The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-27

r. A. Roberts has been engaged by Ed
ward A. Braden, manager for Isabelle Ewes
son and Estelle Clayton to stage "A Puritan
Romance in which they jointly star this
season.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is in trou-
BILE again. She desires an injunction against
julia Arthur giving "A Lady of Quality
until the actress conforms to Mrs. BurnettS
ideas about staging the play
vesta Tilley the London music hall singer
who made hit this country two years
ago, has returned to New York with a num-
Der of new songs which she will give at
Weber q Fields's theater this week
Miss Kuehne Beverage the sculptor and
one-time actress as we'll as temporary wife
of Charles Coghlan, is heartbroken over the
loss of her Angora kitten, which strayed
from her studio, at III East Seventeenth
street New York, last week.
Charles Frohman has leased the Duke of
Yorks Theater in London, and will be as
sisted in the management by George Ed
wards. The Duke of York's is the theater
where The Gay Parisienne" called THE
Girl from Paris" in America, has had it's
long rum Mr.. Frohman may open the
theater with THE Charity Ball.
New York writer says: 'If the taste
of this town were not long corrupted by
farce music comedy and vaudeville there
would be prosperity for Sol Smith Russell.
He brings a message of health and innocent
humor to our stage. His purpose like his
art, is honest, not too fine, simple, unpre-
tentious frank and spontaneous. 1t is an
unpleasant commentary on the metropolis
that so worthy a comedian as this should
be attended by good fortune in every part
of the country except that which is sup
posed to especially foster such art as his"
Those fascinating and clever little folk,
the Liliputians, began their annual engage
ment in New York in the Star Theater last
week, and, as usual, attracted a crowded
house. The German midget comedians pre-
scented a new fantasy, which had cordial
reception The piece is a four-act spectacle
tor Hollaender, entitled 1.-The Fair in Midget
Town. It's story is about New York
heiress, a midget. who visits village in
Pennsylvania known as Midget Town, where
all the inhabitants are midgets. The heiress
thoroughly enjoys village fair which is
in progress and invites her new friends to
visit her on her return to New York, which
they do, and have high old time. They
also visit Japan and other countries.
The news of Mr.. E. j. Henley having un-
dertaken the part of Oswald in Ibsen's
Ghosts for the performances of the In
dependent Theater this winter recalls the
fact that Mr. Henley's first visit to America
was at the time of his playing in another
play by an equally famous writer. the late
Robert Louis Stevenson. 1t is not gener-
ally known that Mr.. Henley is brother to
Mr.. William Ernest Henley, we'll known as
the editor of the News Review, in London,
and as a poet and writer of distinction.
Such writers as H. g. Wells, CUTLER Couch
and Kenneth Graham are regarded as dis
coveries of Mr.. w. e. Henley. and his writ
ing has also extended to the stage, Ma
calre" having been the joint Worh of l.op-
ert Louis Stevenson and himself. Macaire
is one of the numerous plays that Mr. Rich
ard Mansfield has announced a passing in
terest in, only to change his mind about it
later.
Cleo De Merode has been the latest New
York fad since her arrival from Paris She
will make her American debut at Roster &
Balls tomorrow night. In the meantime
she has been interviewed daily, gazed at on
the street and in the theaters, apostrophized
by all the clever writers in the metropo-
lis and advertised to her managers hearts
content Everything she wears has been
written up. even to her carriers. and on
the point of wearing apparel the New York
Sun says Nothing about Mile Cleo De
Merode is more interesting than her SAT-
fron-colored gown. She wears it to re-
hearsal and she wears ii to the theater.
She wears ii driving and she takes dinner
in it. 1t is already as characteristic of
her to New Workers as her peculiar way of
wearing her hair There is already a Suspi
cion combined with some surprise that pos
sibly Mile. De Merode has no other gown
for by this time her trunks must have been
unpacked. There was a sympathetic eXpla-
nation from man who saw her in box
at the theater on Saturday night. 1t was
Persons who wonder at Cleos economy in
dress seem to overlook the fact that the
talents of an artist are not SO we'll rewarded
IN France as they are in this country. The
salaries paid to the ballet dancers at the
opera in Paris are small, and she is said
to have received only $40 a month for her
services there. Now, how could a young
woman be expected to have many dresses on
such q salary as that, even if she were a
good manager? A less satisfactory eXpla-
nation was that Mile. De Merode had spent
so much time before the cameras since she
arrived here that the yellow dress had been