The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-26
OTIS SKINNER IN "RosEMARY.v

Harry thornton, AmOrita. the great dancer,
and thirty others. Seats will be placed on
sale tomorrow morning.
OTIS SKINNER IN "ROSEMARY.v
Annual Engagement of the FavOrite
Actor at English's Thursday.
When Otis Skinner returns to Indianapolis
next Thursday night for his annual engage
ment he will be seen in the role of Sir
Jasper Thorndyke, the romantic comedy
part in that beautiful drama of Rose
mary" This will be much the best thing
Mr.. Skinner has offered his host of admir-
ers since he began his successful starring
career four years ago. 1t might also be
predicted in advance that Otis Skinner will
give a more beautiful and in every way q
more satisfying performance than John
Drew did when the Empire Theater Com
pany was seen here for one performance
in this entertaing production two years ago.
One may make this prediction without fear,
knowing that Skinner is head and should
ers a better actor in such parts than the
mechanical and always spoiled John Drew
could ever be. Mr.. Skinner has the Empire
Theater production, which he obtained by
special arrangement with the Frohmans,
and Manager Buckley has supplied him
with a company that is much the best he
has ever had. For his leading woman in
the dainty role of Dorothy Cruickshank he
will have that graceful little actress Crotch
en- Lyons, who is an artist to her finger
tips, and whose personality suggests Maud
Adams enough to cause her to be taken
almost for a twin sister. Miss Lyons made
a most pronounced hit when here last sea-
son as Joseph Hollands leading woman in
The Mysterious Mr.. Bugle.' SINNERS
an ~ oapoaOf mill alec - Hfor5 - oN.o~+,,;4,
to compare Miss Lyons with Maud Adams
in the very part that gave Miss Adams such
tame just prior to her debut as a star in
THE Little Minister" In the company
also will be seen Ruth Holt, Clara Everett,
Frank Sylvester. John Malone, Eugene
Eberle and other well-known metropolitan
STORY OF ROSEMARY"
The comedy of Rosemary" by Louis n.
Parker and Murray Carson, with it's sug-
gestion of the quaint old English garden
flower. from which it takes it's name, stands
out as one of the masterpieces of p%laywrit-
ing of the Victorian period. The first act
of the play discovers two very young elop-
ing lovers, Dorothy Cruickshank and VIII
liam Westwod, seated in a broken down
chaise on a lonely road in the middle of
the night-rain coming down in torrents.
Sir Jasper T~horndyke and his servant en-
ter under a huge umbrella, the servant
carries a lantern, by the light of which Sir
Jasper is trying to read the current num-
Der of Nicholas Nickelby,' the time being
1888, when Dickens's story was new. Sir
Jasper stumbles across the chaise and dis
covers the young people, who have hidden,
fearing it is Dorothy's irate papa In pursuit.
Sir Jasper is an attractive man of forty,
fond of books, very absent minded and in
cl.ined to be ruled over by Professor Jogram,
a blunt old scholar, who makes his home
with Sir Jasper. The youthful lovers tell
Of their plight and accept the baronets Of
fer of hospitality for the night. No sooner
are they gone into the house, than Sir Jas
per answers a call of distress, and finds
an elderly man and woman in q state of
perplexity because their horse has run
away. He again offers his home as shelter,
they accept and the man introduces himself
&C Captain Cruickshank. Sir Jasper is
aghast, for he realizes they are the parents
of the clipping girl.
Act second begins the next morning.
Servants are getting the breakfast table
ready, when Professor Jogram enters, fur
ious at his nights rest being broken by the
convivialty down stairs of Sir Jasper and
the captain. The baronet is perplexed
about his guests, wondering how to keep
the parents from meeting the runaways,
when Dorothy comes in from the garden.
Instead of the rude, freckle-faced girl he
expected to find, she is a pretty, frank, IN
nocenf girl Of eighteen. His admiration is
most apparent, but she is all unconscious,
chats with him, asks him to call her Dolly,
ranges flowers about the room and places
In her belt q sprig OF 81 ro een1iT ,a6 %nlfn ber
parents have never seen William, and they
ran away because they dreaded the nrst
interview. Sir Jasper contrives to get her
out of the room that he may warn William
her parents are there, but, when Captain
and Mrs. Cruickshank come in they take
William for Sir Jasper's son, are charmed
with him and regret he had not eloped with
their daughter. While they. are at break
fury and rage of the captin, he embraces
his daughter and N1rgives William. Sir
Jasper orders the c, dch, and proposes they
all go to London to see the coronation OF
Queen Victoria. All accept. but. William,
loath to go, is already jealous OF Sir Jas
per's attention TO Dorothy.
Act third finds them in London. Poor
William has been somewhere In the crowd,
10 Sir Jasper's delight. for he is now very
finally arrives, angry and hurt. at MS
sweethearts neglect. Jogram, realZlpg sir
Jasper's danger, manages TO get the Others
away and leave William and Dorothy alone,
but the lovers meeting becomes a quarrel.
William demands TO see what she mas writ
ten in her diary, and, when she refuses,
the door opens and. mistaktng Sir Jasper
for William, throws her arms about ms
neck. She is embarrassed; tells him or the
quarrel, and insists upon reading TO nip
what she has written. II IS a simple httie
account of their journey to London. Sir
Jasper is losing himself In his charm with
her innocence. when Jogram enters and an
rounces William is outside. She tears the
leaf from the diary, gives 1t to Sir Jasper
ana IuSlbS out. lnGn lOlAONo Al SNApAS
scene. where Jogram warns Sir Jasper that
ne is treading on dangerous g~round-may
wreck three lives. Jasper asks II ne had
not a risht TO be happy, to win Dolly If
he can. that he will not give her up for
William is incapable of loving her as ne
does. Jogram appeals to his honor and
urges him To tear up the diary leaf. JAS
per refuses, but slips II between the vain
scoting and wall. Jogram prophesies, You
will get over it in time. The day will come
when there will be only a sweet rememb-
rance left" Dolly runs in to tell Sir Jasper
Of her great ioy-she and William are 70
be married the day after tomorrow. With
a great effort he tries to wish her happi,
ness. and drinks the health of the bride and
groom. They all go away. leaving him
alone with a few sprays, of rosemary which
Dolly gives him that he may not forget
her. Everywhere is happiness, the crowd
shouts and the bands play, but the bar
onet's heart is broken.
The last act of Rosemary" is a touching
and poetic sequel to the romance. IL takes
place fifty years later, the scene being To-
Gated at the Queens Jubilee In the same
room where the happy characters met when
they went up to London, when Dorothy
was anxious to eIope. Sir Jasper has re-