The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-25

This weeks announcements.


h Night Owls burlesque and va
riety, begin a weeks engagement at the
Empire this afternoon.
1.-THE Derby Mascot a race-course real
istic drama, opens at the Park this after
noon, to remain a week.
The advance sale of seats for Robert G.
Ingersolrs lecture on THE Bible at the
Grand, tomorrow evening, indicates the
usual large attendance.
The new Devils Auction shows at En-
glish's Tuesday and Wednesday night, with
Wednesday matinee. There are sixty peo-
Robert Downing gives The Gladiator
Thursday and Saturday evenings, david
evening, and "Ingomar'' Saturday matinee
at the Grand.
Notes of the Stage.
A critic writing of Jessie Bartlett Davis
says she has a laugh which is a congenial.
contagious, composite concentration OF
May Irwin will star next season. The
critic who went daft over her a few years
ago when she appeared in indianapolis will
please take notice.
gan's Theater. New York, on April Is. not
w~ithstanding reports to the contrary 1t
will then be his own house.
The estate of Edwin Booth, by careful
management on the part of the executors,
has been considerably increased, and now
stands inventoried at $6I2,62S.
FRANCIS WILSON,, WHO Is HdNtuS d piclOLh-
enally successful run in "The Devils Dep
uty' at Chicago, will produce Sir Arthur
SulHvan's latest opera, the Chiefton, next
season.
Kyrle Bellew was leading juvenile in the
company in London in which Beerbohm
Tree, who has just begun his first American
tour, began his stage career as a waking
gentleman.
Worth, the famous Partisan designer of
gowns, who has just died, is alleged to have
said that Cora Urquhart Potter is the most
baautif1l woman and the best model he has
ever had among his clients.
Kirke La, Shelle and Arthur B. Clarke,
now managing the Bostonians, take Daniels
away from those offering to star him sim
ply because they have an opera that caught
his fancy. 1t is by Harry b. Smith and
Victor Herbert and is called The Wizard"
Jakabowski. composer of ..Erminie,, eth
Birth of Venus THE Devils Deputy
ETC., will sail for Paris in May, TO place
~ married, under the vocal tutelage of Nine.
Merchesi. In the fall MIR. Jakabowski will
return to be present at the nrst production
of a new opera of his which Francis Wilson
will produce on the 18th of October at
Abbey's Theater, New York.
Mr.. Charles Raoul Duval, whose brother
has planned a reception for Mrs. Potter on
her opening tonight in New York, for
orchestra and all the boxes, and to them
invited his friends among the divers swell
sets in town. Afterward a supper will be
given at the Waldorf to them all, in her
honor, and later a dance in the ballroom,
reserved for the occasion.
Marion Lea, the American actress who
has made such a success this season as the
leading woman of Mr.. and Mrs. kendars
English company, will play with an Amer
lean company next season. Miss Lea is
an American girl who has appeared SO far
only on the English stage, principally in
London, but like her English cousins who
have come to this country to play. she has
probably come to the conclusion tina there
is more OPP ortuniiy. both artistic and pecun-
larry, in the company or the American eagle
than of the British lion.