The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
PARK OPENS TOMORROW
OLD PATRONS WILL HAVE 4 WEEK
OF UNCLE TOMS CABIN
Troja the Empires second Week At
Northumberland News of the Conn
ing Theatrical Season.

Work on the new Park Theater was prac-
tically complete last night. and the beauti-
full playhouse Will be thrown open to the
public tomorrow afternoon. The opening
viii test the capacity Of the house. Uncle
Toms Cabin" the attraction, has the
widest popularity of any play ever staged
in America. The Salter and Martin COM
pany, which is TO produce this well-known
American drama the entire week at the
Park. is an organization numbering fifty
people The advance sale for the first week
is large and indicates that the theater will
be filed every night and matinee. The
countless patrons of the old Park will soon
find themselves quite as much at home in
the new house as they were in the one
which was for so many years the most
successful popular-priced theater in the
country The marble Hobbies with box Of
fees on either side will present a busy
scene tomorrow and pretty much all
through the coming season, which promises
to be a very successful one.
1t was somewhere back in the latter part
Of the sos that the dramatization of Har-
riet Beecher Stoves book was first given
to the New York stage. Now the play is
old and often referred to as a chestnut"
or a back number" Such an opinion,
however, is not within the reasoning of
evidence of this all he has to do is to drop
into any theater any time, summer or Win
ter, where Uncle Toms Cabin" is being
played and listen to the unrestrained
laughter of the crowds over the comic ac-
lions OF Topsy, the diminutive Marks with
his diminutlve donkey, or watch the SYM
pathy manifested over the ill treatment of
Uncle Tom and the death of little Eva.
There are many people who rarely, II ever,
attend the playhouse unless Uncle Toms
Cabin Is being given. 1t draws hundreds
who seldom enter a theater. The Salter d
Martin company carries its own scenery
and car of animals, besides. The planta-
ton scenes are made additionally realistic
by singing and dancing of the genuine old
time jubilee style. The Pembroke Arcade
ticket office will be open from 3 a. m; 70
$50 p. m. each day for the sale of reserved
seats which can be secured on the mezza-
nine floor the balcony or the lower floor.
Next week I'm the Name of the Gar
comes to the Park for three days, and Lin
coin j. Carter's new sensation, The Heart
of Chicago" follows the last half of the
week
The Grand's season will open Friday of
next week, Sept. 3, with the newest Eastern
laughing success, entitled Miss Francis of
Yale written by Michael Morton, play
wright of good repute. When Manager
Charles Frohman first produced "Charley's
Aunt at the Standard Theater, New York,
he selected the famous English comedian,
Etienne Girardot, to create the title role.
GirardOt made an enormous hit and he per-
formed the leading role in New York city
for one year. Mr.. Girardot last season Sc.
lected a new role in Miss Francis of
Yale" in which he duplicated his Char
ley's Aunt" success. The farce is of the
same order as MI. Wikinson's Widows
Jane" etc Much interest will be mani
tested in the actor who created a role that
made the whole world laugh. Manager
Brenton Thorpe, of Miss Francis of Yale
has cast the comedy with players of artistic
merit. New and handsome scenery will be
shown. which is carried complete by the
mill iR,f1 fvAA hn.fFl fe
Mr. Girardot owen Westford Raymond
Capp. George Farren, Louis Grisel, Lavnia
Shannon, Sarah McVicker, Monte Donico,
Gertrude Homan, Idalene Cotton and
others.
During the weeks engagement of Uncle
Toms Cabin" at the new Park Theater,
beginning tomorrow, there will be a street
parade every noon.