The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
THE THEATERS THIS WEEK
ATTRACTIONS FOR HOLIDAY vIsI-
TORS ALL OF COsuC ORDER.
EngIish's TO Have "Are You Mason: %
n Successful Farce-SaOws mt
the Other PIayhOuses.

The thousands OF people from out OF town
and the theater-gOers Of the city may be
well amused at the playhOuses this week,
but they WEI not be asked to sympathize
with stage suffering or 10 applaud the do
ingssof hero. The attractions at al OF
the theaters wiz be Of the comic kind. At
English's Opera House q German farce
made English will be acted. At the Grand
Opera House there will be vaudeville.
''Superba' viii be the bill at the Park The
ater At the Empire variety show viii
have the stage.
The management OF Englishs has always
found it a perplexing problem 10 provide a
satisfactory: attraction for fair week. Two
years ago the Empire Stock Company in
Lord ard Lady AIgy' was offered, and it
did not draw crowded houses, though it
was a fine thing. Last fail "ShOre Acres
was the play. 1t may be that visitors from
out in the State wish only for fun during
fair week. and Are You a Mason2" which
will be played all this week at Englishs,
ought TO meet the demand. The company,
headed by Leo Ditrichstein, John g.. Rice,
Thomas a. Wise and George Richards, IS
the best that could be assembled for the
task in hard. The story IS that OF Amos
BloodgOOd, who deceiveS his wife by pre-
tending TO belong TO a secret order that
keeps him out late at night in attendance
on meetings. OF MS lOOSe. his sOE-lU-lciW
also uses tAe trick, and he and BloodgoOd
seek 10 prevent each other frOnl discovering
the deception. This scheme is elaborated
until IL involves many persons. The farce
has been very popular elsewhere.
XXX
Miss Alexandra Dagmar whom her
manager delights to call 1.-The most stun
ming woman in vaudeville" is the head
liner OF the bill at the Grand Opera House
this week. She relies on her good looks,
her gowns and comic opera voice. Her
importance. however, may prove to be sec
ond to that. of Smith and Fuller, musicians,
or Techows performing cats. There are
strange rivalries in the vaudeville world
and a clever cat may be more than prima
donna. Smith and Fuller have not played
fn Indianapolis for several years. but they
may be remembered by some persons be-
cause of the excellence of their work on
the xylOphone and the big bamboo bells.
The trained cats are new to the whole
country this season. Al Bellman and LOttie
Moore and Mr.. and Mrs. Kelley win con-
tribute the sketches in the weeks enter
tainment and the other members of the bill
will be Charles Kenna, monologuist;
Amiel, contortionist, and Belle Williams,
singer. The biograph will show the
burning of n schOOlhouse and the escape
of the children, a vaudeville actresses pro-
cess of making up and other interesting
scenes.
'Superba's' meaning changes every sea-
son, except that it continues to signify
pantomime and trick scenery. In the show
10 be given all this week at the Park Thea
fer, only the Paris Exposition and Palace
OF Walhalfa scenes of last year have been
retained. At the opening of the first act
Pierrot makes his descent from the moon
and visits Mount Nesuvius where a special
eruption is made for his benefit, the
names Ga which his faithful friend
Gretchen cooks him a breakfast Of fried
snakes lie is kept busy lodging the
streams OF molten lava and a lot Of green
- N.rr
transported To the Pan-American Exposi-
tion. and a fac-simile OF its appearance at
night, with its hundreds of thousands OF
electric lights. is shown. In the second act
Pierrot shows his capabilities a jockey
and a lot OF cowboys seek To have fun at
hi-sxpense At the finish he rides a race
-aOrse 10 victory This scene is realistically
done with a moving panorama. During
this act magician appears who does
many marvellous feats. Most of the last
oct IS given over To Specialties. There are
Reeds trained bull terriers. Tillers eight
diamonds, who sing; Carrie Behr, who
tells German accented stories and sings.
and the Seymours, acrObats. Each act of
the show closes with a glittering trans
formation 1t will take all of Tomorrow
10 put the scenery in place and the first
performance will begin in the evening in
stead Of in the afternoon.
Xxx
Mile. Dika, much admired at the Empire.
will return. to that theater this week al the
head of the Jolly Grass Widows Com
burlesques and are followed by twenty
four other, young women and light come
dams The material is said be new.
Two performances a day viii be given.