The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-14

Empire-French Folly.
AT the Empire this afternoon the new
French Folly Company will begin a weeks
engagement. The best combinations of vau-
deville talent have appeared at the EN-
rlre this season, and this is another in
the same line. The leading card of the
company is the troupe of Japanese brought
TO this country, 1t is aid, direct from the
Mikado,s court. "A novel feature of their
entertainment will be the serving of tea
by the ladies of the troupe to the ladies
On the audience at the matinees during the
Leslie and Curdy and Morrisey and Rich.
~ifanusorne women will appear in two new
burlesQues.
Park-"McNuIty's Visit" To-Day.
Every member of the McNulty's Visit
Company is a singer or dancer. Theater-
goers who have seen and laughed at Fin
nlgans Ball.. win appreciate the fact that
.McNulty's Visit is the latest success by
the same author and is reputed to be
even "a greater mirth proyoker than it's
comedian, plays McNulsy. and is assisted
by comedians who are experts in the art
OF making people laugh. This irish comedy
VIII remain three days at the Park, to
gagemen of The Kid"
Pauline MnrLham's Sad Fate.
Fate has played hard with Pauline Mark
ham. a famous actress, whose graceful
beauty and thrilling voice not so many
years ago made her the toast in the clubs
OF two continents. Substantial financiers,
heads OF families to-day, paid tribute to
her genius in those days, and probably
100000 would not cover the amount of
money they lavished upon her in the form
of jewelry and floral offerings. One Presi-
dent of the United States-and one of the
most Famous OF them Advent out of his
reiggning Belle Of +" the comic oper a stage .heh
And yet to-day Pauline Markham is but a
memory. She is living in a miserable little
room in an obscure boarding house at No.
12 Lawrence street. Brooklyn, and is prac-
tically destitute. For eight months she has
mad no money, and but for the kindness of
her boarding house keeper, Mrs. May. who
knew her in the past, she would long ago
have been forced upon the charity of the
city. The magnificent wardrobes She once
possessed are gone with her diamonds and
presentable suit Of clothing.
Pauline Markham supported at various
times Henri, Irving, Ellen Terry. Charles
Mitchell and Others. Her last appearance
was in Louisville, two years ago, when she
starred in MY Husband" There she acct
dentally fell into an excavation and broke
her leg. since which time she has been in
In the height of her stage career Miss
Markham married General Mcmahon, and
after his death she married an actor, from
whom she has long been separated.
Madam sans-Gene, in New York.
New York is shortly to have Ssrdou
aUQ MOreau madame SanS-Gent' on
either side of Broadway, one Of the
mesdames speaking French at Abbey's
Theater and the other talking plain En-
glish three blocks further uptown at the
Broadway. The American production by
Augustus Pitou, with Kathyrine Kidder in
the title role. will have the first inning.
1t will begin at the Broadway next week,
and not until late In February will Mile.
Eejane, with her company from the vaude-
vile Theater. Paris. begin her engagement
at Abbey,s. II might be thought that one
stumbling block in the way of the success
Of the other, but 1t Is quite as likely that
French, manager of the Broadway Theater.
expresses IL. those that attend Mr.. Pitou's
Jane so as to say that their knowledge Of
French has not failed them, and those that
20 to the Broadway to find out what Il is :
all ABOUT. Mr.. French, however, has never
seen Rejane in Madame sandstone" Her
acting and the acting of her entire sup
portlng company Throughout the piece is so
sse estRhls a AND at aIkni5iean mat in the facial sanrs play Y;
events Is. made quite as clear as If nothing
were said.
Trouble in Pauline Halls Company.
Since Pauline Halls opera-comedy COM
pany left Indianapolis there has been no
end of quarrels among it's people. There
was trouble here. and the baritone. J. AID
rich Lbbey. author OF After the Ball. and
"'C ARtRt ~ tNct6h VIC
the "Dorcas'' company left town. He re-
manned In the cast until they reached Mem
phis, however, and then took his wife, Miss
Kate Trayer, who played the role OF Dor
cas-. and started for New York Libbey
and members of the company did not get
on. and he was discharged at Kansas City,
but the discharge was recalled. Shortly
after, Libbey was fined for 'unwarranted
frivolity." He said 1t was unjust, and at
once sent in his resignation, accompanied
by that of his wife. George r. Mcclellan,
husband and manager of Pauline Hall, says
he discharged Libbey outright.
Color Line ON the "Black Patti
ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Jan. 1s.-The color line
was sharply drawn at the Lindell Hotel
when the proprietor refused last night to
entertain Nine. Sisserietta Jones, better
known as the BLACK Patti" Rooms for
the singer, husband, who Is a mulatto. and
her company. all of the members of which
are white, had been engaged two weeks
ago. On the refusal of the Lindell manage
ment to accommodate the BLACK PATTI
and her husband. the entire company en-
gagged quarters at the Laciede Hotel. Mr..
Jones Indignantly declares that he will