The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-04

ton proof This enraxed Montaig and he
rushed at Harum. He was met by blow
h the face and fell fat Harum rubbed
his hand and smiled he said. That was
about the easiest thing l ever tackled.
Mary Blake, John LennOxs sweetheart,
was in the bank office at the time and was
greatly shocked at what she took To be
Harums brutality TO a man that had 10
support a wife and ten children. why,
MontaiS amt married. said Harum
Xxx
When Daniel Frohman's stock company
returns to his New York home, Days The
alter. It will present on Jan. Z play by
Paul NJ. Potter founded on Victor Hugo's
The Hunchbdck of NOtre Dame. Miss
HDda Spong will impersonate Esmeralda
After seeing his play produced Mr. Potter
VIII return 10 his home i'm Switzerland. lie
bought this place with part Of his royal
ties from '"Trilby'' and had a comfortable
fortune left. His dramatization of Du
Mauriers novel was rarely successful,
though il has been forgotten Mr. Potter
has been living easy lie dTamatzed
Ouida's Under Two Flags and this sea-
son Louis Mann and Clara Lipman are pre-
senting an original play by him entitled
The Red KlOCf." He told a New York
reporter the other day that "theatrlcals on
Broadway are completely subservient TO
tinsel and tights With 'FIorodora.' The
Beauty and the Beast. Anna Held, The
Liberty Bellies. Weber and Fields. Tine
Messenger Boy The New Workers and
The Kings Carnival running riot the
only chance in opposition is unadulterated
melodrama. The public likes it in spite of
the fact that the critics and the first
niShters may not agree with them
XXX
kyrle Bellew, who came from London
early in this season to play "A Gentleman
Of France" here, has added his protest TO
the many against the assertion of the st.
James Gazette that English actors return
TO their home from America "cOarsened"
by their acceding to the demand of this
cOuntry's theater-gOers for noisy acting.
The Gazette has repeated its opinion in
these words: 1--WE fear there is no doubt
about the matter In the United States
less subtle and a more accumulated style
of acting is necessary In order that play
er may make his effects. The audience
likes a less delicate and a holster method.
They are less quick TO catch and appreciate
the nuanCes Of the actors wit. Violence OF
gesture and intOnatiOn do not affect them.
They do not detect or resent what is crude
ands shoddy as a West End audience would.
They are easier taken in by clap-trapl"
The New York Post worked itself up into
something of perSpiratiOn over the mat
ter, and said: Where do the prepOSterOuS-
ly stupid, vulgar melOdramas come from?
Who is IL that supplies Us with coarse and
. foul social PLAYS? What is the source of the
produced Olga Nethersole and Wilson Bar
rett? COarSening influences. fOrsOOthi Neri-
ly, they who live in glass houses ought not
to throw stones" The St James Gazette
might reply TO the Post that a considerable
number of the stupid melOdramas are COM
ing from American romantic novels that
many coarse and foul social plays are man.
ufactured originally or adapted from the
French in New York and that though bur
lesque may have been imported from Eng
land it has been nourished in a hundred
and one bad-smelling theaters in the United
States.