The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
Plays and Players.


John T. Raymond has been i'll.
Edna Carey will star next season.
Madame Thee is playing in New York.
Lawrence Barrett will summer at Cohasset
John Mccullough goes to Europe this summer.
bars. John Drew will sail for Europe in May.
w. E. Sheridan will play on the Iowa circuit,
soon.
Kate Forsythe will be Salvinis leading lady
next season.
Henry Ward Beecher has come over as an ally
to the stage.
}. b. Polk will spring "Mixed Pickles" ON the
public soon.
w. J. Ferguson is the low comedian of the
Lyceum Theater.
Alexander Dumas stole the plot of Demise"
from the German.
Christine Nilsson will head an English opera
company next season.
Bertha Welby announces in a dramatic sheet
that she is at liberty.
Edwin Booth is playing at the Chestnut street
Opera house. Philadelphia
Nelson Decker and wife, Nora Allmayne, will
return from England soon.
DR.. Ham Griffin, Mary Anderson's step pa,
has arrived in this country.
Peoria, H., is TO have q May festival. with
Theodore Thomas and orchestra
John L. Burleigh intends to play the Juvenile
role IN the strangers of Paris"
May FilGing, late of Days Theater, is singing
with the Carleton Opera Company.
Agnes Booth will, after the season, retire to
her hotel at y1the-Sea.
Nat Goodwin produced his new play, s'The
Skating Rink, at Buffalo last week.
"McFadden's Spirits" is the title of a 'shoss
play written for the Four Shamrocks.
James ONeil states positively that he will APP
pear only in romantic roles next season.
Hazel Kirke'i is not yet dead, the ajay" towns
viii receive it next season in last doses.
Sarah Bernhardt is reported as having faint
ang ITS during each and every performance"
Fanny Wentworth and Daisy Murdoch 60
with Mat Haniey's Are You. Insureds7 Com
pany.
A chestnut is going the rounds explaining the
origin and derivation of the word. Some people
are never satisfied.
An aspirant for honors histrionic is a fedgling
an New York named Montgomery. George
Edgar is coaching him..
Rose Coghlan made a hit in her new play.
Our joan The play is an adaptation of
BLACKS novel, "a Princess of Thule"
Signor CARDINAL, tenor of the Mapleson Ope-s
company, has won the hand of Sybil Sanderson.
daughter of Judge Sanderson. of California.
Robert Buchanan is extremely sore at the
critic of the Philadelphia Evening telegram
on account of the adverse criticism of his play.
Estele Clayton seems to have made a partial
success iu ''Favette," produced at the Union
square. Il is q dramatization of Ouidais sTrico-
tran"
r N. DUNCAN. Of the Parlor Match company.
has been engaged as baritone of the Hess Opera
company, which opens its season in Chicago.
an June.
.Dakolerr Steele Mackaye,s play, which opened
the Lyeeum Theater, New York, is a success. 1t
IS an adaptation of 0hnets novel. lie Maitre des
Forges.p
The Union.square Theater has ceased to be q
stock theater. liz win now 0e in order 70 have
the country deluged with snap Union square
Iheatar companies
Sarah Bernhardts painting of La Jcune File
ct Ia Morte, - which brought only SD 30 at her
recent sale. IS now in the shop of a Paris dealer.
who asks $615 for IL
The Cook Comedy Company. composed of Miss
Carrie Gage. Mrs. Matte Collins. Frank Rich
srds, T. Y. Cook and others, will soon produce
Lost in London, III Palestine, Ind.
Barney MeAuley has gone all to pieces. He
Is penniless in Cleveland. and drinking very hard.
lie was arrested the other wight, but a newspa-
ger reporter interceded. and got aim released
Some interesting facts are given in re-
gard 20 the details Of the performance of
1.-THE Mikados at the Savoy Theater,
asonaon. 1t appears that during the re-
AearsaIs 8 Japanese dancer and a japanese
tea girl from the japanese village at Knights.
bridge. pear London. gave their services, and to
ahis II Is no doubt due that both actors and
sactresses are so very Japanny. The girl knows
DnIy two words of English. 't:sixpenee, please
pAs~ hesr9 the s-ice of = sup OF feA. hut she has