The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The Park was filed again yesterday at the
opening performances of the engagement of
Go-Won-G Go Mohawk. who appeared with
her company in a border drama written by
herself. THE Indian Mail Carrier is the
name Of the play. and the plot is of the
conventional sort, hanging on deep-dyed
treachery. There are two villains, an Amer
lean and a Spaniard, the boss of an Indian
ranch, Colonel Stockton, a colored CO.
median, an Irish comedian, an old-maid
housekeeper, Nellie Stockton, the colonels
daughter, and several other characters.
There is enough action in the piece to sat
lsIy the most ardent lover of sensation. The
nnCst realistic scene, perhaps, is the duel
DetWeen Manuel Lopez, known as Spanish
joe, and Go-Won-G Mohawk. There is
plenty or lighting aside from this, and rife
revolver and knife cut a big figure in the
play. Miss Mohawk appears in a mans
part, and looks the character to the life
nelp in the realism. Miss Mohawk
IS said to be descendant of the famous Red
Jacket, ana is what may be termed aris-
locratlc Indian, belonging to the Six Ma
lions, which means to the American Indian
what place in the peerage does to an Eng
llshman- She was born at Gowanda, Cat
daughter of Chief Ga-Ne-Gua who was
known TO America as DIR. Allen Mohawk.
after laying the foundation for her fine
physique by running, rowing, riding and
hunting, young Miss Mohawk entered a
girls seminary at gainesville, O.. remaining
there several years After leaving school
she decided to so on the stage, and not
finding play suitable to her. she wrote one
herself, and is still playing it. Her tour of
Great Britain, which covered several years,
was very successful, and this is her first
season in this country since her return. She
viii be at the Park to-day and tomorrow.
Johnny and Emma Ray follow next Monday
for three days of "A Hot Old Time
Gabriel BOrkman" at the Criterion.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Early in October
it was announced that the Criterion indie
pendent Theater would produce for the pur-
pose of stimulating the artistic activity of
America, the best plays presented in Paris
by the Theater Antoine and the Theater De
l. Oeuvre and in Berlin by the Breie Buhne
and the Volks- Buhne. The first of these
plays, John Gabriel Borkman," by Henrik
Ibsen, was produced to-day. The Ibsen
doctrine-the rights of strong character
opposed to the community, no matter
whether the community be the state society
or the famiy-stood out in every line of
this first presentation in this country. The
story of Borkman is that of a banker with
ideas for benefiting mankind by the use of
wealth, who uses the funds of his bank to
that end and is betrayed by a friend just
into prison and emerging therefrom, lives
for years in a single room in his house,
lSOidLeU from MS family, WIN the one
thought uppermost in his mind, that he was
right, the public was wrong and that this
public would eventually. come to him and
make proper acknowledgment. There is
an early love. discarded to foster his fnan-
cial scheme and a wife and son who figure
in the plot, the son, instead of realizing his
mothers wish to rebuild his fathers name,
leaves her broken hearted for the pleasures
of the world, the father dies because he is
misunderstood, because he never finds the
opportunity he has sought; because his
ideas of right are not indicated.
1t is a strong play. Perhaps the dialogues
are too long drawn, but that is Ibsen's way.
The actors seemed nodded into their parts,
and the presentation was faultiess. While
each actor deserves praise, the work of E.
]. Henley and Miss Maud Banks is entitled
to special mention. AS regards Henley he
received an ovation. His vocal trouble. was
forgotten in his excellent work and his
many friends compelled him to respond to
numerous curtain calls at the end of each
act