The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-15

assisted by Miss Jeanette Durno, the Well
known pianiste of Theodore Thomas's Chi
cago Orchestra. Miss Hauk has met with
marked success in Chicago.
The Grand Stock Company viii put on
Moths next week. This dramatization of
Ouidas favorite novel is the one recently
used by the Neiu Stock Company at Gin
cinnau and gave the Pike one of -the big
gest weeks business in its history Moths
Is one of the dressiest plays known TO the
stage and also one Of the strongest society
dramas.
J. J. Rosenthal will produce two new
farces in addition TO Browns in Town
next season. One will be by Mark E. Swan,
the author of Brown" and the other is by
Charles Horwitz, which is called How
Wilkens Got Married" The latter is al
ready completed and is built on novel lines
and, like Browns in Town, will be in
terpreted by young actors and the mother
m-law and old maid eliminated.
way Down East, the new American play
by Lottie Blair Parker, is credtably re-
ported to have been doing an enormous
business in Chicago, Notwithstanding the
fact that Richard Mansfield just concluded
an engagement at the same theater, where
the takings were $75, 600 for five weeks. So
successful has way Down East" been that
q return engagement has been arranged for
the months Of April, May and June at Nc
Nicker's Theater.
The truth of all that has been published
about the retirement Of Otis Harlan from
the management of Hoyt & Mckee and his
going out later under the sole direction of
Mr.. Mckee is simply that Mr.. Harlan is
ambitious to play a new part in George r.
Sims's My Innocent Boy" that Mr.. Hoyt
IS too busy completing several new plays to
associate himself with the enterprise, and
that the playwright has the best of good
riCI for hnfh Mp Il14N NlraFH No
Kee in their combination. Mr.. Hoyt says
that he feels sure that his partner can
easily look after the interests Of Mr.. Har-
Ian without neglecting those of Hoyt q
Mckee Mr.. Harlans first appearance in
the new comedy will take place at one of
the several theaters in New York managed
by Charles Frohman.
1.-THE Sign of the Cross" Wilson Barrett's
unique religious and historical drama, comes
to English's Wednesday, Jan. %, for the
remainder of the week. Practically the same
company seen in this city last season will
appear during the coming engagement.
Charles Dalton, who has been with the COM
pany for the last three seasons, will again
be seen as the noble patrician, Marcus
Superbus. Irene Rookie, who last year made
such a favorable impression as Mercia, the
Christian girl. is also in the cast. w. E.
Bonney returns as Nero, Agnes Scott as
Berenice and Harry Burcher as Philodemus.
OF the newcomers Maude WarriloW is the
most important. Miss Warrilow is a young
English actress who has been playing
Stephanus, the boy martyr, in one of the
London companies for the last two years,
and who is in this country with William
GreetS company for the first time The
wonderful drawing power of this now
world-renovne drama, which is so marked
wherever the piece is seen, is more than
equalled by its lasting qualities. Although
this is the third season of the company in
America engagements are reported to be
larger at each return date. This wonder
full play has the rare distinction of the APP
prOval of ministers, religious papers and
nontheater-goers along with the veteran
patrons Of things theatrical.