The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

Notes of the Stage.
The advance sale of seats for Hoyt's "a
Day and Night will open at Englishs
Monday morning.
Otis Harlan will star next season in the
farce MY Innocent Boy" which has sue
oeeded in London. The tour viii be man
aged by Frank Mckee.
The present week is the eighteenth of the
stock company's season at the Grand. Next
week TOO Much Johnson" will be the play,
and William II. Cranes old success, The
Senator is soon TO follow
Chester Bailey Fernalds Chinese play,
The Cat and the Cherub, has been made
into an opera and will be sung at Breslau
Bavaria. Henry Blan is the llbrettist and
Victor Hollander the composer of the opera,
which is entitled San Lin" The libretto
is in English.
Sol Smith RusselTs annual engagement at
English's will be Monday and Tuesday
nights of next week James K. Hackett
will play his first Indianapolis engagement
the following Thursday night, and the last
two nights of the week Jefferson DAngelis
will bring his big opera company in The
jolly MuSketeer."
The third photograph souvenir at the
Grand tomorrow evening, when Miss
Daily's pictures are to be given to the
ladies attending, is helping to make the adj
a
morrow night Mr.. Hansel's photograph
will be the souvenir.
Otis SINNERS tour through the South in
Rosemary is turning out to be the most
successful since he began his starring
career. He is playing John Drew's role in
this beautiful drama, and Maud Durbin has
the part formerly taken by Maud Adams.
Mr.. Skinner will reach indianapolis the first
week in March.
big Bill" De We're well remembered here
as the Arizona Editor in "a Black Sheep"
and Clarisse Agnew. remembered as the
shy little orphan who. could sing French
rejoin Hoyt's "A Day and a Night" this
week, so that the original company that
played in New York will again be together
supporting Otis Harlan.
Rupert of Hentzau," in which James K.
Hackett will pay his first visit to this city
as a star. has proved so great a drawing
card that the actor will use it for his en-
tire tour. The play requires cast of
twenty-SiX people, seven sets of scenery and
a large number of SupernumerarieS. 'Ru-
pert is Anthony Hopes successor to his
earlier play, THE Prisoner Of Zenda;" 1t
goes to the Lyceum Theater, New Ork, for
a run in the spring.
While not busy at rehearsal Miss Shan
non, of the Grand Stock Company, is either
hard at work studying her part or is at the
dressmaker's. She has to spend more time
at the dressmaker's than any of the other
ladies of the company and 1T is no easy
task, either. Her Countess Zicka in 'Di-
plomacy' will be the first character this
season in which she has not had the full
sympathy of the audience, 1t is likely that
in the fourth act Of Diplomacy she will
make the audiences feel sorry for her, for
it is in this act that she reveals how deep
Iy in love with Julian Beauclerc she is,
and how she desires to keep from him the
knowledge that she has stolen the missing
papers.
Miss Ethel Browning, of the Avenue
stock company, is puzzled over the actions
of an unknown admirer, who persists in
sending her perfumes, which he tells her,
by telephone, is the simple tribute of one
who appreciates art, without caring where
he meets it, Every evening just before Miss
Browning goes to her dressing room, she is
called to the telephone in the Office Of Man
ager OTOole, in the Avenue Theater, and
asked whether the package sent to her has
been received. She goes to her dressing
room and then she finds a handsome cut
glass bottle of lavender perfume: She has
already received four bottles, and they are
still coming. She understands the delicate
compliment, of course, because she is to
play the title role in Sweet Lavender" next
weeks comedy at the Avenue. What she
wants to know is, what is she to do with
all the perfume that she gets. She has been
distributing it among the members of the
company, and everyone, from Walter Ed
wards and Miss Beryl Hope to the call boy
is saturated with it, and, as Beaumont
Smith remarked dryly last evening, there
will be no lack of atmosphere" when
Sweet Lavender is produced. Who the
donor is no one knows, but it is evident that
he has an excellent idea of 8 good joke, and
that he is not afraid to spend his money in
carrying it out.-Pittsburg Paper.
Marguerite Lemon appeared in New York
last week as the prima donna in Dekoven
& Smiths new opera, 1.-The Three ORA
goons" The opera has not scored a phe-
nomenal success at the Broadway but it is
credited with number of worthy songs A
quaint little song for Miss Lemon tells the
story of a Naughty Little Clock" Of the
French order. 1t runs like this:
There once was frivolous and giddy little
A little French clock, rather gay,
Very trim and very neat, but creature of
deceit
When you wished to know the time Of
Its goings on would shock the old hall clock
Till it held up its hands aghast.
I'm sure to tell the truth, it went wrong in
early youth
Had a natural inclination to be fast.
" Tic toe. tic toe said the silly little
oh, life in this house is slow,
So cold and grim very dull and prim,
I'm getting run down, know.
So she sighed all day for a life more gay;
She longed for a shady past,
This naughty little, naughty little clock
That had an inclination to be fast.
" I'm quite wound up, declared the giddy
little clock;
I'm weary of the mantel Shelf
For years I've had to chime TO give other
folks a time;
Now I'd like to have a time myself
! would even run away with terrible roue
If he'd show me the towns great sights
So she took UP with the lamp, an incor-
rigible scamp
" Tic toe tic toe said the foolish little
clock;
oh, won't you elope with me?
I'm yours from to-day, if you'll take me
away
Where something of life I'll see
So she sighed all day for a life more gay;
She longed for a shady past
This naughty little. naughty little clock,
That had an inclination to be fast"
A Poet.
From wells where Truth in secret lay
He the midnight stars by day.