The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-31
The PLAYS AND PLAYERS
THE;PAREx THEATER WILL OPEN ITS
SEASON NEXT WEEK.
Miss Catherine Campbell to start n
schiooI of Actins-Robert Downing
to Play for the X. of p.

Next week is opening week at the Park
Theaher, and the initial attraction is
strong entertainment for that popular play
house, The Georgia MinstreIs have always
furni&hed good fun for indianapolis early
in preceding seasons. and this year the pro-
gramme is more varied and attractive than
ever. Wednesday, Aug. 10, is designated as
''whehlrnen's night" and the l.. A. w. peo-
pie viii have the entire house for their
smoker" The other five nights and all
the naatinees will suffice to give the public
opportunity to see this fine company, with
its fifty-five people. its new music, jokes,
storleg and olo features. Much lvelness is
said 10 be crowded into the three-hour pro-
gramme. The advance sale win begin at
the Pembroke next Thursday. Daily matt
nees will be given as usual.
Miss Catherine Campbell, the actress, in
stead. of rushing off to the seashore or the
mountains is spending her vacation at her
homes in this city, and industriously dividing
her time between the study Of roles which
she expects to play and training pupils for
the Stage. Owing to the many applications
from ambitious students for practical
knowledge of the stage, Miss Campbell has
decided to organize a regular summer school
Of acting. In accordance with this plan she
has issued an artistically printed brochure
for limited circulation conveying numer-
GUS valuable suggestions to young actors.
Miss Campbell announces that she will
leave elocution to the elocution teachers,
and train her pupils in true art of acting,
going in for practical work in the art of
makeup" how to take a part" and how
to present a scene. She will give lectures
on stage business" and teach pupils all
that lis necessary to be known about the
stage Her scheme has eminently prac-
teal aspect, and Indianapolis is rich field
for the enterprise.
Robert Downing will fill an engagement
at English's Opera House during the week
of Tie Knights Of Pythias encampment
Aug. 22-27 BY a special arrangement he
will contribute a share of the receipts to
the fund for the care and entertainment or
the Visitors to the city that week He will
present each night the historical play, ''pa-
mon land Pythias," on the story of which
is founded the ritualistic work of the order
Of Knights of Pythias. 1t may be that Mr.
Downing will alternate and present on three
nights of the week other selections from
his repertoire, such as ''Ingomar," Virgin
ius, 1.-THE Gladiator" ''Othello," and per-
haps his new play, "A True Knight" There
Will also be matinees, at one OF which ''Da-
mon and Pythas' will probably be present
ed. Mf. Downing is an enthusiastic knight
~ asia ana always takes deep interest
an the lodges wherever he goes. lie is es-
ReclaIlly fond of the second degree, and has
assisted in comforting it in almost every
city In the United States.
Breadhurst's What Happened to Jones'
Company comprises thirteen people, and
they travel around the country like one
huge happy family In their lexicon there
is no such word as worry" 1t is one long
round of play" To look at them individ-
ually or collectively off the stage one would
think that their one mission on earth vas
to be happy. They are always doing some
thing conducive to this end For instance,
gested itself to Anna Belmont and Kathryn
Osterman tnat what the organization reed
ed was yell-a college cry, as it were
what rolls out on the air from thirteen
Threats, with all the vim of a football team:
Cuba. Cuba, bow, WOW, VOW
Liberty, liberty, how, how, now?
Vengeance vengeance, down with SPAIN
Remember Jones, remember the Maine!
Singular things sometimes happen in the
theatrical world and in it the whirligig of
time cuts up peculiar pranks as in other
walks of life. Katherine Gray and Grace
F1lksns in their careers illustrate this.
Katherine Gray first played the part of
Helen Berry in Shore Acres and was fol-
lowed in this character by Grace Fflkdns
pryse in support. Of Charles Coghlan in
The Royal Box" and next season Kath-
s S1fre Tsy Ml Play this role Miss Grey
Lieutenant Commander Adolph Mark
United states navy, the captain of the
scorpion. who acted as judge advocate of
the inquiry into the destruction of the bat
tie snip Maine. The fates seem to have in
Grey. -'-''77
Guy Nichols who greatly added to his
reputation by playing Montmorency an
actor OF $780, in THE Royal Box" last sea-
son, will play Brother Andrew, a monk, in
IN line christian" in support of Viola Allen.
The New York Casino has another big
show that promises long run in Yankee
Doodle Dandy" produced last week The
music and book are by Gustav Kerker and
Hugh Morton, authors of 1.-The Belle of New
York." now running in London According
to q New York critic, the extravaganza
opens in classroom in the Academy of De-
sign in New York. The pupils are sketch
ing from classical casts and bas reliefs, and
one Of them, Teddy Two Shoes EDNA Wal
lace Hopper) has fallen in love with a s,u co
girl which forms part of the elaborate frieza
Of the room-fallen in love after the fashion
OF Pygmalion and his statue of Galatea
The figure is, of course, brought to life and
into the arms of the love-lorn Teddy. Miss
Madge Lessing is the young woman who
pays the stucco hgure-that of Honoria a
beautiful girl born in Rome some two thou
san0 years ago. When she learns she is in
NeW YORK she starts in TO make up for lost
time. and she and Teddy are off to see the
sights of the city. There appears in New
York an escaped Spanish admiral for whom
Inc government has offered d reward of Sl0-
QJe, and, of course. with that as a starter
It's easy to bring in a good-looking naval re-
serve lieutenant Julius Steger), another
spanish lieutenant Orchard Carle), Terri
pie Tommy, captain of the Tough
Riders eugene ORourke), Corkey Riley
the captain of the Cherry Hill Fusileers
SLopls Wesley, and a Red Cross nurse
fMaFte George.) These and the Casino
chorus and ballet in appropriate naval re-
serve and Red Cross uniforms are enough
70 raise Yankee Doodle Dandy Thomas o
Seabrooke plays the part OF Gideon Terwilli-
ger, the inventor of most surprising incu-
bator, which brings to life something more
remarkable than chickens, as gorgeous
ballet energies from it on occasions Ter
wilhger and his pal. Theophilus Borax
walter Jones) scheme to capture the flee
ing admiral and are arrested by the New
YORK police as Spies while the admiral and
MS lieutenant pass themselves off as the in
cubattor man and his confederate Honoria
eisguises herself as Spanish girl and leads
TEDDY on chase. and the extrava ganza
PROCEEDS In general merry-go-round of
burteSque nonsense until in the end as the
curtain has to be brought down sonehov
the admiral is discovered aud there is a gem
eral Strengthening out of the somewhat tan
gled situations. There are bailets without
number, Of naval reserves, of army chaps
spanish officers. Red Cross nurses Harvard
AaIE Princeton and Colur1hia students