The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-22

In Italy there are more theaters in pro-
country.
The Indianapolis favorites, Johnny and
Emma Ray, will be good card at the Emf
pire this week.
The dramatization of Stanley Weyman's
Under the Red Robe has been most sue
cessful in London.
Robert Downing has opened a school of
acting in Washington and Baltimore. IT is
said Eugenia Blair has signed with Charles
Frohman
Anthony Hopes "A Man of Mark is to
be dramatized by Justin Huntly Mccarthy
son of Justin Mccarthy, the novelist, his
torian and politician.
Sarah Bernhard revived Camille at
her theater in Paris and had Armand made
up to represent the younger Dumas when
he was twenty years of age.
Arthur Pinero is at work now on a COM
edy intended for Daniel Frohmans COM
pany. 1t keeps to the style of his earlier
works, such as Sweet Lavender"
Maurice barrymore own play, Roar
ing Die & CO. in which he is starring. is
said to give him another opportunity SIM
liar to that afforded by Captain Swift.
During the run of TOO Much Johnson"
William Gillette's great comedy success, in
New York "a special Johnson night was
given, upon which occasion over 1000 per-
sons of this uncommon name attended.
1.-The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown
is play that will monopolize the attention
of Indianapolis theater-goers for several
evenings in December. II was hit in New
York and is said TO be very funny.
Maud Durbin Otis SINNERS leading
woman, is one of the daintiest little crea-
has been most pronounced. Miss purbin
was find of Nine. Modjeska.
Lawrence Hanley opens at the Star The
alter in New York this week with stir
ring melodrama, IAN Innocent Sinner. in
which the heroine is hypnotized by doc
tor and murders her husband
Louis Wesley we'll and favorabiy remem-
bered for his clever work in the Garrick
Theater burlesque. Thirdly" last season.
is playing his original part of Chips, the
office boy, in "A Railroad Ticket" with
Freemans Fun Makers.
Sandow, the strong man. has sailed for
Europe. his company having disbanded. He
will visit England, South Africa and Aus
tralia. giving exhibitions of his strength.
His wife recently presented him With an
eighteen-pOund daughter.
Ray Rena Rockman, daughter of a Mon
tana physician is to appear as a typical
American girl in play which Sarah Bern
hardt is writing for her Paris theater, the
"reminiscences Miss Rockman is said to be
something of protege of Bernhardt and is
being schoOled as an actress by her, as
well as at the Coincide Franchise.
One of the longest Journeys ever made
by theatrical company to play a single
performance is the one made by A NJ.
Palmer's '"Trilby' company, which will
Auckland, New Zealand, to Honolulu. The
receipts for the one performance were
1890. 1t took fifteen days TO make the trip.
Steve Brodie and Dickson & Talbot have
invited the newsboys of Indianapolis TO
Thanksgiving dinner at the Park Theater
restaurant next Thursday at IL a. m.
Tickets will be issued TO all genuine news
boys and none will be admitted without
these cards. 1t will be a sight worth wit
Messing when the boys line up for square
meal of turkey and trimmings.
E. S. Willard made his temperance in
America after an absence in London of
three years at the Boston fremont The
alter this week. His play is a new, pro-
ductiOn, THE ROgueS COMEDY. Dy Henry
Arthur Jones. Willard has the character of
Mr.. Bailey Prothero, clairvoyaht and mind
reader. is one new to our stage and the
incisive sarcasm of a social infatuation FOR
a clever charletan was quickly recognized
by the audience.
Nancy Mcintosh has come back from Eu-
rope under long engagement to Augustin
DAILY, and is to assume the title role in
1.-THE Geisha" Miss Mcintosh is a sister of
MUIR Mcintosh, and an American, but re-
Europe, and only sang in New York in
His Excellency," when she was not in
good health. She spent last summer with
w. S. GilbertS family at the composer
country Mace in England.
Camille d'Arville. the well-known prima
donna, secured a judgment this week for
$1,000 against Edward E. Rice, the the
atrical manager in New York. OF the
amount $500 was loaned Rice by d'Arville
two years ago. and she has been after a
settlement ever since. After the trial the
prima donna said:
long time could not discover for what the
second initial f. stood. Now i know II is
for Elusive-Edward Elusive Rice"
Mrs. Charles H. Hoyt, the wife OF the
playwright. and known to the stage as
Caroline Misket, is not dangerously Ill. She
gave birth to a child couple of weeks ago.
which died Immediately. Her physicians
have pronounced her out of danger. Mr.
Hoyt married the actress. who had been
ago She is his second wife. Flora Walsh,
who was at one time an actress in one or
his plays, was his first wife, and died sew
eral years after their marriage. mrs. Hoyt
will return to the stage IN December.
No one who witnesses Mrs. Kellar's mar
velous performance Of mind reading and
mental biography, which form number
i'm Magician Kellar's programme, can have
the remotest idea of the mental strain UNI
der which she labors during her act: Her
feat of memory. in making the kn1ght
Tour of the chess board, blindfolded Is
almost enough to distract an ordinary NOR
tai Another feat which Is Almost as niiiis
c,llt is the reading of an entire pack or
fifty-two cards faced toward the audience,
Mrs Kellar being blindfolded all the time
and not a sound being uttered by any one.
No other person has, as yet, succeeded In
reading more than -FOUR consecutive cdruS
of a shuffied deck.
When Albert Chevalier, the English cos
terrnonger. shuffles on the stage in his
checks and his buttons, he takes one by
surprise. He does not come on as a star,
looking up at the gallery for his round of
applause. but shuffies on, a vulgar little
cockney, with a bright eye and limbs that
are always jerking expressively, and pres
entity he begins 10 sing about his love for
Liza. 1t is hardly singing at all, a reclta-
ton to music, rather. and the dry little
voice seems just the one to express the
emotion of such a poverty-stricken little
cockney as he. But the face is one of the
most expressive in the world, and you real
iZe this best when a grimy old working
man comes out with worn eyes and
scanned face and bit of pipe. and COM
mences to sing of My Old Dutch" the
''old gal" who has starved with him and
slept with him for forty years. And some
how the audience grows very still and
tears come to many eyes, for the battered
old face on the stage is so full of genuine