The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27
NOTES of the STAGE,

Notes or the stage
"Shore Acres" cost H. c. Miner 81 800 1t
has thus far yielded 800 600.
Marie Burroughs will reappear with John
Il. Stoddard in 1.-The Bonnie Briar BUSH.
Charles Klein and John Philip Sousa are
finishing THE Charlatan" for De Wolf
Hopper.
Clay NJ Greene is rewriting for Walter
Jones comic opera which he ana FREDERICK
Eustis made some years ago.
Harry Smith and Ludwig. Highlander are
TO cOllaborate in musical piece for FRANCIS
Wilson to bring out next winter.
Richard Barnets 'The Queen of the Bal
let" this years burlesque of the Boston
Cadets, has been bought by Augustin Daily.
Word comes from London that E. j. Hen
ley was operated upon recently, and that
the operation was not success. AS a re-
never act again.
Paul Hervieu and Henri Lavedan are can
didates for the seat of Mellhac IN the
Academic Franchise. Both are young, pue
"Cyrano de Bergerac," who is but twenty
nine.
Charged with giving an immoral show
nineteen women and men of the sack
Crook" Company were arrested and placed
in Jail for three hours at Montreal. COM
plants had been lodged by Archbishop
Bruchesi.
A registered letter addressed to William F.
Hoey came to Mr.. Hoey's widow the other
day containing $780, The writer said 1t was
a sum he had borrowed from Mr. Hoey, but
nothing more than Dan was given as d
signature, and no one knows his identity.
Very soon after the regular performance
at the Sclodownikow Theater, Moscow,
where Marie Van Zandt was playing brill
liant engagement, fire broke out in the audi
forum. The stage was preserved by means
of the iron curtain. Two flremen were
killed.
At a recent Sousa concert in Detroit the
encores were even more frequent than
usual. Following an outburst of great APP
plause, the March King stepped to the
front raised his baton; the men rose to
their feet and for a moment stood at at
tention." Silence intense followed when as
from one instrument out rang 1.-The STAR
spangled Banner" The scene that fol-
lowed can scarcely be described. The vast
audience rose to it's feet and sang with the
band; the air was filled with everything
that could be waved; men and women wept
from sheer gladness that they were Amer
leans, and odd Glory was theirs. 1t was
a long time before the excitement subsidized
and the concert proceeded.
After seventeen years of litigation in vari-
Gus courts, reminding one of one of its most
famous enthusiastically years ago"-the
status of the play Hazel Kirk has been
fixed at last, and Marshall Mallory, clergy
man, capitalist and playowner, has been
most doubles the amount, to the widow OF
Steele Mackaye. Mackaye was genius
and Mallory was shrewd enough to see
playwright Observation-Disclosures On July J.,
1879 he bought Mackaye's services for ten
years. The contract called for a salary of
So 600 and part of the profits, for which
Mackaye was to devote himself exclusively
to Mr.. Mallory's interests. Hazel Kirke
was written and the double stage invented
under this contract. The play was a
moneymaker. In January 1881, Mackaye
claiming Mallory had violated his part of
the contract, started to produce the play
himself. He was stopped by an injunction.
There were suits and countersuits. in the
midst of which the playwright died. His
widow, as Administrative. continued the
Wheeler, in the United States Circuit Court
handed down :. decision awarding her the
damages claimed.