The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-02
pear win Anna Held shl. season in PA

pear with Anna Held this season in PA
John Philip Sousa and his famous band
are on their way home from triumphal
tour OF the European continent
Cissie Lotus will be with the stock COM
pany at Days Theater. New York, this
season. playing ingenue roles
XXX
1.-The Price of Peace is said TO be the
title of Cecil Raleigh's new drama for the
London Drury Lane Theater
XXX
IAN Affair of State is the name of the
new play written for Daniel Frohman's
stock company by Grant Stewart and
Charles Klein.
Two melodramas. one old and the other
new. Heart OF Chicago" and THE Con-
vict's Daughter" will divide next week at
the Park Theater.
Uncle Sam in China is the name of
new play which will be given its initial
presentation at the Star 1heater. New
York. this week
Blanche Moulton and Frank Gheen have
been engaged by Liebler & Co. TO support
Viola Allen in her new play, In the Pal
ace or tise King
Helen Lord. j. c. Pope. Madeline Clark
and Leslie Otis have signed with "A Wife
Wanted company. which goes out on the
road after the election.
Anna Wilkes has been engaged by Will
liam A. Brady to play the leading SOU
"A Man from the West
XXX
"A Sinful Woman is the title of a melo-
drama upon which Frank A. Daley is at
work and which will be produced this sea-
son by him in conjunction with j. +. Mil
Ter.
when Chloe Sings a Song" and Ma
Rainbow Coon" will be sung by Isadore
Rush in "a Modern Crusoe' the new play
IN which she and Roland Reed are soon TO
begin road topr.
Frank L. Perley, Alice Nelson's astute
manager, evidently has fsfth in Willie Col
lier. for he has Just purchased from Col
lier's manager. w. G.. Smyth, an interest
in his Kew farce, ION the Quiet"
Andrew Robson will be seen again this
season in THE Royal Box" Charles Cogh-
lan's play. in which he impersonated Mr..
Coghlan for several months last season,
after Mr.. Coghlan's death, without detec-
ton.
XXX seca
Estelle Mortimer, who has for several
seasons past been a member of Nat C.
Goodwin's company, has been engaged by
Richard Mansfield for a prominent part
in his magnificent revival of king Hen
~ ".
XXX
The Boston correspondent of the ORA
matte Mirror states that Richard Mans
field has signed a contract with Newton
Booth Harrington, OF indianapolis, for the
dramatic rights to the latters successful
novel, Monsieur Beaucaire."
xxx
Sammy" Davis, the polite young man in
the box Office at the Empire, has recently
been promoted to the place of treasurer,
and is one of the youngest theatrical treas
urers in the country. He has been with
Manager Zimmerman for several years.
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The new extravaganza written for the
New York Casino by Smith & Highlander
will probably be called 1.-TWO Lovely Black
Eyes or 1.-THE Casino Twins" In the cast
are ID. L. Don, Sam and Dick Bernard,
Virginia Earle, Marie Dainton and Anna
Loughlin.
May Isabel Fiske has elaborated the title
story of her recently published book. 1.-The
Repentent Magdalen." into three-act
play, and is in correspondence with three
women stars-among them Olga Nethersole
with reference to the rights of dramatic
production
| Clara Lipman has long been ambitious to
essay a serious role and now has the
| opportunity in the new play. "All on Ac-
| count of Eliza" which she and her nus
| band, Louis Mann. produced recently for
| the first time in Bridgeport, Conn.,, with
| great success.
The Lafayette-square Opera House,
| Washington. d. c., being out of the the
atrical syndicate, will have a stock COM
pany this season, under the direction of
Frederick CT. Berger. manager of Sol
| Smith Russell and Tim Murphy. Mr..
Berger has engaged Percy Haswell as lead
/ ing woman.