The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-27
NTNTTCT DIR. A. E. BUCHANAN
DAAiAANA 1888 When Building.
ADJUSTMENTS.

After taking things rather easy for a week
with comedy bill, the Grand stock COM
pany will engage tonight in the more diff
cult task OF presenting a very strong and
interesting drama, which has very little
comedy to il. but abounds in fine situations.
1.-THE Iron Master will interest not only
those who several years ago saw Mr.. and
Mrs. Kendall in it, but also many hundreds
who have read Ohnets novel from which the
play was dramatized. The version used by
the stock company this week is the same &
that employed by the Kendals. Beginning
with this week the stock company enters
on the last month of its indianapolis sea-
son. Photographs of Miss Bridges constitute
the souvenirs for tonight. Seats will be
placed on sale tomorrow for the extra
souvenir evenings. April 10 and Il.
Joe Coyne. who is at the head of Hoyt's
"a Stranger in New York. company. OPEN
ing at the Park this afternoon has several
new songs, which he has been singing with
much success this season. Mr.. Coyne has
not been seen in this city since the first
appearance OF "A Stranger in New York"
here. at the Grand. last season. He was
recently married to Anna Boyd. then with
the company. and it is said that next sea-
son these two artists are to he together in
one OF Hoyts pieces. Lena Merville is now
playing the part OF Hattie, in which Miss
Boyd appeared last season. Amy Muller. a
company. which is particularly strong in
the terpsichOrean line. The Mccoy Sisters
will be heard in some new coon songs,
and their latest cakewalk steps have been a
big hit with this company. They do a new
dance with Sam Marion that is also fea-
ture. "A Stranger in New York" will re-
main until Thursday at the Park, when ii
will be succeeded by Weber & Fields's "The
Glad Hand" mixture of vaudeville and
musical comedy.
THE Charlatan.' in which De Wolff Hop
per will be heard at English's Tuesday and
Wednesday, including a matinee, is a bigger
production than 'El Captain" and requires
a larger organization. All the old favorites
of the Hopper company, with but few excep-
tons. will be seen. and there have been add
ed several names new to the comic-opeTa
field. Nella Bergen is still the prima donna
or the company Edmund Stanley. the opera
Alfred Klein. who has been Hopper's aid
I'm fuE-making since the comedian became
a star. Alice JudSon il n new member. Mr..
Barnum will be remembered as the buster
ing Count Erithoff in ''Gloriana" and other
comedies presented by Charles Frohman.
Mark Price, former Shakspearean actor.
and good one at that. will certainly be a
novelty in comic-opera organization. Mr..
Price was for many years the leading man
of the famous Boston Theater stock COM
pany, and later with Margaret Mather and
other organizations. In The Charlatan he
Will not sing; but enact the role OF Gogol,
al INSCRIPTIONS villain. who manages to
ger everybody into trouble. Another new
conner will be Adine Bowler, a handsome
young girl. il Is said. who enacts the role
OF the Grand Duchess.
The High Rollers" will open at the En-
pire this afternoon, with two burlesqVe s
and OHIO. Sylvia Starr will be the chief
feature OF the performance.
De Wolff Hopper has a new song. which
he has introduced into THE Charlatan,' -
that is said by the Washington Star to be a
hummer" The words of this ditty inc icate
merriment. and Mr.. SOusa'S music is said
TO be exceedingly captivating The words
OF the second stanZa and the refrain are
as follows:
I'm known as the Jonah's hOodco,
And the hoodoO's Jonah. too;
1t makes no difference what you do,
/ can read you through and through.
BY the power of hypnotism
| can make an English pun
Stand out as witticSm
And the choicest sort of fun;
can make by incarnation
\ shinbone seem a rOaSt.
And the average army ration
Parade quail on toast.
In fact, I'm quite potential,
In mystic sort OF way.
But this Is the one essential
Can ever make IL pay?
Refrain
I'm the kingpin of esoteric science,
The Crackajack Of sorcery;
WOuId-be rivals / treat with mute defiance
I'm the pebble folks come 10 see.