The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-01
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AN USEM ENTS.
Grnnd-..DcImonico's at CO.

1t was a compliment to the charming jan
sen as well as to indianapolis that so large
an audience was at the Grand last night to
see the FIRST performance in this city of
"Delmonico's at g." There were box parties
In every box,t from the proscenium back,
and it would have taken not such a great
number more in the body of the house to
have necessitated brushing the dust off
DickssF- &c Talbotts rs. r. O." sign and
standing 1t in conspicuous opulence in the
foyer. Miss Jansen and her company made
a long jump to reach Indianapolis for the
1895 New Years engagement having closed
the Christmas week In Lancaster Pa. Yes
terday she spent the day shopping and
driving over the city, being particularly
WARMED. as she said, with Indianapolis,
which she had not visited for years and
years; not since the days of the BLACK
Hussar' opera, when ''Read the Answer in
the Stars was the, topical favor
lite, sung by DeWolf Hopper. jeff
DeAnggelis and herself. and when
That Miss Jansens career has been fol-
lowed and the public kept familiar with
her reputation was evinced by the warm
reception when she made her appearance
IN the first act last night. Glen Mac,
tit with interesting business and the cap APP
supporting Miss Jansen was such that there
There are some wondrous costumes dis
played by Miss Jansen selected with view
figures with which ever any woman was
blessed, and this tasteful dressing. with the
gurgling laugh, Jansen smile and dimples,
bright hazel eyes and midnight hair to
which she owes so much of her fame,
make her the wlnsome magnetic creature
Miss Jansen has two taking songs in
"pels at g. that are given with all the
TO be regretted that Herr Miller'S orchestra
made laundering botch of the score and
When first-class attractions of this sort
come to Indianapolis there really ought to
cast personal differences aside, or whatever
Is the difficulty, and see If they could not
good behavior. The trombone should not
wait until the clarionet mas started down
Violin a block in the lead before it Strikes
up; nor should the double bass imagine 1t
has time to stop and get a hot tomale on
farce so.caied. but it delights in os stronf
of those on the dark side of the footlights
: stretched with smiling until the jaws ache.
Miss Jansen takes ts the part Of vaudeville
cast in q mass of trouble. because the men
e have lady admirers that are not vaudevilles
, necked bodices., Hamilton Clark
ira presumably TGputdDie uOclOf Is arrested
kea French waiter at DelmOnicoS goes to
rprison for keeps. a modern Sampson feels
l. the steel OF cold ''nippers'' on his strong
hands, one of Byrnes's detectives makes a
fatal blunder and a young cavalry officer
r-nearly loses his sweetheart, all on account
of the vauus, Tile queen, so that it will be
/. seen Miss Jaitsen has somewhat of an in
teresting par. in the play. The best COM
edy work of the male members of the cast
Is divided between William Morris. the
French waiter, and Will Vaudeville, with
the style of blonde features fatal to sus-
ceptible women, and who is double for our
gifted fellow-townsmen and poet, Mere
dith Nicholson, If there ever was one. The
cast, entire, follows:
Trixie Hazelmere, queen of vaudevilles
Hamilton Clark, M. D.. Frederick Bond
Alphonse, alias Count De Toi, waiter
at Delmon1cc ....... William Norris
Captain Frank Holland. of the Fourth
cavalry VIII Vaudeville
Montague NacPounders, the modern
Sampson ........:;...;;.. Charles Mason
Fred w. Peters
Mrs. Hamilton Clark. Grace Huntington
Jessie Clark, her stepdaughter. Hope Ross
Estelle, the pearl of parlor maids
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