The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-22
Plays and Players.

Emma Abbott is doing the Texans.
Clara Morris closed her season yesterday
Annie Berlein viii star once more in play
entitled "Under the Upas"
Heavensl Bertha Welby has announced that
she will act again next season.
4'Delusion" is the title of H. c. DeValles play
at The Madson-square Theater.
Emil Leslie is once moro back in the stock
company of the Madison-square
/ Jeannie Winston is singing at Portland Ore
son. in arephrtoire of comic opera
1 Frank Howard, song writer and baritone Of
1Ese Thatcher Minstrels is quite i'll
Madame Hulskamp- Schelling will be intro
deeed in grand opera by Max Strakosch.
Minnie Maddern is playing Caprice in the
South She is due. at New Orleans soon.
Frank Cakes Rose is organizing dramatic
company to play the 'Windward Islands,"
j f. Haverly is now engaged in the museum
business furnishing freaks" to the museums.
John Hickey is evidently managing theater
at .Wilkesbarre, Pa, from newspaper para
graphs
Wallace McCreery the tenor. has shown up in
San Francisco. According to him he is singing
in whis-key
Aimee will soon pay,an engagement in this
city, and 1.-THE Rag Baby will come before the
9'RobinS -"
Marie Wainwright has been offered $3.50 per
week as leading lady of the new Lyceum Thea
ter. New York.
IL c.. Demille reader of the Madison-square
Theater, has read 523 plays since his connection
with that institution.
The Eden Musee in New York presents wax
figures in tableaux representing the shooting of
Rosa by Mrs. Dudley
Daisy Murdoch, the cupid of the Orpheus and
Enrydice Company, has taken Ida Mules place
In "A Bottle of Ink"
Henry Chanfrau is meeting with success in
khe roles assumed and made famous by his father,
the late Frank S. Chanfrau.
Carrie Godfrey a new comic opera star. and
who was the original Falka, will go on the road
soon with an opera company
The Windsor Theater, located in the Bowery
New York, will be rebuilt John A. Stevens
formerly owned this theater.
Sweet Innesfail.' Ben Maginley's new play,
will be produced in San Francisco. after the
close of the May Blossom" season.
''Ixion" is drawing large audiences at the Com
edy Theater. New York. Alice Harrison and
Harry Brown are the principal artists.
The management of the Bjou Operahouse,
New York, deny the engagement of Mrs
Seguin- Wallace at that theater in May.
Pretty Viola Allen has been secured by the
Iyceum Theater as leading lazy for the first
FN"NASS1tSH'
Rose Coghlan, leading lady of Wallacks Thea
ter. will star, next season, in a new plav called
'Our JOAN Frank Farrell will manage the
venture.
Nat C. Goodwin, in an interview while in this
city, of future plans, said he thought he would
manage theater in New York, and probably
the Bijou.
Miss Harriet Jay, authoress and actress. will
take a company the road soon, in one of Rob
ert Buchanans plays. Charles Crote will be
leading man.
Last Sunday night Lillian Russell made her
Teentree at the Casino and made hit, an army
OF dudes with silvertipped canes tapping the
floor. by way of applause.
Ezra Kendall, the funny comedian with W.
A Mestayer, has written farce entitled "a
TAR OF Mas, In which he will star. Havevly is
sal1 TO be interested in the venture
Charles Wyndham, the English comedian. will
probapiy return to this country in the spring
presenting some new comedies He viii nct he
seen IN the provinces until the fall
private letter from India states that Emi,;a
Melville has created great furore in that remote
legion, and is doing fine business She will
1T return here until the end of the current wear
Daniel Frohmann leaves the Madison square
heater March l. He intends to build a new
fneater in New York, end as he has two new
pays in which he has good confidence, he is quite
=. ,uguine OF success.
toquelin the great French actor of the Coincide
Frspcaise, will make his appearance in this
country, at the Fifth Theater, New
York, Jan. II, 1886. The supporting company
viii come from Paris
When In Germany, Sonnentbal said to Con-
reid: Edwin Booth is the greatest of us all.
here Is but one Hamlet and that is Booths
salVini is the greatest of Othellosn Conreid has
greed to pay Booth the same sum as Sonnen
thai receives tor their joint performance of
-Aefio' at the metropolitan Opera.house.