The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-02
DENVTQW DR.. A. E. BUCHANAN
YIN ~ 4 32-33 When Building.
ADJUSTMENTS.

ment. Mr. Barnabee also unjustly attacked
a statement in Saturdays Journal, by say
3ng the writer intimated that Mrs Davis
bad no good reason for not appearing. Mr.
Barnabee should have attacked his man
aser, rather than the Journal for this pa
per published all it could learn regarding
Mrs. Daviss indispostion. Mr.. Barnabee's
manager had declared that Mrs. Davis was
sick abed. and then later the manager
truthfully said Mrs. Davis was as we'll as
anybody but that her voice was in such
bad shape that. she was unable to sing.
/. This was afterward found to be true,
but the manager procured no statement
from doctor, and it was not until Satur-
day night that Dr. Runnels, of his own vo-
lition, sent word to this Office. Mrs. Davis
always one Of the most obliging of women,
is known to have felt hurt because the prop
Ct explanation did not reach the news
papers, but the Bostonians have no one
.but their manager to blame. They had
taken the money Of theater-goers for three
pig houses before reaching the city, when
Mrs. Davis had already been off two nights,
: yet they opened Friday night with no ex-
PLANTATION to the audience. The local man.
agement insisted that the situation should
be explained before the curtain went up
and the manager of the Bostonians prom
ised to make the announcement from the
stage but omitted to do so, leaving the
local management to stand the blame Of
the disappointed patrons Mr. Barnabee's
speech would have been in better taste had
it sen made on Friday night. Jessie Bart
lett Davis is the best single attraction in
the Bostonians. and hundreds of people buy
tickets because they expect to hear her
sing. These people should have been Of
tered their money back before the first per-
Torrance. If they consented to remain aft
blame COUid n bn
local management Mr.. Barnabee said in
his speech Saturday night that the people
knew MIN we'll enough to know he would
not permit any member of the Bostonans
to lay off if able to sing; yet on Saturday
afternoon both Mrs. Davis and Mr. Mac
Donald lald oil, and the largest audience
of the engagement had to take a somewhat
unsatistying performance of THE Ser
enade with two understudies in principal
roles. Mr.. Macdonald was in splendid voice
at both night performances and was in per-
feet health in the theater on SATURDAY. aft
ernOOn. indianapolis theater-goers paid the
top price of $3.50 to see the Bostonians in
perfect form, and if it had been known that
understudies were to be run in it would
have been hard to get the people to turn
out at 81 a head.
The Grand Stock Company will begin it's
New Years week with a special holiday
matinee this afternoon, presenting William
Gillettes comedy 1.-THE Private Secretary"
The story of this comedy is filled with far
cical incidents, which the master hand of
T.
SheIdon mas the role of the muchabused
secretary" while Mr.. kirkland and Mr.
Conger are seen in rollicking, reckless
lently cast and is expected to make a hit
with the Grand's audiences this week 1t
has been so long since THE Private Secre-
tary' was put on here that 1t is PRACTICAL
~ new production.
The Belle of New York" which opens
the new year with matinee at Englishs
to-day, and remains for five performances,
is the only show one can name which needs
no advance agent in this city Theater-
goers have been eager for its return ever
since It's first appearance last season short
ly before 1t was sent across the ocean to
make the greatest hit of any American pro-
duction ever taken to London. While the
New York Casino management now gives
Dan Daily the official rank of q star, his
stellar position was conceded on his former
visit. Those familiar with the manner in
which his company has been received this
season in other cities know the The Belle"
is more than duplicating its last year sue
cess, being classed as equal to if not better
production.
The Hopkins Transoceanic Star Speciality
Company which will commence its weeks
engagement at the Park with the New
Years matinee, is among the best-known
vaudeville organizations in the country. It's
standard has ever been kept high, the man
agement never permitting Objectionable fea-
lures to mar the excellence of its pro-
Eramme AS a consequence it is such a per-
Torrance as attracts theater parties, the
ladies enjoying it quite we'll as the men.
lhlS season Manager Fulgora presents as
his chief feature Kara, the juggler. Caron
and Herbert the Nawns and other artists
OF equal reputation are also on the bill.
Frank NJ. and John B. Wills will open
this afternoon at the Empire in their new
musical comedy, In Atlantic CITY.
A new acquisition to the cast Of 1.-THE
Belle of New York Company is D. l. Don,
who is filling the role of the polite German
IunatiC, whose ambition seems to be to kill
lchabod Bronson, in the person of Dan
DAILY. At intervals during the action of
the piece Don appears, conspicuously dis
playing a huge knife, which ne suavely as
eerlS he would like TO insert in the anatomy
of Mr.. Bronson. His several meetings with
the latter and their burleSque encounters are
invariably the signal for Outhursts of laugh
ter from the audience 1t was during one
of the many efforts of DAILY TO escape from
this character that the elongated comedian
met with his serious accident in Boston last
season. Since then the danger has all been
eliminated, and now good humor for the
audiences is the rule whenever the two
actors appear.
Alice Nielsen. as comic opera star, is a
greater surprise than was Della Fox when
that little soubrette made her debut Fox
had been looked on as a star for years,
but Alice Nielsen was a minor member Of
The Bostonians not so long ago. She made
her first stellar appearance at Wallack's
Ih6ater as Irma, Fedor and Musette a trio
OF characters in 1.-The Fortune Teller" and
scored success so pronounced as to secure
her position in the musical world at once
sdiss Nelson has been on the stage only
lew years and her progress has been truly
remarkable. She was born in Nashville and
moved TO Kansas City when she was but
4feuI years old. She sang in the choir in
Kansas City until she was sixteen and after
Ia joined an amateur opera company Her
t.IsL appearance in opera was as an anna
SsuI az the Coates Opera House, in Kansas
10y, Ia Patience" and her professional
SSout was at the Tivoh, in San Francisco.
- was while singing Lucia there that Mr..
LIa1Aaoee, Of The Bostonians heard her.
ale sent her a proposition to Join that or
kaAlzauon, which she accepted and opened
1T ya engagement as AnnabeIe in "Robin
49, The following season she played
s-alo Marian, which role she filed with
sat success. When The Serenade'' was
rrro1uceq she was given the principal So
RRl@lo role, IN which she gained such re-
-iy, ~ ana achieved a position which many
ISL r1-seIs might feel proud to attain after
og years Of effort. The press criticisms
So ,aeI performances wherever she has APP
- nave been unanimously favorable.