The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-16
MARTIN-MOORE.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ADJUSTMENTS.
Grand-"The Amazons."

to know Just VIA to say in order to con-
vey a proper idea Of the merits OF '"rhe
Amazons' and the excellent work OF
Charles Frohman's capable company, which
opened at the Grand last night. The pro-
duction of a play by Alfred Wing Pinero
in a metropolitan city should be the signal
for a packed house, the same as If it were
to be the first production in a town Of a
new opera by Gilbert and Sullivan. To
pause and call attention to the fact that
Pinero. who is still a comparatively young
English writer, stands right in the front rank
of living dramatic authors is almost a re-
Election on the intelligence Of any commu-
nifty in this day of books. magazines and
stage achievements. The Grand, last night.
was only fairly well filled, and tombstone
Benefits pretty arched eyebrows were seen
to climb way up on her boyish forehead
when she first glanced toward the audi
ence. The sight of red plush shocks her
nervous system. 1t was learned that many
had a mistaken idea of THE Amazons."
The fact that three young women were to
go through a piece in male attire gave
some the careless notion that broad
didoes were going to be the feature and
that some high jinks generally were to be
cut. True, Miss tombstone Bennett, In her
natty hunting costume, leaps a siI-barrsd
RdIe III lLc SIdOC IL a 1kdooA1AA I'LL AAO
and If what Tolstoi says is true in his
ANNA Karenina" about Russian hurdle
jumpers, there is no animal more graceful;
but this fact doesn't mean that TOMBSTONE
Bennett also turns handsprings or makes
Irish faces to provoke laughter. The very
story of 1.-The Amazons" gives rise to in
Vulnerable situations that are excrutiating-
ly humorous because they are so delicateiy
naive and at the same time SO preposterous-
ly unconventional. The Warehouses, VINO
has set her heart on making boys out of
her three daughters, has naturally given
the youngsters a wrong notion OF life.
Lord Tommy, whom tombstone Bennett so
cleverly personates, is a sort of protector
for his two brothers, as he calls the other
two sisters. When Lord Noel. in the per-
son Of that beautiful brunette, Maud Odel,
has been sent TO London as a girl and gets
into a mess by DOMINIC boys clothes and
doing the notorious West End. Lord Tommy
is chagrined beyond expression. Lord Will
lie, the third sister, is so effeminate in her
ways that she has to be constantly re
minded to put on boyiSh struts. She is I'M
able to smoke a cigarette without chcking
and falls desperately in love with the FIRST
real man that crosses her path. Tommy,
on the other hand, creates roarS OF laughter
by his or her mastery guarding when the
decreptt representative of an ancient Eng
lish family lays his heart at her feet.
But such assembling on the part of the
girl boys is finally mockery to their attire,
for they grow fond of three young men who
have managed to gain their acquaintance,
and their mother is forced to accept the
work on the part of the actors could be
dShCu. sc <liloOLs VIII SUI IL III H.
adel of Lady Noeline's heart, was already
we'll know here for his excellent work in
Americans Abroad last season. Lorimer
Stoddard's excellent Characterization of the
decrepit scion of the old English family
grows on one as the work of an artist,
while Beaumont Smiths Frenchman, who
captures Lady Wilhelmina. SO delicately
taken by Elaine Ellison, is furiously funny.
The other members OF the company are
Amazons" is as follows:
lady Thomasiu Relturbet
...JOhnstone Bennett
Lady Noeline Belturbet. Maud Odel
Lady Wilhelmina Belturbet... Elaine Ellison
Miriam. Marchioness Of Castlejor-
dan vernon
Rsrrinatnn s Visca,;nt Ijf:eriv Louise Rial
Andre. Count De Grivai...Beaumo Smith
Galfred, Earl of T~weenwayes......
Rev. Roger Minchin... .......John Findlay
Fitton, a observation-disclosures Chaser
Orts, a poacher. ..............A. w. Gregory
English's-"Duffy's Blunders."
Barney Ferguson produced for the first
time here, last night, at English's Opera
House, a fresh entertainment, styled a
vaudeville farce and entitled "Duffy's
Blunders." The piece, in current phrase,
made a hit and proved to be chockful of
the newest kind of fun in song, jest and
terpsichore. Ferguson had a world of new
make-ups as Bernard Duffy, a tailor, who
leans to politics, and his new songs were
received with indications OF keenest ap-
prevail by an audience tina comfortably
filled the auditorium. Sam j. Ryan, as
Dennis McTurk, proved an able foil for the
wit of the story, and had a host of brilliant
guerite Ferguson, May Montford, Edna
Terry, Charles Eastwood, Chelso Peruchi,
Ben F. Grinnell, William Goodner and the
De Forests, the last-named presenting a
veritable sensation as the Dancing WhirI-
Winds" Charles Eastwood represents, to a
greater degree than any player who has
voice, manner and magnetism Of the late
j. X. Emmett. Eastwood is Emmett even
TO the way he holds his hand.
AS to the plot, there is little attention to
any. The story, such as it is, concerns a
tailor, who confuSes, with most comic re-
suits. a monkey he has lost with his neigh
Dor, returning in a monkey costume from
an outdoor carnival. This, with the fact
that a father discourages the attentions of
MS son 70 an actress, whom ne subse-
Quence OF a scheme of the actress and the
son. about disrnisses the story, but not the
situations, which are at all times absurdly
comic, even though they are broadly farrell
cal. The roof garden act is a beautiful set
ting for the full company 10 appear in q
The Stewart sisters in this act render MY
Pearl Is a Bowery Gia' so takingly as TO
T Wii eo mt noer at fef E1siisb.!p puffy nEy5i t Blnndergv
night, including a Wednesday matinee.
Empfre-Morrfs's Bu~rlesquers.
An excellent variety bill, as a whole. u
presented by Harry Morris's Burlesque
Compan at the Empire this week. The
performance opens and closes with bur-
lesque. The opening piece, Dutch Crook"
While a bit too STACEY for the average
auditor. affords opportunity for the intro
duction of good singing and dancing, the
most notable feature being the solo of
Miss Maud Walker. Miss Walker has a
deep alto voice, which, though not so low
as that OF Helene Mora, Is, perhaps, of
more. volume and sweeter in tone. The
olio begins with the musical and humor-
Gus act CT Ed Latell. Mr.. Lateli. as a per-
former ca the banjo, has not had an equal
here fo- many a day. The McNuity sis
tiers give a number OF songs and dances,
aAlall Einn L. L.