The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-01
Stage Gossip.


Mrs. Blaine is very i'll, and her starring
tour may be postponed.
Laura Burt expects to star in Jack
Sheppard" this season.
George ODER, in "Old Homespun," is meet
ing with unusual success.
Richard Golden is in the far West, but is
headed in this direction.
Hettie Bernard Chase, who will come to
the Park Theater next week, is doing we'll
in the Northwest.
Robert Downing will commence his sea-
the character of Virginius.
Helen Dauvray will not act this season
after all, owing to the opposition of John
Montgomery Ward, her husband.
Several New York managers will go to
Columbus, o., to witness the opening per-
Torrance of "Kajanka" on Sept. IL.
A. P. Burbank, the popular reader, has
part of Dick Phenyl, i'll Sweet Lavender
on the road this season.
Florence st. John, the English burlesque
actress, who will be here this winter with
Faust Up to Date" is said to earn SIS, 900
a year by her labors on the stage.
Dan Collyer has been engaged by Harry
Phillips for Kate Castleton's company,
which opens its season at Albany, Sept. o.
Rehearsals began in New York last Monday.
"Bootles' Baby has survived it's four
hour performance of the first night and is
now q genuine hit. Charles Stevenson's
performance of BOTTLES is said to be the hit
Of his life. ~
1t is said that the receipts of "Antiopeu at
Niblo's thus far have been the largest for
the corresponding time of any spectacle
that has been given at that theater for the
past fifteen years.
Charles Garfield, who played the role of
Clifford Armytage in the Lights of Lon
HnnO lQaf Qaaann hn0 alnnad with CIorn
Morris. Mr.. Garfield has been summerlng
at York Beach. in Maine
Negotiations have been concluded for f..
H.. SOthern and his company to appear next
spring in Lord Chumleyo at the Criterion
Theater, London. The Wife" is also to be
produced at this house during the winter.
William III. Young, for four years the
stage manager of Mrs. Langtry. has written
a melodrama entitled Right of Way"
which will probably be produced this sea-
son by a ~well-knOwn manager. The scenes
of the new play are laid in the South-be-
fore the war.
The new part which Mr.. Stuart Robson is
to create at the Chicago Opera-house. in
Steele Mackaye's "Arrant Knave" is some
thing between. Theodore. de Banville's
~"Gringoirep and Paul Terriers 'Tabarinr-
the two characters in which Coquelin dis
plays the most powerful mastery of his art.
Last week Roland Reed opened his sea-
son ut the Boston Museum to the largest re-
ceipts of any of his successful engagements
at that house. He appeared in The Wom-
an Halter" Isidore Rush and Ruth Car
members of Mr.. Reeds company, are highly
spoken of by the local critics.
Maggie Mitchelfs repertoire this season
will include Ray" ''Fanchon" and two
new plays. The route booked for her is
paying one that has yet been secured. 1t
consists of week stands entirely. with the
exception of the California tour and the
engagement in Indianapolis. which is for
three nights only.
The Amphitheater Auditorium is the
where the great ~shakspearian Dramatic
Festival Is to occur, and on which &C.
casion the farewell joint appearances of
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett are to
furnish the attraction. The seating ca
pacity is $500, and the stage is ninety feet
wide by sixty deep. The owner ~reioices in
the name of Daniel Quilp.
"~Bluebeard. jr., or Fatima and the Fairy
which has enjoyed u q remarkable run
at the Chicago Opera-house. will begin its
house. Milwaukee. Thence he will pro-
coed eastward, playing extended engage
ments in Philadelphia. Boston and New
York city. The New York time will be
filed at Niblo's. Wemyss Henderson will
look after the business interests of the or
ganization ON the road.
"a Royal Pass promises to be one of the
successes of the fall season. The play
was written by Scott Marble. 1t is
a story of one Andreas Hotter. a re-
tired Russian army officer, who is living
in Switzerland as a guide and courier, and
who is married to the daughter of q Russian
Jarrawitz, a Russian police in
spector, is in love with Hoffers wife's fort
une, and, by an Intrigue with the countess,
the wife Is spirited away to Russia. The
wronged husband follows, and, suspected
of being a Nihilist. is sent to Siberia and
imprisoned. After three years he is given
his freedom and . royal pass to return homo
TO Switzerland Not unlike Rip Van Wrinkle.