The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
"Rogers Brothers i'm Washington" and
"Miss Bob white" Next Week.


Two new musical comedies will be pre-
sented at English's next week. On Tues
day and Wednesday the Rogers brothers
will show themselves TN Washington"
The book is by ]. ]. McNally. a Boston
dramatic critic, who has written all of the
Rogers b~urlesques. and the music. as
usual, is by Maurice Levy. the lively musi-
cal director of the company. Edith st.
Clair and Jeanette Bageard help the Rog-
ers brothers in the song-conversation, The
Wedding of the Reuben and the Maid" a
companion piece to The Innocent Maid
and when Reuben Comes TO Town" On
Miss Bob White will be sung by Mar
guerita Sylvia and others. Mr.. Spencer
was the author of Little Tycoon" Miss
ssRSteTIihe a nSd left 8 o aT%Se Princess w CHIC! N to- take ke
service at the head of the Miss Bob
White" company, which Is the enterprise
prominent members of the theatrical SYM
dictate.
Edward Morgan and Elsie Leslie will
leave New York at the end of next week
and will join the far Western company
that is playing Hall Gaines THE Chris
tian." This melodrama, which has been
a gold mine for its authors and for Liebler
x Co, who produce ii, will soon be given To
the stock companies-that is, given at the
rate or Sl,OO a week royalty.
XXX
Life a new melodrama by Arson Pond,
will be produced at the Garden Theater.
New York. at the close of the current en-
agement of the Bostonians. Mr.. Pond
wrote "Her Atonement," one of the popu-
lar melodramas Of the past. He is the
contestant against the city of Hartford
for the millions of the Pond estate and is
an intimate friend OF Charles Frohman.
Life" is a reflex of life in New York.
xxx
George A. Beane, whose father was one
of the members of the old Metropolitan
company. in this city. has been engaged
for a part i'm George AIDES comic opera,
The Sultan of Sulu," which is 10 be pro-
duced in Chicago next month. Mr.. Beane
of late years has been a member of May
Twins company.
Henry Miller has arranged to give a fif-
teen weeks series of plays at the Columbia
Theater, San Francisco, beginning in June.
Margaret Anglin. at present leading woman
of the Empire stock company. will be Mr..
Miller's principal assistant. The repertory
will consist of "Frocks and Frills." Twin
Sisters" THE Wilderness" THE Gay Lord
Quex,' Trelawney of the Wells" and
darcy of the Guards" The two last
named have been seen in this city. "Frocks
and Frills." by Sidney Grundy is now
being acted in New York, and THE Twin
Sisters" soon will be. THE Wilderness
is being presented by the Empire company
in New York how. Henry V; .Esmond
wrote it. The Gay Lord Quex'' is by a.
w. Pinero and was played in this country
last season by John Hare and his company
from England.
One night last week, at a supper party
in New York. Mrs. Patrick Campbell was
holding forth on a favorite subject-Amer-
ica's hopeless frivolity and lack of appre-
citation of anything serious. One of the
guests, a man, came TO the defense of his
country by calling Mrs. Campbell's atten-
ton TO the heavy patronage of "A Mes
sage from Mars" which Charles Hawtrey
is playing in New York and in which the
moral is applied to the audience with a
brush.
"Oh, come now. Mrs. Campbell" said this
man, I'VE really accept serious plays at
times. Now, there's Hawtrey's success,
"A Message from Mars 1t is about the
most serious thing l ever saw. 1t impressed
me as being deadly serious"
There he paused. for Mrs. Campbell had
transfxed him with her gaze. "Ah, you
are not serious even now" she said. "You
do not call that art, surely?"
XXX
Opie Read, who lives in Chicago, spending
most OF his time at the Chicago Press Club,
is the author of ''The S~tarbucks," which
has been acted successfully by the Dear
born stock company. 1t will be taken on
a tour by a company headed by Howell
Hansel, who was one of the leading men
of the Grand Opera House stock company.
XXX
Kara, the juggler. and Patrice, who has
a new spectacular sketch, will be the
"headliners" at the Grand next week.
Liebler & Co. will make a special produc-
ton this spring of the old melodrama 1.-The
Two Orphans" Kyrle Bellew. Otis Skin
ner, James O'Neill and Eleanor Robson
will be in the cast. This enterprise eorre-
spends to the same managers production
last spring Of Yeats's THE Land of Hearts
Desire and BrOwning's I'm a Balcony"
acted by Mrs. lie Moyne, Mr.. Skinner, Miss
Robson and little Miss Taliaferro.