The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-03

"Esmeraida" matinee and the pretty play
given by the Grand Stock Company prom
ises TO have quite as successful week as
THE Wife, There will be another mat
inee Saturday.
The Park changes this afternoon from one
farce-comedy to another the new bill being
Gilmore and Leonard's latest edition of
'Hogan's Alley" AS it's name indicates,
"Hogan's Alley deals with the characters
OF that mythical street made famous by the
New York papers in their colored sunday
supplements. OF course the piece IS Well
sprinkled with music, dancing and special
ties in general. 1t will remain the rest OF
the week.
The Deonzo Brothers, with Primrose &
Dockstader's Ministries, are out with
challenge to the world. They claim to be
the champion high jumpers of this terres-
trial sphere and are willing to post money
to prove Their assertion. No weights used.
William DeCnzo recently claims TO have
made a record running high Kick OF twelve
feet six inches. He also made a standing
high jump of six feet and one-half inch,
with both feet tied together.
The face of Clara Lipman is familiar per-
haps to more people through the country
than that of any of the new stage favor
ties, all because a few years ago Miss Lip
man was sought by big dentrifice con-
Germ to pose as user of their preparation.
mans charming features and cleaning
bicuspids into every magazine in the coun-
try and fairly peopled the country high
ways and byways of the country with lux
urious painting of her counterpart. Miss
Lipman took a stage career early. She was
eighteen when she starred in THE Laugh
ing Girl and is now the associate star of
Louis Mann in The Telephone Girl
The return of the stock-comDany system
has caused endless discussion as to the
amount of study and hard work the mem
bers of a company are subjected to. In a
certain back room in New York recently,
a few professionals were expressing their
opinions when Lew Dockstader spoke up
and said: Gentlemen, 1 don't want to
depreciate the effort of any reputable
brother artist and I won't, but one thing
do say and it is this-the hardest work in
this profession is to be q leading comedian
of a permanent minstrel company-and I will
explain why. A stock actor has to study
new part every week and rule it is a
long one, but the course is laid down and
he has only to follow it OFT. Now, with
minstrel comedian who Is located he
must dig up new comedy business every
week, also new songs and new gags. All
the funny business is left for him to fill
in and If anything is needed to make the
act go the first call is made for the leading
comedian to supply the laugh raiser. L
was three years in Philadelphia and the
first year it was an awful job. l was ever
on the lookout for new matter and | lost
flesh as l feared l should be replaced if
did not continually present new funnyisms.
Just here | want to impress upon you that
no matter how clever the SO-called funny
man is, there are times when his brain alb
soutely refuses to respond and he cannot
turn off anything humorous. At other times
he can reel off a lot of witticisms with no
apparent effort" Dockstader's best efforts
this season are said to have been expended
on his new monologue which gives at
each performance of the -.-lrose-Dock-
stader minStres.