The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-31

fan. Hnda Spong and Oscar Asche will
be her leading woman and man. Mr. Asche
was I'm the original London company
John Drew viii open the Empire Theater,
IN New York, in one OF two plays that ne
has in hand.
Fitch's THE Girl and the Judge and when
the new Lyceum Theater. New YORK. IS
ready she Will open II with Mrs Kyley
Mice and Men.
season she will act in The Little Min
ister." "L'Aiglon" LAS You Like II" and
a new play. She will not begin her season
Jessie Miiiward and Leo Ditrichstein re-
turn 20 this country 10 take parts in Robert
Marshall's There's Many Slip" at the
Garrfck Theater. New York. Miss Mill
ward last acted in this city with William
Faversham in Lord and Lady Algy." Mr..
Ditrchstein was here last fall in Are You
London for several seasons and Mr.. Dit
rfchstein went over last winter 10 produce
Are You a MasOn?" there.
William Faversham may be seen In a
dramatization Of Gilbert Parker's The
Right Of Way" or a new play by Paul Pot
ter. AS Don Caesar de Bazan last season
he was painfully lacking.
William Gillette will act in sherlock
Holmes" In this country next season. He
will show what he thinks TO be the right
conception of Hamlet in 19O3-04
Rose COghlan. who is in Helena, Mont,
has declared her intention to become
citizen OF the United States. She and her
brother, the late Charles Coghlan, were
born in England.
Oscar Hammerstein, who builds theaters.
puts on vaudeville shows and makes thou
sands Of dollars out Of his inventions for
the improvement Of the cigar-manufactur-
ing industry, has introduced a startling
band conductor to the patrons of his Para
disc Garden in New York. Creatore is the
strangers name. Opinion is divided as to
his legitimate ability, but there is unan-
unity regarding his originality. One news
paper says he gets fine accuracy and beau
tiful harmony from his band. The New
York Suns ideas on the subject follow:
An acrobatic exhibition with Wagner's
"Tannhauser" as a musical accompaniment
made number in the new vaudeville bill
at Paradise Garden last night that stirred
an audience so that II arose and cheered.
The principal performer was an Italian
named CreatOre, leader of a military band
OF sixty. The music was incidental. An
auditor who loudly declared he had Sousa
skinned to death" expressed a regret that
none of the selections was in ragtime. The
curtain rose to reveal the sixty men. Then
the lights were lowered and a white cal
cium filtered about doorway in the rear.
The musician arose and saluted.
Creatore appeared
He is very tall, dark, with long, black,
shaggy hair. He stood only geniuses
stand, a languid. tired, poetic look extend
ing from his eyes down through his entire
form TO his gracefully bent knees. He
strolled TO the footlights, which were I'M
used, so that the greenish white calcium
made his face more conspicuous. To de-
scribe the harlequinade that he danced to
the sextet from Lucia would be impos-
sible. II must be seen. Occasionally he
swept his hand over his loose. waving hair.
As the selection progressed he became more
excited hopping his hair more frequently.
At times his body tumbled all over and his
gestures were supremely comical With
mad PUSHES he ran at his musicians. With
sudden violence he once or twice dived at
the second trombone. But that vitality i'm
pOrtant player didn't mind q bit. Indeed.
all of the musicians were self-possessed
men and took no heed of Creatore. They
didn't mind a bit when he dramatically
urged them on to a climax that they had
reached four or five bars before. But Gre
atOre kept faithfully TO the part as he had
rehearsed it. hopping of the hair and
dives among his musicians finally reached
the great climax at the end of the selec-
ton, when, with arms held high and trem-
bling. he leaned far back as though rapt in
intense insanity.