The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-02

and in many cases. she has been heralded
as the most attractive soprano on the light
opera stage Manager Frank L. Perley has
il is said surrounded her with an organiza-
ton strong enough to succeed as a stock
company and Harry b. Smith and Victor
Herbert have, in the book and music of
THE Fortune Teller" given her the OPP
portunity Of lifetime.
1t is doubtful if Mansfield will visit more
than five or six cities next year. Unlimited
time is at his disposal in New York and,
with clientele in Chicago, Boston and
Philadelphia which makes from five to
seven weeks an all too brief engagement in
any one of those cities his season is quickly
booked It is Impractical for Mr. Mansfield
duction as he carries this wear for
, Cyrano.' There are 150 people in his travel
ing hst, which includes actors, supernumer-
aries, stage mechanics and attaches The
great actor and his organization travel by
special train OF twelve cars, made IlD OF his
p L,l s car; dlnIng car, four sleepers and
armor, furniture and properties.
Anna Held sent her private car to the
New Jersey shops for repair and the mo-
ment it was deprived of the warmth of her
presence the water pipes froze and burst
running several hundred dollars worth Of
costly rugs and carpets. The car is again
In service, renovated and redecorated. and
more than ever like the bower of a fairy
princess.
William A. Brady, of the Manhattan The
ater' New York, is a versatile actor man
ager' one night last week he was directing
his Way Down East" company in Balti-
more. The next night at ten minutes, no.
ice ne scored a laughing hit in his own
Iheater as the poster painter in The
Iurtle having temporarily replaced Leo
Dltrichstein, who fell on the stage and Sc
Verely injured his spine. Next week Brady
goes 10 san francisco to conduct six-day
cycie race, with Champion Miller and all
the cracks among the Contestants
Brady's production Of ''Way Down East
continues to be enormously successful. The
rustic play now goes to Chicago for three
weeks run at the Grand Opera House. and
Wall be put on in a spectacular way for the
whole of next season at the Academy of
Music, New York.
Nellie Lynch, the agile dancer and spripbt-
ly little Miss Muffett of Jack and the Bean
stalk" is a Chicago girl, and gained great
popularity with Chicago audiences while she
was member of the Henderson extrava-
ganza forces. In Jack and the Beantsalk''
she does an acrobatic any gymnastic swoon-
ing act that excites wonder and never fails
to make a hit. Following the traditional
story of Mother Goose she sits on a tuffet
10 eat OF curdS and whey, when a monster
spider drops from the flies to the stage and
this is what causes the acrobatfc sWoOn
Harry K eIIIJ 1H-bo oIaIye csi,oI,5 - ~, -
revive her, but before he succeeds in doing
so Miss Lynch does more fainting stunts"
than the most emotional of repertoire act
resses can accomplish, even in the historical
flights of Camille" Miss Mutton" or EAST
Lynne" Mr.. Kelly, whose duty it is to at
tempt to hold her while she throws this
extraordinary series of fits" retires from
the scene when it is finished in a thoroughly
limp and WORKOUT condition. Kelly made
the hit in Jack when it was seen here
last year.
Clay Clement recently completed an en-
gagement in New Orleans with his new play,
"A Southern Gentlemen and, according to
the newspaper reports from the Crescent
City, he scored as big a success as he had in
the North with his impersonation of Baron
Hoenstauffen. The Times-Democrat says:
AS the play is distinctly Southern in its
character. MI. Clement honored the Daugb
ters of the Confederacy by dedicating it to
them, and upon it's presentation, rear the
scene of the prologue, Mr.. Clement extended
an invitation to the performance to every
member of the chapter of the Daughters OF
the COnfederacy in this city. The invitation
was generally accepted, and in return for
the compliment Mr.. Clement had paid them
the Daughters determined TO give Mr..
Clement the pleaSanteSt possible remem-
branCe or his visit to New Orleans. Upon
his response to a prolonged curtain call,
after one Of his most powerful scenes, Mr..
Clement was presented with a cluster of
red and white roses for himself his wife
and Miss Neil McEwen. the pretty, talented
young niece of Mrs. J. Pinckney Smith.
After accepting the flowers with a bright
happy speech Mr.. Clement retired, to appear
subsequently with further ACCOMPLISHMENTS
for a handsome siIver-headed silk umbrella
which had been attached TO his flowers and
encased in a red and white cover, the pres
ent of the Daughters of the Confederacy."