The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-15
ADJUSTMENTS.
EngIish's-s'A MIX White Flag"

English's-"A MILK White Flag"
Interest in Hoyt's "A Milk White Flag
seems to be almost as acute as on the oc-
oasion of it's first presentation in this city
two years ago. There was an audience at
English's last night which did not take
up all the space in that large theater,
but it would have filled the Grand to the
last row of seats. While 1t must be adj
mitted that a Hoyt witticism has a stale
flavor on second hearing. there was hardly
any appreciate difference in the way the
play was received from it's rousing re-
ception during the previous engagement.
Mr.. Hoyt has made some alterations in
the production which result in greater
b~rilllance and has cut out some of the
critics scored during the long run OF the
piece at Hoyts New York theater last
season. The colonel of the Ransom guards
does not buy the corpse from the widow
and the widow is thus robbed of a very
good opportunity to take off the widow
as we see her in the comic papers II was
in this scene that Isabelle Coe did one
OF her best bits I'm the farce as IL stood
originally. With Lee Lamar aking the
part OF the widow the scene would not
add much. for 1T must be stated that Miss
Goes absence is noticeable. Lamar bur-
lesques the part very charmlngiy, but she
omits the brutality human touches that
made Goes widow so very, very rich.
There are several new people in the cast
and all seem to add strength TO the pro-
duction. so that IL is perhaps true that,
Flag is having a better. production. than
with the original cast. Charles Stanley Is
the same old laughable Napoleonic Colonel
and Lloyd Wilson, he of the robusto tenor,
plays the major even better than before.
He still sings his serenade for two cases
of champagne and gets a double curtain
call at the end OF the second act. Frank
Lawton. as the private with a penchant
for whistling, continues TO hold the palm
as the cracker jack speciality performer
with the Flag" getting no less than four u
late songs and then came out with the
.'bones" and gave some very clever imi-
eral Hurley Burleigh. He is another one OF
those giant specimens which Hoyt so de-
lights to spring on an audience.
.Hoyt is noted for his artistic finds and
the women in "A Milk White Flag" are
of this class. all talented and fine looking
in some respect. In Clarisse Agnew, the
little English ballad singer, he has a
Her performance as the widows daughter
is facinating and piquant. She la the best
son. Cora Tinnie has achieved considerable
fame since she left her indianapolis home,
and IL is somewhat disappointing that she
has so little to do in the Flag" Her
character as the widows friend is the
only one OF its kind exactly that Hoyt has
introduced In any of his farces. Very
repeat. but everything on how she looks
the part. She has a plump. dimpled face,
round as the moon, with roguish eyes and
makes the best possible use OF them.
A notice OF the Flag would not be
complete without some mention of the four
yivandlers whom Hoyt has deslgnedly made
a soprano of sufficient power for a prima
d1nua and Mary BIfin comes in with a
rich contraito. Bur the. two that made a
pefite Leah. They are both clever dancers.
particularly little Leah. who very much