The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-25

| where they played last week, all the reserved
seats for the entire week, were sold before
Tuesday noon, and a great many people were
turned away every evening.
Harry G.. Richmond, a we'll known comedian,
who has many acquaintances In this city, died
in the hospital at Philadelphia. on Friday night.
of consumption. His real name was Boyle, and
he was a brother of Anna Boyle.
At Cincinnati. last week. Thomas w. Keene
drew such large audiences to the Grand Opera
house that the theater would not hold them. He
has made a great success with his deliberately
mounted Shakespearean productions.
The Kiralfy Brothers have discovered o new
musical sensation in the Maeuani family, FIVE in
i number, WHO produce wonderful music from
paving stones and broors. They are appearing
in Around the World in Eighty Days"
The piece which Mr.. A. r. Cazauran wrote for
Miss Rose Coghlan, called won and Lost" is a
complete failure, and has been very promptly
shelved by that actress. She is now rehearsing
another play, which will be produced shortly.
Joseph Jefferson is contemplating the organi-
cation of a company, next year, to include sach
famous old-time favorites as c. w. Couldock,
Mrs. Drew, John Gilbert, John e.. Owens and
others. 1t he succeeds, it will be a notable or
ganiZation.
The Indianapolis Lecture Course will open its
fourth season on Wednesday evening, November
III, with Mr.. A. p. Burbank, of New York, in
ms recitation of his own adaptation of Dickens's
Tale of Two Cities" Full announcement of
lecturers and dates will be made hereafter.
Private letters from New York tell us that
Margaret Mather is dong a much more profitable
business than Mary Anderson. The talk is that
Anderson has not improved at all. and there is a
general cutlery against the c~onsummate impu-
dence of her management, as illustrated in the
raise in the prices of admission. In other words,
tho public says that our cats tail isn't as long as
it's cracked up to be.
Miss May Fielding, who has been studying for
six months in Florence and Milan, has just re-
turned to New York. She is understood to have
refused an advantageous offer at N Madrid, to sing
in opera. Miss Fielding says she wishes she
could say personally to every ambitious girl in
America, Don't 60 to Italy" She says the
trials, sufferings and temptations young ladies
have to undergo in that miserable land OF song, I"
where no manager will listen to or look at one
without money, or help her if she behaves her
self properly are terrible.
''Janish deserves to have her name handed
down to history, if only for one thing" said a
well-known theater- goer, land that thing is her
hug. 1t is sublime; the most comprehensive
all-pervading thing in the way of an embrace
that has ever been perpetrated on the stage.
Bernhard can hug with considerable abandon,
and there is a certain completeness of ~self-sur-
render about Lydia Thompson's stage caresses.
But this hug of Janish-well, it deserves to rank
with Emma Abbotts kiss, Fanny Davenports
fall in Fedora Lord Dundreary's shuttle. Lord
Burleigh's nod, Cromwell's wart, Washington's
truthfulness, Napoleon's love for snuff-hoXes or
any of the other great monumental traits OF his
torical personages. 1t does not matter who it is
that Janish is hugging Il mean on the stage. of
course), be it her father, her lover, her husband,
her lady friend. or whoever it may be, she en-
velops them all as the darkness enveiops the
earth. There is no prevarication about it-Do
escape from it any more than there is from the
embrace of a boa constructor. 1t covers the case
as completely as a Congressional Record. 1t is
soul-absorbing, ubiquitous, all-enfolding-but
there! Webster's Dictionary has not got words
to describe it."
Eddy's Weekly Dramatic Squib: A few years
ago it was proposed to give a juvenile perform
ance of Cinderella in Indianapolis, and accord
ingly, a number of children belonging to the
leading families of the place were chosen to fill
the various roles. Among others came a demure,
pretty little Quaker girl who, at rehearsal, dis
played so much talent. that she was cast for
the leading role of Prince Charming, which she
filed with the greatest credit to herself and to
the honor of her Quaker parents, who feared
lest their daughters success should tempt
her to adopt the stage as a profession.
The performance of cinderella" proved
a turning point in the child's life. From
that night her dreams of stage triumphs began,
and as soon as she reached maturity she informed
her mother that she had decided to become an
actress. Since then that demure little Quaker
girl mas shown ability of such high order that il
has been decided TO put her on the road next
season as a star. Her name is Stella Rees, and
a Western critic describes her as the possessor
of a voice as clear and musical as the early
morning lark, eyes of deepest blue, and a figure
of wondrous beauty" Surely such ~endowments,
coupled with histrionic talent, should make
Stella Rees a success.