The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-31

are in Paris During Abbey & Grau's first
season at the Metropolitan a performance
of Robert began at and lasted unui
nearly 2.
Roland Reed viii begin his twelfth en-
gagement at the Boston Museum Monday
evening. Aug. %. This will also inaugurate
his sixteenth season as a star. Mr.. Reed
has carefully planned his coming tour and
WILL during the season. produce two new
plays. The first, farce from the German.
which will have its premier at the Museum,
was last seasons big success in Bernn
where it was produced early IN the year.
and believe IS sun running Inc I'd
this able playwright had the advantage OF
seeing ii played during his recent visit 10
named "A Distinguished Guest, and Mr.
Reed will have one of those eccentric roiss
that he has made peculiarly MS own. Later -l
in the season Mr.. Reed will present new
comedy from the pen of Madeleine Lucelte
Ryey which is now receiving It's nhlsnins
touches in London Mr. Reed. IN the spft ths
of 1899 will play a short season on the
Miss Isadore Rush will remain Mr.. Reeds
Mi bs M NIPPON Mary Myers. Mabel Florence
Sheridan Tupper. Charles S. Able Julian
Reed. L. p. Hicks. James Douglass anu
others.
A cablegram received in New York from
London SAYS that Miss Cissie Lotus has
closed an engagement for America and that
she viii appear at Roster g. Balls this COM
ing season.
Tim Murphy will star next season in
new comedy by Opie Reed and Frank ..
Pixley entitled THE Carpet Bagger'
Miss Kathryn Kidder. of the James
Kidder-Warde combination, promises some
striking examples of the dressmakers' art
during the forthcoming tour. Her gowns
for LADY Teazle in the school for Scan
dal" likewise for Desdemona, Lazy Mae
beth and Portia, will be the creations Oh
Worth, Paquin and Duse, the famous "a
risian gownmakers.
At the performance given the last
Wednesday night of The Heart CT Mary
land' at the Adelphi Theater, London, the
Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Vic
toria and Prince Charles Of Denmark occu-
pied the royal box, and ut The CONCLUSION u
the performance an invitation WAS given TO
David Belasco and Mrs carter to VISIT tue
royal party in their box
CeciIe Lorraine is the name of a young
prima donna soprano who viii appear in
this country during the coming season. She
is said to have a prepossessing appearance
and to be an artist of rare ability. Although
an American by birth, Miss Lorraine mas
never been heard in her own country.
ma, who has been singing with Maurice
Graus company at Covent Garden, Lon
don, has signed a contract To appear in
opera at Liege after the close oil Tie Lonoon
season. After that she will leave for this
country, making her APPEARANCE with the
Maurice Grau opera company.
Mrs. Fiske has already announced that
she has rejected Lorimer Stoddard's scenar-
10 for dramatization of Vanity Fair" 1t
is now reported that Langdon |1lWyn Nit
chell, the well-known poet, will furnish n!r
the play to be taken from Thackerays
novel.
Edmund Rostend the author of "Cyrano
de Bergerac," the most successful lay of
the year in France, is writing new play
for Nine. Bernhardt The central figure of
the new play is the Due de Reichstadt, and
this character is to be unprecedented by the
divine Sarah herself.
Poor Belasco! They will not let him rest.
Now be has been told in London that the
great belfry scene of 1.-The Heart of Mary
land was done at the Surrey Theater there
in 1912 in a play called Blanche Heriot,
or the Chertsey Curfew.
Anna Held wearing an American flag of
diamonds, sapphires and rubies, drives
four-in-h hand of American horses in Paris
and declares that the sentiment of the great
French masses is distinctly cordial and
friendly toward this country. Anna is talk
ing through the box office.
Among the new plays promised for next
season is a farcical comedy, entitled 'The
Purser," the scenes of which occur on ship
board. The play is said to have met with
success in England. where il is now in it's
second season.
The new comic opera which STANCE and
Edwards have written for jefferson de An
gelie is to be called His American High
ness" The tour is to be under the manage
ment of Ben Stevens
A. L. Rhinestrom, in partnership with
John F. Harley, will take out lei Captain
next season, and send the company through
the South and West.
Klaw & Erlanger have twelve war plays
on the subject of Cuba. Almost every other
manager has at least two or three plays on
the same theme >
What Happened to Jones" is reported to
have made success in London.