The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-04
The butterflies.

Gertrude Talbot. Hazel Dietz, Florence
Liebert, Gene Williams, Lillian Atkins,
Hazel Backus. jessie Cleaveland, Lille
Adam: Ella johnson. Berthe Anglemeyer.
was delightfully."- followed by the drill of
the Maids, and the ~reyelries of the
priestesses when Ben Hur arrives at the
Grove of Daphn
Bowman, Elsie Applegste. Eloise Palmer.
Daisy Wigginton, Emma Adam. Addie
Saltmarsh. Ella Saltmarsh. Carrie Coons.
Clara Daniels. Minnie Shideler. Florence
Spahr, Joe OwiDgs. Grace MoCnne, Flor
ence Wright. Florence Keyser. Miss Spen-
Ger. Miss Thlele. Louise Thielc, Sadie era.
ham. Marie Lenyen. Miss Clune. Lizzie
Hardy. Ella Pye, and the priestesses were
May Heller. Kate Brown, Blanche PicK-
Grill. jessie Moore, Esther Piokerill, Martha
McShane. Rose Holmes, Belle Nichols.
Vivian Green. Maud Pickerill. Kate Hay,
Gussie Brown, Alice higeins. Helen Mat
thsws.
The very little dancers. called the black
birds. performed sweetly after the chariot
race had been reclted BY MIR. Will &. Da-
vid. They were Edith Beck. Ethel Smith,
Edna Stevenson. Ethel Reeve. Helen
SprinRsteen. Tommie Gibson.
composed of Lennie Mark. Fannie Wood
ward. Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Gibson.
Lillian .Krauss, Flossie Webster, Margaret
Owing, Kittie Morriss, Florence Martin.
&nu " Il auuGCk,
Nettie Brandt, Mamie Tutewiler, Marie
Rich, Helen Weber. Helen Seaton, Bessie
Warne, Martha Draper, Mary Pickens,
Gertie Henry, Maud Williams. Charlotte
McVey. all beautifully dressed and roundly
eDcored. The pantOmlme deserves patron
age ana ia q success under the auspices of
the Indianapolis Light Infantry.
II GRAND-"THE PLANTERS WIFE,
That We IL balanceddrama, "ThePlanter's
Wife, " o story of Southern life during the
war. began q half-week's engagement at
the Grand last night with Mr.. Harry
Lacey, the original producer. in the leading
role of Col. Albert Graham. This play, ap-
parently. has lost none of it's strength since
Mr.. Lacey first brought it out, but whether
it be any stronger now is difficult
to say. After several years bliss Emil
ly Rigl Ia again supporting and her
acting isvery suggestive of JaDansc-
hex. The play. as all who have ever
ever attended It's performance will recall,
pOrtray6 the suffering of an honest wife,
honestly. welded and in love. but mar
assed by the Vaccinations of her former
husband the v~illain). In the person of
Harry Livingston Mr.. Harold Hartshell.
ding the man she loved without revealing
the story of her life. a play wright's
license. the past rises TO wreak
the inevitable punishment always
ssfsses so COMMON 0ns i on sta snsso rs saf
fortunately none to rare in real life. The
villain. AS usual, gains access to the plant
er's home, disguised rs a friend, and, IagO
like, instills the poison of jealousy into the
mind of the contidIng husband, who. of
course. fails to get IN explanation from his
wife, and there you area pretty mess for
a truthful man. who fancied he had wooed
and won a good, true wife. As usual, also,
the villain oversteps himself. He attempts
IN anmalh WnrfhU VnnnO man m
the crime OF robbing the Col
onel of valuable papers, attempts it
for the purpose of driving OH q rival for
the hand of the ColonePs sister. where
upon the rival, with the aid of the male
comedy character. who is hanging about
the house trying TO get up nerve to pro-
pose to the daughter of the Colonel's
widowed house-keeper, clrcumvents and
Through the evidence of a Union prisoner
il develops that the villain had really
never been married to the Colonels wife,
and being thus confronted with his perddy
Dir. William tries TO shoot the Colonel with
a 3S-cahber bulldog weapon, right In the
parlor before every body. but in turn is
'~'piunked" twice by the Colonel himself,
who Is much the better shot. Col. Albert
Graham and Edith Graham nee Gray. are
at once reconciled 10 q vale of tears as the
curtain falls.
Harry Lacey has read the same lines so
long and often that he Is growing perfume
tory. but Emily Rig Is earnest as ever,
and very. very strong. Hartshell is about
as cool a villain AS ever strobe the modern
boards. and a good lesson for ambitious
young persons who delight in double-face
dealings Walter Walker, as Arthur Blake,
who Is the faithful friend. lis not half
bad" rs the English say. end fairly wins
his bride. Dora Graham marion Keith.
who has little TO do and doe; it well. Angie
Gordon kate Hawtbornel, too young to
have beaux. is very skillful IN capturing
Aa.xn 49, he nEeAA mo -
and his history of the war. while her dis
appointed mother, in the person of Mrs. j.
Clinton Hall. takes the loss Of her sup
posed lover in her daughters suitor with
proper resignation.
PARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NOVELTY COM
PANl.
The May Russell Novelty Company began
n weeks engagement at the Park Theater
yesterday. and although ~ was Ilnsesson-