The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-09
Notes of the Stage.

II. S. Daniels was in the city last night
to arrange for Miss Gertrude Coghlan's
engagement at English's next week. He is
a brother OF VIII Danforth, of Frank
Daniels's company. Mr.. Danforth pleased
Indianapolis theater-gOers especially in the
cut-and-slash brigands' song and dance In
The Amer" In Mr.. Daniels's new piece,
Miss Simplicity Mr.. Danforth has the
part of a patent-medicine man and makes
UP to look like a certain doctor, who gives
advice so dramatically in the advertising
columns OF the daily newspapers.
XXX
The new week at the theaters will bring
three attractions to English's-Ethel Bar
rymore in Captain links of the Horse
Marines Monday and Tuesday, Gertrude
CoghIan in VANITY Fair Wednesday and
Thursday, and San Toy" a musical COM
edy, Friday and Saturday.
The Marvellous Merrills. trick bicycle rid
ers, will lead the vaudeville at the Grand.
The Park will nave two melOdramaS,
THE Eleventh Hour" and AN American
Tramp" in the order named
The Ramblers will furnish the variety
show at the Empire. The show is owned by
NJ. James E. Fennessey.
XXX
Arthur Hoops, who has the part of Col.
Hamilton in alice of Old Vincennes." and
Miss Mabel Amber were married Oct. II,
in New York. The marriage was a secret
until Thursday. when Miss Amber acknowl-
edged to a reporter in New York that she
and Mr.. Hoops were married. Yesterday
Mr.. Hoops verified the report. The Alice
OF Old Vincennes" company will leave this
CITY for Boston tonight and will begin a
series of performances at the Colonial
Theater there on Monday. Miss Amber
will join her husband in Boston. She re-
tired from the stage after playing the
part Of Eliza in the elaborate production
OF Uncle Toms Cabin in New York last
season. Previously she was n. c. Good
wins leading woman.
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Trovollo, a ventriloquist, has been pleas
ing the audiences at the Grand this week
with a strangely mixed act. The first part
of 1t is clumsy and dull, and at every per-
Torrance a few persons have taken this
point as an opportunity TO stretch them
selves in the lobby. But the second half of
the act. In which TrOvollO shows two
walking figures and a figure of a boy that
rides in on the back of a dog, is inter
esting and gets as much applause as any
other feature of the bill except the Musical
COlbys. TrOvOllo needs some one to mend
the m of his act. He says, The
prettiest pair OF lips you ever seen" The
small boy Of the Colby family gives the
funniest imitation of Sousa that has been
seen here. and the little girl is cute in a
rag-time song and dance. Tom Moore also
sings rag-time songs unusually we'll, but
for some reason he does not get the ap-
plause he is entitled TO.
"Alice OF Old Vincennes" has been pat
ronized heavily ali week at English's. The
audiences have been of the size and the
moods OF those that saw Julia Marlowe in
when Knighthood Was in Flower and
Mary Mannering in Janice Meredith. ="
Miss Harmed and her assistants in the
characters OF the play have been applauded
with the same enthusiasm tina attends the
doings Of the virtuous and the villainous
IN melodramas. 1t is reasonable TO expect
that Miss Harmed and the play Will be as
successful in the East as they have been
here. but melOdrama never was a steady
foundation on which TO build. Many a
handsome, dashing player has gone 10 seed
I'm sO-called romance. and there are two
or three conspicuous examples at present.
Jane Bartlette, the stupid little girl of the
play. Is a refreshing contrast 10 her strain
Ing companions. When Alice Miss Harnedl
exclaims, IN the first act. oh. ii is so good
20 be freei' Jane says obviously, Il don't
feel any different" Ii is a bit 10 be highly
grateful for. and Sadie Lauer. in this char
acter. will attract as much attention dur
ing the season as will Miss Harmed as
Alice RoussillOn. The company will give
two performances to-day, and the indica-
tons are that the theater will be filed
twice more.