The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-22

pany dress beautifully, and the perform
ance might be called first-class, of Its kind.
cores yesterday as ever It has been re-
tanned as a popular feature Of the old
plays. Banks Winters songs, the Mccoy
Sisters specialties and all the features in
troduced were well received The engage
n1ent continues only to-day and to-morrow.
strong sensational melodrama, "Tempta-
ton OF Money
Empire-vfctOr's Vaudevilles.
The performance given at the Empire
this week by the Victor Vaudeville Com
pany may be summed up as being on the
order of the little girl who was very, very
good when she was good, and when she
was bad she was horrid. And that is
about the size OF the Victor Vaudevilles
There are some excellent performances,
and again there are some which afford a
good opportunity for going out and seeing
a man. Taken as a whole however, the
show is better than the average, the good
Mexis who give exhibition Of fancy tar
get shooting. are artists in their. line.
The The three \ Grdelies give an acrobatic act
closes With with !:The Mysterious G i a
least, inexplicable. She claims to be en-
dowed with power that is not understood
herself, yet by which she Is enabled to re-
sist the muscular efforts of strong men.
Her repertory includes the holding of a
chair on the palms of her hands despite
to the floor, resisting the attempt of five
men to place the end of hoe handle to
the. floor while held merely in the palms
Of her hand, and other feats equally mex
plicable. The remainder of the company in
cludes Byron and Landon, John MARI, Max
MILAN and Moran, Howard Alton and Harry
BendOn. whose SpriO-c0mic M
presentations were highly creditable NC
Gilligan's Hardships" is the afterpece.
Performances will De given twice daily dur
ing the week.
Schaefer-Ives Billiard Match Tonight
An interested audience will be at En-
glishs Opera House tonight for the much
talked-of billiard match between Jacob
Schaefer and Frank c.. Ives for purse
of $500. table has been sent from Chi
cago specially for this contest and was
placed in position yesterday, five rows of
seats having been removed from the orches-
ira so as TO locate it properly. The game
will be fourteen-inch balk line. the most
difficult of all, and five hundred points up.
1t is an event in the history of the game
here, and for the first time an opportunity
is afforded ladies we'll as men of seeing
such contest. The match will be fought
to the last point, as the rivalry between
the men Is well known. After the game
there will be an exhibition Of fancy shots.
In this Schaefer proves himself a master at
the art. He uses three regular balls and
one smaller one the start, and he makes
number of intricate masse shots. Once
he hits his ball low, getting both follow
and draw on 1t, and again makes a carom
by a masse that strikes the upper rail
twice. With two balls in the upper left
hand corner he places one ball two-thirds
OF the way down the right-hand rail: priv
in ing the cue ball to the lower rail, he hits
to the one on the right rail. and comes
back In the line of a quarter of circle,
making the carom. Ives also gives good
ball hits the end rail time and again before
making the carom He makes a carom
on q masse around a hat and shows his
wonderful four-cushion masse in the corner.
SpIendors of "AIaddin Jr."
The annual engagement Of Henderson's
American Extravaganza Company in this
city is always an event of much Importance
in local theatricals. The spectacle, "AIad-
din Jr.," the new Hurlesque, which had a
five months summer run in Chicago will
be presented at English's Opera House
Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights and
Saturday matinee. Aladdin Jr.' is the
perfected result of years of experience in
producing spectacles. The music is the
work of w. H. Bachelor and Georgia ia
cobb, of the London Alhambra, who COM
posed the ballet music. The book is by ].
SueSNeI dOOUWlH, dutnOr ''EVangeune,'
The Merry Monarch Wang 1.-The
Oolah" and other works of like character
The libretto is funnier than any previous
American extravaganza production. The
diologue, of course, is subservient to the
spectacular character of the work, but it
more nearly approaches comic opera in it's
pretentiousness than any of it's predecessors
OF course the scenery and all the scenic
effects are from the designs Of Frederick
Dangerfeld, who has mounted most of Man
ager Henderson's productions, and painted
by him and his corps of assistants. There
will be four acts in Aladdin Jr,''' and in
each act from one to three complete and
heavy sets of scenery. The first act shows
a great square in Picking, which occupies the
full length of the stage. The scene repre-
sents the morning of the Feast of Lam
terms" In the foreground is the laundry
of Widow Bohea. Aladdins mother; a pic
turesque tea house stands opposite, while
little way back is bridge over a canal In
the perspective may be seen the pagodas
temples and other prominent buildings of
the Chinese capital The subsequent scenes
grow more and more magnificent until the
performance eliminates in perhaps the
most gorgeous spectacle ever produced in
America The ballets are dazzling. and the
company the greatest Manager Henderson
ever had. The sale of seats Is now in