The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-20
Notes of the STAGE.

Tree has now taken the part of Miladi.
Notes of the Stage.
Monday night. in Philadelphia, Sol Smith
Russell tries his new play Hon. John
Griggsby."
Both the Park and Empire announce the
additional attraction Tuesday night of spe-
caI report by rounds from the Corbett-
sharkey tight in New York.
1t may interest the curious to know that
Charles Coghlan has just turned into his
fiftieth year. He was educated for the
bar, but abandoned 1t for the stage.
Miss Alethea Luce. the actress who has
returned to Roland Reeds company after
year in London with 1.-THE Cat and the
Cherub' will be entertained by society
friends during her stay In the city.
Miss Fay Templeton was not in the cast of
"Cryanose'' at Weber & Fields's last week.
She is suffering from a severe cold, which
her physicians fear may develop pneumonia,
and it will probably be some time before
she will be able to reappear.
Tragedian Charles B. Hanford possesses
relics and other articles that are of priceless
value to him for they are mementoes of
great actors and actresses He has swords,
daggers armor and other things used by
Edwin Forrest, E.. l.. Davenport, Wallack,
Mccullough and others.
Mile otero, the noted Spanish dancer,
has been expelled from Monaco The Prince
of Monaco has been showing her so much
attention that the Princess became jealous
and secured the dancers expulsion. Oteros
beautiful villa, where crowds OF admirers
congregated, is now deserted. She is in
Paris
owen Marlowe, the father of Ethel Mar
lowe, who died on the Knickerbocker Thea
ter stage Wednesday night during a per-
Torrance Of 1.-The Christian, also died on
the stage. 1t was at the Globe Theater in
Boston, in 1876, under almost similar cir
cumstances. Miss Marlowe's mother is now
g. member Of James K. Hacketts company.
Sybil Felice Lloyd, better known as Sybil
tombstone. once an actress Of considerable
notoriety, creating the role of LA in 1.-THE
York boarding house. 100 West SEVENTEEN
street. She had been a sufferer from cancer
for nearly two years, but not until Oct 10
was she compelled to take her bed. The
disease progressed SO rapidly that the eff
forts to save her were of no avail. Her
body was cremated the following day.
A few days ago, in coming out Of the Hol-
land House, New York, Miss Julia Arthur
made a misstep and fell, injuring a liga-
ment. She did not, however, remain away
from the 'Ingomar'' rehearsal at Wallack's
until Thursday, when the injury became
quite painful. During the fencing scene in
the first act Of "A Lady of Quality at
Wallack's. that night, Miss Arthur's foot
slipped and the sudden pain caused her to
fall on the stage in a swoon. The curtain
mrfbr r pus ~ Lew inlutes MISS
the performance continued.
According to information received at New
York, Clara Ward. Princess de Chimay, will
appear in an opera written by Auber for the
first Ha biY,7oxy yIo
as notorious as herself. She was the famous
Nine. Tallien. She married the Marquis de
Fontenay, and was divorced from him; then
married Tallien and was divorced from him.
Finally she settled down as the wife of the
Prince de Chimay. Auber's opera was
called Jean de Couvecin,'' and dealt with
ancient legend of the Chimay family
The present princess, it is said, will call it
Sire de Chimay, in order to make cap
ital out of her husbands name.
Roland Reeds memory, good though it be,
runneth not back to the time of his first
appearance on the stage. And no wonder,
for that event occurred when he was but
six months old. 1t was at the old Walnut
street Theater in Philadelphia, and Mr..
Reed was carried on as "the baby in the
play of Mr.. and Mrs Peter White" Later
he took children'S speaking parts, and after
his school days were over he Joined Mrs.
John Drews company at the Arch-street
Theater, from which so many famous actors
have been graduated. Mr.. Reed was the
original Koko in THE Mikado'' in this
country, and one of his rivals in this part
was Richard Mansfield.
M. Rostand began his playwriting career
at the age of twenty-three, when his three
act comedy. Les Romanesques, was ac-
cepted lin 1s9D by the Coincide Franchise,
though it was not performed till 1894 A
four-act play, La Princesse Lointaine,"
1,vO.
land played in London by Sarah) was only
a demi-succesS, though it pleased the critics
by its wealth of poetic fancy. NJ Rostands
next work, La Samaritaine, also pro-
duced by Nine. Bernhard at the Renais-
sance Theater, and recently revived there,
revealed new phase of his talent 1t is a
and the woman of Samaria.
1t was Roland Reed who first gave Edna
Wallace Hopper a trial on the stage. This
diminutive piece of humanity came to him
in New York seven years ago and said: II
want to go on the stage. Now / can never
be a Juliet, and ! wouldn't be if I could
1t isn't in my line But I'm sure can do
some sort of work well. and think you can
find out what it is Mr. Reed says it was
this frank avowal that decided him to give
the little San Francisco girl chance. He
gave her small part in 1.-THE Club Friend
and in six weeks she was playing the lead
ing ingenue in Lend Me Your Wife,
time afterwards by no less competent
discerner of dramatic ability than Charles
Frohman. who secured Miss Wallace for his
Empire Company.
Few of Julia Marlowes st. Louis admir-
ers know how nearly this bright light Of
our stage came to being hidden under a
bushel on a Kansas farm. Born at Cald-
beck. England 9 quaint moorland town IN
the mining region Of cumberIandshire, she
came with her parents to America when
but I'VE years old Her father bought