The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-24

Of which Is said to be none other than the
Emperor Of Germany. Great secrecy is OBJ
served by the managers of the theater. 1t Is
not at all Mike that William II, having
tried his hand at musical composition, now
wishes TO be a rival Of Leasing.
An echo of the runaway marriage of Cissie
LOTUS and Justin Mccarthy has just been
heard in Scotland, where a suit has been
brought against Marie LOTUS and Ben
Brown. the parents of the youthful imitator.
to collect the amount due for some iitho-
graphs which had been ordered for Cissie's
tour through the English provinces. Before
it took place, TO the CONSERVATION of her
Cfssie's mother and father say that they
should not be called upon to pay her printing
bills, as she refused to make the tour they
had planned for her after they had spent
5000 on her professional education and a
good deal of money in arranging her trip.
She did, travel about subsequently with her
husband as her manager, and made enough
profit in her parents opinion to pay her own
debts. They say that the acted as her
agents, just as her husband did later.
May Irwin has her song. "The New Bully"
Illustrated with living pictures Of the bully
and other negroes.
A new sensational play, 'Pauvre Jeanne"
poor Jennie). by Ernest Moret. was recently
produced at the Theater de la Republique,
In Paris. with great success. The strongest
effect was obtained in the last act, where
the heroine is pursued by a brutal. semi
idiotic villain and is choked to death.
Many actors and actresses of established
regulations nowadays find It extremely prof
liable to remain in New York the year
round, says the World. accepting at extra
salary nothing but so-called special en-
gagements," which are always of limited
duration, and giving them a certain amount
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has a new play which he wants to take on
the road will. il he possibly can. produce it
here for two or three weeks with a partic-
ularly strong cast, specially engaged for the
occasion. OF course. the actors and actresses
so engaged get enormous salaries for the
two or. three weeks they play. but when the
their places are filed by much cheaper peo-
ple,. biilboards displaying the original eulo-
as to the strength of the company. That's
one reason why the theater-goers of Har-
risburg, Pa. for instance, often wonder what
in the world the New York papers could
ever see TO praise in a play that TO them
seems nothing but a poorly acted farce or
melodrama of the worst variety. The Har-
hundred dollars. and as a rule a thirty-do,iar-
a~-week.man can't act as well as a man who
gets 500. If he could, he'd be getting the
500 and doing the New York act"
Rambler in the. New York Mail and Ex-
press says: 1t will surprise many New
Workers. to hear that Sybil Sanderson. the
prima donna, Is engaged in fighting a lawsuit
with her husband. Antonio Terry. over the
possession of a thirteen-year-old daughter,
and also as to the reduction of the sum
which Mr.. Terry has been paying her as a
monthly allowance. That she was married
was not generally known, and II was not
long ago that the story came from Europe
that she was engaged TO be married 10 a
French nobleman Of high rank, who had met
her in Bruxelles.a when she was singing at
the opera house As / get the lawsuit story
from a professional lawyer, who has IL in a
professional way. direct from Paris, II Is
doubtless trustworthy. He says that Mr..
Terry in addition to trying to get possession
OF the little girl. Is also trying to nave the
allowance of 1000 francs a month. which the
French courts some time since ordered him
TO pay his wife, reduced TO 1000 francs a
month. claiming that his income has so de-
creased that the payment OF the former sum
Is a great burden 10 him. The case cannot
be settled until a commission has taken GER
York.