The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-24
Notes of the Stage.


Fanny navenport's new play ga Soldier
of France" was produced in Boston last
week. The title of the play was kept secret
until the night of the production. The CEN
trail figure throughout is Joan of Are. His
tory has not been followed with absolute
fidelity yet the events of the career of that
remarkable parsonage are well outlined The
opening act finds jean at her home the sec
ond shows a French cafe, the third Joan
visited by the king on the eve of the battle
of Orleans, the fourth her captivity at the
prison of Rouen and the fifth the meeting Of
mother and daughter and the leading of
Joan to suffer martyrs fate at the stake.
Mrs. S. A. Baker, who is eighty years DID,
and who last season celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of her first appearance on the
stage, is with Thomas w. l<eene again this
season. Mrs. Baker plays only one part, the
Duchess of York in Richard Ill" She has
been a member of Mr.. Keene'S company for
sixteen years, having been away from him
only one season in that time, during which
she was specially engaged to play the
Duchess of York to the Richard III of Ed
win Booth.
All the burlesques and extravaganzas of
r. A. Barnet, the prolific author of 1892"
Jack and the Beanstalk,'' ETC., are first
produced in an amateur way by the Boston
Cadets. Theatrical men like Edward E.
Rice, Klaw & Erlanger and AL Hayman
make it a point to go over to boston to see
their performances, and then the managers
begin to bid against each other for the pro-
fessional rights. Mr.. Barnat's latest piece
is called THE Queen of the Ballet"
1.-THE Girl from Paris" which will be seen
at the Grand this week. has furnished most
of the popular music that IS being whistled
on the streets of New York and London.
From this production comes the farfamed
Sister Mary James Top Note" "Tweedle-
dunn and TWeedledee, : I'm all the Way
tle-tootle,' and many other catchy tunes
that are at present going the rounds. The
songs are the work of George Dance and
English's has arranged a plan by which
physicians may attend the theater without
losing themselves to their patients. The
doctors are requested to leave the location
of their seats at the box office If they
are called for by telephone or by mes
senger an usher will notify them.
There promises to be an epidemic of ORR
entail drama. The theater in the new AS
toria Hotel is to be opened with a panto-
mime called I'm Old Japan" which is to
have the accompaniment of Japanese music
and scenery painted under supervision of a
Japanese artist. There is to be a troupe of
real Japanese dancing girls to lend color to
the silent play, which illustrates love and
heroism in period before the Christian era.
Albert Bruning, who made so much of a
success in "A Bachelors Honeymoon at
Hoyt's Theater. in New York is one of the
best Shakspearean actors in the country
He has played Othello to Edwin Booths
Iago and large number of leading parts
with the departed but never to- be- forgotten
tragedian Mr. Bruning is as much at home
in comedy as he is in tragedy-or serious
plays.
Clara Palma, of the "Courred into Court
company, disllSes the beauties of rural life
The woman who takes a two weeks vaca-
ton in the country asserts pretty Miss
Palma, and experiences all the beauties of
oucolic life from three-mile walk to the
poStofffce up 10 a sting from 4 bee. seldom
ilnus beauty thereafter in a play OF The Old
Homestead order"
The project to dramatic Hail Gaines
latest novel, The Christian does not seem
to meet with much favor in England, and
here. where the Naturalization of THE
Manxman" failed so dismally this latest
story OF his has not even scored a big suc-
cess with the reading public.
Roland Reed will be the second attraction
at English's, giving THE Wrong Mr.
Wright" and "A Man of Ideas" Isadore
Rush is still his leading woman.
Frank Daniels opens his New York season
at the Broadway Theater tomorrow night
His new opera. The Idols Eye. BY Victor