The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15
AMUSEMENT MATTERS.
Opening Of the Dime Museum-Gossip At0ut
the Well-Known People of the Stage.

Managers Dickson and Talbot have fixed
Monday, August %, as the date for the formal
opening of the Dime Museum, and Edwin Mayo,
in "Dayy Crockett" as the attraction for that
week. Young Mayo is Q of the famous
Frank Mayo, and is credited with inheriting the
fathers genius and sustaining his reputation
This will be his first appearance here as star
The new managers are making very extensive
and important improvements in the building.
and the theater will be much improved when
finished Though the late managers left the
house in good condition, Messrs. Dickson and
Talbot are having it thoroughly cleaned in
asles, and mating on the stairways and In the
hail. while the inner walls will be re-papered,
and the wood work re painted throughout Inc
scenery will all be put in excellent shape, and
new drop curtain is among the probabilities.
The chairs down stairs being re-upholstered,
and those in the gallery are being replaced by
entirely pew ones. The Office has been fixed up
costly, and large case of natural curiositles
will be placed Just above the ticket windows.
Curiosity Hall will not be kept open all the
time, but when it is possible to secure good at
fractions they will be engaged. 1t will be the
policy OF the management to make 1t rank nagh
among the best places OF amusement me
employees that did such good service last
season will all be retained. with one
Or two exceptions The reserved seat
system will be adopted, and new donole-num7
bered ticket will be introduced that will be a
safeguard against all errors and annoyances
arising from that source. The box Office will be
open at all hours during the day, and seats may
be procured week in advance. The attractions
booked for the season include some or the best
companies in the country. The list embraces
sSilver King" Harry Lacy. In the Planters
Wife" youth, !" Lights O. London" Prisoner
for Life" ''The Worla," Bennett s. Moulton's
Opera Company, Passions Slave" Hardie &
Won Leer, Lost In London" James Bowling
Storm Beaten" George Adams. Domlnick'
Murray, and many others equally as good.
NOTES ABOUT STAGE PEOPLE
Mr. Edwin Booth will travel next season in a
palace car made for him called the David Gar
rick. 8ssf3a 81
Mr.. Bret Hart's niece is to bloom out on the
New York stage as comic opera prima donna
next season.
j. H. Haverly has been appointed manager of
the Chicago Worlds Pastime Company at sal
airy of $l0, 900 year.
Mr. Joseph Jefferson has Just completed
painting, q bayou scene in Louisiana. 1t Will
be placed on exhibition in New York shortly.
Since Sarah Bernhardes recent scrimmage at
Bennos Ayres with Mile Noirmont, the Paris
journals speak of her as female Jacque Sulli-
van.
The ballet Of the Paris Opera costs nearly ST.
600 600 year. The stars get from So 900 to &c.
900 year. and the ordinary ballet girls 81 5ea
week.
Lydia Thompson has recently came into pos
session of $40 900 in accordance with the will of
her deceased husband, Manager Alexander Hen
derson, of London.
Annie Pixieys new play, ''The Deacon's
Daughter" furnishes the career of young lady
who has become an actress unbeknown TO her
parents who. upon learning the fact. discard
her, but she wins her way home again by cor.
tinuous displays of pathos ana through the me-
dunn of several interpolated songs.
Rubinstein is now engaged upon q new opera,
the chief parsonage in which is the Savior, as he
is fond of dabbing in religious subjects In III
Demonio.' which was performed at Covent
Garden In 1881, he introduced Satan as the lover
and the rescuing angels only carry OFF the hero
inc when she is dead. In 'The Tower of Babel,
heard at the Crystal Palace in 1881, Rubinstein
brings Abraham on the stage some centuries be-
fore that patriarch was born, and he divides the
stage into three horizontal compartments. In
the middle is the earth, on the upper is the
throne Of the Almighty, surrounded by all the
heavenly powers, and on the lower is hell, and
Satan seated on his throne, surrounded by all
the internal deities.
Colonel McCaull who has secured the Aneri-
caa rights, outside Of New England and New
York to Gilbert and iSullivan's new opera, says
that he is confident it will not be called 1.-The
Khedive,n simply because it has been so an
uouuoo~ 1AO soy . vAoU ntAs NftOS1 buONet h0utOO
an opera until the night before it is produced.
In the of sIolanthe" it was rehearsed and
called Penelope" until the dav preceding its
production. The new opera will be produced
simultaneously in six different cities. London.
New York aud Boston by Mr.. DOyle Carte's
companies, and in Philadelphia, Detroit ana Chi
cago by McCaulrs. The utmost precaution will
be taken to prevent pirating The opera will be
rehearsed entirely by acts, and kept under lock
and key. Outside of the authors no one knows
anything about the nature of the opera. not even