The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20
Three Months for Thinking.

NEW YORK. June l8-This may be called
period of CESSATION in theatrical matters. Every
body who acts or manages does his work for nine
months of the year and then takes three months
June July and August-to do his thinking. II
some of them could distribute their thinking
through the year the public would no doubt like
the performances better. But they never do.
All the plays and all the plans are made in the
summer. If you meet playwright now he has
his finger on his forehead, and his manner says:
Don't disturb me; don't you see / am in my
throes" The crop of new plays shoots up green
and tender all round Union square. The fellows
themselves remind one of brood of hens,
scratching, digging and industriously clucking,
with now and then a clamorous cackiing.
and you know an egg has been laid. You
will see thoughtful man come into the
Morton House, wrinkled, hungry and disheveled.
He notices no one. A profound and painful air
of abstraction invests him. People avoid him.
He looks like man who wants an Office under
the city government This grows worse and
worse until a criminal aspect appears, and he
begins to look like man who has had an office
under the city government. But some morning
this all changes as if by magic. He comes in
smiling, and elastic, and diffuse. He has
roll of manuscript in his pocket He has been
born again. So has that same play. Now he
has got nine months rest. So have we. By
August the local managers have to climb over
barbados of manuscript to get into their Offices
Mackaye has gone and done it. Fawcett has
done it. Gayier has done it. Cazuran has
got it, The harvest teams are coming in from
all sides. The cleaners are singing the songs of
the reapers. Barrymore writes that he is com
ias back from I.onaAAii with double role, and
that we are TO stand from under. Miss Barry
telegraphs that she will be here in October with
new one. Dauvray is watering, and manur
ing, and stirring the French soil of America.
Bronson Howard is her gardener. Every mem
Der of Wallacks company bulges with plays, ex-
cept Mr. Walack. Denman Thompson is here
spending about S., 900 in preliminary work
his ''Old New England Homestead" John G.
Freund is organizing company for September.
Mantell has got new and strong play of Kel-
lars. Kate Forsythe has captured Roach
Edna Cary broke out as brown as a
berry with a play in each hand
and one in her satchel. Up town the society
playwrights sit at their windows aud entice pass
ers-by with manuscript. The only man in New
York who hasn't written play for next season
is Charles A. Dana. He, unlike the rest of the
population, holds his head up in conscious recti-
tude He defes Paresis and the play house with
unwavering strength. The only other man that
sxcites any admiration. and for other reasons. is
WIDER who has probably written more plays
than any man alive, but who, upon his dying
bed can look up In serene hopefulness and say,
Thank God, have not written one line that
has been produced" Alas, how few of us can
say that There is my friend George Carke he
recently produced melo-drama at the Peoples
Theateg. He has been hiding in the caves of
the earth ever since. All this is classed by re-
cent neurologists at the asylums under the head
Of ''Suicde by the Pen"
The moment your friend begins to think about
getting life into Situations" look out for
Paresis.
Mrs. Thurber came into town with her ulster
and carpet bag the other day. She said, have
been on the road. l couldn't keep my eye on
American opera very we'll unless l todded
after" The moment the American opera ar
rived in a town Juch and Hastreiter looked at
each other with pent-up malignity. and then in
ouired if she was here yet They were gener-
ally answered, mo, but she'll be here before the
end of the first performance. Then Juch aud
Hastreiter adjourned their quarrel.
Katherine Kidder has gone to the Madison
square.
Pro nunc-this adds inches both to the house
and to the woman. But only one needed them.
NYM CRINKLE.