The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-23

"A Dog in a Manager" The play win per-
haps never be finished now.
Janauschek is one of the latest acquiss-
tions to the vaudeville stage.
pantomime is being prepared for pro-
duction in this country. Cissy Fitzgerald
will be feature Of IL.
]. NJ. Barrie is said to have received
$4,000 from THE Little Minister a
play and novel up to the present season.
The first OF the big minstrel organizations
on the road this season to reach Indianapo-
lis will be the Prfmrose-Iockstader COM
bination-
Dan Daily will take THE Belle of New
York back to the New York Casino TO fill
in time following the collapse of the Royal
Italian opera mania that did not come up
TO expectations -
The Mignani family. the musical paviors,
one Of the strong novelty acts on the vaude-
Vile stage, will soon be seen here with
Clark Bros Royal Rirlesquers." This is
their first appearance in seven years.
Manager A. H. Candy says that "A Lady
of Quality has played to such a large bust
ness ever since Miss Arthur began her tour
that the scheme Of presenting some other
plays has been temporarily abandoned.
Augustin Days version of "Cyrano de
Bergerac" has not made success. Mr..
DAILY apparently took many liberties. giving
naturally made a hit as Roxane, but that
did not carry the play
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS line steamer
Auguste Victoria, which sailed from South
ampton Friday afternoon, has among the
passengers on board Maurice Grau, Nine.
Calve, Nine. Eames, the De Reszkes, Van
dyke, Bispham and other members of the
and mi
the conductors.
1.-THE Telephone Girl'' will be the first of
the New York Casino productions to visit
Indianapolis this season. This was the
piece that succeeded 1.-THE Belle of New
York. at the Casino and it will give thea
ter-gOerS here their first chance to see If
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman are as clever
as they pretend to be in New York.
Frank Daniels. just prior to his departure
from his summer home in Rye, called his
young son to him and thus he spake: my
boy. when you are older and are through
with your preparatory schools, what college
do you want to go to-" And the boy, with
but a moments pause, replied: ''Vassar."
HUH the comedian exclaimed, getting up
and whisting softly. Huh! I'll be hanged
if wouldn't like to go there myself
That well-known leading actor, Henry
Jewett, who cast a shadow on Melbourne
last season, will not be a member of the
Mcdowell Walsh combination now starring
in Miss Davenports plays. Jewett seems TO
have rebelled against being hidden in minor
roles, as was his perfect right. Henry
Jewett is one of the very best actors who
has come to the American stage and his
work has attracted favorable attention from
the press ever since his first season as Julia
Marlowe's leading man.
The great Sousa band celebrated it's sixth
birthday in st, Louis recently, its first con-
cert having been played on Sept. 26, 1892. A
curious coincidence attached to the first APP
pearance of the new band in public. It's or
ganization had been heralded as the rival
to dispute supremacy. in the concert field
hitherto enjoyed by the famous musical ag-
gregatiOn under command of Patrick S. Gill
more, who had, indeed, previously predicted
that Sousa would be his successor in public
esteem. Mr.. Gilmore died on Saturday even
ing, Sept. "A, 1892, and the first music the
new band played in public was Gilmore's
own dirge, Deaths at the Door, On hear
ing of the great leaders death Mr.. Sousa
arranged this number for his band, and the
musicians played standing and with rever-
ent feeling. During the six years since then
the Sousa band has given more than $500
concerts in all the principal cities and towns
of the United States and Canada, travelling
over 10000 miles in the course of its tours.
Walter Clarke Bellows, the widely-known
stage director of the Grand Stock Company,
did a remarkable thing last Tuesday Late
Monday night the management learned that
Jim the Penman,'' the play underlined for
this week, was in litigation, and could not
be used just at present. A telegram was
sent ordering the manuscript of 1.-The
Wife" to be expressed at once from New
York. but in order that the Grand Stock
Company might begin rehearsng without
delay Mr.. Bellows dictated the entire first
act of The Wife" lines, business and all. to
stenographer, and in very few hours
had all the parts copied and distributed and
the people at work on them. In this way
he had the first act well rehearsed by the
time the manuscript arrived. The achieve
ment is remarkable from the fact that
though Mr.. Bellows rehearsed numerous
companies in the play, and went on the tour
of the company that first produced 1.-THE
Lyceum Theater Company, of New York
1t has been months since he has handled it.
Meanwhile he has rehearsed any number of
other plays: He did not miss a single line
or piece of business and had it been neces-
sary could have dictated the entire play
from memory Mr.. Bellows is one of the
hardest workers in the profession, and one
of the most successful in his line as well.