The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-26
WORLD OF DRAMA AND MUSIC
The Attractions at the City Pheaters for
Visitors to the State Fair.
Ill-Preatment of Popular American Compa-
ny in Paris-Gossip About Plays aud
Players and Local Musical People.

The Hanlon Brothers brilliant spectacle,
''Fantasma,a which entertained the visitors to
she fair last year, will perform like service for
them this season, as it will be the attraction at
the Grand Opera-house all this week. It will
pc presented with that elaboration and brilancy
that has made it such success here, as else
where, aud with cast which includes forty peo-
ple The company carries with it, two carloads
OF special scenery, with which to present its
marvellous stage illusions and mystifying
mechanical effects. Among the scenic features
are ''The Realistic Cyclone" which is said TO be
an excellent counterfeit of the genuine article
as in it houses are unroofed, and an entire vii
Iage annihilated; 1.-THE Devils Dormitory,"
''The Dance of Spectres," and four transforms
ton scenes, including 'Fantasma's Realm
Ia Fairy Land" which is credited
with alone costing $4,000 Incidentally are
introduced tableaux Of the renowned Greedy ex
petition and popular earicatures of the day, by
attractive young women and children. In the
Hanlons' company are Miss Kate Davis, a very
clever commedenne and vocalist; Alex. Fan
fretti and his family, all wellknown pantomm-
lists; little Aimee, wonderful child, and other
clever people. "Fantasma" is given with special
music throughout, and few genteel specialties
never before seen here. including the wonderful
European Illusion" so-called, in which a
woman, sitting in full view of the audience and
away from scenery or appliances. is made to in
simultaneously disappear. The advance sale of
seats for the engagement is now in progress.
Manager Talbot has secured a very notable
attraction for Englishs this week in Rice's beau
tiful "Evangeline," which had run of 253
nights in New York and 102 in Chicago. 1t is
credited with being the most brilliant burlesque
production seen in this country, requiring
the services of sixty-two ladies and gentlemen
In the cast, carloads of new scenery and fine
costumes. 1t is the old 'Evangeline" rewritten,
all the attractive features being retained and
any amount of new music and business intro
duced. Among the new features are the grand
march of the Amazons, very brilliant spectacle,
the sextet for male voices, the wedding minuet
the Turkish march, the new topical song, the
six merry ruffans and the japanese finale. The
company Is unusually large and talented. The
Evangeline is Miss Susie Winner who made
such hit with Dixie in London; the Gabriel is
AID great favorite in New York Miss
Clara Harley is the Euale, Miss Anna
Summerville. the Fitz Hubert, and the cast 9TH
erwise includes James s. Maffett, as the Lone
Fisherman, George K Fortesque as Catherine,
Dan Mason as Dietrichs, Ed Morris as the no.
liceman, George A. Schiller as La Blanc, and
other well known people The Lone Fisherman
and the dancing heiter are still to be SEEN but
the principal features of the forthcoming pro-
ductlon are the star cast, the beautiful music,
and the elegant costumes and scenery, for these
have made 1t the great success it has been in
other cities
The great patronage of the Dime Museum
stall continues, standing room being in demand
every night. The attraction for this week is Of
the sensational order, and has much more merit
to commend it than the average Of such plays
1t is 1.-THE Ranch King" border drama of
strong interest and presented by competent
company, headed by Joseph d. Clifton, and with
fine scenic effects. With the company is band
of genuine cowboys
The tenth regular promenade concert at the
City Hall will be given on next Tuesday even
Ing Mrs. Leon Bailey and Mrs. j. j. Cole will
be the vocalists, and among the other special
features will be cornet solo by H. &. Clarke
and polka by Ernest IL. Clarke.
American Actors Badly Treated in Paris.
Special to the Indianapolis JournaI.
NEW YORK. Sept 25.-The return of Days
theatrical company from their European tour
brings belated news of their i'll treatment in
Paris. Their successes in London and Berlin
were described by cable, but their fail
IRE with the French was almost un-
known here until described by the
members in letters to friends Other cor
roborations make 1t clear that Dixey's rejection
by the English was equaled by the emphasis
with which the Parisians spurned New York's
favorite comedians. Daily occupied the
Vaudeville Theater, and opened with "Love
on Clutches" The play and the players were
openly ridIculed by the audience, especially as to
the actresses whom we SO ardently admire, and
the critics contemptuously Quilted the house be-
fore thu performance was half over. The Rasco
is attributed, not to any mistake that we have
made about the good quality of the organization,
but to the strong Partisan prejudice against any
thing in an art way coming from America. That
nothing artistic can be produced in this land of
the barbarian is accepted as truth. But the
DAILY actresses had another theory of expana-
ton. The demonstration against them was
work of spite by Mrs George j. Gould. who as
Edith Kingdom. had been excluded from the
casts in favor of the Misses Rehan aud Dreher
They imagined that some of the Gould wealth
had been used to form cabaL Argument has
not convinced them of the folly of such an idea.
Notes of the Stage.
Robert B. Mante has made hit in his new play
"Tangled Lives
Mary Anderson proposes to give performances
IN Dublin in aid of Charleston sufferers.
The German papers state that quartet &c rem uine
Chinese has made great success in Berlin.
Nine. Cornelia Zanten, contralto, of Amsterdam.
has been engaged for the American Opera Company
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