The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-11
NENWTCT DIR. A. E. BUCHANAN
OAA A4NA 1888 When Building.
ADJUSTMENTS.

THE Banker Daughter" revived by the
Grand stock company this week, promises
to attract the same large houses to which
this play of Bronson Howard's was accus-
toned a score of years ago. It's dialogue
has lost nothing in beauty and brightness
during the years in which the manuscript
has been on the shelf, and the various scenes
arc to-day as vigorous and as full of in
terest when the play was first put on.
All the favorites of the stock company are
recognized with applause as they make their
entrance at each performance. Mr.. Shell
don's welcome is perhaps more marked this
week in its warmth than that accorded to
any other member. This is doubtless owing
to the hit he made last week in THE Pri-
yate Secretary" There will be a matinee
to-day of The Bankers Daughter" The
stock company viii present Edwin Mil
ton Royle's well-knoWn comedy drama,
Friends" next week.
The last opportunities to see "Jack and
the Beanstalk" will be the performances to-
day and tonight at EngIish's This big
Klaw & Erlanger production will be taken
off the road after this season and will COM
pete for time in England with the great
English panOtomimes, with which it has
often been favorably compared.
The Liliputians will come to English's
Friday and Saturday nights and SATURDAY.
matinee. presenting their latest spectacle
1.-The Golden Horseshoe" an extraVaganz
IN four acts and twelve tabeauX. All the old
favCIdtes are in the cast, among them Franz
Ebert, Adolf link, Selma Goerner and Ber-
tina Jaeger. The new play is described as
the most gorgeous the Liliputians ever had
The last performances of "A Cheerful
Idiot win be given at the Park this after
noon and tonight. 1t will be followed to-
morrow by a new sensational melodrama
called John Martins Secret" and is under
the management of William Calder, who
first came into prominence with The Span
of Life"
A series of souvenir evenings will be in
stituted at the Grand, commencing Monday
evening. Jan. %. on which occasion every
woman attending will be given a cabinet
picture by Kttcheli of Miss Shannon. On
each Monday evening thereafter pictures of
some of the other members of the stock
company will be presented.
The New Night Owls" will close at the
Empire this evening. The Adamson- Barr
wrestling match will take place tomorrow
night and the Bezenah-Murray sparring
contest Saturday night.
The Rochester Lyceum. the leading thea
ter in that city, has signed contract with
Messrs. Hayman, Klaw & Erlanger by
which, on Aug. !, it passes into the control
of the theatrical syndicate for term of
seven years.
The receipts of Richard Mansfeld's five
weeks Chicago engagement in "Cyrano'
were S151S4.
The production of La Belle Helene" at
the New York Casino has been postponed to
Thursday night to allow of further costume
and scenic rehearsals.
An actress writes to London newspaper:
Il am so sorry to have to ask you to please
let the public know that it is myself who
plays the First Oyster in Alice in Wonder
land, and who dances the sailors hornpipe"
In what other trade would you find such
pride in good work done in a IoWly part?
New York sun.
Here is a stanza of one of De Wolf Hop
pers' songs in THE Charlatan:'
I'm known as the Jonahs hoodoo,
And the hoodoo's Jonah. too;
1t makes no difference what YOU do
can read you through and through.
BY the power of hypnotism
can make an English pun
Stand out as a wtticism
And the choicest sort of fun
] can make by incarnation
shinbone seem a roast
And the average army ration
Parade as quail on toast,
In fact. I'm quite potential
In mystic sort Of way
But this is the one essential
Can / ever make it pay?"
George A. Broadhurst is Just at present
very busy man. In addition to prepar-
ing his new comedy. THE Last Chapter"
for early presentation he Is writing an ex
based on story that appeared originally
10 oil