The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-07
OUR NEW YORK FEUILLETON.
The Current Features of the Principal
Theaters Reviewedby Hym Crinkle.
Cammack, the Mephistopheles of Wall Street
Mrs. Sherwood Chats Pleasantly of
New FORKS Leading Society Events.

more than ever convinced that dramas and OPP
eras with only an historical interest ought to re-
main in history. Hermann is strong melo-
dramatic and romantic play, but with all respect
for Hugo. it is not abreast of current taste and
current dramatic methods. The resuscitation
of these things serves to show US how we have
got away from the hghfalutin of fifty years ago.
The play of to-day must deal with men and
women, to interest men and women not with
gods and goddesses.
As for Dir. Barrett, his Hermann is to me
the dryest. hardest piece of abstract defamation
that have ever seen him attempt Could Her
mani have come with the Spanish swing
Of the cavalier plumed and poetical
with the airs of Saragossa, and the
scents Of Seville; could he have awakened the
romance of Provence, and lit the character with
that moonlight that still shimmers in song on
the Granddaughter; could he have been a lover
with the tropic passion of the south, and flung
the spell of light melodious knighthood over
the Incidents we would have accepted him, play
and all, for we take the past if it only brings US
the life of the past.
But the husk Of the past-bah! It reminds
me Of those phosphates that are brought home
from the crematory and put up for remembrance
rs If lime were love.
While we are giving our sincerest sympathy
to Hermann, we are not unmindful of the prodi-
gious strides Mr.. Barrett is making along the
path of managerial success. He is at this mo-
ment the Napoleon of actor-managers. He has
swallowed up Mr.. Edwin Booth, for he is to man
age him. And if ever worthy representative
American actor wanted management it is Dir.
Booth He has been piling up money so con-
tinuously that he has forgotten all about his
fame.
There he is playing the same Hamlet in the
same way, with the same sticks, at the Fifth
avenue Theater On the opening night the
house was half full. / don't believe there were
i've people in the theater who went to see Ham
let They all went to see Edwin Booth.
And on that perfdious weakness Mr. Booth,
the starrest transformer of them all, represents
himself.
When you get Barrett and Booth side and side
az we have them now you have live man and a
live actor in sharp contrast. One stands in the
current that drifts toward him, picking up the
floating wealth; the other is fighting his way up
stream, and making things lively on shore.
am very glad to be able to report that Miss
Maud Miller the young woman who abused her
father in the newspapers and got an engagement
with Mr.. John A. Stevens. ceased to interest the
father and went to acting. l watched her act
for ten minutes and now understand why she
was so much moro successful in portraying her
domestic affairs than in pcturing other peoples.
OF course you know that we have had Morosini-
Schilling at the Casino for weeks drawing money
because she married a coachman-not because of
her still small voice and ankles.
It's awful discouraging to men with daughters
and coachmen.
Sophie Eyre comes back in Belascos new
piece, at Wallacks, on the 10th. By the way. it
turns out that this new piece is Fernando
sailed. Can you imagine anything newer than
thata l wonder if Be'asco ever did do any
thing new.
pretty little war of turtle-doves has been
raging in this theater between Eyre and Robe.
believe all the establishment take Sides There
are Robe days and Eyre days, and Belasco, after
three or four rehearsa}s, went off somewhere
and called upon the rocks to fall and cover him.
Margaret Mathsr is winding up her astonish-
ing New York season with week of comedy.
The astonishing thing about this season has been
the fact that not a single newspaper man in the
city has been able to get a word out OF her or
even to see her anywhere but on the stage. Even
Mr., 10 Howard acknowledged himself bafied
Isaw this woman five years ago, poor, I'M
known. friendless. She is worth $60, 900 to-day.
The stage has its victories but it has to have its
managers first.
The latest Wagner blast is called 'Rienzi. -
The hosts are marshaling for Friday night at
che Metropolitan. This is the opera that makes
the trumpeters lead the orchestra with bloody
lips.
1t is to be the last wild fanfare of an unprece-
dented season of noise, and will bring US up to
Lent, which heaven send may heal the blows of
sound. NYM CRINKLE.
Addison Cammack is always quick to run when
he doesn't feel sure of his ground, and in one
day this week he covered So 600 shares of various
stocks. He is usually interested on the same
side of the market as Baron Woerishoffer, but
the Baron changed front late last week and
closed most of his shorts. Two great bear traders
have, therefore, taken water and gone into win
ter quarters. The story in Wall street was that
Baron Woerishoffer applied the milking pro-
cess to his usual ally, Mr.. Cammack, buying
freely himself and selling to 'Old Cam" at an
advance of several points each time. This didn't
last long. however, if it ever occurred. Bluff
Prince Cammack fastened to get on the sunny
side of the barn to bask in the genial rays of
'bul" prosperity. Addison Cammack. by the
way. is one of the shrewdest operators in Wall
street He is natural pessimist, however, and
rather too apt to take the bear side. He has at
times lost heavily in the past in
what he calls testing the market"-as
much as million in one year, I have
heard, but to-day he is worth seven millions,
and is recognized power in Wall street Gray
eyed, heavy bearded, oad-shouldered, tall and
massively built, with resolute Jaw often
abrupt to erustiness in his manners. he is a
favorite topic of conversation among Wall street
men as they puff their Reina Victorias. or clink
their champagne glasses in Delmonicos, or rattle
mp town In coupes of black and tan, or, more ell
egant. pure black. after a successful day in the
board room. He Is often seen at the Windsor
Hotel, the nightly resort Of Wall street brokers
There 1t is seen that he dresses expensive, but
plainly. as becomes his ffty-eight years He
usually carries stout walking-stick, and pace
up and down the lobby as upon a quarter-deck
and he pirate of Penzance. 1t is fair to say Of
him. however that such a title could never be in
any sense more than humorous one in recogni-
ton of his sailor-like bluffness of speech. The
report that he was once in the slave trade is a
mistake, though he was once. it is under
Stood part owner ia blockade
runner. Ha sold his interest in it.
went to London, came back to this country. was