The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-06
THE WEEK
THREE OFFERINGS OF THE HIGHEST
LASS At ENGLIsH's.
Large Company in "Under Two Flags"
The Grand EaudeviIle-At
the Park and Empire.
This is to be a week of fine Entertainment

This is TO be a week of fine entertainment
at English's Opera House. Tomorrow
night Charles FrOhman's company will
give the first Of a series Of four per-
formances OF Paul Potter's dramatiza-
ton Of Ouida's novel, "Under Two Flags"
Ouida is not read so widely now as she was
several years ago, but many persons, no
doubt. remember the story of Cigarette, the
vivandiere, and BERTHE Cecil. The play-form
is in five acts and nine tableaux. The first
scene is at BarOni's bric-a-brac shop in
Rouen. Here RaOul, Marquis of Chateuroy,
q colonel of cavalry in the French army,
in Africa, plots to deprive his cousin, Ber-
tie Cecil, an English guardsman, of his es-
tate and his iancee. Next the winter gar
den Of Chateuroy mano is shown, and the
characters of the Earl Of Rockingham, Ce-
els valet, and the Countess of Warmins-
ter and her daughter, Lady Venetia Lyon
nesse, are introduced. Lady Venetia is Co
ellis sweetheart. Cigarette comes into the
activity in the Ace of Spades wineshop, in
Algiers. She dances amid the soldiers and
officers of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, among
them Raoul, Cecil and the Earl of Rocking
ham, assembled in the place. She bestows
her affections on Cecil, but in vain, for his
~ - SOltly rs pOSStSSlOh vi IN "a
Venetia, but he goes with his friends to
Cigarettes entertainments in her garnet IN
a Moorish house. When Cecil is captured
Cigarette goes to Blidah fort, in the desert,
TO beg a reprieve for him, and at Chellalah
gorge the Bedouins hide behind the rocks
TO capture her. She leaps upon a horse ana
escapes, but is mortally wounded and at
the end dies in the arms of Cecil and is
wrapped in the flag of France.
There is a large number of speaking parts
in the play and the Partisan girls that &C
~ ~ Whaa NHrrWr h Allfnr a nd fhn no
tives are shown in the pictures. Eugene
Ormonde plays Cecil and Claude Gilling-
water, Z. S. Abeles and Mabel Howard also
are in the company. Miss Blanche Bates,
the star OF the company, is too i'll 10 leave
the Detroit Hospital, and her part of
Cigarette will be played here by Miss Helen
Ware. ~ matinee Will be given Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Sarah Cowel lie Moyne is to be seen
at English's Thursday night as Sarah, nee
Jennings, the first Duchess of Marlborough.
Mr.. Charles Henry Meltzer has written for
this fine actress a drama of the troublous
times at the court Of Queen anne when
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough.
was at the head of the English armies on
the continent at the crucial period OF the
war with Louis XIV. He was the object of
continuous political in~trigues. His wife de-
Tended him successfully at court against a
bevy of his enemies, cOunselors OF the
QuE6U. 1uAS II nilG ~ liz lIOSA III =
episodes in English history, and without
having seen the play one may assure this
public that it is truthful, for the reason
that Mr.. MeltZer wrote it. He is as sincere
" the champion Of truth In the drama as
Mr.. Howells is in literature. No doubt he
las written In THE First Duchess OF
Marlborough" a scholarly and dramatic ac-
count of the brave struggl Of Sarah and
her husband, and ii is happy that the play
has come 10 Mrs. lie Moyne. Messrs. Har-
old Russell and Frederick Paulding are
members of the company.
The end Of this active week at English's
will bring Miss Ann Russell and her COM
pany in Captain Marshall's delicate com
edy, "A Royal Family" Miss Russell did
not visit Indianapolis last winter, but the
preceding winter she was seen here in Je-
rome's miss Hobbs" Last year she was
kept in New York by the success there Of
"A Royal Family" The play is of a prin-
/ cess that wishes TO be wOoed only as q
woman. This is Miss Russell's part and hel
lover, the prince known as a count, is Orrir
Johnson. The aged Mrs. Gilbert remains {
member of Miss RusselPs company and in
this comedy plays the Queen dOwager. w
H.. Thompson has the part of a carolina
concerned i'm the princess's love affair. The
performance on Friday and Saturday
nights and Saturday afternoon will be de-
lightful occasions.