The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-16

Notes OF the Stage.
The members of the Sign or the Cross
company have been notified that their serv-
ices will be desired for another tour of our
principal cities in this piece next season.
Tom Leary, who was partner with
George Fredericks in the management of
the old Walnut Street Theater at Kansas
City, when Orth Stein shot the latter, has
settled down as resident operate comedian
OF San Francisco.
James Doel the Oldest actor in England,
and probably in the world, has just COM
pleted his ninety-fourth year, and is still
strong and active. He boasts that he has
never worm an overcoat or carried a stick
or umbrella.
Not to be outdone by Lwrence Irving,
who wrote a play for his father, Maurice
Bernhard has written one for his mother
and she will present 1t as soon as she re-
covers her health. Bernhardts play is
stage version of George Sands novel, Ca
briel."
George Musgrove, the Australian man
ager who is to have Dan DAILY, Phyllis
Rankin and the rest of 1.-THE Belle of New
York" company in London next month, ar
rived in New York Saturday, and had his
first view Of 1.-THE Belle" at Philadelphia
Monday night. -
Mr. Charles II. Hoyt's friends were star
tied Sunday in New York by rumor that
the playwright was threatened with an at
tack of paralysis. Mr.. Hoyt himself how
ever, pooh-poohed the idea. i was little
sick last autumn" he said, "but 1 IN in bet
ter health than ever l was. Why / weigh
nearly fifty pounds more than did, Paral-
ysis? Absurdr'
When Miss Ethel Barrymore's engage
ment to Lawrence Irving was announced
her father, Maurice Barrymore, cabled:
Have just heard Of your engagement
Heartiest congratulations" Scarcely
fortnight later came the news that. the en-
again oaed aTe st heard
that your engagement is off. Still congrat-
ulate you.'
Marie Wainwright's father was Com
mander Wainwright, of the navy, who was
killed in action at Galveston, Tex. Her
brother, Lieut.. j. M. Wainwright, was
killed by pirates off the coast of Mazatlan.
ing brother R. p p wainwright. is at
present stationed at Fort Sheridan with the
First Cavalry, of which he is senior cap
Wainwright, was executive officer of the
Maine.
Hammerstein's Olympia will reopen on
on April 4 with Hammerstein as employed
manager. He expects to give opera in Eng
lsh at popular prices. The interior of the
playhouse is to be worked over. Ham
merstein will take out twenty-five of the
boxes and make room for 1900 people as a
total seating capacity. Mr.. Hammerstein
says: THE Lyric Theater we may sublet
but II We don't l. III form QraInaIlc STOCK
company to play there-at popular prices.
On the roof we'll have vaudeville, summer
and winter, at popular prices. The cafe un-
der the concert hall is to be completed at
once, and the concert hall will be used ex-
clusively as promenade Smoking and
drinking will be confined to the cafe and
the roof garden
London is chiefly interested in the forth
coming successor to 1.-The Geisha." which
is to be sung probably at Easter time. The
seriousness with which this discussion is
carried on might be amusing were it not
that this musical farce has in Germany
Austria, England and Russia been the most
successful work of it's kind produced with
in year. Owen Hall is. the author Of the
by Adrian Ross and Harry Greenbank.
The scene is laid in Rome in the year A.
y. 30, and Alma Tadema could have made
$1,000 Ii he had consented to act as con-
sulting adviser in the designing of the an
tique scenery and costumes. But he was
work viii be in two acts The first act
shows the interior of villa on the heights
of Rome and the second the exterior of
villa at Naples. Lefty Lind and Hayden
Coffin will be Greek slaves and Marie Tenn
pest Will :, appear as q Persian captive;
also take part in the operetta.
Now that Mansfield is said to have be-
come the possessor of the American rights
to the much belauded play of M. Rostand,
ICyTanO de BeTSeTdc, the following SK6Lcn
of 1t by French correspondent in an Eng
lish newspaper will be read with interest:
1.-THE play might have had for it's subtitle
THE Man With the Enormous Nose for it
is this feature which brings the hero into
contempt and ridicule, and proves an in
superable barrier to his success with the
fair sex. But Cyrano is as marvellous and
doughty a knight as was ever imagined by
the elder Dumas, and if his nose exctes to
laughter his hand is quick to punish the
offender who draws attention to it. A hun
dred men are as nothing to him; he will
NOW them down as easily as reaper cuts
the ripe corn. Cyrano, in short, is the typi-
cal outcome of d medieval age which de-
lights in prodigies of valor. Of course, he
falls in love. seriously, and as he discovers.
hopelessly, for how should q man with an
elephantine proboscis think to win a fair
lady? He is, however, as generous as he is
brave, and SO he composes his rivaPs love
sonnets and having. beautiful voice, re-
cites them beneath the window of his mis-
tress, who all the time credits her lover
with the achievement. But in the last act
Ca very touching and beautiful act, by the
way) he comes by his own, for in the mo-
ment of death his devotion and chivalrous
nature are made clear to the woman he ad-