The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-06
BILL NYE AND CESAR.
History Resurrected and RAjuvenated-New
Version of the Ghost Episode.

New York World
at the Academy of Music. New York. this week,
has made great hit. Messrs Booth and Barrett
very wisely decided that if it succeeded here it
would do well anywhere. If the people of New
York like play and say so it is almost sure to
go elsewhere Judging by this test the play of
it It was written by gentlemen Shakespeare,
Bacon and Donnelly, who collaborated together
on it. Shakespeare did the lines and plot
Bacon furnished the cipher and Donnelly called
attention to it through the papers.
The scene of"Julus Caesar" is laid in Rome
just before the railroad was completed to that
place. In order to understand the play itself
we must glance briefly at the leading characters
which introduced and upon whom its sue
cess largely depends.
julius Caesar first attracted attention
through the Roman papers by calling the atten-
ton of the medical faculty to the now Justly
celebrated Csesarian operation. Taxing advan-
tage of the advertisement thus attained he
rose to prominence and fourished considerably
from 100 to A B. c.. when committee of rep
resentative citizens and property owners of
Rome called upon him and on behalf of the peo-
pie begged leave to assassinate him mark
of esteem He stabbed twenty three times
between Pompey's Pillar and IL o'clock, many
of which were mortal This account of the
sassination is taken from local paper and is
graphic. succinct and lacks the sensational ele-
ments common and so lamentable in our
time Caesar the implacable foe of the
aristocracy and refused to wear plug-hat up
to the day Of his death. Sulla said, before
Caesar made much of showing, that some day
tocracy, and twenty years afterwards when
Cesar sacked, assassinated and holocausted
whole theological seminary for saying ''eyether"
and a.nyether.r the old settlers recalled what
Sula had said
Caesar continued to eat pie with a knife and
in many other ways to endear himself to the
masses until 68 b. c., when he ran for Quaestor.
-Afterward he was Eddie, during the term of
which Office he sough to introduce number OF
new games and to extend the limit on some OF
the older ones From this TO the Senate was
but step. In the Senate he was known as
good speaker, but ambitious, and liable 70 turn
ND during close vote when his enemies thought
he was at home doing his chores. IRIS made |
and when he defended Catalina and offered tc |
go on his bond, Caesar came near being con-
demned to death himself
In 62 B. c., he went to Spain as Proprsetor.
intending to write a book about the Spanish |
people and their customs soon as he got back. /
but he was so busy on his return that he did not /
have tine TO do So
Cesar was a powerful man with the people, |
constituents, while other Senators were having |
their photographs taken. He went into the |
army when the war broke out, and after killing
a great many people against whom he certainly
could not have had anything PERSONAL he re-
f,1rned headed by the Rome Silver Cornet /
Band and leading procession over two miles in
length 1t was at this time he was rendered
crown just as he was passing the City Hall. but
thrice he refused it. After each refusal the /
Deople applauded and encored him till he had to /
refuse 1t again. 1t is at about this time the /
play opens Caesar has just arrived on /
speckled courser and dismounted outside the |
town He comes in at the head of the process /
sion with the understanding that tke crown is /
to be offered him Just as he crosses over to the |
court-hous
Here Gassius and Brutus meet and Cassius |
tries TO make a mugwump of Brutus. so that /
they can organize new movement Mr.. Ed