The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-09

died last summer he left an estate much
involved She was applauded for her action.
It was known she loved her husband. VINO
IS now dying, and simply adopted the
stage to earn living.
Mrs. Jack Bloodgood was Miss Clara
Stephens. a granddaughter Of Mrs. Ann
s. Stephens, the authoresS. Her mother,
who was Miss Annie Sutton is now Mrs.
Henry j. Goodwin. sister of Mrs. Lloyd
Aspinwall. Mrs. Ely Goddard and Mrs.
Walter Crosby. When only seventeen years
old Mrs. Bloodgood nee Clara Stephens.
married Mr.. William Havemeyer. The mar
rage. was not happy one. divorce fol-
lowed, after which she became the wife
of John Bloodgood whose father was one
of the best-knowu men in Wall street
Miss Maud Adams is booked to play
THE Little Minister at Hooley's Theater.
in Chicago, in March, 1889. So anxious,
however, are the Chicagoans to see her be-
fore that date that Mr. Harry Powers, the
manager of HoOley'S, who has just been in
this city, has offered Mr.. Charles Frohman
a guarantee of $4,000 for an eight weeks
of Miss Adams's run at the Garrick.
Miss Nellie Braggins. the soubrette of
1.-THE Highwayman" company, at the
Broadway Theater, rumor has it, is en-
gagged to be married to Mr. John Wesley
Gantz, railroad man of ST. Louis, Mo-,
and it is understood the wedding will take
place in the spring. Mr.. Gantz met Miss
Braggins six years ago when she was sing
ing in Hoyts "A Hole in the Ground" and
a year ago last May he renewed his ac-
quaintance and became sutton for her
hand.
The many friends of Nine. Melba in this
city were much alarmed by the news of the
prima donna's illness in Cleveland this
week. Dispatches received, however, state
that she has almost entirely recovered and
1t is expected that she will be able to sing
in opera in Philadelphia on Monday.
Nine. Melba contracted a severe cold on
her way from Pittsburg to Cleveland, and
on her arrival in the latter city physician
who attended her forbade her appearing on
Wednesday evening. The concert, conse-
quently, was postponed.
News was received in this city Thursday
that Nine Schumann-Heink one of the fore
most contraltos in Germany has been en-
gagged by Mr.. Maurice Grau for his next sea-
son of opera at the Metropolitan Opera
House. She sings all the prominent contralto
roles, not only in German opera, but also in
Italian, and is a favorite in Berlin, Hamburg
and all the principal cities of Germany.
Plans for a new theater at Broadway and
Forty-first street have been completed for
H. B. Sire, owner of the Bijou Theater and
work on it will begin early in the spring.
The new theater will embody all the lat
est features of the modern playhouse in
be in Broadway and the upper stories fac
ing that thoroughfare will be given over to
offices. A name for the house has not been
selected yet, but it will be devoted to at
fractions of the highest class. Sydney RoS-
enfield, the dramatist, will be connected
with the new theater in an advisory ca
pacity Mr. Sire said the theater would
be opened in October.
"Hans Huckebein," the three-act farce by
o. Blumenthal and G. Won Kadeburg, which
is the original of Number Nine, or the
Lady of Ostend," recently presented at Da-
ley's, was produced at the Irving place
Theater Thursday night.
It's a long time since the Rialto has had
anything to laugh over that is half as clev-
er as a reply Mr.. Charles Frohman made
to Mr.. Sydney Rosenfeld's attack on THE
COnquerorS 1t is the final paragraph of
the letter which hits hardest: "In conclu-
sion' writes Mr.. Frohman. Il don't believe
that Mr.. Resented has. seen The Conquer
ors.' How could he? haven't given passes
to any one
Julia Marlowe has an ambition to appear
in a modern society play. 1t is difficult to
imagine this actress, who has been so faith
full to the classic repertory, in the dress of
to-day on the stage MY new play she
said, 'is step in the direction of my aims
The Countess Valeska,' which 1 will pre-
sent at the Knickerbocker on Monday,
treats of life in 1907, and that is nearer the
present than the period of anything have
yet attempted