The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-10

the Topsy Turvey Burlesquers. This is a
new company and IL gives a bright and
fresh entertainment.
I<law & Erlanger who are producing
"Ben-Hur' at the Illinois Theater in Chi
cago. served notice OF a preliminary injunc-
ton through the United States Court yes
terday on W 5. Cleveland The proceed
which Cleveland has announced will be
given shortly at his minstrel theater in
Chicago. A hearing Is set for tomorrow
before Judge kohlsaat.
XXX
Miss Annie Russell. assisted by Mrs. Gil
bert. W. n. Thomson and others, will give
three performances Of Captain r. Mar
shall's comedy. "A Ro-af Family" which
has not been acted here at English's Ouera
House tomorrow night and Saturday after
noon and night. Miss Russell and Mrs
Gilbert were together here season before
last IN Jerome K. Jerome's Miss Hobbs"
Miss Russell was detained by her admirers
in New York all last winter.
Charles Hawtrey, an English comedian.
has come from London to seek the approval
of the American public and has begun his
playing here at the Garrick Theater in New
Mars" 1t was written by Richard Gam
thOny. an American, and Mr.. Hawtrey pre-
scented IL for Go nights in London. The
story is of a Marian that comes TO earth
and ASSOCIATES with the most selfish man i'm
London, a rich and pampered man. and
makes his path rough through a series of
events that ends in his reformation. Mr..
HaWtrey has the natural style that marks
the best English actors and distinguishes
them from most of their American breth-
rem. Mr.. Ganthony having been brought
fr7fc
of his play by Mr.. Hawtrey his name has
been proposed for membership in the Amer
lean Dramatists CLUB.
Harry Yost, a vaudeville actor, has an
nounced at Denver that he and Dorothy
Studebaker McKeown are to be married.
The young woman is a member of the
studebaker family of this State. and was
married to a millionaire of San Francisco
named McKeown, and afterward divorced
from him. She has been on the stage, but
never prominently. Yosts home is at Gin
cinnati, and for several years he has been
of the team of Weston and YOst, who We're
graduated from the variety into Vaude-
vile, and were seen last season at the
Grand Opera House in this city. They have
act in which Weston appears on the
floor OF the theater uniformed as a vendor
OF song books and wrangles with YOst, who
is on the stage. Persons that have seen
why Yost should boast, as he has, that
Mrs. McKeown has given him to keep for
her $4,000 diamond necklace that was a
present TO her from her former husband.
Charles Henry Meltzer, in whose play,
1.-The First Duchess of Marlborough" Mrs.
lie Moyne will be seen a English's Opera
House tonight, is now the New York cor
respondent of the London Chronicle and the
dramatic critic for the Criterion Magazine.
Il Il. - 4
He travelled in Europe and Asia for several
years a correspondent for the New York
Herald, finally settling in New York TO
devote his energy to the stage. His bitter
ness toward the conventional dry rot and
sensational untruth worked against him,
for he was one opposed TO many, but the
signs are now that he will receive the
measure of success to which his ability and
determination entitle him. No play in which
he has had hand has been seen in this
city except More Than Queen" in which
Julia Arthur acted, and that was hardly
more than a beautiful spectacle. He
adapted THE Sunken Bell for F. III.
Sotherns use. Mrs. lie MOyne's two pre-
vious appearances in this city were made
last season, first in The Greatest Thing in
the World" and second with Otis Skinner
and Eleanor Robson in I'm Balcony.
Xxx
The roundness and smoothness of Hal
Stephenss act at the Grand Opera House
this week, In which ne initiates well-known
-
Stephens enters the stage in evening dress,
and says he has attended a vaudeville en-
tertainment at his club. 1t would not be
surprising. he says, if he should dream of
actors. He sits in chair before his fire
place and falls asleep. The stage Is dark
ened, and several pictures OF Weber and
Fields are thrown by a stereopticon on
white space above the fireplace This gives
the actor time to prepare Tor his first lml-
tation In few moments the lights come
a,,1 Nr a n
well-known team of German comedians,
with his hand on eftigy of the other.
Using an excellent Ventriloquial trick. he
reproduces some of the Weber-tield choppy
dialogue. In turn he appears as Johnny
Ray, Willis Sweatnam, one of the Russell
brothers and Joseph Jefferson. His dupli-
Gates are exact in face and costume, even
to Sw6 atnam's black makeup. The scenery
for the mountain top incident in Rip Van
Wrinkle is beautiful Thus by hard work
and good taste Mr.. Stephens is rising to the
top in vaudeville.
The Liebler Company, under whose man
agement Mrs. lie Moyne is acting, seems to
have the idea that higher endeavor in the
theatrical business is profitable. When
Israel ZangwilIs dramatization of his
story. 1.-The Children of the Ghetto was
produced by this company in New York
most of the newspaper critics of that city
fell on il fiercely. Mr.. Zangwill had given
some offense by his independent personal
attitude. and no doubt he is not without his
peculiarities and this, it seemed, lessened
friendship for him I'm critical circles. The
play was called no play at all and was ac-
cor3ted a failure. The Liebler Company
was said to have lost $4,000 in the venture.
Notwithstanding, the managers, without
cheapening the company, sent the play on
tour, and it reported afterward that
they had recovered what they lost Persons
that saw the play here have remembered ii
with great pleasure an artistic picture of
the life Mr. Zangwill knows so well. IL was
acted finely Few modern plays are held in
the memory of the public a season after
they have passed away. 1t was also this
company that presented Mrs. lie MOyne.
Otis Skinner and Eleanor Robson in
Browning's I'm a Balcony last season,
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