The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-31
Notes of the stage.

Notes of the Stage.
Kirke La Shelle is achieving a reputation
for luck second to none in this country.
Not only has he been able to follow 1.-THE
Wizard of the Nile" with a striking success
in 1.-The IDOLS Eye" if the verdict of New
York city means anything, but he was
lucky to complete his engagement in
Detroit and get out of town only two days
before the Detroit Opera House, in which
he had presented 1.-The Idols Eye" was
wholly destroyed by fire. But he has some
thing of record in lodging fires. When
he managed the robin Hood Company for
the Bostonians he escaped being in the Hen
rietta Theater and Chittenden Hotel, Co
qm6gs o. by burned day trn The
hours after he had left it, and a theater in
Terre Haute, Ind, and a hotel in southern
California went up in smoke just after he
had got away. Add to this that La Sheile
was the train that left Williamsport, Pa,
four years ago, the flood carrying away the
railroad bridge and submerging, the town
less than an hour afterwards, and it will be
seen that his luck is of a versatile sort ana
stands by him in MI sorts of crises. 1t is
luck of a darby which Frank Daniels tells
about in a song in the new opera
Derouledes Mort de Hoche' has not
been spared by the Paris critics. The news
papers seized the opportunity to throw
troon" and ''scoundrel," at the author.
whom they term 'the Observation-Disclosures
list, Anglophobe, Boulangist politician"
They have recalled to the mind OF france
Deroulede's accusation against the Eng
lish embassy and Henri Rochefort. and the
prompt apology demanded and received,
and a few of the other pleasant events or
a political career as unpopular as 1t was
brief. Only the Patrie. speaks of the drama
with any respect, and that paper has mad
to take it's share of the scoring. The Patrie
declared that Mort de Hoche' was full
f Of beauty aaa sa reSp0nfS Tl
was the last refuge of the soundrel?'' The
deepest impression all this makes on the
American reader is the Importance of art
and the theater from the French point of
view. Not even the popularity of Coqueln,
at whose .theater the play was produced,
softened the rancor of the critics.
At last prophet has found ''honor in his
own country" and quaint, versatile, genial
Sol Smith Russell is receiving the plaudits
of the New York theater-foers. Mr.. Rus
sell is now in his second month of tri.
umphant engagement at the Garden Thea
ter, in, New York, and the rush for seats
is so brisk that Charles Frohman and Mr..
Russelrs manager, Fred Berger, are doing
their best to cancel the comedians out-of-
town contracts, with view 10 keeping hin.
indefinitely in New York, the engagement
having been already extended to Nov. 20.
"A
critics praised Tess of the D'Urbervilles,' .
as played by Minnie Madden Fiske and
her company for months in that city last
season. This praise was unstinted, sucn
writer's as w d. Howells devoting much
space to Mrs. Fiske's Characterization aud
the general excellence of her company
When she comes to Indianapolis this sea-
son there will be a general desire to see
Tess Her engagement at the Grand VIII
New
York.
That charming war play, For Fair vir-
ginia," will be seen at the Grand in a few
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Whytal in the
principal parts, supported by an excellent
company. This play, with its pretty love
icate comedy, Will be remembered as having
made a fine impression here last season.
Next Tuesday night at the Empire the
Bon Ton Burlesquers" will give an extra
midnight performance at which time the
election returns from Ohio and New York
will be received and read from the stage
special wire will be run to the stage and
competent operator will be put in charge
by the Western Union Company.
Smoking concerts at the Boston Palace
Theater have proved popular. and the
Palace is at present the only Bohemian"
theater in that city. At the Palace one can
Messing a first-class entertainment Of bur-
lesque and speciality.
prince Rudolph Otis SINNERS new
production, appears to have made hit ev-
erywhere it has been seen. 1t will be made
the leading feature of Mr.. SINNERS engage
ment at the Grand Opera House next
month, when he appears in an attractive
repertoire.
Miss Gertrude Boswell, the beautiful and
Al
one exception. is the only member of the
Sign of the Cross" company native to this
country, has repeated the past week in Bos-
ton her success of last year.
Scott Marble, author of the Heart of the
Klondike," the comedy-drama to be pro-
duced next month by Davis & Keogh, has
completed another new comedy for those
managers with the rather clever title of
MISS Plaster of Paris
Betting, iron shafting, revolving cables
and immense dynamos running at full blast,
electricity generated on the stage, and other
startling effects are promised in The Elec-
trician, Blaney's new play, at the Park the
last half Of this week.
Fanny Wentworth, whose plano turn was
one Of the few saving features of the de-
pressing variety bill in which Loie Fuller
danced at the Boston Theater two years
ago is making a great hit In Sydney, n.
s. w.
The Isabelle Evesson-Estelle Clayton "a
Puritan Romance" Company has returned
to New York. A new route is being ar
ranged and the tour viii be resumed in
fortnight.
Gus Hills Gay Masqueraders will be at
the Empire the first half of next week.
Mile. Ani's Monarchs will play return en-
gagement the last half of the week.
N. C. Goodwin and the voluptuous. dark
eyed Maxine Elliott are doing exceedingly
we'll at the Knickerbocker Theater, in New
York, in AN American Citizen"
Olive May (NIrs. Henry Guy Carleton)
will play the ingenue OF the big white
Healer" production at the Academy of Mu-
sic, New York, in December.
A play called pharaoh" written In
French by Oscar Wilde, will be produced by
the Theater de pOeuvre this winter.
The acrobotic act of the three Nevaros, in
Gus Hills company. will arouse much in
terest at the Park this week.
Helene Mora and Hyde's Comedians will
be at the Park next week
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