The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
NEW YORK IN THE SUMNER.
"Nym Crinkle" Tells of What Is Doing
in the "Play Factories"
Sheridan Shock and His Relation to New York
Municipal POlitics-Mrs. Haryier's Bull
letin of Society Gossip in High Life
Correspondents Of the indianapolis Journal
The Play Factories in Operation.

1he RIay Factories ia Operation.
New York, July 9-Now that the boycotters
and Anarchists are being rapidly sent out of
town, and the chilling frosts of June have de-
parted, we who know how delightful the theater
is in this city during the heated term negin to
enjoy ourselves
We enjoy ourselves because there is no theater
to go to. The dead color of the amusement
world lying in the July sun like a tepid pool is
rippled slightly in one corner by Roland Reed,
who is one of the few men who can be funny
with the Thermometer at "a. A few water spi
ders continue to skim over the surface of the
pond up town in the shape of comic opera.
There is great ominous lull of preparation.
Wherever there is cool balcony overlooking
tho sea, there managers, and the stars are
hidden away and the murmur of their voices
mingles with the drone of the sea as they read
their new plays. The song of Gaylor breaks in
with the criekets Steele Mackaye will be heard
with the katydids six weeks before frost. And
when the late August frogs play their bassoons,
there viii be chorus of playwrights heard.
Steel Mackaye has completed great play on
anarchy 1t deals with the labor question
and the social problem. My young newspaper
friend, Keller, has written great play on the
marriage laws, and he assured me that Mantell
is going to play it, Tom McDonorgh has writ
ten or bought great play which hinges the
mind cure Joe Arthur has got great play on
the japanese.
Cazauran has got a play on the impending
struggle of democracy and imperialism. Even
Ben Maginley is pregnant with manuscript.
was at Long Branch the other day and went
TO the region of cottages | heard that soft
rustic of the summer air that sweeps rich with
sea spray through the corn. Joe Brooks laughed
at my sentiment and told me it was the sound
made by turning leaves Of manuscript.
Maddened, | rushed to the Adirondack woods,
and fell into the arms of Marsden, the play.
wright who has erected comedy factory in the
heart of the wilderness.
Lillian Russell is writing comic opera with
Hoyt. the young Boston man, who scratched
''The Parlor Match" Mr. Solomon, the husband,
beats time for them.
"The Wild West,n which has been exhibiting
for week at Staten Island, has made bucking
horses and Texas steers quite the fashion. The
proper caper now for our polo players is to ride
broncho in the park. Clara Morris, they tell
me. has put up tepee on her grounds at River
dale and practices daily on tho bounding COW.
Some of the fast girls who go to Purcelfs for
their doughnuts, carry Mexican riding whips.
and Wright Sanford astonished the fellows at
the Union Club the other day by letting his back
hair down and dyeing his marble brow with wal
mt juice There is refreshing air of cowboy
blowing through the genteel circles, and be-
lieve that Buffalo Bill could make fortune if
he would only open Wild West school on Fifth
avenue.
Theatrical news swelters. can take fan
and tell it all in puff two. Casino, "Zitka, !"
Little Tycoon That is, nude, lewd and rude
in drowsy graduation of badness Do you wonder
that men and women with immortal souls are
fleeing from the city, we are given up to rural
cousins who have got their hay in and Western
merchants who pretend to have business IN the
metropolis when all proper people shake off its
dust and abandon it2
understand that Anthony Comstock wanted
to resign his position when he went to see
"Zitka" played
II stop people from circulating filth
through the mails" said he, but oh, heavens,
how am going to stop people from preaching it
through the femalesF
He can't. NYM CRINKLE.