The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-17

A burlesque of Charmion's disrobing act
by Miss Josie Sadler and Mr.. Alexander
Clark will be one of he features of Rice s
new production Of Monte Carlo" at the
Herald Square on March e.
Charles A. Hoyt has finished "A Day and
a Night and the real work is now being
done, for it is at rehearsals and first per-
formances that the Hoyt pieces are finished.
This one is written with the view of pre-
senting Otis Harlan and William Devere in
a favorable light and will be produced Fri
day night at New Haven.
Joseph Arthur's blue Jeans" was last
year secured by Louis Nethersole, Olga s
brother, and Robert Pateman, one of her
company, for presentation in England.
They have just found place for the play
in London, and st. Jame5's Gazette calls 1T
great success. Laura Burt, in the title
role, is hailed as the greatest American
soubrette to invade England since Minnie
Palmer went over
Mabel Bouton, of the Whitney Opera
Company, is a product Of the wild and
woolly West, who. first saw daylight
through the small square window of an
adobe house on Montana cattle ranch.
She ran wild until the shoeing period, when
she was lassooed, shod and sent East to be
educated with her sister Madeline. The
Bouton girls have figured in many impor-
tant metropolitan productions and have al
ways ScOISu peTSOIdl NUS
A. M. Palmer has signed a contract with
Charles Frohman for the appearance of
Richard Mansfield and his company at the
Garden Theater next season, commencing
on Oct. 8, for a term of not less than two
months. This will be the regular opening
Of the theaters season, and Mr.. Mansfield
proposes making an elaborate production of
"Cyrano de Bergerac," now being presented
at the Porte St Martin Theater, in Paris,
with M Coquelin in the title role.
Bonnie McGinn is the suggestive serio-
comic name for little girl with great eyes
and mass Of fluffy curls to her shoulders,
who has attracted attention of New York
critics at Weber & Fieldss Music Hall.
Queer paragraphs are being written about
her, and soon she will be as we'll known as
May Yohe in her American days before she
became Lady Hope. Speaking of Lady
Hope, paragraph in an English paper says
she is devoting much time to. charity and
helping her MISUNDERSTANDING seems to
have taken the American girl to her heart
prepare a concert for the benefit of the
poor.
New York Evening Sun: If the Under
the Red Robe company which is now at
the Grand Opera House can be taken as a
fair example of first-class road" organ
ization, it is no wonder that the theater-
goers in the smaller cities occasionally get
up on their hind legs and say things. There
are two saving graces to it. The scenery is
good, and the acting of May Hampton as
Renee is particularly good. But it is worth
the price of your car fare across town just
to see to what an extent Mr.. William Nor
Kiss has carried his natural inclinations to
rant and chew scenery. Giles Shine, as the
Cardinal, is, IL possible, a little more ludi-
crous than Mr.. Morriss while as for Clon,
the faithful deaf mute, the part which was
originally so well played by Mr.. Crompton
that 1t was the most pathetic feature of the
play the man who now plays It has i'm
proved it to such an extent that the audience
shouts with delight whenever he appears
After seeing this performance one realizes
thoroughly that after all the provincial
dog" does have it's troubles.
When Edward Milton Royle wrote
Friends" everybody expected great things
of his next attempt at dramatic writing
and when he followed Friends" with
Mexico" there was but little disappoint-
ment, for it was generally conceded by the
critical fraternity that Mexico" might be
made strong and stirring melodrama ii
Mr.. Royle would allow some one who was
not to play the leading part to revise the
lines and rearrange, the situations but
to his own glorification as an actor and,
when Mexico failed to draw profitable
patronage, he rewrote 1t into comedy and
rechristened It Captain Impotence. "
son without startling success, and now the
final stage of all: Mr.. Royle has condensed
Captain Impudence' into sketch for the
vaudeville, and Mrs. Royle, Theodore Rob-
erts and Mamie Dupont assisted him in his
debut at Keiths New York Theater this
week. This might well be called the sac
story of a playwright who would be an
actor.
The costume plates for Mr.. 3. E. Rice's
newest production. Monte Carlo" have
been placed on view and are thus described:
Long skirts prevail, but these embody the
essentials of lace and lingerie, and the art
full Mr.. Rice has hit upon some interpola-
lions that will permit of tights. There is,
for example, a hornpipe of his own COM
position performed by seductive and shape
ly sailors of the type peculiar to his pro-
ductions Such Sailers as RiceS Jack Tars
are nowhere else to be found, on land OF
sea. They are invariably feminine, opulent
of hip and prodigal of silk-enmeshed calf
and their gorgeous attire of many-hued
satin would be wholly impracticable when ii
came to sluicing down the main deck OF
lying out on the yardarm to reef sail. If
American men-of-war were manned by
Rices sailor maidens, the whole Spanish
OR flag. Mr.. Rice's idea is that the beauti-
fuT lady visitors to Monte Carlo go about
in short white satin skirts, profusely en-
bellished with aces. spades, hearts and dia-
mondS, and that one of their favorite di-
versions is to whirl through the maZes of
firmly believes that gambling house Group
iers are shapely young women In red waist
coats and black satin coats and knee
breeches."
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