The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-17
NEWS OF THE THEATERS
SERIOUS DRAMA AND LIGHT Aursr-
MENT THIS WEEK.
Clara MOrris's Lecture at the Propx-
Iaeum = Current Affairs of
Plays and

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This is 20 be a week OF serious drama
at English's Opera House. A new plav
and one that has been successful through
several seasons Will be presented. Both
will be acted by companies in which are
players popular here. The first Will be
Robert OF Sicily" to be presented bv
Walker Whiteside and his company to-
morrow, Tuesday and Wednesday nights
and Wednesday afternoon. The play was
written by Grace Livingston Furniss on
the basis OF one OF Longfellow's Tales
OF a Wayside Inn" There are four acts.
and they show a street behind the cathe-
dral at Palermo, a public garden at night.
"A bridge leading TO the cathedral, q gar
den near the palace and the apartments
Of the Duchess Of NOvaTa IN the palace.
Mr.. Whiteside viii play the part Of Rob
ert, Leila Wolstan CIrs. Whiteside) will
impersOnate the Duches Of Novara and
Kate Boneteau Will be Laura, a singing
girl in the public garden. The affairs Of
the personaSes Of the play are complicated
by the existence OF a double" Of the king.
and Harry Fitzgerald will have this part.
The Incidental music is by Julian Edwards.
The second play Is TT Christian and it
viii be presented on Friday and Saturday
nights and Saturday afternoon by a COM
pany led by Edward j. Morgan and Elsie
Leslie, impersonating John Storm and
Glory Quayle- The popularity of the melo-
drama made from Hall Gaines novel has
been marvellous. Liebler & Co. have had
several companies playing it all over the
country and the profits have been i'm
mense. The royalties ON the play paid to
Mr.. Game have amounted to 10000. When
viola Allen played Glory here two years
ago the audiences packed English's. The
company TO come this week in the play is
as capable and possibly more resourceful
than its predecessor. Mr.. Morgan's acting
IN The Only WAY last season is remem-
oered as being strtkinGly impressive. He
is one or the best OF the country's actors.
Miss leslie should sive as interesting an
embodiment OF Glory as did Miss Allen.
The full cast Is az follows:
The Hon. John Storm..........E. ]. Morgan
Lord StoTm.....""..-.....Howard Brooke
Horat1o Drake.....-........CharleS Hallock
Archdeacon Wealthy.......Frank Roberts
Father Laumplaugh.........Adolph Lestina
ParSon Quayle..:."........DougfaS Arthur
The FARO King ...........CharleS Garfield
The Norton
5rother Eagle
49,. georgia DickSon
Folly Campbell
Betty recommendations MerrileeS
AStIy MOTIFS
Netue Bradford
Liza .Perdita Hudspeth
MAJ Drew
Glory Leslie
The address OF Clara Morris on "The
Stage and The Actor" which will be given
at the Propylaeum tomorrow evening, is
looked forward to with proportionate in
terest. Miss Morris Is the foremost emo
tiOnaI actress that America has produced.
She ranked with the great artists of the
world In this line, and in sheer power per-
hans curnqTcad fham all In later wars
she has revealed a gift surprising 10 many,
but no less remarkable. namely, the gift
her pen that nave appeared i'm magazines
and in her book, which tells the story OF
her career. have given her a place among
good writers. She viii lecture in few cities,
and indianapolis Is on7 Of the very few
Western cities that will have an oppor-
s sS21yy % 3f b nSaF afsys he life s to t Gring g5e 20 tes
and Illustrations, TO the descriptions Of the
great actresses and actors with whom she
has appeared. all Of the power OF mimicry,
the graphic sense Of portrayal, pathetic and
humorous, with which she illuminated
mimic parts. Wherever she has appeared
crowded houses OF cultured people have
greeted her.
The novelty of the bill of vaudeville at
the Grand Opera House this week will be
the Barrows-Lancaster trio in a sketch
called Tactics" II is an exhibition of
skill in military evolution. /Sisson and Wal
AALG Will 2AON a 2hLAkA III u - IL -
Presents" Truly Shatuck returns to the
city after an absence Of two years. She
sings in costume. StinsOn and Merton,
Burke, Moller and Teller and BOyce and
Wilson Will furnish songs. dances and
comedy. The Silvers have songs illustrated
by the s-tereopticOn. The biograph will show
new inmate pictures.
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The spell OF melodrama at the Park Thea
ter Will be broken the first half of the week
by "Humpty Dumpty," the old spectacular
pantomime made new. The persons that
have parts in the narrative also are spe-
cialists as follows: the four Madcaps, 4
quartet OF dancing girls; Moa and Good
rich. roller skaters; FrObel and Ruge,
tTapeze performers; the three Gordellos,
scrObatS and cOntortiOnlsts; Mile Arnoldl
and Joseph Smith, danCerSA
The latter half of the week a sensational
play Will be offered. II Is ON the SuWa-
nee River familiar at this theater. The
story IS that of Croc, a mlser, VINO muir
dered a Colonel Clayton and put the crime
on ClaytOn'S son. who became mentally
irresponsible and dependent like his sister,
who had been blinded by the shock Of her
fathers death. Jack Terrence, a young
planter. and Major Halstead, a returned
misery into happiness. TWO members OF
The company are known in this city
Earl Atkinson and Allen II. Bailey, whose
homes are here.
Bob Manchester's New York Stars will
entertain the patrons Of the Empire this
week. The show consists in two burIesques,
with a chorus and an olo. In the COM
pany are La Belle Carmen and La Belle
Burns, Mcintyre and Rice, Carlin and
Brown and Ada Brown.