The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
ETHEL BARRYMORE'S HIT
CHAPERoNED BY A DUCHESS AND
SOCIAL FAVORITE IN LONDON.
The Young Actress Leaves "secret
Service to Join Iryfng's Com
pany-Other Dramatic News.

in years. This pretty and talented daugh-
ter of Maurice Barrymore, not yet out of
her teens. has made the hit of her life dur
ing the summer engagement of William
Gillette's Secret Service" Company at the
Adelphi Theater. Miss Barrymore, playing
minor roles, left John Drews company
shortly after the Indianapolis engagement
last spring to join Charles Frohman's
forces in the London venture. Cablegrams
the past week announce her engagement
to play in Irving's coming Lyceum produc-
ton Of Peter the Great" She sailed for
America last Saturday but returns to Eng
land shortly for rehearsals. Frank Mar
shall Whites London cablegram to the
New York Journal says:
Miss Barrymore has been as great per-
sonal as well as artistic success in Lon
don, her ardent and devoted admirers in
Guiding Anthony Hope, Lawrence Irving
and the Duke of Manchester 1t is whis-
pered with bated breath in English dra-
matte circles that Miss Barrymore was the
only actress invited to the Duchess of
Devonshire's garden party, and that on this
momentous occasion she was chaperoned
by a real duchess, she of Manchester.
William Gillette and his company gave
their last performance Of Secret Service
at the Adephi Theateri Wednesday night,
previous to sailing on the Paris for New
York Saturday. The house was crowded to
the doors to see the last of the company
that has made the greatest success in the
annals Of the American drama in London.
The audience included the entire cast
which will give the play in French at the
Renaissance Theater in Paris. Gillette was
called before the curtain after the last act
and delivered a short address such as is the
privilege of few foreign actors truthfully to
deliver in London. Secret Service still goes
on. William Terriss and Miss Milward as
suming the principal roles at the Adelphi
Theater the following evening, with an
English company"
'No one can revere that great actor, David
Garrick, more than L., says Walker White
side, but Garrick. for all his greatness,
had good deal Of the trickster in him,
and made use of one bit of stage business
which to-day would be relegated to comic
opera. In the closet scene, where Hamlet
reproaches his mother, upon the entrance
Of the Ghost, Garrick leaped to his feet
and, to emphasize his terror and excite
ment. kicked over his chair the sharp noise
of which was supposed to startle the audi
ence into the same mood by it's realism.
But the venerable Garrick had a trick chair
with legs tapered and bent in so far that
1t would fail over at the slightest touch.
"Ths undigniiied bit of stage business OBJ
tained so much prestige that it required
great courage in any later actor to dis
card it, and L was once very severely criti-
cised for 'neglecting to kick down the chair
on the appearance of the Ghost, which was
never omitted by the. greatest actor who
ever graced the stage
II ran across a droll anecdote about Gar
rick recently, Mr. Whiteside went on. 1T
seems that, having been used to the sever
est poverty In his early life. he could never
learn extravaganza when money was plenti-
full with him. in fact, he was put uown
being very st1ngy, although instances are
known of very true generosity on his part.
Some one told the Comedian Foote, am
irrepressible joker that Garrick had re-
proved the parsimony of some one else, and
added the remark: Why doesn't Garrick
take the beam out of his own eye before he
some one else?'
:, Because said Fgoote. he is not sure of
selling the timber
Last week Mr.. Whitesde signed a con-
tract by which he secures the sole Ameri-
can and Canadian rights for the presenta-
ton of Espy Williams's drama tization of
the popular novel, "The Man in Black"
by Stanley Weyman the author of Froh-
mans Empire success, Under the Red
Robe" and other Well-known romanceS.
The play will be given the advantage of
correct scenic surroundings and a strong
cast. Mr.. Whiteside will be seen in the
character of Solomon Notredame. The in
ttial production Will be given during the
fore part of his coming Southern tour Ma
son Mitchell who will manage Mr. White
sides affairs this season, has arranged
with Joseph Physioc for the painting of the
scenery for The Merchant of Venice" Of
which play Mr.. Whiteside will make COM
plete production.
The title of Otis SINNERS new play fer
the fall has not yet been announced, but
this much was given out concerning it to
an interviewer in Boston. Says Mr.. Skin
ner; THE story is, think unusual and of
quietly satirical order. The action takes
place in one of the small duches of Eu-
rope, and while politics and state affairs
and the Vaccinations of a villain who
finally trlumphs, have a share in the ac-
ton. the interest all centers in the hero
and heroine, who are man and wife, but
do not learn to love or understand each
other until the end of the play. Their mar
riagd has been state affair, and it is only
when their own political intrigues fall to
the ground, when their country is really
lost, when their enemy has routed them,
that, left quite to themselves, with moth
ing or their own but a humble estate in
that country, they really begin life, having
at last learned a mutual regard and res
around them"
Speaking of Margaret Reid recent num-
Der of the St James Budget says: Mad
anne Margaret Reid, the American prima
donna, who has been so successfully en-
acting the role of Micaela in Carmen" at
the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden.
has, since her last season i'm London. been
singing leading roles in Italian opera In
Cannes. In tho Riviera she sang Margue-
rite in Fast" and in "Mignon" Her
success was so great that at a special per-
Torrance given there at the close of the
season in honor of the Prince of Wales
his Royal Highness called for her and per-
sonally congratulated ner on her singing.
Mrs, Phil DAILY, jr., Jennie Joyce that
was, she of the 1.-the limbs. has decided
that domestic life is all very we'll in its
way, but thar me footlghts' glare is still
allurlng. She is about to return to the
stage, although her husband still refuses to
give his consent to the project Mrs DAILY
herself admits that the report is true. She
will not tell where she Is first to appear or
whether it win be i'm vaudeville or in light
opera In fact, she herself does not know
1t is not improbable, however, that the
young woman may return to the scene OF
her former triunlphs and appear shortly at
Roster * Balls in q new speciality which
has been written for her. Jennie Joyce was
the reignlng favorite in Roster K Biars old
z Twenty third street house four or i've
years ago. She had a wonderful figure and
no voice at all. She still has the figure and
she says her voice is now good 1t has been
tired She had married PHI Daily, jr., the
son of the veteran sporting man OF Long
Branch.
"A Wandering Minstrel" Clay NJ
Greene's new play, which Klaw & Erlanger
Will produce early In September. will have
In its cast the celebrated cello player, Au-
gust Van Biene, who appeared in this eoun-
try last season for a brief tour in THE