The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11
ADJUSTMENTS.
EngIish's-0OId Innocence. y


There is more dramatic mingling of pathos
and comedy in "Old Innocence" which Tim
Murphy gave at English's yesterday after
noon and last night, than in anything the
comedian ever had in his repertory. A
failure to witness his portrayal of Jason
Green is an opportunity lost for an evening
of rare entertainment. Tim Murphy can
find as many whirls of emotion in a sixty
year-old stage character as there are roseate
shades in an autumn sunset. During one
performance he leads Mr.. j. Green through
most Of the seven ages of man. Beginning
with a child-like conception of life wherein
all men are honest sympathetic and broth
erly, he finds his ideals destroyed, one by
one. and comes to realize that the world is
filled with deception. Whoever Green must
have lost his first wife before the honey
moon had waned. He brings up his daugh-
ter in ain atmosphere of love and tender
ness which in his younger days he had
stored up for his old sweetheart. Late in
life he marries young woman who affects
charity and handsome ministers. His sus-
picious brother knows these Young wives
married IAN old hulk" if she was not
after his money. But Jason will
not listen to such talk He trusts evely
out interest or security. This Mr.. Green is
no blood relative of Hetty Green. Instead
January he repairs their houses and cuts
the rates. With an epidemic of j. Greens
in the world Progress and Poverty would
never have been written: Every beggar's
yarn touches both Mr.. Green's heart and
his pocketbook until his wealthy brother,
Flint Green. arrives on the scene. This
brother enters in the first act and by the
end of the second he has made changed
man of Jason. He turns his heart against
his daughter's happiness and accuses his
wife of flirting with the preacher. He
claims to have suddenly discovered that
mankind is in the highwayman's trade and
that the man who has the drop gets the
money. The daughter is in tears and the
wife voucheS for the handsome pastor. The
preacher does not appear in the play; so
acter is all the audience has on this point.
While "Old Innocence" is being rapidly
transmogrified there is hardly minute that
Tim Murphy has not an opportunity for
juggling with the emotions of the audience.
A laughing incident is so quickly followed
by one OF pathos that tears and smiles
come almost at the same time. OF course
everything IS set right in the end with
moor Jason Green and the little play that
and most satisfying end. Murphy is sup
ported this year with a company that lends
named daughter. Olive Green. is gracefully
and brilliantly taken by Dorothy Sherrod,
who is one of the real beauties on the
American stage, and whose beauty is en-
HANGED by the fact that she can act. In
her girlish love episodes Miss Sherrod has
few rivals Since Mrs: Kendall IS out of the
American actress who comes before the
curtain to address the audience. She
has a very pretty Introduction
for the different character portrayalS
I'm 'Sir Henry Hypnotized.' which Mr.. Muir
ply gives as an afterpiece to "Od lnno-
cence." These series of stage pictures show
Mr.. Murphy's wonderful versatility and
make an entertainment in themselves. Tim
Murphy has yielded to the custom of max
ing curtain speeches and last night after
his entire company had come before the
curtain, he RECALLED the audience with
nocence" will be repeated at English's to-
night in connection with Two Can Play at
That Game.
Clay Clement. who will make his Indian
apolis debut at English's on Monday night,
IS an Illinois man. His family name is
Geiger. Clement L. Geiser being the way It
Is written at home. Mr.. Clements father
and his only brother stin 1--we on the iii
nois farm near Peoria, his father being of
German extraction and his mother Ken
lucky woman. Mr.. Clement graduated at
the Chicago University and subsequently
studied three years in Germany. His
knowledge of German has been the instru-
ment of his rise to fame as an author and
actor, for IL enabled him to create the char
acter OF Baron Hohenstauffer. in which he
viii make his bow 10 Indianapolis on Mon
day night. Mr.. Clements parer Is intended
ton to literature and the art OF acting
willcd another path 10 fame be chosen by
young Clement When he arrived at man
hood ne took Horace Greeley's advice and
went West, TO California, and there after
divers adventures and terrible hustle to