The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-19
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

I
Fritz Emrnet viii be at the Grand the latter
part of the week.
Manager George A. Dickinson has turned the
Academy of Music at Fort Wayne into
skating rink.
There are over 1000 ballet dancers at the
Paris Opera, and their wages vary fro m 1925 te
1915 year. The ball ct costs the Opera $3.50, 0OO
Lawrence Barrett is said to have been long en-
ployed on play of his own, in whose construc-
ton he has been largely aided by his friend Will
lam D. Howells.
George w. June, of this city, has severed his
connection with the Kiralfy Brothers, and is now
plotting the Union Square success, Three
Wives to One Husband"
The "Adamless Eden" company will give a
single performance at English's, Thursday night,
and married women who want to keep their
husbands at home should keep them chained.
The Wilbur Opera Company viii play a return
| engagement at Englishs tonight, tomorrow
and Wednesday nights, presenting 'Mascotte
| ''Olivette" and 'Estrellag at the low prices
| which prevailed during their engagement last
week.
| Robert Mantell has received an offer from
Fanny Davenport for next season. Miss Daven-
port proposes to play Fedora" three nights
every week, and Shakspearian repertoire com
posed of Much ADO" "Cymbeline" and LAS
The Monarch Museum will have big show
this week The principal attractions are Chang,
the Chinese giant, Nala Dana Janta, the snake
charmer Annie Jones the bearded woman, Ida
Jeffries, the Gillette brothers. frankie Jones,
Avis and Mcbride, the Martell sisters, Geiss,
the lightning crayon- artist, and others.
At the Grand Opera house. the first three
nights Of this week. William Gill and Paul Ar
| thur will present their new musical comedy,
Two Bad Men," which has been success else
where. The company is headed by Eleanor
| Deering; and Bessie Bell who is we'll known in
| Indianapolis, will join the company to-day.
| New York Mirror: We hear from Washington
that the representatives senators and other gov
ernmental dignitares are signing paper ad-
| dressed to Edwin Booth, entreating him resclnd
his resolution never to play in Washington again
and give series of performances there this win
| ter. Mr.. Booth will doubtless feel deeply crate
| full for this marked honor from distinguished
statesmen, but unless we vastly astray in our
estimate of his character ne will not accept the
| invition.
New York Star: Funny things are done at the
| Lyceum School of Acting, if l may believe one
| Broadway the other afternoon, on her way to
her diurnal exercises, in Mackey's histrionic
mandatory. what do you do to-dayp
| asked. "a little of everything she replied
| evasve.y. But pushed on and demanded par
| ticulars. ''Well, she said, I'VE first practice
walking like drunkards, according to the Del
sarte idea. Then we rehearse Much ADO All
| the men are Benedicts and all the women are
Beatrices." us that allp l persisted. 'No
! there is something else "Whatw You're toe
inquisitive." "Inquisitiveness is the prerogative
| of a Man About Town." $50 it is. The last
thing we do is to go through lesson in voice
culture. We girls take off our corsets unbutton
our dresses, lie down in row on the floor and
shout ''raur again and again at the top of oul
lungs, while the teacher walks along and feels OF
| our EtOmachS to sec whether we bring the
diaphragm properly into play" "And the teacher
is a" mo, the teachers woman" 'Oh!
Then left the young lady at the door of her
| school and moraliZed on the faulty of attempt
| ing to establish academy of dramatic art in
this country without a suitable corps of hrsfes-
| SOrS.