The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-04

in a1 this play They Invariably overdo or an-
Miss Beresford.. an actress.........
............. Miss Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh
Rose Dufard. Dufards only daugh-
Miss Sharples, an authoress.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Miss Florence Wood
Miss Folair, an actress Miss Agnes Paxton
....................M Miss Fanchon Campbell
Hon. BERTHE Fftzsmmons, man
Albert Talbot. his friend. Charles Charters
Mr.. Flat, manager Theater Royal
Mr. %amp proprietor Of the i rh Constantine
ter Royal .......... Frederick A: Thomson
W WA a grocer. ...... Alfred Becks
Achilie Icy TaIma ae Dnfard MOTIFS
"A Game of Cards. the curtain-raiser
last night, was given, with Mr. Morris's
accustomed degree of excellence. 1t was cast
as follows:
Rose MERCER. -. Miss Fanchon Campbell
Monsieur Mercier. j. Constantine
Anatole DeRocheferrier. Charles Charters
The Chevalier DeRocheferrier. Felix Morris
Tonight the performance at the Grand in
cludes another double bill-''The Old Mu-
sician," and "The Best Man.
Kagenbeck's Menagerie.
Carl Hagenbeck's troupe of trained animals
which have been performing for the past
seven months at New York will arrive in
this city from Cincinnati on Sunday after
noon by special train of twelve cars They
will be Immediately transferred from the
travelling cages to their quarters at En-
glish's Opera House, where they will be put
through their PAGES twice daily during the
coming week. This famous aggregation
which made its debut in this country on the
Midway at the worlds fair consists of
seventeen lions, eight tigers six bears five
leopards, two hyenas, two elephants, ten
shetland ponies, twenty-five boar hounds,
three seals, three pigs. four horses, twelve
cockatoos. sixteen monkeys, fifteen French
poodle dogs Extensive alterations will have
to be made TO place on the stage of this
theater the huge steel cage, which was used
at the wrld's fair and which weighs ten
tons. To set this cage on the stage entails
the labor of twenty of the Hagenbeck work
ingmen, the present stage having to be ex-
tended out over the orchestra over which
an entire new floor will have to be laid to
sustain the weight. Separate cages for the
being built through which the animals will
be driven into the fifty-foot cage and in
which they are to perform.
will be given at Sis and the engagement
continues every evening during the week
with daily matinee after Monday. The
that children be admitted for half price to
the lower floor at the evening performances.
The matnees are at the usual popular
prices.
Julia Marlowe Taber is storming Boston
with ''rhe School for Scandal this week,
and thus far she has been severely repulsed.
The Boston Journal has the following tell
ing criticism of her Lady Teazle that will
interest Indianapolis theater-goers:
'.,rhe comedy was presented by Miss Mar
loves company with much spirit, brilliancy
adGs to the picturesqueness of the dramas
OF a by-gone era, but 1t is TO be regretted
that the weakest point in the acting was
the Characterization of Lady Teazle pre-
scented by Miss Marlowe. She never reached
above the duh plane of commonplaceness
neither convincing nor sincere. Her good
humor was Astounding even in the quarrel
scenes, and one could not help wondering
why she continually smiled at her detested
husband. even in the midst of what was
supposed TO be the intensest passion. Her
Lady Teazle had too many of the Marlowe
characteristics: there was that same
little awkward movements of the hand and
those pretty facial expressions which go
very we'll with such characters as Rosalnd
and Viola in some of their moods, but seem
entirely out of place in Lady Teazle. In
the scandal scenes Miss Marlowe was hard
~ more than lay figure. In the screen
scene she was truthful picture OF peni-
tence as she stood clinging 10 the curtains
but her contrition when uttered did not
bear the seal of sincerity, all because of
that lurking smile which hung about the
corners of her mouth. A young Lady Tea
zle Is to be desired. but Ii Is probably true,
as In the case OF Juliet. that no actress can
in rpret the character until she is too old
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