The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-14

scenery and costumes have been prepared.
The extraordinary success of Rostand's
IL Aiglon" has resulted In determination
TO continue Miss Adams in that play until
the end of the season, which will be about
the 1st of next June.
Xxx
Hymns big Sensation" burlesque COM
pany will be the attraction at the Empire
Theater next week. The "Utopians" have
been engaged for the holiday attraction.
The coupon scheme for women recently in
troduced by the management OF the theater
will be recognized every day during holiday
week except on Monday and on Christmas
day.
The Zoo was presented yesterday with
three fine alligators by the management of
Military Park and the animals were at once
added to the large and interesting collec-
ton already on view: La Belle Fatima,
the Oriental dancing bear. is proving the
strongest attraction the Zoo has yet mad,
with the single exception of Monzuma. the
interesting chimpanzee. One OF the most
sensational and thrilling lion acts ever
shown i'm this city is that given by Senior
Jose Barrios with his three forest-bred
lions, Nero, Gladstone and Emerson.
XXX
The Washington Post is authority for the
statement that next February the Good
wins will tempt fate with an elaborate pro-
duction of 1.-The Merchant of Venice" Mr..
Nat c. Goodwin playing Bassanio and Miss
Maxine Elliott Portia. During their recent
said the Goodwins had bad luck with
thieves and confidence people. which
prompts the Post to observe that possibly
after they have balanced accounts at the
end OF their Shakspearean season they may
decide the swindlers treated them gently,
after ALL
John Slipper, the scenic artist at the
Grand during the stock season which closes
tomorrow night, will remain in the city
about six weeks after the termination of
his stock engagement. Mr.. Slipper has
been selected as the artist who will design
the scenes used in the New Years night
entertainment TO be given by the Maenner-
Choir. He will at once begin work on the
scenery, which will be a very elaborate
the old year and the birth of the new.
Mr.. Slipper will also submit model for
the decorations to be used at the carnival
in Maennerchor Hall the night of Feb. 10.
| A Brooklyn paper recently administered a
singing rebuke to Joseph Jefferson. the
dean of the American stage" thus:
Joseph Jefferson's vast fortune has been
accumulated from version of Rip Van
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| Dion Boucicault, and it was only an imi-
| tation of a similar piece played by his
| brother-in-law, Charles Burke. Neither
| Jefferson nor Booth ever purchased o. pro
| duced an American play. On the other
| hand, the late Lawrence Barrett hell that
| the principal aim of American players
| should be to put out American plays, and
even Nat Goodwin has stuck pretty con-
| sistently to this text"
| Tu1io AorInuya hoe f,,rna1 tba aufoOro NJ,
craze to excellent account. For some time
she has been collecting fee of so cents
for each autograph she gives out, and the
money thus collected is laid aside for the
Actors Fund. Contrary to expectations,
the requests for her signatures have con-
tinued TO pour in as steadily since the en-
barge was laid upon them they did be-
FORE Miss Marlowe is confident that before
| long she will be able to endow a hospital
bed in the name of the Actors Fund with
| the proceeds OF the sale of her photographs
and autographs. She requires even the
members of her business staff to pay the
| fee whenever they ask for signed photo
graph to give out in the ordinary routine of
| duty.