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

Notes of the Stage.
Agnes Herndon and her company are Civ
Ing Mans Enemy" a clever performance
at the r'ar1 Theater. O-Won-,Io-Mohawk
an Indian actress, with wild west fol-
lowing, viii appear in this theater the lat
ter half of the week
XXX
Town Topics. New York's journal of So
ciety." has awarded to Alfred Allen a
prize FOR the best play of native author
snip submitted in a competition. Mr.
Alien calls his play "Chivairy." and it's
principal inci0ent IS the burning OF a negro
at the stake Tor an assault on a white
woman The play deals with the race ques-
ton in the South.
The gossip that Lillian Russell and De
Wolf Hopper are to leave the Weber-Fields
burlesque organization and sta4 Jointly in
o. comic opera written specially for them
; now said TO be without foundation. But
D Is reported that Hopper is again TO be
81 the head OF "A company and that his
piece is To be written by Stanislaus STANCE
and Julian Edwards This may not occur
until next season.
Miss Duke, of the team of Duke and
Harris at the Grand Opera House. is sing
ing a new contribution to ragtime litera-
ture. IL describes coon that hated to get
up early IN the morning. Even when he
married and his wife called TO him that
unless ne arose the pork chops would spoil,
he replied. Let them petrify AN IN
heard-Of prOCeeding-and rolled over to
take his sleeping out. Miss Duke also sings
Amt Ii = Shame. a MeaSlev Sbame2'' but
il is familiar i'm the parlOrs where the best
young persons CongreEate for musical en-
tertainment and in the billiard rooms and
cigar stOres-Gagtime is the most catholic
form of musiC)
company headed by Thomas Q. Sea
brooke and playing a farce once used by
Roland Reed entitled "A Modern Crusoe."
has disOrganized SeabrOoke has been en-
gagged for the new burlesque TO be put on
AT the New York Winter Garden. Since
he was a popular comic opera star Sea-
brooke has ha0 many and varied Occupa-
lions on the stage. His latest appearance
here was in THE FOUNDERS" a painfully
weak imitation OF the previous entertain
mcnt under that name. Virginia Earle ii
Is announced, Will desert Dan DAILY and
The New Workers 10 be the chief come
dienne at the New York Winter Garden.
he show 10 be given there is being ar
ranged by Sydney ROsenfeld and is yet un-
named.
This remarkable phenomenon appears in
the form of an advance notice in a Cleve-
land newspaper: "In some respects Mr.
ONeill is of the same school-and gradual
s '9m beT Ioss s3a s62e 0b M
who are making a name for themselves.
and IT IS gratifying to see that he is not
The play which he has chosen this season,
Monte Christie is by Victor Hugo. who is
as well known in France as Gustave Kerk-
er. Reginald De kOVen or John j. McNally
in this country. and il is strong piece OF
work, somewhat conventional and melO-
dramatic at times. but none the less inter-
esting- With so accomplished d star and a
play of sICh merit this amusement enter
prise cannot fail u succeed
Many italian immigrants have been
robbed by bankers" OF their own nation
atty with offices ia New York The method
has been go induce the workingmen 10 send
their savings to Italy by way of these bank
ing offices, The money gets no further than
the bankers. This system has been worked
for many years. but recently efforts 70 Cut
il OF have been successful in great meas
ure RiccardO COrdlferrO. poet and edf-
tor OF New NOrks Italian colony has writ
ten melcdrama on this subject and il has
been produced by a company OF Italian act
Ors 10 great applause. COrdiferrO has zeal
ously attacked the evil in his newspaper
and once he OverShOt the mark and was
put I'm jail on the charge OF having com
mitted libel. While behind the bars ne
wrote several poems for his paper; he was
released after few hours.
The foreign news contains several inter
esting items regarding the stage The di-
rector OF police Of Moscow has ordered that
no Jews be employed in theatrical perform
ances there Ia "Bien-Aime" a new play
by Emile ;BerEerat who wrote PLUS que
Reine More than Queen the queen pub
licly kisses the PompadOur who has lust
been made a dame OF honor The choir iii
neighooring chapel strikes up DE Pro-
funds, and the king asks "YVho Is
deadE Royalty, replies the queen The
theatrical censor OF Paris has refused 10
permit the production of Les Avaries'
by VI. BreuN- lt discusses the reasons for
modern physical and mental decadence
and when read privately was received with
enthusiasm The opposite comment is that
IL is more suited tc a hospital than a the
alter. IL vas 20 have been played al NJ
AntOine's independent theater.
David ,Harum which William II
Crane and his company are playing NJ
English's. is a mild and innocent comedy
except for moment in the second act
when there is a bit OF violence Bill Mon
ti4ig,. one " Homevlile's pests. cleverlv i'm
personated by William Dupont, determined
not 70 pay Harum what he had borrowed
from him. Harum reminded him. IN tba
presence OF sevcrai persons. that he had
sfSpsd affidavit that he not execu-