The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

Of REVEALS is announced at the Lyceum UNI
til new play can be prepared.
Gladys Wallis. after somewhat vare-
gated career as star and as an ingenGe
in various companies, is to appear shortly
in The Circus Girl" a musical comedy of
the latest London brand.
Fanny Rice is coming back to the Grand
for Washington's birthday. The rainy
weather during her recent engagement kept
many people from attending. though, in
spite of it, her business was good.
Gustave Amberg announces that La He
lena Odilon, the noted German actress. who
last winter played Nine. Sans Gene" at
the Volks Theater. in Vienna, will make
extended American tour under his manage
ment, beginning in March. She will play IN
English.
The Nickelodeon is a Cincinnati theater
as cheap as its name implies. and the enter
tainment is mixture of museum exhibits
and crude vaudeville, yet the manager leads
proudly in a movement to elevate the stage
He announces that coon songs have be-
come degenerate, and that no more OF them
shall be sung in his temple of Thespis
An investigation of the attempt by Rus
sian officials in New York some time since
to prevent the production Of Darkest Rus
sia' led to the unearthing of a secret so
ment in this country, whose object is to
endeavor to overcome any adverse criticism
against the Car and to place Russia in
glowing colors in the eyes of Americans.
Coincident with young Laurence Irving's
appearance in his fathers role in Peter the
Great" at the London Lyceum, because of
the latters indisposition, was the substitu-
ton of Jean Coquelin for his father in "Cy
rano de Bergerac," at the Porte st. Martin
n Tins living
the two nations were i'll the same day, early
in the runs of unusually important new
supply their places. The coincidence is
merely interesting and has no deep slgnlh-
canoe.
The attendance of the Prince of Wales at
the opening performance of Mrs. James
Brown Potter and Kyrle Bellew in Char
lotte Corday,' in London, illustrates one
way of securing success in London-for the
attendance of his royal highness is a pre-
supposed evidence of success. Inc prince
received his invitation to attend this per-
Torrance from Mrs. Potter and II was ms
answer TO the effect that the evening OF the
21st was the only evening on which he
would be disengaged during the month that
fixed the date for the opening. Inc LacI
that this news was thought of sufficient i'm
portance to be cabled over here Is sAgnln-
cant, as is also the fact that Mrs. Polter
is the only star of her sex to occupy the
Adelphi Theater stage since Adelaide Nell
Contrary to general belief, royalty does
not possess the privilege of free admission
at the theaters When the Prince of Wales.
for instance visits the theater the expendi-
ture for box hire alone amounts to $lOO
This is an unwritten law at court, whether
the theater boasts of royal box or not.
With one or two exceptions, the royal box
is not reserved exclusively for royalty, ana
it can be hired by anyone VINO cares 10 pay
the price-about twice as mucn as Is
charged for the private boxes. me eXcep-
lions are the Theater Royal, Drury Lane,
the Italian Opera and the Haymarket me
alter. Although the royal box IS open 10 the
public SAYS London Answers, very lew OF
those who can afford it care to occupy IL.
The upper ten shun it, for to be seen III
that box is to be stigmatized as a rank out
slider, q nouyeau r1cne or d IorelSHSL VIM
knows no better.
And now, after the first shock is over and
the critics have had time to dissect and
anaiyze "The Conquerors,' they have de-
cided that Paul Potter plagiarized all eN-
cept the sensational assault scene Even
that would seem to be Ihe sporting
Duchess scene doubled. me DraI ni,,no NJ,
ror draws the deadly parallel column OH
Mr. Potter to prove that his piece Is mercy merely
q compoSite of MaupaSSant Mile. III
and Sardou's La Haine, with the prepoH-
derance in favor of the latter rms Is the
play which Robert Downing produced
connie of seasons ago under the title He
lena" but although the brutal scene Wnlci
forms it's principal motive was only per
nlitted to be suggested, the piece proved 100
son1ber not to say disgusting, Tor provincial
pIaygoers In portraylng the same scele
openlv on the stage, Paul Potter seems 10
have accurately gagged the taste or New
York, for THE Conquerors Is drawing
where Sardou'S piece failed