The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-22
WHAT THE STAGE OFFERS
GRAND STOCK coMPANY's MERIT TO
BE TESTED.
sI.ady wfndermere's Fan 10 De
rIayed--RoIand Reed and Tim
Murphy nj Engiish's.

Fnglish's Opera House will be open only
two nights this week-wednesday and
THURSDAY. Roland Reed and his company
frciuding Isadore Rush. will present COM
sdy new 20 this city "Wednesday night and
Tim Murphy will play The Carpetbagger
Thursday night. Both Mr.. Reed and Mr.
Murphy are weII-known actors and have
their stanch admirers
The Grand stock company VIII play
Lady windermeres Fan all week. This
piece. which is entirely society play"
sparKles with epigram and Is recognized as
the best work Oscar Wilde did. IL VIII test
the ability OF the stock company in much
greater degree than il has been tried this
season Mr. Brooke the new stage man
ager. has had the company hard at work
rehearsing the play The story contains a
number of intensely dramatic situations, and
the friends OF the stock company Will no
doubt turn out in large numbers 10 see what
II can do in a play which has requirements
far more stringent than the boisterous
Nominee" or the moist East Lynne" II
IS 10 be hoped that before the end of the
season the stock company will have few
opportunities to prove the merit 1t must be
presumed TO have by being cast in higher
q so far
The Park will offer a Rag-time Recep-
ton the first half OF the week and Two
Jolly Rovers'' the latter three days. The
first named show was produced in Chicago
rot long ago and was favored by the press
and the public. 1t IS said TO be full of up
roariously funny" situations and its list Of
special turns is good one. Its bright
music is put forward as special feature.
The Butterfly Extravaganza Company viii
be presented at the Empire the week long.
Roland Reed will present His Fathers
Boy. farce that Is said to give Mr.. Reed
one OF the best opportunities he has had TO
display his ability. II was adapted from
the German by Sydney Rosenfeld. Isadore
Rush, Mr.. Reeds beautiful wife, has
bright role. and is enabled to wear soms
handsome gowns. The leading character IN
the play Is man who is fond OF amuSe-
ment and who has been practicing a sys-
tenn of .subterfuge upon his wife in order
10 get from her an increase in the allow
ance which she gives him from the family
funds For years this deceit has been go
ing on, and finally comes the time when a
disclosure seems almost certain. Many
times the lie Is on the point OF becoming
apparent. and the central figure gets into
Lottie Alter, Alethea Luce, Mary Myers,
Sheridan Upper. Brandon Hurst, Julian
Reed. l.. p. Hicks and James Douglas.
Tim Murphy has been seen here a number
OF times in The Carpetbagger." In it he
impersonates a Chicago auctioreer, who is
sent South TO govern the State Of Missis-
si2pi during the reconstruction period and
who finds himself in a hotbed of uncon--
Cuered secession. The simplicity and natur-
alness of Mr.. Murphys acting are its chief
charm. At the opening of the play, Mel
vile GRANGE CTim Murphy is found installed
In the gubernatOrial mansion He Is ami
mated with the idea that, as to the victors
belong the spells. IL behooves him to feather
his nest, even at the expense of the COM
monWeaith- GRANGE Is not corrupt at heart,
but, as he says himself the
creature OF circumstances, OF environment
and this environment does not tend 10
woman comes into IL, and a. once the chas-
tening effect OF Crance's new circumstances
begins TO be felt GRANGE is contesting for
the gOvernorship with Major Reynolds the
administration Is at once the target for his
opponents batteries. An impassioned inter-
view between the two candidates leads to a
chaLenge 10 mortal combat from the fiery
Southerner, end the climax OF the third act
Is WomanS successful appeal TO the better
nature OF the adversaries The closing act
makes clear that GRANGE has reimbursed the
state Tor all he had acquired from II in HIS
easy-going supervision of her treasury and
though the finale witnesses the political tri-
umph OF his opponent for the governorshin
france Is supremely content 10 have won
TIE love OF a good woman. In Mr. Muir
Pny $ company viii be seen the Vivacious
Dorothy Sherrod and Nellie Yale Nelson
strong, James Manly. Ralph Thomas and
John Hampton.