The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-19

formances. and the result was that Tos-
canini retired.
1.-THE Girl from Paris which Will be at
the Park the last half of next week. has
been seen in this city only at one engage
ment, year and a half ago at the Grand.
Florenz Ziegfeld, jr.. who produced THE
Turtle" is also manager of Anna Held, who
is an added attraction this year in The
French Maid" a show big enough to pack a
theater without any extras.
On Wednesday evening the students of the
University OF Indianapolis are to give a
theater party to see MISTAKES Ike VIII
most of the lower floor being already en-
gagged.
The only time SISTER Mary Jones's Top
Note" was heard here was when Carrie
Behr sang it in THE Girl from Paris" Miss
Mistakes VIII Happen and number OF
new songs.
Broadhurst, the author of "Why Smith
Left Home" has written serious play,
THE Last Chapter" which has been well
received in Baltimore and will be pre-
sented in New York on March 6. Ellie VIII
ton appears in it.
May Twins business at the Bijou The
alter. New York, in Kate Kip Buyer" has
been so large that the newspapers started
crusade, calling upon the fire marshals TO
prevent the oVercroWding of the house to
prevent the risk of calamity.
Miss aShannon's return to the cast at the
Grand this week will be warmly welcomed.
The popular leading woman of the stock
company has enjoyed a weeks rest and is IN
excellent shape for the difficult role She will
have to play this week in Moths"
A new farce from the French mile. Fiji, ="
has a scene that is even too coarse for the
people who enjoyed 1.-THE Turtle and other
comedies. Louise Beaudet plays the scene
at the same theater. This sort of play has
it's home in the Manhattan Theater, New
York.
One of the most notable productions of the
season at the Grand will be 1.-THE Senator"
as put on next week by the stock company.
This play hes been among the most success
full ever used by stock companies, due large
~ to the vogue given it by William H
Crane.
The use of Mr. Congers photograph as a
souvenir tomorrow night will make the
opening performance of Moths" by the
Grand Stock Company more than ordinarily
interesting. The popularity of the leading
Juvenile Of the stock company will be tested
on this occasion and it is pretty safe to pre-
dict that the demand for his photographs
will be large.
One Of the curiosities of Paris little
known to the general public is unique
museum, in which are gathered all objects
relating to the ballet. These include every
thing, from tattered ballet skirts to valu-
able jewels, which are collected assiduously
so long as they are connected with some
celebrity Of the dance. The latest acquisi-
ton to the collection is plaster cast Of the
Lord Fife at a cost of 1000 guineas, and
sold after his death for two shillings. 1t
is said that Lord Fife kept these casts al
ways on his desk, in order to have their
artistic physiognomy'' constantly before
his eyes.
Anton Lutz, the oldest opera singer in
Germany, died the other day at Weimar. He
was member of the chorus at the opera
there, and was active until few days be-
fore his death. He was born in Vienna
and went to Weimar forty-five years ago
as tenor buffo. He was eighty-three years
old at the time of his death, and was made
the subject of special celebration after
ne had been member of the company for
forty years. Lutz's death does not leave
the operate stage in Germany bereft Of
mature singers. A baritone of ninety re-
Gently appeared at a concert, but he was
on the retired list and merely made his
temperance to show the public that he
still retained some of his voice.
Josef Holman is not playing this win
ter In accordance with the advice of his
physician, he will rest during the winter
and at the earliest resume his profession
in the spring. He has been most successful
here, in Russia and in England. In Berlin
he rarely draws audiences large enough to
pay the expenses of his recitals. The
amount Of his profits is interesting to
young Mr. Hoffman, in spite of the fact
that he has a contract with his father, who
pays him only per cent of the profits. In
this way it happens that the young mans
agents sometimes take 10 per cent. of the
profits while he gets only per cent. 1t
may be that some day he will receive the
amount which he has made but during his
last visit to New York the sums allowed
him for expenses were very meagre.
Achilles in Petticoats" is the title of an
opera produced in London in 1867, and RE
mann's Opera Handbuch" mentions about
thirty other operas relating to the Homeric
hero. During the first two centuries of
Italian opera most librettos were indeed
based on subjects taken from Greek mythol-
ogy After Gluck these subjects gradually
went out of vogue, but within a few years
by a curious coincidence, there has been a
Homeric revival in the operate field, Bun
CERT having written a Homeric tetralogy,
Chabier a "Brisels," and Goldmark an
opera with the same woman as heroine, and
which would have been named after her
had not Chabrier been in the field a few
months sooner, in consequence of which
Goldmark called his opera die Kriegsge-
fangene" Cthe captive woman) This opera
was produced in Vienna on Jan. II and won
a big success, in spite of his antique subject
and the rather unsatisfactory character of