The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-20

Sir Squire Bancroft, the English actor,
will visit Canada and the United States next
February to give a series of readings.
After an absence of three years from the
field of burlesque. May Howard and her
new organization are to appear at the EN-
pire matinee to-day and all week.
Theodore Moss the wealthy New York
theater owner, has started movement for
memorial window in the Little Church
Around the Corner in honor of the late pas
tor, DIR. Houghton.
.McGinty, the Sport is the title of Joe
Flynns new farce-comedy which will en-
gage the attention of the Parks patrons
for three. days beginning this afternoon.
Fallen Among Thieves" follows for three
days, including Christmas.
Augustus Thomas has rewritten 1.-THE
"Jucklins'' for Stuart Robson, and it had it's
second initial performance last week at the
Tabor Theater. in Denver. This is the play
from Opie Reeds book, SThe Jucklins -
which Stuart Robson produced here early
last season. Robsons character is that of
old Lem Jucklins, the cock fighter.
A new play is to be presented on Jan. 10
at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York
by Miss Julia Marlowe The piece, which
is still unchristened, deals with certain
historical drama. The scene is laid at the
castle of Countess Valeska, in 1907, just be-
fore the battle of Friesland and. OF course,
one of the chief figures in the play is the
Emperor Napoleon.
THE Sporting Duchess" with the excep-
tionally large company of star actors neces-
sary to it's presentation, promises to be one
of the! most acceptable Christmas attrac-
tons that could have been selected for Eng
lshs. OF all the attempts at realism on
the stage in recent years, the great Derby
race scene at EPSON Downs as presented
in THE Sporting Duchess, in which
thoroughbred race horses. with gaily
dressed jockeys, take part, has been spok-
en- of as near to the long-sought limit
While this is known to be only an incident
in the many spectacular features of the
drama 1t has probably served to advertise
the play more than any other thing in the
production, not even excepting the big cast
of over sixty people and including such
popular players as j. H. Stoddart Ffolliot
Paget Edmund Collier and the ever-am-
bilious Cora Tanner. The advance sale will
open tomorrow morning.
Augustus Thomas has not strained for eff
feet in his latest work, 1.-The Hoosier Doc
tors' which Digby Bell is to present at the
Grand next Saturday matinee and night
Mr. Thomas has simply written a play of
everyday life and has striven to develop a
story the characters of which are human
He has introduced many innovations in the
way of comedy scenes and character types
his characters always being admirably de-
fined Far the proper Interpretation of the
comedy Duncan B. Harrison, Mr.. Bells
manager, has engaged specially selected
company. The cast comprises Laura Joyce
Bell. Mabel Strickland, Viola Miles Emma
Butler Margaret Owen, Mamie Fulton
Estelle Marbury and little Ethel Vance, and
the Messrs. Arthur Hoops, Frank Monroe
Herman Hirshberg, Gage Clarke, Harry S.
Robinson. Joseph L. Trsacy, Bert Bayard,
Charles Edwards. Edward Franklin and
others. The advance sale will open this
morning at the Pembroke Arcade