clear these off. Mccullough made will two or
.hree years ago regarding his money, but what
It is nobody knows, not even the witnesses to it.
But the general idea is that the money goes to
his son in Philadelphia
Matte Ferguson, of this city, has made de-
eided hit in "A ParloF Match The New York
Truth says Of her work: "She was very pretty,
and not only looked her part and played it well,
but sang nicely and received any amount of
flowers" The Morning journal says: Miss
Ferguson made great hit. and was the recipi-
ent of many floral works of art The New
Haven News says: 'Mathe Fergusons talent
tor characterization was unusually pronounced,
and her pleasing songs were heartily encored
Her beauty and grace, added to her splendid act
ing, carried away the audience. She was the
star of the evening"
When the late Frank Chanfrau returned from
California and was the possessor of a snug fer
tune, he bought handsome house at Ysnkers,
and then went to the warehouse in Peck slip,
where his father was employed as porter, and
said I'D like you so step out with me for a
while" II can't" replied the elder man; lit
isn't dinner hour yet and my employers
wouldn't like it. Eyes they would; they are per
fectly willing" said the actor, and then took his
father to Yonkers, showed him through the