The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-20

.sThe Sunshine of Paradise Alley is prac-
tically dramatization of the song by the
same name.
CLYDE Fitch calls his play for Efie Shan
non and Herbert Kelley "Reaping the
Whirlwind."
Arthur c. Aston. so long identified with
Friends" is the owner and manager Of
''Tennessee's Partner"
Mrs. Patrick Campbell is soon to act
with Forbes Robertson in Maeterlinck's
"Pellias and Melissande."
], Lester Wallack, grandson of the late
Lester Wallack, was not a success in Minnie
Seligman's revival of Comedy and Trag
edy."
Hammerstein's Olympia, in the hands Of
Receiver Freedman, has been leased to Mrs.
Hammerstein, and her husband will again
assume control as manager
The arrangement of Thackerays Henry
Esmond' which Glen McDonough and
Louis Shipman had made for Sothern, is
named The Head Of the House." 1t will
be acted next month
Jules Lemaitre has provided play for
Rejane in which she has refused to appear,
as new Sardou drama will occupy her
time during the rest of the winter Jane
Hading may be seen in the role written for
Rejane.
Carl Weiss, an actor in the Coburg Court
Theater, has completed the seventeen year
of his professional career. He appeared as
William Tells son in Schiller's play in 1927,
and has never been a single day without
an engagement since.
Mrs. Jack" Van Shack, of Chicago, who
recently secured a $4,000 verdict against
her millionaire father-in-law for the aliena-
ton of her husbands affections, and who is
now in the Windy City for the purpose of
securing divorce, is to go on the stage.
James K Hackett will next year be the
youngest of the stars" Daniel Frohman
will present him at the head of company
as Nigel, in THE Tree of Knowledge and
probably in George Hibbards "Marlbor-
ough," which Sothern also has under con-
sideration.
Geraldine Ulmar who was to have come
to this country, is still seriously i'll from
an accident last September. She has re-
Gently become reconciled to Ivan Caryl, the
musical composer, from whom she was di-
vorced several years ago. Miss Ulmar grew
stout and then, by dieting, recovered her
girlish figure. That recaptured her hus-
band, and they remarked.
Paul Potter has bought Guy De Maupas-
SAINTS Mile. Fi-Fi,'' which he utilized as
the first act of 1.-THE Conquerors. He will
at least own that portion of the piece in one
sense Of the word. 1t is said that he will
diSO SSGulo Tic ESilSllSl IISHtS 10 0dIQOu >
. La Haine," which is the original work
from which he drew the rest of his drama.
THE Conquerors'' will be presented in Lon
don this spring.
Maud Adams is a dramatic magnet, says
the New York Sun. She attracts. No mat
ter If 1.-THE Little Minister in the stage
version, is quite as charming, amusing and
interesting as the novel, and no matter if
1t Is admirably put behind the footlights,
the fact remains that the ability and per-
sonality of Miss Adams are the real reasons
why the play remains at the Garrick to the
end of the season. 1t is settled that she
stays till hot weather.
1t is announced from Kansas City that
Louis James, Nine. Rhea and Frederick
Warde will make a joint starring tour I'M
der the name of the James Rhea- Warde
combination next season. They will play
Julius Caesar "Othello,'' Macbeth .
Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing
School for Scandal. and, possibly, a new
| play. Complete scenic settings will be car
ried for each play. The tour will be man
aged by Wagenhals and Kemper, Kansas
City men. The contracts, it is said, have
been signed. -A~Ams