The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-18
"UNDER TWO FLAGS" TO BE PLAYED
AT THE PARK THIS WEEK.
Vaudeville During the Summer mt
Newly Ovai-Mary Mannering's
Fine COmpany-Other NewS

prime love affair. n spectacular production
of the play was seen at EngIish's early in
the season. Next weeks plays at the Park
will be "Sapho" and Mick of the Woods"
The theater will close it's season on May p.
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A vaudeville show will be available dur
ing the summer AT Newly Oval, which has
been made into park and will be opened
on June .. The first weeks bill will in
clude Coins dog circus, the DunhamS, hori-
zontal bar acrobats; the DAcos. shooting
and wire act, and, perhaps, Kilpatrick's
cycle dazzle. The vaudeville will be changed
every week during the summer In addi-
ton there will be merry!go-rounds. ponies
and swings for the children and refresh
ment pavilion. The park is under the man.
agement of the Burt circuit, which operates
a long string of such pleasure resorts.
The company that will support Mary
Mannering in Bulwer Lyttons 1.-The Lady
of Lyons is of remarkable personnel.
Kyrle Bellew played Claude Melnotte sew
eral years ago. He has not visited this city
since he came with Mrs. Potter. During
the season just closed he has been acting
in a dramatlzation of Stanley Weyman's
"a Gentleman of France" Edwin Arden
has not acted in this city since he used to
be seen in 1.-The Eagles Nest" at the Park
Theater, except when he came in Maude
Adams's company in "L'Aiglon." Some of
the devoted and older patrons of the Park
will remember how greatly Mr.. Arden was
admired there. His first entrance was gal
liant. He impersorated young miner, and
the first scene was the exterior of his
home. His mother was talking to
stranger in the doOryard a bell tinkled
sharply. There he comes" said the
mother. ''he always rings the bell with
bullet when he gets within rifie-shot of the
house, and he never misses" William II.
Thompson is one of the best actors of the
day. He was the cardinal in Annie Rus
sells production of Captain Marshalls "A
Royal Family Maclyn Arbuckle bright
comedian, was last seen in this city in 1.-The
Sprightly Romance of Marsac." Other
members of Miss Mannering's company will
be Edward Abeles, Brandon lyman, the
aged Mrs. W. C. Jones and Kate Pattison
Seton. The company will give a perform
ance of 1.-The Lady of Lyons" at English's
on June 10.
Martin Harvey, an English actor that
never has visited this country, will come
over late in the fall and will begin an
American tour in New York in October.
His plays will be THE Only Way" THE
Children of the King" THE Cigarette
Makers Romance and After ALL" The
latter play is a new version of Eugene
Aram." Mr.. Harvey became famous in
night in London as Sydney Carton in THE
Only Way Henry Miller and Edward
Morgan have played the part in this coun-
try 1t is extremely doubtful that Mr..
Harvey is able to give better impersona-
ton of Carton than did Mr.. Morgan, whose
personality is the most imposing on the
American stage.
a light opera of the civil war will be
produced next season by f. c. Whitney,
who is the manager. of Dolly Warden"
The new piece has a book by Stanslaus
STANCE and music by Julian Edwards. The
title is when Johnny Comes Marching
Home" The scenes are inside the lines of
the Federal army. Part of the music is
fabric of the ballads of the North and
South and the negro folk songs. The COM
posers effort has been to make the opera
distinctively American.
This by the Matinee Girl of the Dramatic
Mirror:
OF late it has become quite the fashion
10 retire from a profession in which one
has grown rich and famous, and then. in
order TO drain TO the very dregs every par
ticle of pecuniary profit, it is a charming
idea to write "reminiscences or lecture on
the evils of the work.
This, it is supposed. will warn others
from attempting TO get rich and famous in
the same lines. Literature is threatened
with an inundatiOn of books on such sub
|
''Remembrances of a Janitor,' telling of
the temptations and dangers of the life,
would be interesting and might keep 9TH
ersl from Drawing such life.
DIARY of a Bell Boy" giving the inside
history of the evils incident to such ca
reer, might help to make young men
choose the profession of district messen-
ger boy or cash boy in preference.
But. leaving aside the good taste of this
sort of thing, it does not do one particle of
good to exploit the dangers of a profess
sion, whether it be the dramatic profession
or balloOning.
There are great many literary chest
nuts that have a way of making periodical
appearances. but the Dangers of Stage
Life is getting 10 be about the modest of
them all
The idea of a person who has scaled
mountain top standing the summit,
bathed in the sunshine of success, and
preaching TO those looking up from the
|. foothills about the perils of the trip, is
To youth, danger and adventure will al
ways be fascinating. Only the dead and
listless sit with hands folded cOntented in
the valley while others achieve.
One thing that these literary hyenas who
go prowling amid the bones of their past
success for some other profitable scraps
fuse to explain is the wonderful, rejuvena-
tive effects of the work of the stage.
If ii is all so fearful. so nerve racking,
so ideal destroying, care cankering, why
is it that its followers remain forever
youthful, not only in face and form, but in
mind. in word in dress?
Ii is oply after retirement from the stage
that lines begin TO show, and that the clear,
pure air of the mountain top does not seem
as morally healthful as has been the at
mOsphere up the slopes of toilng endeavor.
Select any dozen of the really successful
women of the stage to-day. You find almost
invariably good health. good looks that are
something far more than regularity OF
feature or a sheen of hair-fOr the most
successful women of the stage to-day are
not picture wonderland a grace of move
ment, an alert intelligence. and a good
taste in dress. Above all. a delight in the
work in hand that is in itself an inspira-
ton.
Take the society woman. the business
woman. the domestic woman. the club
woman. and YOU will find eXpositiOns of
petty faultness. OF small jealOusies and
small shams that dramatic study and dra-
matte work seems 20 burn out of the soul.
Remuneration of an ambition in the face
OF moral danger, If the ambition be a
worthy one. is very much like retreat in
the first whiz of bullets over the battle
field
To press on and 10 ight-to fall If need
Ill ri.