The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10
NEWS OF THE THEATERS
HADING AND REJANE, FRENCH
ACTRESSES, COMING HERE.
Irvfnr'x Iyceum Theater to he Torn
Down-ThIs Week at the Park
Notes of Music.

Two French actresses unfamiliar 10 this
public Gabrielle Rejane and Jane Hading.
are preparing TO come 10 this country. Re
james visit is a year of, but she will spend
a large part Of the interim adding 70 her
repertory for her American tour. Madame
Hading's is the first foreign engagement OF
the Independent Booking Agency, just or
gained, operated by Harrison Gray Fiske,
James K Hackett and Maurice Campbell.
She will spend twenty weeks in this coun-
try, beginning in New York in November.
Madame Rejane was brought quickly to
distinction as a young actress by Fran
csque Sarcey the great French dramatic
critic Alphonse Daudet made a play Of
his novel, "SapphO." for her She was the
first Cyprienne in ''Divorcons." Her meth
cd Is the acme OF Partisan realism and
when she acted in London in Berton's
''Zaza," which David Belasco mangled for
Mrs Leslie Carriers use in America the
critic for the Times, A. B. Walkley. wrote
OF her:
Watch the music hail artistic at her
toilet. How she rubs in the grease paint,
unpins her false hair, dabs the powder pun
over her shoulders, pulling on a pinafore
the while IN order not to soil her skirt Not
detail is missed Even when the corset is
unlaced ZaZa is careful TO go through the
pantomime Of holding her breath. Having
combed her hair in Act ], she combs II
again in Act A and offers you a turther
piece of minute realism by removing the
loose ends of hair from the comb ana
throwing them out the window. Then she
dusts the chairs with her uplifted petit
coats, cleans the wine glasses by blowing
into them. hides hole in the tabiecloth
with plate. and makes face at the bonnie
about II. Then watch her IN an attack or
'nerves'-see her mouth twitching. her
hands clenched. listen TO the shriil note
gradually coming into her voice. Then sit
tight in your seat for the final explosion,
the total physical abandonment and degra-
dalton. IL is the very thing. COeridge had
a mock apOstrOphe TO 'lnnOculatiOn, heaV-
emily maid SO Madame Rejane-for
Madame Rejane and Zaza are one-so
Madame Rejane is the muse of hystero-
epilepsy"
The Lyceum, Sir Henry Irving's London
theater probably will be destroyed. The
County Council has condemned the old
playhouse, and it's shareholders have re-
fused to spend the several thousand pounds
required to put it in shape to satisfy the
Council. The Lyceum Company Qimited)
has lost money for years, and it has been
regularly reported that the company's prof
its from Sir Henry's American tours have
kept the London house up. Now it is ru-
mored that Charles Frohman, who has
been extending his London interests. will
confirmed it will be UP to Mr.. Frohman's
enemies TO express grave fears for Sir Hen
rvs abilities. How shall his genius survive
under the dominance Of the American the
atrical syndicate? Will not Mr.. FrOhman
persuade him to impersonate Lady Mac
beth. as he has arranged for Madame Bern
hardt TO play Romeo to Maude Adams's
Juliet? In fact. il would no doubt be good
policy FOR Irving to take Frohman as his
manager The Napoleon of the stage would
heighten the prosperity OF the greatest En-
glish-spea king actor. FrOhman apparently
Is the most expert of theatrical business
men; that he should be able TO debase II
wings purpose is absurd 1t would be
Lawrence Irving, sir Henry's son, is On
his way to take his holiday in New York.
lie will translate NictOrien SardOu's new
Dante play for his father. Miss Terry will
have a part in the play. Cecilia Lotus re-
turns TO the United States, after playing
will rejoin Edward H. SOthern. Sir Henry
returns to this country this winter, and
whether or not the Dante play is ready his
welcome will be deserved. No criticism
that his plays are old is fair. The melo-
dramas in which he acts are of no conse-
quence in themselves. 1t is a case where
the actor. not the play, lis the thing" His
marvelOusly intricate characterizations of
ShylOck and of the dying old soldier in
Waterloo" imbued with his fine, powerful
personality, are exhibitions to be studied
by the theater-goer year after year, endur-
ing sources OF inspiration. In Irving the
''old school, is justified in the face OF the
contradiction. No matter how intensely
one may hold for the naturalistic drama.
one can not withhold admiration for Irving,
who always is 'Out Of drawing in his
plays. and whose plays end without having
shed any new light on those painful per
plexities of life as it is lived by the great,
struggling public.
John ]. McNally's new farce. THE Rog
ers Brothers in Harvard" in which the
Rogers brothers will be seen this season,
tells of two young fellows that pretend TO
be going to college and introduce to their
rich uncles as their professors two German
walters Cthe Rogers brothers.) The colors
of all the big colleges will be used in the
costumes. and the play is burlesque on
college life in general
The farce in which Ezra Kendall will be
star this season is called 1.-The Vinegar
Buyer" and it's scenes are in Indiana, the
last in Indianapolis.
Walker WhitesiGe's new play, I'm Days
of Old When Knights Were Bold" deals
with wars between Spaniards and Moors
Annie Irish, who, with j. l.. DodSOn, viii
act in new play next season, came TO this
country with the Kendalls in 1898 to play
Ellean in PinerO's The Second Mrs. Tan
Queray. She stopped in this country and
played in both the Empire and Lyceum
companies one Was tie llTSl Marion IN
Tess O. the D'Urbervilles.'' She acted in
this city with Mr.. DOdsOn in Because She
Loved Him So" and with n. c. Goodwin
and Maxine Elliott in The Merchant of
Venice"
English's Opera House will open on Aug.
2. with Al G.. Fields minstrels. one of the
early entertainments there viii be Amelia
Binghams company in HaddOn Chambers
- Modern AIaEdalen.' In the company
are Wilton Lackaye, Joseph Holland, Ferd-
inand GOttschalk and Henry +. DiXey, who
among the best American actors.
TWO PLAYS AT THE PARK.