The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-11
Maud White. Maggie Holloway Fischer and
olner players. It ran $50 nights at the Gar
rick Theater New York. last season

other players It ran $50 nights at the Gar
rick Theater. New York. last season.
Two Men of Business by Henry Guy
Carleton, for the Holland brothers. will be
tried first in Chicago. and so will For
tunes Fool by Martha Morton. for w.
Rob Roy" will be seen and heard here
next month. This opera had the longest
New York run of any of the Dekoven and
Sml5n productions with the exception OF
ROBIN Hood
Manager Julian Magnus has completed
the company to support Mr.. and Mrs Russ
Whytal this season. 1t includes the names
OF several well-known actors and actresses
The tour or these young stars begins Nov g.
John Drew and Miss Maud Adams are to
part company. There is no quarrel 1t is
| not the outcome of jealousy between the
| two. 1t is merely that Mr.. Frohman has
determined TO do for her what he has done
for Mr. Drew-to put her at the mead OF
her own company as a star. She PLACES
herself in Charles Frohman's hands for
three years, beginning next September
A monster organ has just been dedi-
Gated in Sydney, the construction Of which
was commenced in 1893. According to the
papers it has five keyboards and several
as great indeed, as the price, and that Is
oyer 500, co., The day Of its inauguration
served in the interior of the instrument
The Park Theater will soon show nov
city in the shape of the cinemetograph, said
to be the best of the several machines for
showing motion and life in pictures. It has
packed the Schiller Theater, at Chicago, for
six weeks, and its pictures are pronounced
marvellous. The cinemetograph will be
shown in conjunction with hurry and
Murphy in the Irish farce-conedy,
''O'Dowd's Neighbors."
1t has been discovered that in Wisconsin
a marriage ceremony performed in a play
is just as binding as if performed by min
lister in a church. If a man and woman
wife before competent witnesses that set
ties it according to law, and, therefore, if
two players during performance refer to
each other as husband and wife they are
legally married-unless business is bad and
there is no one in the audience.
One Of the outcomes of the recent wag-
merriam performances at Bayreuth is a dis
pute between the critics as to the spelling
of certain proper names in Wagners op-
eras., SHOULD it be Siegmound or Seig.
mund? Nibeloung or Niebelung? OF
course the answer is that the spelling of
legendary names in a foreign literature
cannot be fixed by any definite rules. Each
translator has the right of spelling in the
way that seems best to his point Of view
For instance 1t is now granted that one
can now write indifferently Parsafal or
Perceval; Walkyrie and Valkyrie.
Irene Perry the pretty actress, is singing
i'll comic opera in New York every night
The man she married is raving in an in
sane asylum Albert Weber was a rich
piano manufacturer, and his ruin, which is
moral. physical and financial, was brought
about by wine, women and fast living
Irene Perry married him for love, she says
and because she was tired of the glamour
or stage life. AT that time Weber was not
rich man, but he had enough to give his
wife a comfortable home. He soon began
trying to reclaim him and to ignore his
escapades and shameless exploits his wife
gave up in despair and obtained a divorce.
Emma Nevada is on a brief visit to Par
Is. She will not return to America this
season. Nevada is one of those fortunate
singers who have the Gounod traditions
first hand. being his godchild and pet, and
always baby to him to the very last let
ter addressed to her, one of the last writ
ten, indeed. in which he excuses himself
for not making the missive longer on ac-
count of his poor eyes!' She was an In
innate Of the home and music ROOM and
confidant of many of his choicest messages
OF Interpretation. She had indeed, the same
privileges from the hands of Ambrose
Thomas, who named her Baby Mignon aft
er his famous creation. Salvini and Ristori
were both at her wedding breakfast.
Miss May Montedonico, who was enter
tanned here socially during her appearance
with the Roland Reed company several
weeks ago, was given an unusual ovation
at Memphis, her old home, last week When
the curtain fell on the second act of ."The
Wrong Mr.. Wright" she was given a wild
Mr. Reed led Miss Montedonic co.. before the the
curtain. Mr.. Reed made of his char
the young Memphis girls acting. not only
expressing an appreciation of her ability,
but speaking of the, high esteem in which
score or more of designs and bouquets went
up to the footlights for the young woman
1t was her first professional appearance at
her old home.
'Shakspeare's Heroes on the Stage is
the title of book by Charles E. L. Win
gate. 1t is a companion book to "Shaks-
peare's Heroines on the Stage" treating of
the heroes and of an almost entirely differ
ent set Of plays-"othello," Merchant of
Venice" Hamlet" '.CorIolanus, King
but written in the same anecdotal histori-
cal style, and illustrated with rare pictures
peare's Heroines'' is not intended excIu-
sively for the professed lovers OF theatrical
literature. 1t is written with the intention
Of entertaining the masses of people who
read Shakspeare's works and see them
played, and who would naturally feel inter-
ested in knowing how the great players
have appeared and acted in the famous
characters.
During his whole career Lasalle, who
Will be heard In America this WINTER had
been notable for his commercial instincts
and prudence in business investments, and
when he retired from the stage it was
with the announcement of his intention of
devoting his time to the exploitation OF
naphtha' wells he had bought in Den
mark. But he gave this up after a short
trial, and before returning to this country
with Abbey g. Grau will be heard at the
Grand Opera in Paris in THE Flying
Dutchnlan.' He sang in this opera for the
first time during the season of 1928, at
the Metropolitan, to the Senta of Nine.
Albani. Lasalle is quite as old a man as
Maurel, but he has considerably more voice
left Maurel, who has been honored with
a place in the French encyclopedias, a
distinction not gained yet by Lasalle, is
said to be only forty-eight years old. 1t is
also said that he and Lasalle made their
first public appearance on the same night
and IN the same performance, singing the
music of two Of the three Flemish dele
gates in lie Prophetic" They were both
young, and had never before that night
sung in public.
Much interest centerS on the reception of
Marie Van Zandt at the Opera Comique
in Paris It will be remembered that some
ten years ago she was the central figure in
the disturbance made by the audience
which had gathered in the opera house tn