The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12

consequently as many crushed MUSICIANS.
Mr.. Charles H. Hoyt's new farce-comedy,
"A Stranger in New York." is said to have
met with so much success on the road since
its production this season that Messrs.
Hoyt & Mckee are anxious to bring it to
has accordingly decided to present it at
the Garrick Theater Monday. THE Good
Mr. Best" will go to Chicago for run,
and on it's return to New York will be given
at Hoyt's.
Audiences are forbidden to applaud in
Russian theaters. A French Algerian court
has decided that any spectator at the the
alter having the hat on the head after the
rise of the curtain is subject to arrest. In
Japan, when person wishes to leave the
theater before the close of the perform
ance, with the intention of returning, he
marches to the doorkeeper and extends his
right hand. The doorkeeper is armed with
a rubber stamp, bearing the private mark
of the theater, and on each hand thus held
out to him he deity imprintS the houses
mark
Some men who are earning large salaries
these days are Edward c. Bald, not long
ago a butcher boy in Buffalo, N. Y, who
makes $4,000 a year in salaries and prizes
as a professional bicyclist. James ]. Cor
bett gets $500 game for playing baseball
just now and in the theatrical season he
can make $4,000 year Tod Sloan, the
jockey makes $4,000 a year. This is more
than three times the salary of Secretary OF
State Sherman or President Eliot of Har-
ward, gets. The best paid minister in
America, the Rev. John Hall, gets only 3d.
600 a year.
Among the musical stars, instrumental
and vocal. who have made arrangements
to appear in this country during the coming
seasons are Rosenthal, Ysaye, Henri Mar
teau, Mile Antoinette Trebeli, the young
Soprano Mr.. and Mrs. Georg Henschel,
who will give series of song recitals in
the large cities of this country. Then ST.
lott, the favorite pupil of List, considered
one of the best pianists of the present day,
will also be here in the spring, as we'll as
| Leo Stern the young 'cellist who played
successfully last year in the New YORK
Philharmonic.
Secret Service" will be produced at the
Renaissance Theater, Paris, which is Sarah
Bernhardt's house, on Sept. 23 Nine.
Bernhard and Charles Frohman are joint
mariners in the production. Mr. HardS,
who is stage manager of the original COM
pany. now at the Empire, in New YORK,
and Mr. Williams, of the Garrlck 1heater,
have sailed. with a large force OF stage
hands for preparing, arranging ana nam
ding the mechanical portion of the produc-
ton. Mr. FrOhman will be represented at
the Renaissance by Charles Dillingham;,
who is now in Paris.
Madeleine Lucette Ryley's delightful COM
edy, christopher, Jr., )" which goes on tour
the coming season with Mr.. George Backus
in the title role is entitled to a place of
honor in the last few years history of the
American stage. The apathy existing in
England a few years ago toward American
plays has now developed into enthusiasm,
and to-day American plays and actors are
all the rage in the British capital The pio-
neer of the state of affairs was certainly
Madeleine Lucette'S comedy, "Chrlstolhe
Jr'' 1t paved the way for the tremendous
welcome accorded Secret Service. In
England christopher, Jr.,' was played
under the title of "Jedbary, Jr, and 1t
duplicated it's american success to the tune
of a two years run in London and the
provinces.
From time immemorial the stage has
been recruited from the democracy. Peg
Wofingtons father was a bricklayer,
Henry Irving's father a shoemaker,
Constant Coquelins father was baker,
Sarah Bernhardts father was a wood ped
dler. Eleonora Buses ia Their was a barn
stormer The democracy breeds genius.
The aristocracy seldom bequeaths anything
except distinction of air. But politeness
also has a place in the economy of nature,
and for this reason Mrs. Langtry and Mrs.
Potter have each earned fortune, ana
Miss De Wolf is employed at the Empire
Theater. We observed that these new play
ere conveyed with grace and naturalneSS
that dignity of carriage and gesture Whlch
actresses lacking their training had spent
q lifetime in initiating Bernhardt can give
us every phase of wOmanhood except the
consummate dexterity of skill all the emo
tons of her sex except those whose eX-
nresson is absolutely governed by social
training Hilary Bell in New York Press.