The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-28
NFMTICT DIR. A. e. BUCHANAN
OAN AANA 1898 When Building.
ADJUSTMENTS.


will appear in a play that will tax the talent
of at least four of the members to the
greatest degree. This play is THE Idler,'
which was produced with great success in
London some years ago when John Mason
appeared in the part of Mark Cross, which
Mr.. kirkland will assume tonight for the
first time. Afterwards Herbert Kelley
played the part in New York. 1t will give
Mr.. kirkland the best opportunity thus far
presented in his stock experience in this
city. Mr.. Horning, too. has a strong role
in Sir John Harding, has Miss Shannon
as Lady Harding. Souvenir boxes of candy
will be given to the women in the audience
again tonight. After the performance to-
night the stock company will take The
Idler' to Anderson, also producing "A So
cal Highwayman" there. When Mrs. Fiske
concludes her engagement Wednesday night
the stock company will return to the Grand,
matinee in The ldler." Next week the
stock company will produce I'm Mizzouri,"
Augustus Thomas fine play.
The element of contrast afforded to Mrs.
Fiske by her opening bill at the Grand to-
morrow evening" Love Finds the Way
and "a Bit of Old Chelsea the former
curtain-raiser and the latter three-act
drama, is much stronger than is usually
witnessed in two plays in which a star APP
pears in one evening. Mrs. Fiske's charac-
ter of Saucers, the London flower girl, in
"A Bit of Old Chelsea" is said to have a
part that runs from pathos to merriment,
the play being filled with the lights of
comedy and shaded by seriousness. More
difficult for the portrayer is the role of
Madeline in Love Finds the Way" AS
Madeline Mrs. Fiske illustrates a young
woman of social standing. The character
is known to be rich in the dramatic posi-
bilities which this actress so happily real
ICES. There is little need to say anything in
Of the d'Urbervilies," which will be given given
only at the Wednesday matinee. Sardous
great play "Divorcons'' will show Mrs.
Fiske in an entirely different role Wednes-
day night, when her engagement win close.
The Parks play this afternoon is a new
melodrama by James w. Harkins, jr, called
Under Sealed Orders" The guillotine
scene will interest audiences for the next
three days. Down In Dixie will follow
at the Park Thursday.
The Merry Maidens Buriesque Company
with jolly Nelly HanIy, will open for a
week at the Empire this afternoon.
William Morris of Under the Red Robe
Company, told the following story the other
night: I'VE were going through Canada
late in the spring with a strong combina-
ton, just at time when that country was
greatly excited over an epidemic of small
pox. We were playing three nights i'm one
OF the smaller cities, where the visitation
was pretty sharp, and they had established
an isolation hospital away out in a thicket
back of the city. They would drive
patient to within a. half mile of it, and then
he would have to walk the rest of the way,
as passable carriage road was out of the
question. We had heard of this. and how
the patient would be put in a rubber suit
to be taken out there: and how the walls
of the hospital were hung with canvas CIR
sail cloth saturated with carbolic acid; and
how the attendants were all masked. 1t
was grewsome to think about, though we
used 10 try to joke each other on the sub
1ect. and failed miserably. When 1t came
time to start for the theater the last night
of our stav in this town Miss - Snr
pretty ingenue, who had been complaining
several days with a fever and lumpy swell
ings under the skin, developed a bright
rash over her face and neck. She sent for
doctor while the rest of the company
went to the theater,
After the play we were all walking back
to the hotel, but we neared il we saw
carriage standing near the front steps,
and there We're some STRENGTHENING per-
sons moving about. The men wore rubber
suits, and we knew at once il was small
pox outfit. Imagine our horror to see our
pretty little ingenue clad in long rubber
boots and a rubber cloak coming down the
steps in charge of two of these ugly masked
guards. 1t was a trying moment for we
all liked her. but then the horror of that
loathsome diseased We all broke away and
Mslkea very woe or the poor little thing
VINO looked up but didn't say a word. /
said we all broke away. but IL was not ALL
for Charlie Coghlan, always a gentleman
courageous and self-possessed on or off the
stage. left the rest OF us and walked up
TO the scared and lonesome little girl and
with that courtly grace that has always
distinguished him. exclaimed: Permit me
Miss - l am very sorry that you are
ILL., but don't be alarmed. IL is not so bad
with the careful treatment nowadays. You'll
soon be well again
"Coghlan then carefully assisted her to
the ambulance wagon, saw that she was
comfortably tucked away, closed the door
and with head uncovered shouted a CHEEKY
goodbye the carriage drove off No
she didn't die. She didn't even have small
pox. The fever and rash were caused by
Indigestion, and when she joined us a few
days later | think the men in the company
all enyied Coghlan.
Fanny Rice occupies a handsome suite i'm
one of the new apartment houses In the
fashionable upper West-side districts in
New York. She was the possessor of a
hnely-bred King Charles Spaniel, to which
she was much attached. and which recently
was unfortunately run over and killed
Among the attendants in the house in which
Miss Rice's apartments were located was a
spruce-appearing colored lad of about six
teen, and who claimed that his father was
dog fancler. Between hours. this young