The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-10

The Empires bill for fair week will be
Fred Rider Moulin Eouge." with two new
ton sisters and others in the olio.
Notes of the Stage.
A comedy in two acts written by Carmen
Sylvia tQueens Elizabeth of Roumania) has
recently been acted for charitable purpose
in Leipsic.
A Judge of Mount Vernon, a suburb of
New York, has decided that children under
/ sixteen cannot attend theaters unless
companfed by guardian.
Mrs Phil Mcleod announces that her d.
vorce proceedings are all off. She adds that
she mas received $4,000 from her husband,
and does not abandon her dover rights.
She's in luck.
So well satisfied is Charles F'rohman with
Josephine Halls performance of the prin-
cipaI part in THE Girl from Maxim's" that
he has extended her engagement and
doubled her salary. -
Montgomery Phister, dramatic critic Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, has written a play
called 1.-The Kings Player" of which Nell
Gwynne is the central figure, and Fanny
Rice is TO present 1t.
Lord and Lady Algy," the hgh-class
comedy that ran most OF last season in
New, York, will be the opening play of
Charles Frohman's Empire Theater COM
pany in Cincinnati this week.
When Charles Frohman sends out his
new company in His Excellency, the Gov
ernor," Ethel Barrymore is announced for
the leading role which has been played in
New York by Jessie Millward.
Mr. George Dickson and Mr.. Fred Dickson
returned from Europe last week. and are
once more in the managerial business. Mr..
Fred Dickson has assumed his old position
Theater.
Marie Coleridge. the concert singer. whose
portrait was recently published by the
World as a picture of Nine. Labori, Will
return from Europe late in September to
begin concert tour under the direc don Of
Henry Wolfsohn.
Kare, the Latin QUARTER humorist, who
had much fun out of Quesnay de Beau
repaire, says that he has written farce
TO be called "Paris-Basle and Return"
which will contain the principal episodes
of the Dreyfus incident.
Mary Link. anotf er Hoosier prima donna,
the contralto' who sang here i'm Humper-
dincks "Hansel and Gretel,'' has been en-
gagged by the Castle Square Opera Company.
Miss Link has been singing in San Fran
cisco during the summer season.
The first roof garden in London, to be
built on Charles Wyndham's new theater,
will be a very tame affair, to which only
the patrons OF the theater are to be adj
mitted. 1t will be used, moreover. as a
lounging and smoking resort, and not for
theatrical performances Of any kind.
Grace Quivey, of North Manchester, Ind,
who became Mrs. Charles Van Studdiford
after she left the Bostonians two years ago,
has been engaged leading prima donna
of the Jefferson De Angels opera company
On Monday she appears with the company
in Montreal as Yvette in 1.-The Jolly Mus
keteers.'
Victor Herbert has about as many oper-
attic appointments as one man might ordi-
narily be expected to keep in rest season.
He is to complete three new operas for
this season. to be used by Miss Alice Mel
sen, Frank Daniels and Francis Wilson.
Now he has promised to do fourth for the
BoStonianS.
The announcement is made that in isis
ter Mary May Irwin will have more music
than dialogue allotted to her, and instead
of unraveling a plot and settling up the
business affairs of the other characters she
will unburden her soul of songs of various
styles whenever the plot threatens to thick
en- too much.
Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel,"
which for some four or five years has been
peacefully reposing in a managerial pigeon
hole at the Opera Comique in Paris, has
suddenly SUD been discovered by the powers of
that famed theater and will be produced
next winter. The French version is by
Catulle Mendes.
Charles H. Hoyt's "a Stranger in New
York. was taken to London about a year
ago by an American company, but failed to
entertain the British public to any great
extent. The humor was declared to be too
American which is the equivalent there for
too boisterous. The piece has been entirely
rewritten, and is to be produced there under
the title of In Gay Paree.''
Laurence Irving, Sir Henry's son, who
translated Sardous "Robespierre," has
been collaborating with Thomas Hessel-
wood lately. result is 1.-The Lion and the
Weeden Grossmith. The action is in the
time of Charles II in England. They are
now writing romantic historical drama
designed for Julia Marlowe.
One of the weekly papers of London is
conducting a voting contest to determine.
as far as any such contest can determine,
who is the mostly smartly dressed woman
far, with Fanny Ward in the lead. Some
of the others are Maxine Elliott, Lady Ran
SSo doll S SnErf MI, the Princess of Wales who
Ward, Eona May, Marie Tempest, Mrs.
Potter and Orerc.
William and Edward Hanlon are begin
ming to wonder whether the force of car
penters and other stage hands employed in
their spectacle, "Superba," is becoming
DdSeDdll MAD. Ever since the Brooklyn
base ball club became known as 'Hanlon's
Superbas' they can talk of nothing else.
They have learned all the slang of base
ball and while a work talk of knocking out
flies, stealing bases and home runs. The
Messrs. Hanlon are asking themselves
whether they are managing a ball team or
a spectacle
The bright and cunning performance of
child always appeals strongly TO an Amer
lean audience. 1t causes a thrill of pleas
ure to see little tot on the stage with no
indication of stage fright and entertain you
with its childish and bewitching manner
isms. With Al. Fields Minstrels Is a cum
ming little fellow. called Master Carroll, one
of the most talented children on the stage.
In the dancing advertisement presented by
Welby. Pearl and Keyes Master Carroll.
who Is not quite six years old, takes a
prominent part, and Is said to be master
of American clog dancing. He is described
as the personiflcation of grace in his execu-
ton of difficult steps. He has danced ever
since he was old enough to walk and is the
youngest dancer in the business.
The Montreal Herald, in an editorial.
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