The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

Gently she took cab ride with London
Doctor and then had him arrested on
charge Of stealing one OF her diamond rings.
chap who returned from England the
other day was telling of a meeting that
occurred between this girl and De Wolf
Hopper in the Hotel Cecil bar. Hopper
came into the place and Chicago May"
dashed up TO him, clasped him by both
hands and said. gushingly:
Why how do you do, Mr.. Hopper? You
may not know me. but know you very well
indeed. I've heard Edna and Tod talk
about you a whole lot"
Mr.. Hopper was a good deal fustered.
He blushed. stammered, smiled in an
embarrassed fashion and made his escape.
1t will be an interesting sight-that of
Sarah Bernhardt playing the mans part Of
Pelleas to the Melisande of Mrs. Patrick
Campbell in Maeterlinck's play OF ''Peileas
and Melisande" next season.
Mrs. Wilton Lackye, formerly Alice
Evans, the pretty Bessie Brander of "A
Texas Steer" company. started out just
after lunch in New York yesterday to give
her pet dog Bully" an airing on the Rialto.
She led Bully along at the end of stout
silver chain, and all went well until they
reached Broadway. A negro leading a big
white bulldog passed at the instant with his
dog at the end Of a rope, and the white dog
took a dislike to Mrs. Lackaye's brindle
thoroughbred and sprang at IL.
The air was filled in half second with
bulldogs. chains. ropes. negroes. curses and
Mrs Lackaye's screams Bully got n
good hold on the white dog just in front Of
the ear. and there he hung while the negro
cuffed and kicked both dogs impartially.
Help, help," cried Mrs. Lackaye. and to
her rescue rushed the Rialto strollers. VIII
lie Rochester. Bury Dasant, Myron Calico.
the English actor. and DR.. Gilday. of the
Hotel Marlborough. all Mrs. Lackaye's
friends. came on run. The actress was on
her knees when they reached her. vainly
trying to force her fingers into "Bully's"
mouth to make him loosen his hold. She
could not do it. a lighted cigar was stuck
against the dogs nose by a bystander. but
still he held Finally the dogs were
choked and relaxed their holds. Then Mrs.
Lackaye tainted. Press agents are work.
ing for such hot weather.
Lillian Russell's plunge into the burlesque
will be no half-hearted leap. One of her
first parts as merber of Weber & Fields's
company will be to caricature Josephine
Halls performance in 1.-THE Girl from Max
inns" in a buriesque which is now being
written by Edgar and Harry Il. Smith,
called THE Girl From Martins" The orig
inal farce is risque and offers a splendid
chance for ridicule, and the burlesque thea
ter farther down Broadway will not let the
chance escape
In the original at Wallack's the girl from
Maxim's. who is Partisan concert hall
dancer, lis discovered in the house of a stad
old Partisan surgeon. In the burlesque the
girl from Martins will be Rialto SOU
brette. and Miss Russell will impersonate
her. Her opening appearance will be in the
home of a New York doctor, and the condi-
lions of her appearance there will furnish
thrill or two at the opening performances
although the purpose OF the burlesque will
be to ridicue rather than duplicate the
French attempt at audacity.