The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
Gossip of the stage.

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Gossip of the Stage.
"Shore Acres is in Its third month Of q
Boston run.
Burt Hayerly has married Laura Blggar.
Both are in the "Trip TO Chinatown"
THE White Squadron." one OF the great
est OF recent successes. will be seen for the
first time here. at the Grand. next week.
The Empire will have a big week with
such a strong drawing caro- as hIhg
Kelly, the ten-thousend-dollar baseball
beauty and Jerome's Vaudeville Club
princess Nicotine is the title of the
new comedy-opera. of which Charles AL
fred Byrne and Louis Harrison have writ
ten the ilbretto and William Furst 10 COM
posing the music.
Masoagni had hard luck at Venice. While
n portion of the audience applauded Il
Rantzau" Ct the Venice Theater. others
stamped their feet. Missed and demanded
the fall of the curtain.
New York Is soon to have q daily dra-
matte ne wspacer. lt Is to be called the
New York Daily Figaro. and il will be ed
Davidson. both of Boston.
Ellen Terry is a mother-in-law. Her only
son. who, as Gordon Craig. appears as the
youngest knight Templar in "Becket" at
the London Lyceum. made q pretty bru-
nette of eighteen his wife during holy
week.
A. c. Wheeler has revieed q play by Tom
Taylor entitled "Won by a Woman" and
George Edgar and Josephine LanRdon Will
star In it. supported by II. NJ. Pitt, James
l.. Carhart, Lorimer StOddard and w. l..
Bro
The smith. Maher Speciality Company will
be shortly seen at the Empire Theater. The
company includes Denver Ed Smith and
Peter Maher, who are well known to the
pugIlistic world. A strong speciality com
paDy attend them.
In Candy" as presented by the Lilllpu.
Lottie Collins in '.Ta-ra-ra" that is said TO
be very amusing. He and Franz Ebert also
give a burlesque Sullivan-Corbett fight
which makes q his.
Julia Marlowe appeared In Wilmin gton.
Del. on Saturday night.w with her arm In q
TO Philadelphia for surgical treatment. She
accidentally wounded her hand with a pair
Of scissors at York, Pa. on Friday.
The May Howard Burlesque Company
comes to the Empiie next week. 1t Is said
to be second TO none as o burlesque organ.
i~zation. introducing q large array of bur-
lesque and speciality people who are away
up in their particular line of business.
Miss Fannie Doyel made her first appear
ance before Indianapolis people at the
Grand on she 9th, benefit of q. A. X. Her
songs were rendered in q very pleasing
I'LL sao a. W"o
She has q brilliant future and should be
often heard In concert work.
An exchang e says: One of Herrmann's
assistants. who came from the audience,
one night last week. to assist in the watch
trick, afterward changed his clothes, put
on q false nose and was the member of the
committee who asked permission to enter
the cabinet with the medium"
Sarah Bernhardt. who always has some
odd fad to keep her in the public eve, has
taken the habit of getting up at 4 o'clock
In the morning. appareling herself at all
points like q man and prowllng about for
three or four hours In the slums of Paris.
She says she is having lots of experiences,
and one does not doubt it.
And now it appears that Benzon. the
Jubilee plunger," after having been en-
gagged by manager F~rench-who left money
enough with him to pay passage to this
country for himself and his valet-to ap-
pear here in an equine drama, failed TO
take the plunge. The Majestic came into
port without this majestic spendthrift.
Nellie MoHenry, while standing on q
railway platform at Springfield Mass, the
other day, leaped upon the track and res
cued q child that would otherwise have
been killed-and then tainted. Which dis
played her remarkable knowledge of the
graduation and perfection of climax. An
other woman would probably have tainted
first.
The great novelty in Candy" is the par
ticipation of ell the LiiiDutians in the
dances. They will Introduce a rooster
duel, in which they will appear dressed az
ROSTERS. hens and chickens. with little
Franz Ebert partly covered by q broken
eGg.shell. In another act they will exc.
cute q quadrille OF nations, with Ebert as
Uncle Sam.
This Is O description of Miss Georgia
Cayvan's gown in Americans Abroad"
It Is o bewildering combination of the first
Empire and Direetoire period. The long
clIDgiDg skirt. with scarcely any waist
line, is of opalescent silk. over which falls
soft plating of the ~faintest green chiffon.
The body of cerise velvet has the huge
pufis OF the Empire period, the lapels
of the DIrectoire. and q sort of 1880 effect
as well. The bodice Is beautifully en-
broIdered in gold.
William Jerome's Vaudeville Club will
be here for one week at the Empire. com.
mencing Monday matinee. and Judging
from press reports of other cities the show
Will be good one. The company includes
the King of Basebalp Mike Kelly. who
Others arc William jerome. parodist, the
Bland sisters and Dunn's imperial Japanese
troupe. A benefit performance for the Clut
baseball team will be given Thursday
matinee and evening.
A bright young man arrived In New York
q few years ago with O trained pig. AS the
educated animal would pick up a card OIL
shoot OF a toy cannon his owner would de
scribe the feats. II. r. jacobs was the man
and to-day he owns and controls more
theaters than any one person. His theater.
are cheap priced houses. but they max,
more money than several plsy-houses or
Broadway. Mr.. Jacobs personally man
ages his theaters and lives in sleeping cars
1t Is seldom that he Is one city two sue
cessive nights.
1t is said that Oscar Wilde's "a Woman
of No Importance, at the London Haymar
ket Theater, is quite as full of clever anC
paradoxIcal things as Lady Windermere'i
Fan" and that it has a cynical converse
ton between women most of whom are o.
high rank. of coursel TO match the cele
brated third act of Lady Windermere'l
Fan" The scene of the new play 10 lalC
at H~unstanton Chase. and much of tn,
interest turns upon the contrasts between
life as 1t presents itself TO the Puritan
and the indolent OF the well-to-do. Tn
action of the piece only covers twenty-foul
hours.
Julia Marlowe was not much more than
chorus girl in "Pinafore;" Agnes Hunting
ton climbed from the lowest round of tn,
ladder in the old Boston IDEAL Opera Com
pany; Edith Kingdom now Mrs. Georg,
Gouldl. marched once as an amazon IL
"Jalma;" Loie Fuller was released b,
Rudolph Aronson from an engagement ii
the Casino chorus TO accept an offer from
Nat Goodwin. with whom in Little JacI
Sheppard" she made her first big hit: Ann,