The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-07

fonians
Tom Nawn comes to the Park the first
half Of next week in Opie Reds play
"Shanty Town."
Rice and Barton's Rose Hill English Folly
Company will be seen at the Empire the
first half of next week.
Charles Frohman will have a theater in
Chicago next season. where he will make
new productions with stock company
Bronson Howard once said he spent three
years getting a manager to read certain
play and six years getting him to produce it.
Thomas W. Keene mourns the death of
his father-in-law, Arden Smith, who was a
playwright and author of considerable re-
nown. :.
Rose Coghlan is rehearsing to ap-
pear in the leading role in 1.-THE White
Heather at the Academy of Music Thanks
giving week.
Henry E. Dixey is busy rehearsing vari-
Gus feats of magic prior to his debut as
Herrmann's successor at the Garden Thea
ter, on Nov. 10.
The London Shaftesbury Theater will be
reopened on Nov. 10 with 1.-THE Scarlet
Feather" an English version of Lecocq's
LA Petite Mariee.''
Albert Bruning is engaged for the new In
dependent Theater Company in New York.
He is to play an important part in Ibsens
John Gabriel Borkman."
Williams and Walker, the negro team
now with Hyde's Comedians, will star later
in the season in a farce-comedy by Edward
Harrigan, entitled I'm a Policy Shop, or
4-11-44."
William Gillette has just finished an adap-
tation of :. French farce. His trip to Lon
don in the spring has been abandoned, and
an English company will give TOO Much
Johnson"
1t appears that the great divers scene in
the new Drury-ane melodrama, The
White Heather" is not altogether original
after ALL something of the same kind hav-
ing been done in Paris as long ago as 1876
in a sensational play by Jules Verne
The Flower Mission will realize 500 from
the rattle Of the box at the Grand for Otis
SINNERS opening performance at that thea
ter Thanksgiving week. The box was pre-
scented to the ladies of the Flower Mission
Talbot
In Henry Arthur Jones's latest play,
THE LIARS" Charles Wyndham is said to
have the longest single speech in any mod
ern play. 1t is said, TO contain over nine
hundred words. A similar objection has
been made to Mr.. Jones's latest work in it's
entirety
Nclla Bergen, De Wolf Hoppers prima
donna, is advertised to leave lei Captain"
and take the prima donna role in Sousa's
new opera, THE Bride elect as soon as
it is ready for production. This ought to
establish peace again in the household of
Mr. and Mrs. De Wolf Hopper
Helene Mora, at the Park this week, is
to sing several new character pieces which
have been written for her and which are
especially adapted to her welI-known dra-
10 ctxrla Of ba,.
been especially successful, and these she
will sing at every performance, matinee and
night, during the~wesk, s..
prince RudC. on," Otis SINNERS new
play, which will be seen at the Grand
Thanksgiving week, is said to be one of the
best he has ever had. His company this
season includes most of the old favorites
had. In addition to Prince Rudolph Mr.
Skinner will present Several other plays in
his extensive repertoire.
Russ Whytal has recently had two appli-
cations from Australian managers for the
right to produce For Fair Virginia." He
prefers, however, to retain all the foreign
rights till after the play has been done in
London next year, as he believes that
should the play prove successful there it
would have more value in the colonies than
if presented only on the strength of it's
American reputation, Mr.. Whytal would
acted with any but American players in the
principal parts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whytal who head tie cast of
For Fair Virginia. are known to Indian
apolis theater-goers, , from the visit they
made to the Grand last season. when the
play furnished delightful entertainment for
half week. 1t is one of the best war plays
ever written. While containing no actual
scenes of warfare. it is filled with a fasci-
atmosphere O those
ginia, and the situations are intensely
strong while the love story that runs
through 1t is delightful 1t is coming back
to Indianapolis the last half of next week
and will be welcome.
Having given her resignation six months
ago, Mile Reichemberg, in the ordinary
course. would be leaving the Theater Fran
Gals at the end of the year, but it is the
actresses intention to ask to remain month
longer in the Rue Richelieu, so that she
may as did Deaunay and Got, appear in
some of her favorite parts before bidding
adieu to the public. y Her fellow ocietaires
are sure to accede to her request, in which
case Mile. Relchemberg Will choose, among
other roles, the character of the sous-pre-
fete in lie Monde on ION s'enfluie" and
Suzel in LAM Fritz" The programme
for her benefit and final performance is be- ,
ing already arranged 1t will include
"Gringoire," lie Bonhomme Jadis" and a
new piece by Paul Deroulede, La Plus
IotllS du n1OLde, WHICH SpSCldlly lOT
the occasion. g.
In Fanny Davenport's new play, "a Sol
der of France the possibilities of lighting
effects on the stage are demonstrated to
a marked degree. Comparatively few years
ago such elaborate results would have been
impossible save at enormous expense. and 1t
is doubtful if any sum of money could have
accomplished some of the beautiful changes
which are seen. In the first act, represent
ing French landscape, the scene repre-
sents MONDAY changing slowly to the aft
ernoon effects, with a passing thunder
storm, and finally resolving itself into twi-
light and then moonlight. All this is ac-
complished so gradually that the spectator
is not aware when one degree of light fades
into the other. There are some other very
beautiful affiliations of lights notably in
the French camp on the heights above the
city of Paris, where the perspective is adj
mirably brought out, and where the dark
ness of night slowly merges into dawn, and
Joan goes forth to battle at the head of her
forces. The effect is brought about by nu-
in the front of the house, some of them
electric and others calcium
There is a little woman who daintily
alights from a Broadway car on Fortieth
street about o'clock every evening and
trips her wav to the stage door of the En-
pire Theater, where she has a pleasant
word for the doorkeeper and any and all
the stage mechanics that may happen to