The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
THE FOREIGN STAGE
VAN BIENE, IN .THE BROKEN MEL
ODY,. COMING TO AMERICA.
Hope Booth Opens at the London
mt Paris-NiIsson to Sing Again

LONDON, March august Van Biene,
who the other day played for the six-hun-
dredth time 1.-The Broken Melody VII take
the play and his cello to the United States
in September next. Miss Hope Ecoth, the
American actress. at Royalty Theater to-
night, again faced a London audience, and
Charles Wyndham reopened the Criterion
Theater. "A Leader of Men" was with
drawn from the Comedy Theater yesterday
evening, and Sidney Grundy's Sowing the
Wind revived tonight. Next week
His Excelency,'' will be withdrawn from
the Lyric Theater.
The will of Rubinstein, the composer.
leaves over 10000 to his wife and children.
c. III. Meltzers "Sa lome'' written for
Loie Fuller, was produced in Paris on Mon
day last. The story is boldly taken from
the Bible, and there is pantomime strug-
gle between John the Baptist and Herod,
who are fascinated by the dancing of Sa-
lome In the final tabIeau Herod refuses
TO save John the Baptist's shead unless Sa-
lone agrees to his proposals She declines,
and John the Baptist is ordered to be ex-
ecuted. Later she repents and agrees to
Herods proposals. But it is too late and
when the head of John the Baptist is
brought in Salome falls dead The light
nlng dancing, which is a feature OF the
production, was very successful
pnres, o'- ,h OF the death of Henry
organist of Westminster Abbey author of
the first English Te Deum ever composed
WIN orchestral accomplishments will be
celebrated in November next in many parts
OF England, and in probably a dozen OF her
stately cathedralS.
Gerhardt Hauptmann whose Die Weber,
mas created such a political fuss, and which
mas been favored with such splendid
theatrical advertisement in a de-
bate in the Reichstag, is busy
on new work that also touches on
politico-economic questions of the hour.
tiauptmann Is a hermit and has retired
from the world. But he is no anchorite.
coppice), not far from Berlin, on a solitary
mountain of the Riesengebirge, and his re-
treat is not merely furnished with the finest
taste and every conceivable luxury, but it
Is kept in close touch with the capital of
the empire by means of private telephone.
Occasionally he deScends from the clouds
and appears at Dresseps wine palace in
Old and aims to become the "dramatist of
the Masses. In all he does he preserves
the end in view, the philosophic or dramatic
study of symptoms, which study is carried
on from the SchOpenhauer point of view.
His father was a well-to-do bourgeois. The
son has never felt the privation of people
whose lot he describes. He expects to at
tain great popularity in America.
French newspapers are repeating with
perSlStency the report that Christine Mis-
son will return to the operate stage. If the
report turns out to be true, the Countess
Casa Miranda--the Swedish singers mar
rfed name-will be heard upon the continent
and in England only, as she will not again
brave the Atlantic When heard it will be
in some parts that are new to her, as well
as in some of those in which she won the
applause of two hemisphereS.