The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-06

~NNSAN SNONA
Notes of the Stage.
Harold Blake has Joined the summer
opera company at Cleveland
"A French Doll is the title of the musical
comedy Messrs. De Koven and Smith are
writing for Miss Vernona Jarbeau
Percy Weldon, the press agent of the
Bostonians. is quite ill and has gone into
the country to rest for a short time.
Edward Harrigan has gone to vaudeville.
appearing this week at Proctor's in his
new one-act farce, Sergeant Hickey.
Last evening the five hundredth perform
ance of that merry operetta, THE Wizard
of the Nile took place in the Broadway
Theater, New York.
William Gill's new comedy THE Alder
man. was produced Monday night at the
Park Theater, Philadelphia, with Odeli Will
liams in the title role
Uncle Toms Cabin has been revived in
New York at the Star Theater. 1t is new
version of the old play with the blood
hounds and the menagerie left out.
A bowling congregation was on hand
in New York Monday night to witness the
performance of James ]. Corbett, alias the
eX~champion, alias Gentleman Jim, in "A
Naval Cadet"
Inc 1d1tnIui ILLUSTRATION OF the Mdner-
Choynski fight, which occupied the star
place among the attractions offered by
George Fl. HUBER in his New York Four
teenth-street Museum Monday made an in
Simultaneous leap into popularity.
Miss Lillian Lewis, who is quite ill, has
left New York for New Mexico, the condi-
ton of her health being too precarious to
permit her remaining for the opening night
on MI May new pa the oU sst
Theater.
Mrs. Kathryn B. Harris, Pretty Kitty
Brady, of New York, made her debut
the professional dramatic stage at Chicago
Monday night as Priscilla in John Drew's
company, now playing Rosemary" She
takes Ethel Barrymore S part, the talented
daughter of Maurice leaving to accompany
Secret Service" to London.
Sol Smith Russell and his manager, Fred
G. Berger, have signed contracts with Miss
Annie Russell, Miss Blanche Walsh, Miss
Nannette Comstock and Miss Fannie Adj
olson Pitt to appear with him in "A Bach
elor's Romance next season beginning on
Sept. Is. He will open at the Garden Theater
on Sept. 70 for an eight weeks engagement.
Woolson Morse, the comic opera. composer
who died in New York this week, married
Agnes Kelley a member Of De Wolf Hop
per's Wang Company about three years
ago. This union was not happy and they
soon separated. He was a member of the
Dramatists' and Artists Club His brother,
c. e. Morse, is with the 1899 Company,
which is in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Bernard Shaw, who wrote Arms and
the Man" has been trying his hand at an
American play. lie calls it THE Devils
Disciple" ana the scenes are laid in Web
sterbriGge, N. H., III 1157. The piece was
produced for acting-right purposes in Lon
i, don recently. Mr.. Richard Mansfield owns
the American rights. it is said and talks
of producing it here in the autumn.
Mabel Power, of the Casino Company,
and formerly with May irwin in Widow
Jones' and "Courted into Court" has sued
for a Inns ed divorce from Walter e. Loeb,
the son Of a wealthy New York Hebrew.
They were married March IL and on st.
Patricks day the young husband went
home ana the girl charges that his Hebrew
family is responsible for his neglect.
THE Circus Girl at Days; THE Man
from Mexico" in Hoyts; The Girl from
Paris" in the Herald-square; The We'd
ding Day" in the Casino; Sweet Innis-
cara, =" in the Fourteenth-street; The Mys-
terious AIR. Bugle" in the Lyceum; The
Serenade.' in the Knickcrbocker; Never
Again" IN the Garrick, and Under the
Red Robe" in the Empire continue their
successful careers in New York