The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-18

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Seats will be sold on Monday morning
for the performances of ''Lazarre'' by Otis
Skinner and his company in the latter half
of next week. The dramatization of Mrs.
Catherwood's novel was made by Mr.. Skin
ner and Aubrey Boucicault Mrs. Skinner.
whose professional name is Maud Durbin,
is in her husbands company again. Seats
are now being sold for the performance of
1.-The Vinegar Buyer by Ezra Kendall
and his company on Monday evening, and
the performance of San Toy by Samuel
Collins, George Fortescue, Elgie Bowen
and others on Tuesday evening Of next
week
The vaudeville bill that closes at the
Grand to-day has for its principal features
Valerie Bergere and company in an am
bilious sketch. Midgely and Carlisle in one
of their Sammy and Sarah" skits and
Irene Franklin, a pleasing singer. Fanny
Rice and Josephine Sabel will be in next
week list.
AT the Old Cross Roads," a melodrama
In which Estha Williams and James Bro
ply have the principal parts, will have its
two final performances at the Park to-day.
Next week this theater will have two
shows, Zig Tag Alley" and THE Mad
man..
The Empire Theater next week will offer
something new in its line "A Day and a
Night" is a farce with interpolated vaude-
Vile bits. This scheme is much better
than the usual two burlesques and an clio.
Fred Riders Moulin Rouge" was con-
structed as a continuous piece and il was
one OF the most popular shows in the EN-
pire's list a few years ago.
]. j. Rosenthal, a member of Liebler &
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as an expert advertiser, has been in In
dianapolis and the smaller Indiana cities
for a week making arrangements for 1.-THE
Vinegar Buyer" which purports to be de-
scriptive of Indiana life and in which Ezra
Kendall impersonates the chief Hoosier
Indianians will have a week and a half of
opportunities to see themselves reflected
in this play. Kendall is a popular come
dian, but RoSenthal has been using ALI his
ingenuity to increase his popularity He
has sent postal cards to all OF the city's re-
tail grocers informing them that Ezra
Kendall, as 1.-The Vinegar Buyer" is omen
for proposals on fifteen barrels. Though
he has invented some advertising lodges
Rosenthal Is believer in straightforward
newspaper advertising. He, as we'll as other
theatrical business men that are closely
observing, notes a tendency among the
newspapers TO print less so-called gossip
in which the personalities of actors are
played upon to the end OF booming the
show in which they are engaged. Many
newspapers continue to use anecdotes of
the players" but the stuff is an insult to
the reader, gives the actor a fictitious i'm
portance and Is unfair TO advertisers i'm
general. Real news of the theaters always
will have Its proper relative place in the
newspapers, but puffery cannot stand
against the advance of public intelligence
Opportunities for shrewd men like Mr.
Rosenthal I'm the field of legitimate advef-
Using were never so great as now. OF
course this is not to say that Rosenthal
Is not anxious TO furnish stories" to any
newspaper that welcomes them. He
shouldn't be a real flesh and blood press
agent II he let any chance of that kind
pass.
There has been complimentary comment
on William II. Cranes declining TO make
a curtain speech between the acts of "Da-
vid Harum" at Englsh's on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. Mr. Robson SINH
larry declined last week. and there are
few other actors who regularly display
good taste In that manner No special
credit Is due TO them, for IL is common
sense that an actor should not leave the
character 20. speak TO his audience. Easily
fattered actors-and they are a multitude
are quick to respond TO the demand of the
foolish majority of the public for amuse-
ment between acts we'll as while the
curtain Is up. The rise OF so-caIled
musical comedians" from the variety
houses 10 the theaters OF the first class
has broken down a great deal OF the dig
nifty playhouses once had. Latter-day buf-
foons make personal remarks over the
footlights The Rogers Brothers. to name
two actors who offend In this way have
been set up so high by their unmerited
prosperity that IL Is habitual with them TO
say. This is too easy" or I'VE oughtn't
are dancing together. These gags are
from the old days In the variety houses
and are stale. besides being vulgar. IL is
not remarkable that part OF the theater-