The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
Notes of the stage.

in the artistic manner for which he is
noted. The advance sale will open Tues
day morning at the Pembroke.
Notes of the Stage.
The condition of James F. Hoey, the ac-
tor. remains unchanged. He is still suf-
fering greatly from nervous prostration.
r. A. Barnet's extravaganza, Jack and
the Beanstalk," averaged nearly $4,000 per
week during months stay at Chicago.
George Backus knows young lady in
New York who refuses TO go to plays that
she calls "weepers" because crying makes
her nose red and spoils her complexion.
Sarah Bernhard is to add another mas
culine role to her repertoire. She has just
accepted a drama called THE Youth of
Nero in which she will play the Emperor.
Richard Mansfield, who has twice put
stage form of 1.-The First Violin" into re-
hearsal and then abandoned the idea Of
acting IN the play, will again commence
preparations for its ultimate production.
Frank Daniels has found another 'Wiz-
ard of the Nile in 1.-The Idols Eye" His
engagement in New York begins on Oct.
p, and Kirke La Shelle believes that it will
run throughout the season at the Broad
way Theater.
Charles Coghlan is going to write Chi
nese play to catch the passing whims for
that style of drama. He will not go back
TO LONDON ..9IIq.l for Beerbohm Trees production
OF Julius Caesar" which has been
arranged for next winter.
The old rumor that Mrs. De Wolf Hop
per was shortly to head an opera company
of her own, while Mr.: Hopper continued to
star in FL Captain" was once again en-
phatically denied last week by Ben Ste
venS, Mr.. Hoppers manager.
Homer Emmons the noted scenic artist,
has completed three scenes for Mr.. E. S.
Willard S new play THE Physician and
is now at work on the fourth The scenery
and staging of Henry Arthur Jones'S latest
play Will be of a very elaborate nature.
Henry e. Dixey, the actor, filed volun-
tary petition of insolvency last week. The
first meeting of his creditors will be held
Oct. o. Mr. Dixey, by the way, is once
more thinking of becoming a professional
magician. He has been offered the late
bargain.
Miss Marie Mildred Marsh, talented
young pianist, who is we'll known in the
West, and who is to appear at some of
Mr.. Damrosch's concerts later in the sea-
son, is just now filling the rather humble
position of an extra lady" in Mr.. Richard
Mansfield's company at the F'ifth-avenue
Theater.
During the engagement of christopher,
Jr.," at Cleveland, o.. George Backus, who
plays the title role, was the recipient of
many social attentions. Mrs. Bushnell the
WlIe OF governor Bushnell, occupied box
at one of the performances. The Governor
IS personal friend of Mr.. BackuS.
The dramatists of Spain are said to have
written seventeen plays for production this
winter and that number is regarded as
large enough to indicate unusual activity
on the part of tho writer's for the stage.
Jose Echegaray promises a drama which
will be compensation for his last fiasco.
Charles H. Hoyt, who is at work on a
farce to be called "a Day and a Night"
has not ceased the work of adding to the
fun Of "A Stranger in New York" He is
to be seen every night a the Garrick The
alter, watching the performance and care
fully noting down on paper the opportuni-
ties Tor variety or Improvement.
The Bostonians played to nearly 81, 500 in
two performances on the last day of their
stay at the Boston Theater. 1t was a rec
ord breaker for the house as well as for
the company. This is especially wonder
opera was Robin Hood, which has al
ready been played in Boston during seven
consecutive seasons.
Annie Irish declares that there is no diff
ference in the social status of the English
and American actor mo actor in Lon
don,' says Miss Irish sis in good society
because he is an actor. If he is there 1t is
because he has other qualities than merely
those necessary for his business. AT no time
were actors necessarily different socially
from other people. Shakespeare was in good
society, ana so was Garrick. OF course the e
are actors who are low, just as there are
persons OF other professions who are low"
Pretty Mabel Love, great-granddaught
of the famous ventriloquist, and very popu-
lar as a dancer and singer in London, is
ambitious to advance in higher walks of her
chosen art. She has been engaged for Lewis
Walters company to tour the English prov
inces in "A Marriage of Convenience"
MISS Love came to America in His Excel
vance further into the country than New
York. 1t will be interesting to note how a
girl who has won success in Paris a
dancer will succeed in the legitimate. To
some of her London newspaper friends Miss
Love has confided that this change is made
not so much because she Is tired of dane
ing as because good parts for dancer are
so few. She is to play the Countess De Can
dale, the heroine of Marriage of Convent
ence, the role Isabel irving will do in this
country, and which Winifred Emery is
playing in London.
81 have been very much interested" re-
marks Thomas w. Keene, 'in reading about
the great emotional power of Sarah Sid
dons. Every one knows the stories of the
effect she produced Her audiences lost all
command over themselves, and sobbed,
moaned, and even howled with emotion.
She could sometimes scarcely be heard, so
loud were the lamentations of the pit. A
Scotch poet described the effect at the Roy
atty Theater, Edinburgh, in 1884:
From all sides of the house, bark! the cry
how it swels
While the boxes are torn with most heart
piercing yells.'
Young ladies used suddenly to Shrek,
going off as though they had been stuffed
with decorating powder; men We're carried
out gibbering i'll Mysteries Fashionable doc
ton of being amply occupied throughout
the close of the performance. Nine De
Stael has given d celebrated description of
Mrs Siddonss frenzied laugh in the last
act of The Fatal Marriage sound
which was always the signal for general
sWooning and moaning. All this appears
be attributed to an emotional habit of the
times; but at least it was the expression of
a highly Intoxicating popularity and less
than justice has surely been done to the
manner in which the great actress received
her plaudits."
II have often wondered" says Jacques
Kruger. what enjoyment women find in
looking at spectacular plays, where the
the main attraction seems to be the display
of girls figures in tights. Yet they do en-
joy them-at least, they attend them. When
the girls are particularly shapely and a
large number of them appear at the same
time, as in a march, just delight &c
Watch the faces of the audience The mems
express delight appreciation and satisfac-
ton. while the women. as a rule, look rath-
err unconcerned or contemptuous. The one