The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-07

pany next ST. scn. Mr. Barrett has suffered q
severe Io>,s in the detection of Louis James and
mario Wainwright. and next season he Will en-
oS. vor to repair the present weakness OF his or
/ ganization.
Business Manager J. a. Anderson of Harris's
| Cincinnati Musem. late of Englishis Opera
| house, has been called TO Washington to take
charge of the Biiou Opera house, Manager Har-
riss latest acquisition.
The Wabash railroad will run an excursion to
| the city to gee Mary Andersons "RosalindD and
| already $50 ladies and gentlemen from Peru
Kokomo and other places along the line have sig
nifed their intention of coming
| The onee famous Alboni is living in Paris. She
! has become Nine Zeider, and is sixty one years
/, old She has voice as sweet as ever, but is so
| r,a aulously fat that she dares not appear upon
fs,. e for fear of being laughed OF OF 1t.
Cushman are pirating Dixeys
;. !. Leon any Australia. Leon plays Adonis.
.. AuoI MS , IN Know" is whistled through
~ us Enehsn; Yon rne. Leon and Cushman
ines vne s'f f Q. meioo liza until they became
pirates. 4 ~, M.
1t has at last been decided to ia the home
Cullough's monument in Phiadelph, no incon.
of his family. 1t will cost $50, 900, ana. = sub.
siderable part of the sum has already bee> re.
scribed The shaft will be of gray sandstoA
surmounted by life-size statue of the deao
tragedian.
j. P. Sullivan, the star of the ''Ivy Leaf COM
pany, is rapidly coming to the front as an Irish
comedian of ths romantic school. This is his
first starring tour, aud he has already become
favorite, especially among that class of Irish
theater-goer who DO not care to see their coun-
trymen buffooned.
Mr.. A. M. Palmer, as president of the Actors
Fund Association, has issued circular asking
for contributions to erect memorial shaft in the
associations lot in Evergreen Cemetery. 1t is
expected that the ground will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies in May.
When Mr.. Lawrence Barrett assumes the
management of Mr.. Edwin Booths business next
season. he is to pay the latter $780, 900 for thirty
weeks work and furnish everything OF course.
he will arrange TO keep his own and Mr.. Booths
companies in different parts of the country.
New York Herald: Mr. George Lester, of
Lester & Aliens mnstrels. has had enough Of
giving living exhibitions of Greek statuary--had
too much of it by about $lO O0O so he claims,
and has now drawn out of the enterprise. It is
statuary. is to succeed to Mr. Testers interests.
Mercury: 1t is alleged that Mr. Joseph Ha-
worth is preparing himself for the mantle OF
Mccullough by startling the early sparrows in
Central Park with choice declamatory morses
from Richard ILL.," "Richelieu. and 1.-THE
Gladiator" The sparrows are reported to have
lately in mass meeting pronounced the young
tragic aspirant to be mild crank.
The Jersey Lily is irrepressble. She has just
undertaken the lesseeship of the Princes Thea
ter, London, and has opened it with a play called
Enemies" by Charles Coghlan. Mr.. Coghlan
appeared in support Mrs. Langtry, as the hero
inc, was principally noticeable for her elegant
dressing. If the Lily's venture succeeds, her
return to America will be very remote.
The attachment scare struck George S. Knight
in Newark. Saturday week. A sheriff called at
the box office of the Grand Opera house for $35
which was promptly paid. Then another arrived
with claim of $780, and still another with a lit
tie bill of 800 The scenery was attached, but
the cash couldn't be found. After sharp tussle,
the officers Of the law were ousted by the door.
keepers, and the Knights held the fort
A quarter of a century ago Dion Boucicault
bought at a London book-stall copy of Gerald
Griffns 'Collegians," and three days afterwards
he put on the boards Of the Adephi the colleen
Bawn," founded on that novel. From that
drama alone he has cleared some 5000, 000 A
French version of it, under the title. LIE Sac de
Glenaston." was produced in Paris, and his
"Arrah ma Pogue" was adapted there and called
jean la Poste."
New York Tribune of Friday: "1twas report
ed tonight that application is to be made for the
appon tment of a receiver to take charge of the
affairs of BARLEY Campbell, the author and the
atrical manager. Ever since the opening of the
season. when Mr. Campbell took the Fourteenth
street Theater, he has been financially embar-
raised. 1t is also said that these proceedings
will probably bring out the true story of Mr..
Campbelps affairs, which is said to be extremely
pathetic and interesting"
Denman Thompson will shelve Joshua Whit
comb in the spring. On April s. at the Boston
TheaCer, no will produce his sequel to Whit
comb, entitled 1.-THE Homestead" He will re-
main there two weeks, and then go to Brooklyn,
going thence westward, closing his season some
time in June While in Mystic River, Conn,
recently, Mr. Thompson purchased number of
Photographic views of old homesteads there
about These will be used in designing the
scenery for THE Homestead"
Altogether too realistic was the recent per
Torrance of Senior Enrico Salambo, of Valpa-
raiso He was the rejected sutton of the leading
woman in an Italian company playing ''Theo
dora" and. having engaged as supernumerary in
the troupe, was intrusted with the part of the
executioner. who puts the bowstring round the
Empress neck just as the curtain falls. Not
only did the desparing lover place the bowstring
round the neck of Signorna Bellocca-he pro-
ceeded to wind it tight, and had almost strangied
her when his object was discovered and the
company interfered The would be murderer
has been arrested. and his victim lies in a pre-
carious state.
Madame Adalina Nicolini Patti has been hav-
ing pleasant little experience. She was under
contract to sing at Trieste. but when cholera
was announced at Trieste, Nine. Patti decided
not to go. and broke her contract at the opera
house there, but an investigation proved that
there was no cholera at Trieste. so the manager
brought suit to recover the forfeit claimed, and
he was awarded the whole amount. Armed with
this weapon of war he proceeded to Vienna to
capture Nine. Patti But in the meantime she
had contracted bronchitis, and she left for Italy
on the same day on which the indignant mana
ger from Trieste arrived in Vienna. The great