The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-19

football Rame played In full sight. very
popular feature of the piece. The third
act gives us programme of selected spe-
cialties, and the last act serves as sort or
climax. for it Is then that the redoubtaoie
and long invinoible John l.. gives On eX-
hibtion of the manly art.
Gossip of the Stage.
"The Ensign" one of the successes of the
season, Will be seen at the Grand next
week.
Mrs. Langtry has been critically Ill in
LONDON. but at latest reports was lm-
proving
Minnie Gale. Haynes will retire after this
season. Her New York season cost $50. GOO,
II Is said.
Crane will finish the season in New Y ork.
He Will produce BRO Their JOhn," by Martha
Morton, III u few weeks:
jimmy Powers has had an offer to 60 ont
in comic opera next season. he would pre-
fer straight comedy. however
John L. Sullivan's agent says that there
| is q probability that the big fellow" will
! challenge Corbett for another fight after
| the close of the theatrical season.
Rose Coghlan. Pauline Hall. Julia Mar
| lowe, Agnes Huntington, Edith Kingdom
Mrs. George Could, Loie Fuller. Belle
| Archer and Grace Golden were chorus girls.
| tired of inactivity and joined Julia Mar
loves company. She will play the part of
the Widow Green In revival OF The Love
Chase"
His Wedding Day." new three-act
comedy. by Fl. Graham. was produced by
one of Charles FrOhman's companies at
Trenton, N. j.. on Tuesday, and made a de-
cided hit.
The Hanlons lost S27. 900 BY the burning
of their super ba"'production in the Cleve-
land Opera House fire. 1t took them Just
four weeks TO rebuild. and now they are
m K fps
Hoyt's "a Trip to Chinatown" Will cele-
brate it's five hundredth consecutive per-
Torrance at the New York Madis SON. square
Theater March 10. and General Manager
Frank Mckee is already preparing souve-
Mrs.
j. X. Emmets advei rising bill in Chicago
last Sunday amounted to e1,2S0. and he
took in moro than that sum on Sunday
evening Some of the managers who be-
moan their poor business might study Mr..
Emmets newspaper advertising methods
with advantage.
Hermann, Evans g. Hoey in the ninth
edition OF "A Parlor Match. !" r usselPs Com
edians (the original company. DeWOlf
Hopper in Wang" Annie Pixley and
Hoyt's "Trip TO ChinatOrn" are some of the
next few weeks.
The story of Gillette's Ninety Days"
presented at the Broadway Theater, New
YORK. last week. Is that of a woman search
ing the earth for a man she was to marry
within ninety days. by the terms of her
uncle's will, in order to secure q fortune.
1t is odd cOncets like this that make the
best modern comedies
The two largest organizations now trav-
cling are the Hanlon's "Superba" company
and the American "ExtravaRanza" organ
izatIon. presenting "Ali Baba," and both
everywhere. The first-named carries fifty
people, with two carloads of scenery, the
last 12O people and two carloads of scenery.
Miss Helyett' closes it's season on March
25. when Lottie Collins retires from the
company. Mrs. Carter will then return to
New York and prepare for her next tour,
which will be in David Belasco's new play.
The Heart of Maryland" 1t is quite
likely that this play will be seen during
the coming spring Miss Helyett' will
then be abandoned for good.
IrvinR's Beckett" is decidedly the most
effective and valuable new work be has
done since America first saw him. ten years
ago. The original play is cut and rear
ranged. so that the reader of Tennyson will
with difficulty recognize it, though moth
ing alien has been interpOlated. But the
result il q fairly coherent acting drama
with a splendid part for Irving, which fits
him as fully as Louis ri, which IA saying o
great deal
One of Gerry's agents thought he saw In
petite Ada Melrose. the soubrette of "Su-
perba," an infant whom the law should
protect from the theater. and. after wit
Messing performance of this spectacle. he
informed the management that Miss Mel
rose would have to be taken out of the
cast. The Jealous agent, after an lnJer-
view with Miss MelrOse, saw his mistake,
and was greatly chagrlned. She. is in.
fantile only in physique
The New York Sun says: "It was an
DouDced yesterday, and confirmed by those
chiefly interested. that Mrs. G. Howard
COveney. who was until recently Mrs. j.
w. Florence, intends to return to the stage
late next month. The news created sur
prise in theatrical circles The surprise
ney. the young husband of the actress. in
| tends to play the role of Bard WI ell Slote in
| The Mighty Dollar This is the character
In which Billy Florence made his greatest
hit. as we'll as the fortune he left behind
him."
Gertrude Evelyn Coghlan is the only
| daughter of Charles Coghlap, and is in her
eighteenth year. She was born in England
and educated in London and Paris. and
like her father is a linguist. At an early
ago she was placed al the Art School in
kensington. ENGLAND, where she spent two
terms ard received high honors for her
clever delineatons of heads in white and
black. ana for really artistic landscapes.
Miss COghlan's first appearance on the
stage was made in Detroit. Jan. 16. as Mon
| in Diplomacy"
| If the stories which come from the inner
| circle wherein E,eonOra Duse loves to Sc
! crete herself be trne-as there is reason to
believe they are-then this great and won
| derful actress Is, indeed, q victim of a sad
and closely impending fate. The story,
| duly accredited. comes from one who as
| sociates with her daily. that her lungs
have been 30 attacked by the dread dis
| ease. consumption, that grave doubt ls ex-
| pressed whether she Will live longer than
| a year. She is so extremely delicate in
| health that she must guard herself with
| exceeding care; she sees hardly any one
| save those mem bers of her company with
| whom she has long been associated. These
| are said to be passiOnately devoted to her.
The extremely sad and melancholy look of
her feee-snperinduced years ago through
| early hardshiDs and poverty has dee pened
| through the consciousness of the inroads
OF disease upon her constitution. Such. IN
short. 10 the story which comes. as already
said. from accredited eOurces