The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-20

Mrs. Patrick Campbell is to be seen soon
in an adaptation of Tess Of the Urber-
villes." She is starring in England with
"Magda," The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
and The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith.
Helen Bertram. of the Bostonians, says
her eight-year-old-g girl is not to be an ac-
tress and Louise Montague's son. who is
not yet twenty-one, is taller and actually
looks older than his remarkably well-pre-
served mother.
Apropos of Olga Nethersole's departure in
dressing Camille" in the costumes Of the
period when the play was written. it is In
teresting TO recall that the idea is not
original. Sarah Bernhardt did the piece in
this manner at the Renaissance, in Paris,
on Sept. 80, 1886.
Vaudeville pays the good artist good
money. vide Lew Dockstader. Six years
ago he owed $4,000. He entered the vaude-
VIlle ranks and to-day he is free and clear
OF indebtedness. having paid every dollar of
claims against him before Jan. l, 1899.
Charles Hoyt, the playwright, is now
In Florida under the care of his physi-
clan, who is travelling with him. The
doctor states that Mr.. Hoyt's illness is
due to spinal trouble, and he hopes to have
the playwright in good condition again
within five or six weeks.
''Trelawney of the Wells" has had great
success this season, and Wednesday night
celebrated its one-hundredth performance
at the New York Lyceum Theater. The
distinguished English playwright, Pinero
mas good cause to feel very warmly toward
the American theater patron, for very few
OF his plays have lacked support in this
country
Miss Louise Hopper Mr.. D. L. Dow, Mr.
George Leslie, Miss Belle Bucklin. Miss
Louise Royce and Miss Margaret Ferguson,
with several chorus women, left New York
last week for San Francisco, from where
they will sail for Australia on the Mohican
next Wednesday to present The Belle Of
New York" They will open at Sydney
n. S. W., on April 16.
The list of remarkable dramatic successes
is headed by rip Van Wrinkle" which
Mr.. Jefferson played first in 1859. Mr.. JEFF
ferson is the richest man on the stage
He is reported to be worth 50, 100000 at least
and most of this has been earned for him
by RIP Van Wrinkle" Notwithstanding
that for many years past he has played
very short seasons: All told he has given
RIP Van Wrinkle" five thousand times, at
gross receipts averaging $1,000 a perform
ance, thus aggregating 100000
Here is what Mrs. Leslie Carter says of
her new play, "Zaza:" I'm French the play
is unpresentable. Zaza remains bad to the
end. But in Mr.. Belasco's translation
Zaza is transformed by her love and by the
appeal which the child makes to her latent
goodness. She reforms She leaves the
man who has so cruelty deceived her and
tries to lead new life. The difference be-
tween her and Camille? 1t is this: Camille
knows better: ZaZa does not. Camille is
badness localized; poor Zaza is only a wom-
an throughout her stormy history"
Miss Louise Closer is deserving of a lit
tie paragraph all to herself. Miss Closer
is an actress in the stock company at the
Grand Opera House. Last week she played
Virginia, the broken-hearted, whose heart
was subsequently repaired, in Bronson
Howard's "Aristocracy.' l remember Mary
Hampton's playing of Virginia five or six
years ago. as an especially delightful per-
formance yet / cannot think of 1t as being
a whit better than Miss Closser's, original
though 1t was and in some of the scenes
1t seems to me that the young woman of
the Market-Street stock company is easily
the more effective. don't know just what
opportunity Miss Closer will get in the
Grand Opera House organization, but
trust that it will be broad enough to bring
out for our instruction and entertainment
the artistic virtues she seems to possess
St Louis Republic.
The glut in the chorus girl market is evil
IDENTIFY at an end, for Frank Perley, who
is starring Alice Nelson in The Fortune
Teller" is paying all the way from $40 to
$50 per week to some of his best chorus
girls. He has four of them, who earn
ing that princely salary, stop at the South
ern or Planters Hotel, dress in the best,
and otherwise conduct themselves like
young women of affairs. One of these for
tunate young damsels is Miss Violet Jewell,
another Miss Nellie Marsh, a young Co
lumbuS 90 beauty, with wel-trained
high soprano, pretty face and the daintiest
little figure imaginable. Miss Marsh made
hnr 10 mt I'm n
wards she went with In Gay New York, >
The Lady Slavey" and zone Round of
Pleasure" When Mr.. Perley was gathering
in his chorus forces for THE Fortune Tel
ler he selected not only good-loo1ing peo-
pie, but picked fresh, young voices. Miss
Marsh came under that caption, and she
was at once offered salary of half hun
dred dollars a week. She plays in The
Fortune Teller" Jan, the tailor boy, small
speaking part. Miss Marshs aim is not to
become a prima donna, but gay and dash
ing soubrette. She has the qualifications,
to say the least, and having those, the OPP
portunity will undoubtedly soon offer.
Thirteen may be an unIucky number for
some people, but Mr.. Daniel Frohman. the
manager of the Lyceum Theater, isn't one
of them. If you'll just take the trouble to
count you'll find that there are just thirteen
letters each in his name and in that of his
playhouse, and then, too, curiously enough
the same mystic number appears in the
names of some Of the most prominent ac-
tors under his management like Edward
Sothern. Edward j. Morgan, James K.
Hackett, Mary Mannering, Charles Walcot,
Mrs. Tom Whiffen, VIM. II. Courtleigh and
Harry Woodruff. And as yesterday was
the thirteenth anniversary of Mr.. Froh-
mans organization of the Lyceum company
thirteen, again, by the way-and the be-
ginning of the thirteenth week Of Tire
lawny of the Wells, " and likewise the
thirteenth day of the month. the members
of the company thought it would be appro-
pirate to give the manager a little memento
of the occasion in the shape of a pair of
gold cuff links, forming the number '13 -
w. Noah Lawrence. Ohirteen again(, the
business manager of the house. made the
presentation speech and Grant M. Stewart
(once more thirteen) read an appropriate
poem. Mr.. Frohman was completely sur
prised, but managed to make a neat little
speech in reply, which contained just thir-
teen words and lasted about the thirteenth
OF a minute. And you will notice that this
report pretty nearly got on the thirteenth
page.-New York Herald.
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