The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

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lantry. Joseph and will admit that / have
left room for postscript; you can write it
yourself, Joseph.
The "Bowery Burlesquers," with Truly
Shattuck and a capable company, will open
at the Empire this afternoon.
The Park has lively week, beginning
with to-days matinee, when the May How
ard Extravaganza Company will open a
three-day engagement. There are thirty
people in the company, and the bill is made
up Of bright music, good specialties and a
couple of burlesques by Fred Solomon and
Edgar Smith. In the organization are Mills
and Simonds, Irene Watson. Flynn and De
Costa, Al Weston, Moran and Wesley, Will
son and MassOny and others. Johnny and
Emma Ray and their farce-comedy COM
pany will follow next Thursday in "A Hot
Old Time for which seats are now on sale.
John and Emma Ray, who are starring in
"a Hot Old Time" have many friends and
acquaintance in Indianapolis. One of them
tells a funny story. of the origin of their
famous speciality and how their marriage
was brought about through rehearsal in
San Francisco some years ago. Mr.. Ray
was stage manager and producer at the
theater and a very strict one. One day
new actress was engaged to play principal
part, that OF the comedians wife. Mr.. Ray
was the comedian. The lady was very
anxious to go TO her hotel before rehearsal.
but MIR. Ray said there was no time to lose
ana started the rehearsal This made the
lady trifie angry, but she did not show it..
During one of the acts she was supposed to
seize Mr.. Ray and pull him across the stage
for being out late at night. She tried the
scene and ii did not suit Mr.. Ray who said:
You must not do it like that. Grab hold
of me and jerk me all around; use all your
strength: never mind about me-
So they tried 1t again and the lady fol-
10 fr7sf FT.0ff Lea
pened that she was not only angry, but
muscular as well. Poor Johnny had met his
down and tossed in the air At the perform
ance that evening the operation was re-
peated and was the hit of the show. The
lady is now Mrs. Ray. This scene has been
to create a roar.
The coming of Richard Mansfield next
week in a new role suggests the untiring and
successful activity of this great artist. He
is only forty years old and he has been a
star only about dozen years yet he has
larger repertoire of artistic successes than
any other living actor. This is especially
remarkable when one considers that this
repertoire is made up of original creations
which were produced in Mr.. Manshelds
own judgment. not Of roles which long pay
ing before his time had made classic, like
some of our actors who find Hamlet"
Romeo and Juliet" Camille" "Rosalind,"
Lear" or "Richeleu ready-made sue
cesses. Original Judgment has therefore
largely guided Mansfield in his remarkable
creations. An approximately complete list
of all of MansheldS creations and given in
the order in which they sprang into being,
would read about like this: Baron Chevrial
in. "A Partisan Romance" prince Karl
which he produced to counteract the impress
sion that he could not play young lovers,
produced by the verify of Chevrial's dissi-
pated senility; ''Dr Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
nj a xNh has
often been spoken Of as partly biographical
wrote; The Scarlet Letter" which was his
own dramatization of Hawthorne story;
Nero" Tittlebat Titmouse in $1,000 a
Year" 'Shyloek, Captain Bluntschli in
Arms and the Man Napoleon Bona
parte," Rodion in 'Rodion the Student, "
Sir john Sombras in Castle Sombras,"
Eugen Courvoisier in THE First Violin
and "CyranO de Bergerac." Not every one
them had the kernel of artistic honesty and
the leaven of genius which induced the Oft
repeated prophesy, now happily realized,
that Mansfield would carry the standards of
romantic art higher and farther than any Of
his contemporaries
Blanche Marchesi, only daughter of the
great vocal teacher, Mathilde Marchesi, Of
Paris, who counts among her pupils such
artists as Melba, Gerster, Eames, Nevada
and others, will give her first New York
noon of Jan. Is.
Eugenio Sorrentino, leader of the great
italian Banda Rosa, arrived from Naples
Wednesday on the Ems. He brought with
him several eminent instrumental soloists
among whom may be specially mentioned
Sig. Messina, a first trumpet. who is de-
Scribed by those who have heard him as
possessing phenomenal qualities. The Banda
Rosa this season will be made up of forty
five picked men and will be provided with
handsome new uniforms. Two vocal solo
lists will accompany the organization. The
tour of the Banda Rosa will begin at
Stamford. Conn, on Jan. %, and will cover
all the territory east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio.
Mr.. Harry Musgrove manager of the
Shaftesbury Theater in London, where
1.-The Belle of New York. is being played
also manager of Her Majestys Theater, Sid
ney, and Princess Theater, Melbourne, Aus
tralia, has been in Chicago the past week
studying the performance of Way Down
East, with view of taking the company
Academy of Music, New York city, next
season Way Down East has succeeded
in duplicating its Eastern success in the
Western metropolis. 1t is described as
clean, wholesome play. illustrating the hap
penings of rural life i'm New England, elab-
orately staged and strongly cast.
f. NJ. Dasher sends word that Charles
Hoyt's latest comedy Offering entitled "A
Day and q Night" will shortly be presented
at Englishs Mr.. Hoyt is with the COM
pany, and the production is under his per-
sonal direction The principal roles are all
in the hands of people who have long been
Hoyt favorites or are reasonably sure to
establish themselves as such. Otis Harlan,
SO famous at Hot Stuff in "A Black Sheep"
is the person in whom most of the interest
centers as the comedy is described by the
author in his report of the doings of a gem
tleman from New Jersey during "A Day and
a Night in the metropolis, and Mr.. Harlan
is seen as the gentleman in question. Will
liam Devere is given the role of a bluff,
hearty old r0under, a retired commodore in
the United States navy. Pretty and even
winSome Grace Rutter has the principal fe-
male character. Others in the cast are Lou
which she has captivated New York; always
Jolly ClairisSa Agnew, Hattie Williams,
Thomas Evans w. IL. Currie, the dancing
wonder, Hattie Wells, and others.
What is said to be one of the most gor-
geous scenes ever seen on a stage is now
being painted by Ernest Albert, of New
her latest creation. the Japanese Magic
Floral Fete, in which she will introduce
for the first time here novel acts of magic.
James X. Hackett. by an arrangement
between Charles and Daniel Frohman, will
play Mercutio in the formers presentation
of Romeo and Juliet" Miss Maud Adams
and William Faversham appearing in the
title roles. Mr.. Hackett will finish his pres
ent starring season. In the spring he will
appear at the Isyceum Theater, in New York
in the new play, Rupert of Hentzau," a
decentralization of the sequel to THE PriS-
oner of Zenda.' Miss Adams will appear as