The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18

course, can give no assistance. The situa-
ton gives a horrible tinge TO the mystery
of electricity.
An arrangement has been made whereby
Weber & Fields's burlesques are to be re-
produced in Boston. The stock company
there probably will be led by Peter F. Dali
ey, and Robert billiard and Pauline Hall
may become members. OF course. the
chorus may be made up of lively and pretty
girls. DALEY will be in the bill at the Grand
Opera House here during the week of Jan. 6.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell and her company
have sailed from England for New York.
Their American season of twenty weeks
will begin at the Grand Opera House, Chi
cago, Dec. 80. After two weeks there they
will move to the Republic Theater, New
York, for a stay of three weeks. Then a
tour of the larger cities will be made. 1t
has not been definitely decided whether or
not Mrs. Campbell will visit indianapolis.
but il is probable that she will. She will
be seen only in modern plays of realistic
nature.
Forbes Robertson has produced in Man
chester. England, a new play by Madeline
Lucette Ryley entitled Mice and Men"
The playwright says she got the idea from
the old story of Sanford and Merton. -
The scene is Old Hampstead, in 1876, and
the story is of an old scholar who adopts
a grill from a founding asylum and edu-
Gates her according to his ideas. When
she has matured he falls in love with her.
but she is won by his young nephew, a
soldier. and the old man turns back to his
lonely life.
The bravery of Thomas Hall, an actor in
a melodrama called The Man who Dared"
is exploited by the management of the Park
Theater in the window OF a store on Wash
ington street. There is a big glass case
containing a stuffed lion. A card explains
that the lion was killed in Buffalo by Hall
during a performance. In one of the scenes
Hall enters a den of lions, and this particu-
lar animal attacked him one night and he
slew il in Self-defense. The proprietor Of
the show had it stuffed as a monument TO
Halls courage and an advertisement of the
show and bought a substitute from Bos-
took. 1.-The Man WHO Dared will be the
Parks Christmas offering to its patrons.
Two new plays in Paris are Clemenceau's
lie Wolfe du Bonheur" and Georges Mitch
ellis La Mason" The first describes how
a blind man. suddenly restored TO sight.
loses all his happy delusions and prays that
he may again lose his power to see. The
other tells of a rich shipbuilder whose
heart is bound up in the two children of
his dead son. He finds a letter written 10
Ills ia AANH 49, AAAAA wi v IL
paraisO. in which a man that has been her
lover saws he is about TO die and asks her
10 kiss their child for him. The ship
builder is puzzled as TO which of the chill
dren. the boy or the girl, should be the
outcast. Marianne after a time confeSses
that Claude is the illegitimate one. The
father-in-law loves Claude more than he
does Christine. and he decides that as the
child has done no wrong he shall be
brought up as IL his father were the ship
builders son.
Richard Mansfield continues to pose as an
eccentric genius. He presents none but
bizarre plays and is now acting In a light
romance. but he takes on the airs of a man
that is redeeming the drama by sacrificing
profits 10 the presenting of studies in life.
He gives the impression that he is a martyr
to art when he really has put himself in
the class of Julia Marlowe. William Faver-
sham. James X. Hackett and other pleas
ant-mannered and gOOd-loOking players of
pretty melodramas. Mr.. Mansfeid's audi
enceS have packed the Herald-Square Thea
ter. New York, since he began 10 present
.Reaucafre' there. and the f~ollowing is
UNFORTUNATELY the manner in which he ex-
pressed his thanks 10 his patrons when
they asked for "A curtain speech: 'Of
course / thank you for your applause. The
annlause is sufficiently vOciferous. ] assure
-, Rut then l suppose If YOU didn't like
fbe nIav YOU wouldn't applaud. i can say
am clad 10 be back on Broadway, but
tbot's So old fashioned. All actors say
that. But then after being on the road for
80 months il is somewhat pleasant 10
enend eight weeks in New York. Still, ii
5tdn,t have a play of sufficient merit to
attract for that length of time / couldn't
remain on Broadway that long. or course