The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-28

srvings total receipts in New York for four
weeks were over $4,000
Noless than ten companies have been organ
insd TO play THE Private Secretary"
Lincoln J. Carter has joined Geo. C. Minis
company. Their repertoire is strictly Shak
spearian plays,
Frank Percy Weaden hasn't written new
Play for week now, and his friends are very
anxious about him.
sd Marble, the comedian and dramatic author
IL IN the city. He wrote Spot Cash. which NJ
Il Curtis plays here next week.
SIR c. o. Rogers, business manager of the
Minnie Palmer My Sweetheart Company
which is at the Grand next week, is in town.
The theatrical outlook is frightening. There
were only five companies stranded in Chicago
last week, heavy gain over previous returns.
Miss May Howard, an actress who, for several
years, has been very popular in England has re
Turned to her home at Shelbyvie, Ind, to rest
fOT while. Her health Is much improved.
Mr. Carl Strakosch is in the city, arranging
~ the Joint appearance of Samuel l.. Clemens
lark Twain and George w. Gable, in their
se tq9e entertainment, at Plymouth Church, on
fs.r evening of Jan Z.
Mss Jennie Calef, formerly with Riee's Sur
rri>o Party, has been quite successful in starring
A,r herself and will open her season in Montreal,
-tn;e g. with ''Fanchonr Little Barefoot and
--5tliss, which she has selected for her roper
tore.
The new play in which Miss Clara Morris is to
aprear at Days Theater, in New York, the com
Suc spring, is a adaptation from the French of
M George Ohnet. The leading character is q
fiqheer.S go S ~ '' W ~" W "
The Madison-square management have bought
the American rights in Mr.. Henry JOness com
edy. called "Saints and Sinners" The piece is
now running at the Vaudeville Theater in Lon
don. where its production, some months ago, oc-
casioned a. widespread burst of indignation on
the ground that the skits contained in the play
Gnd directed at certain forms of religious OBJ
Bervance were blasphemous.
Mr. Charles Thornton, an English actor, who
was engaged by the Madison-square people for
g75 week, has made some thing of hit, and he
naively observed the other day that he thought
che management ought to pay him about 5000
more every week. The English actor who makes
II hit in this country regards an increase of 5000
a week as 8>mere trife, though he may never
have sarneda weekly salary of $50 at ono, ye
know.
Il win be a source of general satisfaction
Rinong theatrical people to know that the firm
nj Brooks & Dickson has dissolved, for Mr.
Brooks has always been unpopular. He is an
arrogant, conceited man, whose head has been
very much swollen by prosperity. His business
methods are bad and he has been alone resposl
bie for several of the failures of the firm. On
the other hand, Mr.. Dickson is very popular and
will doubtless do much better alone than in the
firm.
Miss Charlotte Wayland. who appeared to
speh good advantage as Priscilla in storm
Beaten" at Dicksons Opera house. last week.
Is deserving of special commentator for her
fneritorious work. this being her first season on
the stage, and Priscilla the only part she has
ever played, Before making her debut as a full
nedged professional, she was a dramatic reader.
well and favorably known in New England and
the East. She Is possessed of much more than
usual talent
The Whalen Dramatic Alliance possesses a
rare star IN Miss Sadie Stringham, as may be de-
duced from the following extract from a Lara
mie. w. T.. criticism: "And Strineham-the
sublime and beautiful Sadie-how shall we find
words to characterize herr She was a symphony
in red She had rouge enough on her face to
paint the town, the general effect being height
ened by crimson dress of antique design. She
repeated several times that she was ready to
beg from door to door to save her starving
child, and that's about what she will have to do
&c she depends on the stage for living"
Mr. Henry Guy Carleton's contract with Mr..
Henry Irving to write play for that actor and
Miss Terry was signed last Saturday. Under
its provisions Mr.. Carleton is to 90 to England
to superintend the production OF his piece. The
American rights in the drama belong to the
author unless Mr. Irving should desire TO come
personally to this country with the play. Mr.
Carleton also retains the Australian rights so he
practically gets Sl2, 500 for the use Of his play in
England This is probably the best contract
AOrilou Wy u uFdhldtsb anu IL Is more WOHuefIul
in the fact that none of Mr.. Cartoons writings
have as yet been played upon the stage.
rhe Zoo Challenge Orchestra under the lead
er,hip of Prof T.. A. Kiechoefer is one of the
L. 1t organizations in the country, and should be
gwen an opportunity to make itself better known
To the musical public than it can hope to at
tl' Zoo. 1t is composed of E. A Kieckhoefer,
leader G. H. Spindler. double bass; t. L.
Roere cornetist AL Drew. claronet; Lawrence
Erir, viola; Walter Binet flute and piccolo,
tieorge e. Jennings, from hone; Andrew Chase,
second violin; Charles O'Conner. timpanist
Each member is a sOloist Of merit and the com
bined orchestra is capable of furnishing more
hnd better music than any organization Of CORE
.'onding size than was ever heard here.