The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-12

OF course the story is ridiculous and Miss
Russell, when seen, denied 1t most emphati-
caliy. The report possibly grew out or an
old rumor that Mr.. Serrano was engaged TO
Miss Annie Russell, which also was denied.
New York Herald.
The dramatization of Ouidas famous
novel, Moths which viii be presented by
the Grand Stock Company next week, is an
especially prepared one. This is nom
royalty play but the management of the
stock company prefers to use the version
for which a charge is made, rather than 70
take the printed version and make Oh the
changes necessary to smooth performance.
There has been pretty general desire TO
see the stock company in MONS, when
will be found among the strongest society
plays yet offered
Somebody has discovered that Henrik
Ibsen had a predecessor in his use of the
theme of Nora" In 1872 a play called
1.-THE Actress" was produced at Stock
holm. 1t depicted the struggles Of a tai
ented actress who had married the citizen
Of a small town and suffered under the mar
roWness and restraint which she found there.
The audience was delighted with the play
and the stage manager was compelled to say
that he had no idea who had written II wien
the author was demanded before the cur a n.
1t afterward proved TO be well-knoWn
womans rights agitator. She handled the
questions that arose between the man ana
his wife just as Ibsen does in Nora and
several of her novels treat the same SUBJECT.
Only the role of MiIadi now remains to be
filled in the cast of Mr.. Sidney Grundy's
version OF 1.-The Musketeers," which the
Liebler Company will produce at the Broad
way Theater on March 13. James ONeil
will be the D'Artagnan, Wilton Lackaye the
Athos and Edmund Collier the Porthos,
Miss Margaret Anglin the Constance and
TrfHi
the cast will be S. Miller Kent, francis
Carlyle Harry St. Maur, A 5. Lipman'
Augustus Cook, Hallett thompson ana -, Eu-
mund Breese. E. j. Maylon, the stage man
ager of Her Majesty's Theater, LondOh,
where the play was presented recently py
Beerbohm Tree is expected to arrive 10
conduct the rehearsals. The first perform
ance will be given in Montreal on March &
Few companies can boast Of a more in
teresting personnel than the organization
supporting James X Hackett in Rupert of
Hentzau." Besides Mr.. Hackett there are
Theodore Roberts, who was the originator
of the character Scar Brow, an Indian, in
"The Girl 1 Left Behind Me-" Brigham
Royce, who was with the Frawley organiza-
ton on the Pacific coast and played sea-
son in Honolulu in the Hawaiian ISLANDS;
George W. Lynch, formerly Joseph Jel tiIo
sons stage manager; JObyna HoWland, the
original Gibson Girl" VINO posed Tor CID
sons pictures which illustrated Mr.; Hopes
latest
membered for her fine portrayal of ,"Tril-
by" Robert Elliot, a young Engllshman
who, previous to his advent on the stage,
served with the English forces IN hhartuhl,
and Evelyn Carter, beautiful young
woman prominent in Bostons social circles.
Richard Barker, the celebrated English
producer of plays and operas is responsible
for the staging of 1.-The jolly Musketeer."
Mr. Barker, who has produced many operas
of note, both on this and the other side of
the water during the past twenty years, is
now a man of considerable wealth and lives
in a palatial residence in st. Johns Wood,
London. Mr.. Julian Edwards, the composer
of 1.-THE Jolly Musketeer," was anxious that
Mr. Barker should produce TINS opera. an mo
down at home for a season or rest the APP
peal of his old friend could not be refused
Edwards and Barker were associated Tor
for many years at Covent Garden and the
Drury Lane, London; consequently, Mr.;
Barker packed his portmanteau and sailed
for this country, where, soon after arrival,
he was engaged to produce another opera
after finishing The jolly Musketeer." Mr.;
Barker is especially famous as the original
producer of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas
in London, and the great Christmas panto-
mines at Drury Lane.
Here is Ed Dunn's latest story which he
innocently ascribes to his star: Stuart Rob
son is telling a funny story about shift
him to go to the village store and exchange
an egg for a darning needle. After much
persuasion he was induced to go out to the
barn and rob the next of an honest hens
days work. Arriving ut the store, the fol-
lowing conversation took place: Say, Zeb,
Clarinda Ann wants darnin' needle; Civ
yer an egg fer one"
The trade was made and after swapping
lies around the sugar barrel for fifteen or
twenty minutes the pumpkin said; Eggs
mighty high, Zeb Deent they? / low you
ought to treat on that thar trade we made
spell age We'll, I'll be tggered,a an
ask me to, 81, digged if 1 don't, WhatH
you have to take"
With sundry bitches of his trousers,
Clarinda AIMS husband allowed he'd have
a sherry and egg. Setting the sherry bottle
out on the counter. Zeb reached for the egg
he had just traded for and opening 1t on the
edge of the glass disclosed the fact that It
contained two yolks while Sis face broad
ened into a grin as he calculated. Gosh,
Zeb, you owe me mother needle, don't your