The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-08
PARIS soNGsTREss WITH ssCAT AND
THE CHErCB, MONDAY.
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott
Coming Saturday, with May Ir-
win ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bill.


from her photographs, which have become
popular poster subjects. Her pompadour
hair, affected by society girls. her bewtch-
ing smile and glorious complexion, ascribed
to milk baths. with all OF which the public
has been kept familiar by her industrious
manager have aroused the curiosity of ev-
cry woman in the land. Letters from
abroad told OF Anna Held's many charms
before she was brought to America, so that
her path to success was assured before her
music hall songs were heard. Since her
arrival Manager Ziegfeld has kept the pa
pers supplied with stories about the little
songstress until she is known in this coun-
try probably better than in her own Be
fore starting on this seasons tour Lily
Langtrys private car was purchased and
lavishly furnished for the little Paris singer
so that her flying jumps over the country
might be made as spectacular as possible.
Miss Held is declared to have personality
that is absolutely useless TO attempt to
resist when the calcium once exhibits her
full beauty to an audience. Her boidest
claim for recognition lies in the expression
which she puts into her songs. She is now
able to sing a number of these in English.
considerably broken, and all the more
charming for that, it is claimed. She has
songs, and her Il Want Dem Presents
Back" is perhaps her best in that line.
The song for which she is most famous
is a childish lyric. Come Play with Me-
said to be perfectly nonsensical in words,
but which she has made a success by the
way she sings it. The opening stanza is as
follows:
Il have not been. here very. long;
As yet L m quite a stranger,
And so to try an English song
May SEEM perhaps, a danger --s-e -.
One thing | aSk-a favor slight,
/ hope you'll not refuse me
That If don't pronounce 1t right
You kindly will excuse me.
I'm fond of games and romps you see;
I wish you'd come anu play with me,
For have sdch nice little way with me;
/ wish you'd come and play with me-.
1t might be added that if Anna Held's
art can make an entertainment out of such
a song she must be wonder; indeed. Miss
Held's company which is large and
clever one, judging from the, names of the
people in the cast will appear first in Ches-
ter Bailey Fernald's Chinese tragedy in one
act, entitled The Cat and the Cherub'
Mr.. Fernald's beautiful play was first in
troduced to the public as a short story of
life in Chinatown, published in the Century
Magazine 1t was first produced under the
title Of THE First Born and presented in
San Francisco, where it made immedi-
ate success. Subsequently Mr.. Fernald
made a dramatizaticn of it and called it
The Cat and the Cherub," and this is the
play that will be given here. and which is
now running III London. Following THE
Cat and the Cherub," the three-act farce
by Paul Wilstach, entitled "A Gay De-
ceiver." will be presented. This is described
as an exceedingly bright and funny COM
edy. Prominent in the company are such
clever performers as M. A. Kennedy, Ed
win Holland. w, G. Beach. Harry Mills,
Lizzie Evans, Marie Valeau Charlotte
Deane. Dolores Letannl and others
AS usual, Nat C. Goodwins annual en-
gagenlent comes late in the season He is
announced for two performances at En-
glishs, next Saturday matinee and night
Goodwin is supported by Maxine Elliott,
the beautiful actress, who became instantly
popular here on her first appearance last
year, and his company is largely the same
as for several seasons. For his matinee
bill AN American Citizen Madeline Luz
cette Ryley's comedy is announced. This
was seen here last year for enc perform
ance, and was accepted as one of the most
entertaining plays the American comedian
ever gave. The Saturday night bill will
be "A Gilded Fool" Henry Guy Cartoons
play, which has been, perhaps, the most
popular of any of the Goodwin productions
The story of AN American Citizen is
one of interest. Barbury Brown q Cruger
are American lawyers, and the opening act
dlscloses Barbury and Cruger involved i'll
the detalcatlon of Brown, who has disap-
peared, apparently dead by suicide and at
the bottom of the Atlantic. Cruger has in
herited from English ancestry "a fortune
With string to II, as Cruger himself ex-
aEfn
has involved the firm, the honor of which
Cruger Is determined to save, forces him
to accept the conditions OF his ancestors
Will, that gives him 100000, provided he
accepts within a certain period the condi-
tions-to marry an English girl, renounce
his American nationality, not share the for
tune with his cousin and change his name
to that of Carew. The cousin, Beatrice
Carew, the testator's daughter, who had
been disinherited by her father for refusing
to stop accepting attentions of a young
American. arrives at the moment, and
through form of marriage with her, he
shares the legacy, not with his cousin but
with HIS wife. With his share he makes
good the deTalcst1on of his firm and his
wife goes abroad 70 enjoy hers. The posi-
lion thus established by this marriage of
convenience forms the basis for the COM
edy The American for whom Beatrice had
forfeited the directions and fortune of her
father was Brown, the supposed drowned
and defaulting member of the New York
law nrm, and a reason for his disappear-
anCe other than his shortage was to break
She takes only passing interest in Carew,
who has fallen deeply in love with his hand
some bride. The action of the comedy
shows how Brown turns up again, how he
is finally discounted by Carew and how
Beatrice, after many MISUNDERSTANDING
admits her love for her husband and Joins
him in lonely lodgings. Here is an old
fashioned interior; Carew is spending mel
aucholy Christmas eve alone with Mercury
his Office boy. But Beatrice, all her appar-
ent GOODNESS melted by love and pity. Joins
the humble supper table, and. as the music
from the church choir i'm q nearby taber-
nacle takes a tenderer turn. the audience
recognizes that the happiness OF the lovers
Is complete.
The Goodwin company includes William
1ngersoN, Clarence Handyside, Nell
O'BTien Thos. Oberle, Louis Payne, Es-
telle Mortimer, Gertrude Elliott, Hattie
Russell and l.. E.s Woodthorpe.
Grand.-'tShOre Acres" Next Week.
shore Acres" which is recognized by
many able dramatists and dramatic critics
as the best American play yet produced.
win return to the Grand the last half of
next week. opening Thursday nlgtt. May
~ and including Saturday matinee, James
4. Herne will. Of course. be seen in his
delightful character, Uncle Nat. This COM
edy-drama of New England life does not
rely on any old-fashioned Theatre devices
for approval or applause, the great strength