The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-19

Belle OF New York is now playing Days
role singing the "Phillosophera song an
en- cross the road"
Sir. Arthur Sullivan said lately that. the
scors OF his new opera The Beauty
Stone" had pleased him more than that Of
'Ivanhoe," his most ambitious previous
work.
Mr.. Florence Ziegfeld, jr. has secured the
American rights for La Tortue' tThe Tur-
tey. French farcical comedy in three acts,
by Leon Gandillot. An adapta ton OF Ii Will
open the next season at the Manhattan The
alter.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the au-
thoress and playwright, is to marry stephen
the production of her dramatfzed novel, "A
Lady of Quality" Mrs. Burnett is forty
five, the groom-to-be, thirty-five.
Former President and Mrs Benjamin Har-
rison, with Lieutenant John F. Parker,
United States navy, of the Columbia, and
Mrs. Parker occupied a box at the Man
haitian Theater, New York, "Wednesday
night, at the performance of Way Down
East"
Robert Peyton Carter, who has been play
ing one of the elders in 1.-The Little Minis
ter is to be married on June q, to Miss
Ruth Baldwin Holt, formerly a member of
Mr.. Days company. The marriage VIII take
place at Boston and Mr.. Garter ana ms
bride will spend the summer abroad.
While Eleonora Duse was playing in Lis
bon a tablet was erected in her honor in
the foyer of the theater. AT one perform
ance OF Camille" ten thousand camelias
were given 10 her. The theater's custom
airy prices were at once increased three
fold, and after two performances they were
made five times the regular rates. She is
soon to appear in Paris.
A recent litigation over the American
rights to the authors royalties of Char
leys Aunt" reveals the fact that Brandon
Thomas made $4,000 out of that farce
without getting tall that he was entitled to
from the American rights. Now an En-
gllsh court has compelled w. S. Peney to
pay Mr.. Thomas $4,000 more. Most of these
profits came from the United States, in spite
of the fact that the play has been trans
lated into every European language.
Willie Collier was callboy at Days The
alter for six years, and members of the
company told him that he had acquired so
many of the managers mannerisms that he
might be accused of mimicking him. With
actors OF such marked personality as
CHARLES Leclerc, James Lewis, Charles
Fisher and John Gilbert in the company
there was plenty of temptation for the boy
TO mimic and he did not resist it. One day
Mr.. DAILY called Collier into a dressing room
an ana a. sai f William, you have pernicious
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pany. | want you to cease this habit. 1t
prompts you to grow bold, and some day
you YOU vii. . De bold enough to initiate me. .
had been initiating him for six years.
The engagement of David Belasco's play.
The Heart of Maryland" at the Adelphi
Theater, London, will probably close about
July l. The distinguished dramatist writes
from London that he is more than pleased
hn of h;
Originally booked for only four weeks, the
play Will probably have enjoyed a run of
tnree months before the season closes-an
unusual success for a new production made
outside OF the regular London season. The
company has now been playing continu-
ousiy since Aug. 16 last with the exception
OF the week occupied in the passage to
Europe. Mr.. Belasco and Mrs. Leslie Car
Ter Will not return to America until late in
august and will open their next season in
MI. BelascoS new play.
Mile. Berthet, who replaces Sbyi Sander
son in Paris as That's in Massenet's opera
OF that name, is a Belgian by birth, a first
prize pupil of the Paris Conservative of NJ
Duvernoy, and made her debut as Ophelia
A habitue of the opera, speaking of the two
characterizations. says: There is abso-
lished in this case Sibyl Sanderson. as
Tbais, was simply perfection Nothing else
can be said. Her effect on the audience was
L
pect to see role so filled" One of the per-
sonnet of the opera says: She fairly shook
us with PRISONS at rehearsals. Her voice
was electrifying and her acting more so.
she was not playing That's; she was That's
She came on to the rehearsal one day in a
costume so exquisitey ethereal that it had
TO be suppressed for public appearance She
was fairly gummed into it. A more beauti-
full sight in female form l never saw but it
had to be suppressed"
A precious line comes from Nine Melba
says Chicago paper, announcing her day
of sailing and her desertion of Paris for
ever as a pied-a-terre. All of her beautiful
Trianon furniture her Dresden and Wat
teau PLAQUES, her bronzes, marvellous en-
broideries, glass, linen and famous pictures
nave beer sold for a fabulous sum to a
sdllettante, whose fortune permits the ask
ing for this exquisite cage for the rare
songb1rd, exactly she had lived in it,
Melba is tired of Paris and her belongings
and her new palace in London is something
too august for description and the house
upon the Thames is a glorious structure in
which the fanciful dainties and fairy stuffs
of her Rue de Prony apartment would be
lost and belttied. She left America laden
with pleasant memories and hampers full
of money, but she feels deeply moved con-
corning the war and wants to buy some
thing for the soldiers to which indefinite
friendliness she puts no limit only that she