The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-02

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J. H. stoddart will appear at Keith's
| Theater on October 10 in the telegraph
| scene from THE Long Strike"
Weber G Field. the successful New York
vaudeville firm. expect to invade London
with their company next spring.
The smyth & Rice Company, rehearsing
Du Souchet's new farce "A Misfit Mar
riage.' will open in Washington tomorrow
night.
"The Devils Island" a damatized story
Of the Dreyfus case. has had q profitable
meodramatic experience at the fourteenth-
street Theater in New York.
Andrew Mack in THE Ragged carp is
said to more nearly take the place of the
lamented W. j. Seaman than any Irish
comedian who has yet appeared.
Otis Skinner will not be seen in Indianap-
oils this year until late in the season,
when he will have his own company in
Rosemary" John Drew's former success.
tombstone Bennett, supported by Gene
Garfield, Richards and other well-known ac-
tors, has begun her starring season in
new farce called 1.-THE Female Drummer.
The sisters MacarTi, premiere dancers with
the Moulin Rouge which will open for a
half week at the Empire tomorrow, have
quite favora bic press comments Wner-
ever they have appeared.
Tim Murphy. in his new play, 1.-THE Car
petbagger," which will be produced in To-
ledo Monday night is supported BY what is
seen outside q, New York bench show.
Daniel Frohman will make a production
of Anthony Hopes dramatic version of
Rupert of Hentzau' (the sequel of THE
TOrf~ 80 do ont no
with James K. Hackett in the dual part.
Miss Ethel Jackson, the actress, who came
from Europe recently to appear in Little
Miss Nobody" which has recently proved
a failure, has been engaged for Leading
role in Hotel Topsy Turvy," at the Her
aid Square Theater.
The attraction at the Park next week
will be "Pousse Cafe" one of the success
full buresques at Weber and Fields New
York music hall last season. This. will be
given in place of THE Con CurerS, bur-
iesque on Paul Potter's The Conquerors,"
which was originally booked at the Park.
The Madrid papers have unearthed the
baptismal certificate of Adelina Patti, which
has finally settled the question of her much
discussed birth place and birth date. 1t was
taken from the register of the Church of
ST. Luis Madrid, and says she was born at
o'clock on Feb 10, 1S43, making her fifty
five years old.
The Baroness Blanc, whose widow
dance at Hammerstein's Olympia last win
ter created so much varied comment in the
metropolitan press and who puts in her time
between acts in attending to lawsuits over
her title with her penultimate husbands
relatives, is travelling with Bryant & Wat
sons Australian Beauties, to appear at the
Empire next week.
David Miles, who will assist Walter Clarke
Bellows in the management of the stage
this season at the Grand, is graduate Of
Cornell University and member of the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity The grandfather
of Hardee Kirkland of the stock company,
was General Hardee, who wrote the first
tactics used by the United States army.
Mr. Kirkland named after his grand
father.
Madeline Bouton, the actress whose life
was despaired of several weeks ago because
of the effects of surgical operation neces-
STATED by fall she sustained while prac-
ticing a dance at the Columbia Theater,
San Francisco, is recovering. She has so
to sit up in her room. She may be con-
fined to the hospital. however, for some
time to come.
In "A Dangerous Maid" the musical
comedy to be produced at the Casino on
Nov Z, one of the sensational scenes Will
U6 Il Quct between TWO WOmen MISS no.
selle Knott, well-known actress was first
engaged to play the part of one of the
combatants. but when she found that she
would be required to appear in the fight
with only feShingS over the upper part of
her body she shuddered and resigned from
the cast: Laura Burt has been engaged in
her stead.
The original Gaspard Of 1.-THE Chimes of
Normandy" has died in Paris. His name
was Edouard Milher, and for many years
he was a popular impersonator of old men
in French farces He might have passed
away long ago had he seen some of the
GaSpardS who have ranted and howled
from one end of this country to the other.
That part, beloved of the character actor in
comic opera, has become one Of the ira
ditional nuisances of the stage in it's cheap
and unpretending way
Elsie Leslie, who is this season a member
of the Joseph Jefferson Comedy Company,
and plays the part of Lydia Languish to
Otis SINNERS Captain Absolute in THE
Rivals was the original and famous Little
Lord Fauntleroy in the play of that name
which ran for nearly two years at the
Broadway Theater in New York. Later she
starred in a romantic drama called THE
Prince and the Pauper' with marked sue
cess. Miss Leslie is now young woman
eighteen years of age She is clever
actress and possessed of unusual beauty.
A half interest in "The French Maid" has
been purchased from Messrs Evans and
Mann by Florence Ziegfeld, jr. Miss Anna
Helds manager. Miss Held, who has been
doing a speciality in the second act of the
musical comedy, has also been rehearsing
Susette the leading role. formerly taken by
Olive Redpath, when THE French Maid
was seen in Indianapolis. and makes her
debut in ii at the Herald-square Theater
Saturday night, the two hunQredth per-
Torrance of the piece in New York In
playing the role of the French maid Mile.
Held will introduce her specialties in both
acts.
The Prince of Wales is not receiving po-
lite treatment on the New York stage.
Paula Edwardes, with a new cockney dia-
lect, tells in song. at Days, what she
would do if her papa was the Prince of
Wies." At Weber & Fields, the Prince is
represented a decrepit individual on
crutches. and Peter Daley presents him to
the buoyant. frank Glucose sisters, with the
remark. Those are the first actresses he
ever met" What is more, the Princes il
in Europe. is depicted in the play current
at the Fifth-avenue Theater as a disagree
able and purpoSeless cad.
Writing of ]. II. Stoddart's departure
from the Brooklyn stock company last
week. Miss Ethel Browning, of this city,
member of the company. says: We'll, 1
don't know when / was so sorry to have
week come TO a close as l was Saturday
Dear old Mr.. Stoddart, one cannot help low
ing him. We all look forward to having
him With US when the season is a little