The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-06

clever English dancer: Cunningham and
Grant, ''the brutal brothers, Cain and
Mack, burlesquers of opera; Lillian Wash
burne in songs. and the Dawsons in an ex-
hibition of comic and fancy skating. This
English folly company has always been
favorite with Empire patrons, and the list
of performers shows that the quality of the
entertainment is up to its former standard.
Notes of the stage.
The Grand Stock Company will appear in
Henry C. De Miles play, 1.-THE Lost Para
disc" next week.
A new law in Paris makes it compulsory
for every theater to have physician and
surgeon in attendance.
The all-woman chorus of 1.-THE Telephone
Girl makes the Casino production some
thing of beauty show.
Sousa and his band will not give a matinee
concert on their approaching visit to Indian
apolis, but will appear only one night
Weber & Fields have produced their bur
lesque on Mansfeld's "Cyrano de Bergerac.
They have named it "Cyranoes de Bric-a-
Brac."
Election bulletins at the Grand Opera
House and at the Park and Empire will be
a feature Tuesday night at these three
theaters.
Henry f. Dixey. Miss Alice Atherton and
Jacques Kruger have been engaged to
mead n company 10 present Hotel IOpSy
TurVy' in Boston shortly.
Courtney Barnes, widow of John T. Ray
mond, is seriously i'll in a private, hospital
at Stamford She has been on the stage
infrequently of late years.
Lola Small, daughter of Rev Sam Small,
evangelist, appeared as Virginia Pryde, in
Hoyt's comedy, "A Stranger in New YORK,
and then disappeared again.
Walker Whiteside has laid aside tragedy
for the time being and is devoting his tour
entirely to his new romantic plays which
are just now in vogue with the public
Joseph Haworth will make his debut as
John Storm in 1.-THE Christian" at the
Knickerbocker Theater on Nov II. E. J.
Morgan leaves the cast then, as before an
nounced, to rejoin the Lyceum Stock Com
pany.
May Kellerd, who recently announced her
intention of going on the stage, will make
her debut shortly at Sam T. Jacks New
York Theater in a sketch entitled "A Warm
Reception.
Jeanetta Elliott, the graceful dancer with
the Rose Hill Company, at the Empire,
Thursday to Saturday, made a decided hit
last year when she was with the Casino
Burlesquers.
Augustus Thomas is writing another play
for Stuart Robson. The actor will person
ate a OdTGQ6Nl young JelOW WuOIn his
friends nominate and elect to Congress,
much against his will.
Mile. Clara Lardinois, French comic OPP
era singer, will make her American debut in
"a Dangerous Maid at the Casino, intro
ducing a speciality in the second act of the
forthcoming Casino production.
William t. Terriss, the talented son of
the famous English actor. William Terriss,
who was murdered by a crank in London,
is member of 1.-THE Telephone Grip Com
pany, playing an important role.
Madeline Bouton, who has long been i'll in
San Francisco, has arrived in New York.
She had a very trying trip across the con-
tinent on her way home, but is said to be
fast recovering and expects soon to be her
self again.
Olga Nethersole will open her American
tour under the management of Marcus
Mayer, in Cleveland, on Nov II. She will
not be seen in New York until January,
when she will produce THE Termagant,'
at Wallacks.
Ada Lewis, who has made herself famous
for her excellent character work. continues
to win high praise in the Rogers Brothers
company. Miss Lewis is always artistic,
and in "A Reign of Error" she does the
best work of her life.
Charmion's disrobing act on the trapeze,
which was not interfered with in New York.
was much modified in London lest the au-
thorities might revoke the license of the
music hall in which she appeared and now
it has been prohibited in Berlin altogether
j. ]. RosenthaI has retired from the man
agement of the Broadhurst comedies. What
Happened to Jones' and "Why Smith Left
Home" to look after new farce, entitled,
Browns in Town." which he has just pur-
chased and which he will produce next
month.
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play called 1.-THE Manners of Good Society"
Life in New York and Washington is its
theme Reginald De Koven and H. c. Chat
field-TayIor are it's authors. Mr.. Taylor
once wrote piece which was accepted for
the New York Lyceum, although it has
never been acted
Hugh Morton, librettist, and Gustave
Kerker composer of 1.-THE Telephone GRHl,"
are now in London preparing an English
production to follow THE Belle of New
York." which is still running at the Shafts
bury. In addition to the two above named
Morton and Kerker also wrote the other
Casino pieces, IAN American Beauty" I'm
Wirs e of the Town The fuS Merry ferry World.
and the latest Casino piece, Yankee
Doodle Dandy" in which Edna Wallace
Hopper is playing
The double bill in which Mrs. Fiske will
be seen here this season is said to afford
as great dramatic interest as "Tess of the
dUrbervilles." Like Tess, both the curtain
raiser, "A Bit of Old Chelsea" and the
longer play, Love Finds the Way" appeal
strongly to women, while both have also a
strong masculine interest. The opportunity
the new plays afford Mrs. Fiske for con-
trast is notable. In the shorter play she ap-
pears as an innocent yet precociously philo-
sophie and pathetically sensitive waif of the
London streets, and in Miss Merngton's
drama she personates a wealthy young
woman whose imagination magnities the
social effects of a slight physical misfor-
comes warped in consequence, but who is
finally redeemed to happiness in a romantic
way. Mrs. FiSl1e Will also put on Tess dur
ing her Indianapolis engagement.
Ezga Kendall has fallen out with that
statuesque but rotund parsonage, W. H.
West. Mr.. West is, by the way, running a
mnstel show to suit himself since separat-
ing from his old partner, Mr.. Primrose, and
naturally he is the biggest thing on the bill.
He also has some original ideas, and one of
them was that Ezra Kendall should do his
Yankee speciality in "black face"-a Yankee
with the face Of a negro. Well, the report
does not relate what Ezra said when this
proposition was made to him. 1t must have
COnVulsed his artistic conscience. and il may
have done more. At any rate, Ezra's en-
gagemenI with Vests minstrel organization
VAS summarily ended. 1t is understood that
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