The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-07

players who are worthy of special mention
nettI, Eric Pollock, the Misses Leola Belle.
Lizzie Melroses Helen Jewell and Ida
q qIs ies ssso WI fsat be sss u she ~ m tsn Gfh me.
gramme are The Up-to-date Womenly
Men" Tommy Atkins. Lucinda" and
Baggage Check" made the biggest sort of
q hit at the Park The engagement is for
The Moss JolIity Company, presenting a
musical comedy. called THE Kodak"
comes to the Park Thursday. The company
and Whiting, the comedy duo. direct from
Keith's Boston and New York houses.
The B~ostonfans Coming.
Extravagant announcement is unneces-
sary in heralding the advent of the Ros-
tonians. A simple statement of the fact
that this splendid organization is to appear
here E, is sufficient to arouse interest Henry
Bartlett Davis. Eugene Cowles, George
rockingham, Caroline Hamilton. Eloise
Morgan, Joseph sheehan and all Of the
company. The dates are Monday. Tuesday
and Wednesday. April Is. is and II. and the
Hrs nanias:a is Il rse f9l19ws; . MRepbdias' I Hooaes
W Wednesdayy .v matinee maid Ro OF P,v,a Mo9d;"
The so first and sg last nane aIa OPERAS az hye1 never
been heard here, and robin Hood" as
sung by the Bostonians. can never be heard
too often.
na1e- MATCH.
Woodmansee, who is to meet Herbert
Hale, Of this city, at the Empire to-mor-
row night, is in the city, accompanied by a
host of his friends and admirers, who will
be with him to encourage him. The style
OF the match is to be catch-as-catch-can,
The men will go on the mat at $50 sharp.
Notes of the Stage.
Joseph Herbert, who recently left Rob
Roy" to appear in his own opera. The
Birth of Venus" has Joined David Hender-
sons Extravaganza Company.
James J. Corbett is coming soon to show
Indianapolis how greatly his histrionic tall
ent has been developed, and, incidentally,
+ to punch nnt y the bag ;b for c ms a fnr fMa Reae; de
Sowing the Wind and Nat Goodwin are
two of the Grand's brilliant April attrac-
1 ui11 ne IN fon ane c Msrv OF Ha noMdns J. = ~ Wi Gil
mour, Thomas Whiffen and other we'll
known artists.
to a g on n. t Smi1 iibre aas o Of "T II 1 caliph,S
the comic opera which Thomas O., Sea
brooke is to produce next season ana Lud-
wig Highlander has composed all the music
for it except the finale OF the second act.
Mature has illuminated her with a sort
of starry sweetness and she steals upon the
hly silvery and soft" That is the way C.
NJ. S. Mcclellan, the brilliant editor of Town
Topics, describes Cora Urquhart Potter as
she appears upon the stage.
Modjeska is spending. a few weeks in
Rome pending the decision of the Russian
authorities as to whether or not she will be
allowed to appear in Warsaw, where she
was prohibited from playing by the Gov
ernor-general on the ground that she is
anti-Russian in her
Francis Wilson made his debut on the
stage by being dropped out of a bag by old
Dan Rice; Henry r., Dixey made his frst
"Evangeline," and Otis Skinner first trod
the boards in the company of a pig, Skin
ner impersonating Tom, Tom, the Piper's
Son.
Wilson Barrett has been proclaiming his
"New Hamlet, and now comes Otis Skin
ner with a Shylock that has twenty years
taken off his age. Instead of the shut
fling, beggarly-looking money lender to
which audiences have been accustomed,
skinner Introduces a comfortable looking
fellow, who has neither the rags nor the
servility of the generally accepted Shylock.
Jessie Bartlett Davis is one of the few
singers about whom reports of nervous
prostration or fatigue are never circulated.
Nevertheless, she works harder undoubt-
edly than does any other American singer of
her prominence. AS Idealia in Prince An
anias." the latest addition made by the
Bostonians to their repertory, she has a
regular grand opera role TO sing every
night