The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-07

| play-wiz anybody under $500 a week. With
| pretty women scandals are often more use
| European reports. the most shameless crea-
/ ture of modern times. surprising in inn
modesty even Lily Langtry. Not long ago
one Of her vaudeville managers went to con-
| suit her about an American season, and the
princess received him in her. bath, where
she continued TO receive her morning
| plunge while discussing the question of
| terms. After that embarrassing experience
| the manager considered her too risky for
an American audience 1t was his opinion
that. although we tolerated Charmion and
the BarrisOn sisters. Chimay would be too
much for US. She is an inveterate cigar
smoker, and. TO introduce himself agree
ably, Manager Aarons carried box of the
finest Vuelta Abajo weeds to her.
Lolita Crsbtree who has recently come
into notice through her disputes with her
brokers, is about the richest actress in this
country. and, unlike some others who made
a fortune from their profession. she was
willing to retire several years ago and live
on the means which she had accumulated.
The prudent investment of her large earn
ings is considered to be the foundation of
her fortune, and this was in a great meas
ure due to the shrewdness of her mother,
who was famous in the profession for her
keen business sense. That was, indeed, pro-
verbal, and Miss Crabtrees active meas
ures against the stock brokers, whom she
thinks responsible for her losses, are said
to be due TO her complete lack of experience
with business transactions that fail to yield
her profit: Much of her property is in
She owns large apartraent-house in Har-
lem
Maggie Mitchell is included in the group
of women who have made most out of their
professions She lives in complete retire
ment on the upper West Side, New York,
where she owns a handsome house, in addi-
2DaTtmGnt- mouse
short time ago. Not far from her dwells
Mrs. Barney Williams, another actress,
Who with her husband, was fortunate
enough to accumulate an ample fortune.
All of these women have ceased to have any
Davenport who Is perhaps nearly as rich
as they are, had not thought Of abandoning
her work until illness made it necessary.
Nine Modjeska, who must in her time have
earned as much as any actress ever on
the American stage, still finds IL necessary
to appear as regularly as her health will per-
init. Clara Morris is still in harness, al
though it was not long ago that she was
one Of the most prosperous actresses in the
country and there seems no reason why
she should not be wealthy to-day. But the
number of those who become wealthy is al
ways much smaller than the number of
those whose earnings are large. No more
striking instance of this could be found
than Sarah Bernhard. She has probably
received larger sums in her time than any
other actress on the stage. But her chronic
impecuniosity is notorious in the profession.
A good exit on the vaudeville stage often
covers a multitude of shortcomings in the
previous performance. Such a result is
attained by two young women engaged in
the roof performance of Roster & Balls.
Their turn is the conventional Soubrettes
medley of songs. side remarks and noisy
dancing. The last note of music finds the
pair at the extreme corner of the stage,
nearest the audience and most remote from
the door of escape. One girl falls fiat. All
in a flash, two pairs of hands seize two
pairs of ankles. The second performer
first, rising, falls again, and thus the two,
in one continuous ring of slippers and gowns
and headgear. go sOmersaulting off the
stage. hitherto undemonstrative audi
ence always calls them back.
What Happened to Jones'" produced at
the Strand Theater, London, July u, looks
like every indication of success, for a pri-
vate cable from an unbiased source brings
the information that the audience was en-
thusiastic and, what is more to the point,
the criticisms We're unusually commenda-
tory.
Next season Tim Murphy is to appear in
a play by Opie Read and Frank S. Pixley
called 1.-The Carpetbagger" and it is prom
Used that there is duel in the piece which
is an absolute novelty. The exact nature of
the weapons used is not made public, but
they say that neither broadsWordS, raplerS
or p1StOlS VIII De ruSeQ ana 1t Is IHefeIOIe
an open choice between bowie knives, poi
son and kegs of powder Anyway. regard
less of the actual novelty of the duel, Tim
Murphy is such a clever actor and such
good fellow that the play will have to be
pretty bad or he will make it successful.
In order to secure the stamp of London
approval Mrs James Brown Potter and
Kyrle Berlew are to temporarily suspend
their artistic partnership, which has lasted
nh
for the stage. Mrs. Potter will be the
leading lady in Beerbaum Trees production
keteers" and Mr. Bellew will join Charles
Wyndhams company at the Criterion
Theater, London Mrs. Potter and Mr.. Bel
lew will continue their tours together at the
end of the London season
When Adelina Patti was fourteen years of
age she was at Santiago de Cuba under
Gottschalk and made her debut on the
stage of what was then one of The most
magnificent buildings in Cuba, Ell Teatro
Principe. The building is now in very
dilapdated condition. of course but prio or
was plainly in evidence.
Robert Downing does not propose to de-
vote his entire future to such scraps of the
legitimate as may find a place on the stage
of the variety theater. He has secured for
next season a new play from the pen OF
A. D. Hall. 1t is called "a True Knight"
and is founded upon the story OF Damon
and Pythias.
Giordano has finished the score of the
opera drawn from Sardous Fedora" and
delivered it to Comma Bellincioni, who is
to create the title role at the Lyric Theater
in Milan next autumn. She will Also be
heard as the heroine of la ToSca, which
Puccni has nearly finished. and may be
heard in Leoncavallo's Roland of Berlin.
Frank Worthing, who will play John
Storm in the production of THE Christian"
supporting Viola Allen, is now in London.
He recently had an offer TO head COM
pany TO present English comedies in st.
Petersburg, Russia.
Annie Irish, who up to the close of Will
liam II. Cranes last season played the
principal roles in all of his productions. has
been engaged by Charles Frohman to sue
coed Blanche Walsh in The Conquerors."
She viii play the part OF Jeanne Marie
Baudin.
In THE Fortune Teller the new opera
in which Alice Nelson will star next season,
the comedian. Paul Nicholson, jr.. VIII in
troduce in the last act an imitation of De
Wolf Hopper FL Captain ana wear the
plumed armor used by the elongated basso
1t looks now as if Fanny Davenport's ILL.,
ness will force her permanent retirement
from the stage. In that event Melbourne
MacDOWeN. her husband and leading man