The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-16

40 va ganza. company next season to illus
trate d production OF ms own c""eu ~
Peep"
Gilbert Parker's 1.-The Seats OF the
Mighty has not justified Beerbohm Trees
Judgment of it in London. 1t is not d sue
cess.
Mr. Reginald De Koven has been elected
president of the Manuscript Society, to take
the place of DR.. Gerrit Smith, who re-
signed recently.
The cast of The Sporting Duchess now
includes Louis Massen, Rose Coghlan, cora
Tanner, ]. II. Stoddart, Harry Lacy and
Elita Proctor Otis.
Estelle Clayton has made a play from
Mrs. Augusta Campbell Watson's story
DOROTHY, the Puritan" and her sister, lsa-
bella Evesson, is to produce it next season.
The veriscope reproductions of the Fitz-
simmons-Corbet fight will be exhibited to
the public for the first time at the New
York Academy OF Music next SATURDAY
night.
Messrs. Jefferson, Klaw & Erlanger have
decided to erect two new theaters in New
Orleans. Their leases on the two houses
they have there will expire next season, and
they expect to have the new theaterS ready
to open a year from next September
Louise Rial. a member of 1.-THE Wedding
Day company, at the Casino, has begun
proceedings in Chicago to have set aside
the decree of divorce granted her husband,
James Rial, on April 6 last. She alleges she
never received notice of the suit.
Marie Durell Shotwell has retired from
the Lyceum Theater Stock Company. Dan
Frohman would have liked to have secured
Blanche Bates, Tim Frawley's leading
woman. to take her place. but the San
Francisco manager feels that MISS Bates
is too good a propoSllon 10 play SeCOLU
to Mary Mannering.
A peculiar incident in the theatrical world
is the fact thai it's leading and most sue
cessful purveyors hail from the West
Charles and Daniel Frohman are from San
dusky. O.; Al Haynan came. from Wheel
Cleveland; Samuel F. Nixon hrst saw the
light of day in Fort WAYNE, Ind., ana
Mare Klaw and Frank Mckee are from
Louisville, Ky.
Bernard Shaw's Devils Disciple" which
Richard Mansfield is to present in New
York next season, has been performed for
copyright purposes at the Bijou Theater,
Bayswater. The scene of this play is Amer
lean. and colonial. It takes place at West
bridge, N. H., near the spot where General
Burgoyne s~urrendered to the contlnentai
army. The characters include Burgoyne ana
a few English officers, and the famlly OF
one Peter Dudgeon, who, previous TO the
opening of the play, had been hanged as a
spy.
The plays on which Louis Parker, author
of Rosemary and "Mayfower," is at
work are first a four-act comedy of man
ners for Dan Frohman; second, a four-act
domestic comedy for William H. Crane;
third. a d~rawing-room melodrama of The
Idler' type for the Hollands, and a new
play for Charles Wyndham, in which Muir
ray Carson assists. Meanwhile both The
Mayaower," which is Parker's lone EFFORT,
and Change Alley" with which II. II.
Sofhern opens his New York season IN Sep
TENDER. are seeking London openings.
Mr.. stanislaus STANCE. the librettist of
The Wedding Day." will sail for Europe
on June 3. to arrange for the production OF
the opera at the Savoy Theater, in Lon
don. on Oct. / next. In London Miss Irene
Perry is TO play the part played here by
Miss Lillian Russell. while Mr.. w. G. Pass
more will assume Mr.. JEFF De AngeIs's
role. Miss Della Fox's part has not yet
been filed by the London managers; Deila
Fox is still too i'll to take part in the Ca
sino production and her understudy, MISS
Ada fBerdnard is playing the role. There
is an able-bodied rumor that Della and Lii
liam Russell are at outs.