The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-28

The Countess Russell made her debut In
vaudeville at the Tivoli Theater. London.
Monday night and was well received.
It is announced that j. Henry Kollker.
late of the Grand stock company. and Miss
Channez Olney were recently married In
New York
The engagement Of James X. Hackett for
wednesday and Thursday of next week at
English's Opera House has been Cancelled.
and the theater will be dark on those
nights.
Charles l.. Davis. we'll known throughout
the country for his impersonation of cal
win Joslin," is dangerously i'll at his home
at Avilon, Pa. Mr.. Davis Is proprietor of
the Alvin Theater, Pittsburg.
Tomorrow morning at the box office of
Englishs Opera House seats win be placed
on sale for William II. Cranes engagement
in "A Rich Mans Son. Monday night and
"A Virginia Courtship" Tuesday night OF
next week.
Manager Miller received a letter from
Anna Eva Fay yesterday. stating that she
has found IL will be impossible to fill her
engagement Sunday night at English's
Opera House. Miss Fay will give her ex-
hibition at some future date, not yet fixed.
Iasesh coyne. the popular comedian. is
said to be doing some of the best work Of
his career i'm 1.-The Girl in the Barracks .
the new musical comedy TO be produced at
Englishs tomorrow night with Louis
Mann and Clara Llpman in the principal
roles.
In his production of 1.-The First Violin
In some of the large cities Mr.. Mansfield
carries with him the distinguished con-
tralto. Marguerite Hall. who is engaged
simply to sing the aria from Samson and
Delilah," which is one of the musical in
cidents OF the third act Of the play.
Israel Zangwill has lost his case for libel
against a New York evening paper for
printing a statement TO the effect that at
the Herald-square Theater last night a
dramatization of certain scenes in The
Children OF the Ghetto, written by Israel
Zangwill and rewritten by James A.
Hearne. was produced
Mr.. Louis Talbot's remarkable delinea-
ton OF the character of Colonel Preston
IN Alabama" at the Grand this week
may without exaggeration be denominated
a stock company sensation. 1t seems in
credible that an actor who has hitherto
belonged IN the amateur class should, with
only a weeks advance preparation, leap
TO a position OF eminence in a company
whose members have had years of expert
In 'rhe Singing Girl" Alice Nielsen's
new comic opera. which is to be presented
at Englishs Friday night and Saturday
afternoon OF the current week. the youth
full prima donna enacts the part of an
Australian peasant girl, in which she dis
plays versatility BY wearing the sabots
OF the peasantry and doing a Tyrolean
dance in her wooden shoes. In 1.-THE For
tune Teller" which will be revived Satur-
day night, Miss Nielsen introduces q cake
walk that never fails TO make pronounced
hit.
Time brings change" An admirable
example of the truth OF this adage was
found in an examination OF the programme
files in Dickson & Talbott's office yester-
day At Enyiishs Opera House Jan. IS
1882, the Boston Howard Athenaeum Spe-
cialty Company opened for a weeks en-
gagement Among the list OF artists" in
the olio were: "Fulgora. Europe's great
est transfgurator;" "A O. Duncan, premier
ventriloquist. introducing his wonderful
animals;" Fake and Semons, musical
comedy. introducing unique and original
Instruments" That was eight years ago.
To-day Robert Fulgora. the man who was
at that time a vaudeville player. is pro-
prietor on Hopkins's Transoceanic Star
Speciality Company. on the programme OF
which are 20 be found the names OF A. o.
Duncan. venfriloaust. and Fake and Sc
mons. musical comedians. Mr.. Fulgora
also controls a company called Fulgora s
American and European Vaudeville Stars.
(which played an engagsWeEt 1T Lie lark a
wv weeks ago.