The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
Notes of the Stage.

Harry Lee has made a success as Loire in "Fe-
dora"
Mr.. Sam Miliieur, of the spectacle ''The
Naiad Queen" was IN the city yesterday.
Manager English is thinking of reseating the
entire lower part of his theater with new and
improved chairs.
Some ~facetious quill driver has dubbed the
ballet ''calf opera, and it certainly is very often
of a very lean kline.
Mr.. Joseph Arthur's comedy, ga Play and a
Plot" according to the New York press, has
been only fairly successful.
Benjamin Magnify, it is said, c~ontemplates
starring next season. He will have an Irish
play by an unknown author.
Benz. F. Butler once belonged to an amateur
company in Lowell Mass. 'Pinafore" was then
unknown. What a Dick Deadeye he would have
made.
THE Artists Daughter, the latest production
of the Union Square, by Elliott Barnes, has
been enjoined by Frank Dunnaronma, who
claims the authorship of the play.
Indianapolis has for several years enjoyed the
reputation of being a bad ''show" town, but this
season both Cincinnati and st. Louis are far
worse, while business here is fairly good.
Nine. Ristori will do all her travelling in a
special car. She will be accompanied by her
husband, the Marquis del Grille, Signor Chiz-
zola, her personal representative. q private
secretary AMI two maids.
Inc ldleSU EnSllSD dcUOrS DOOkeO IOF Un6 Amer
lean stage are Edmund Tearle, a cousin of
Osmond Tearle, of divorce-court notoriety;
Kate Clinton and Ivan Shirley. They have been
engaged to support Nine. Ristori.
Helen Dauray, an American, who made a sue
cessful debut at the Folie Dramatique, in a
comic vaudeville, entitled Miss Maggie" was
known to Western theater goers, some years ago,
as Little Nell, the California diamond.
Combination managers report the theatrical
business out of town to be the worst known in
years. In some portions of the country the
average receipts have been from $50 to 500 and a
two or three hundred dollar house is a marvel.
Mr.. Chanfrau leaves a large estate to his wife
and two sons. The eldest son, Henry, will sue
coed his father in the role of Kit, in the play of
that name. The youngest son, Frank. is at
school. Mrs. Henrietta Chanfrau, the wife, will
probably retire permanently from the stage, 1t is
said.
Henry Higdon was a dramatic writer of the
seventeenth century, and in his comedy of the
WARY Widow he introduced so many drinking
scenes, that the actors were completely drunk
before the end of the third act, and being unable
to proceed with the play the audience was dis
missed.
Herman and Wills. the authors of "Claudian. "
have cabled Brooks & Dickson that they have
mailed the first three acts of the comedy-drama
which they are writing for them. The drama
has not yet been named. The critics who have
| read it pronounce it the best work those authors
nave yeL prOuuceu'
Nine. Fursch-Madi, dramatic prima donna, who
made such u great success at the late Worcester
Musical Festival" has been engaged as the solo
list for the the first Philharmonic concerts in New
York and Brooklyn, under the direction of Mr..
Theo. Thomas, and also by the Handel and
Haydn Society of Boston.
MIR. Henry Guy Carleton, the editor of Life;
and the author of a favorably considered trag-
edy called" Memnon," has Just finished IA modern
drama, in the formation of which he kept Mr..
Robert Manten in view. The story Of the play
is exceptionally strong, and it bears the merit Of
pronounced originality. Mr.. Cartoons work in
'Memnon" was of a highly forid and poetical
order, which few people would think it possible
could exist in the author of '"The Thompson
street Poker Club" His new play has been sub
mitted to the consideration of Mr.. Mantelrs
managers.
If all the San Francisco Bulletin says of
Giannini be true he must be something phe-
nomenal. 1T is a strange fact" says that paper,
that for ten years Giannini was a baritone and
sang in those parts requiring the voice. But in
"Rigoletto' he showed the possibilities of q
tenor, and by sheer cultivation since that time
has developed the tenor voice that has so
pleased our people. He is a sort of musical
prodigy, being able to sing without notice fifty
six operas, and not only his own part but the
parts of others. 1t further appears that this
prodigy of tenors makes his own wardrobe, does
not drink, smokes all the time, receives 81 900 a