The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
THIS WEEKS PLAY BILLS
.Tbe vinegar Buyer" "san Toy" and
The Grand and Other Houses.

At EngllSnS JO-mOTTOW evening Ezra
Kendall and his company will present a
comedy by Herbert Hall Winslow entitled
1.-The Vinegar Buyer" Its scenes are in
Indiana. for the reason that it is the State
from which come all the jays, and Mr..
Kendall is peculiarly an interpreter of the
lay. 1t is not pretended that the play is
Of any consequence; it merely offers oppor-
~,unities for Mr.. Kendall to make fun. He
used TO have a play called "a Pair Of
Kids" and after he put it away he was
very successful as a story teller in the
vaudeville theaters until this fall, when
he was engaged by Liebler & Co. as a
more or less legitimate star"
The first act of The Vinegar Buyer"
shows the main street of a village named
Bascomb's Corners; the second, the grounds
Of the villages sanitarium, and the third,
the drawing room of a home in Indianapo-
lis. The character that Mr.. Kendall per-
sonates is a fellow that travels about SELL
ing musical attachments for sewing ma
chimes. He likes Bascomb's Corners. de-
cides to settle there, and prospers, despite
the enmity Of d mar whose wickedness
makes him the william" of this conven-
tional play. In the company are Lottie
Alter, Charles Bowser. Marion Abbott and
a number OF others.
Much more important than 1.-The Vinegar
Buyer" is San Toy one of the recent
English musical comedies, which will be
sung on Tuesday evening. San Toy" was
imported TO succeed 1.-The Runaway Girl"
which had been brought over from London
the year before. and had run its course in
New York. Since san Toy" had it's show
ing two others. THE Messenger Boy and
The Toreador." have been used in New
York and sent into the interior. Still an
other. The Country Girl. . is now running
at Days, in the metropolis, and is as
great a hit as it's predecessors. The En-
glish musical comedies have the distinction
of good music. real wit in the dialogue
and the verses, and fancy in the librettos.
San Toy is one of the best of them, as
all know who heard II sung at English's
last season. Samuel Collins, George For
tescue, Sarony Lambert. Elgie Bowen and
Nellie Lynch continue at the head of the
company. Miss Bowen has the part Of San
Toy. which Marie Celeste sang last season.
The story OF San Toy is that the
daughter Of Yen How, a mandarin, is
passed off to the Emperor as a boy in
order to keep her out Of the Emperor's
household. The girl, San Toy, falls in love
with the son of the British consul, and the
Emperor, learning this, suspects that all
is not right and sends for San Toy and her
father. He discovers the deception, but
permits San Toy and her Englishman to be
married. The story is told skillfully, and
that is one point in which the English and
American musical comedies are far differ
ent. Sidney Jones and Lionel Monckton
wrote the music, Edward Ross the book,
and Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross the
verses. In the first act the songs are Love
Has Come from Lotus Lane" and THE
Lady's Maid" the duets. "A. B. c."
when You Are Wed TO Me" and "Samee
Cameo" the quartet, "Pynka Pong Mr..
Fortescue's song, with chorus, six Little
Wives" and a concerted number, THE
Moon" In the second act Mr.. Monckton's
songs are "Chinee Sojer Man." ''Rhoda
and Her Pasoda," It's Nice to Be a Boy"
and the quartet. Back to London" There
are several other songs in this act. The
company has its own orchestra, and the
theater's corps will join 1t, SO that the in
strunental part of the work will be suf1-
cient.
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A dramatization by Otis Skinner and
Aubrey Boucicault Of Mary Hartwell Cath
erwood's novel. "Lazarre,' will be acted
for the first time IN this city by Mr.. Skin
ner and his company on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings and Saturday aft
ernoon. On its pictorial side the produc-
ton Is said to be fine, and one scene has
been especially commended. 1t is a glade
in the forest on the shore OF Lake George.
illumins by moonlight. There Lazarre
declares himself to be the rightful King
OF France. and determines that he will go
to Paris and demand the throne. Another
scene Is a 1evee at the Tuilleries, and in II
LaZarre submits proof Of his heritage TO
the Emperor. He escapes the latter's
wrath through a secret door remembered
from childhood. He is aided by Eagle De
Ferrier, who loves and believes him and
who has followed him TO Paris. They re-
turn together to America Eleazar VIII
liamss story is well known, and Mrs. Cath
erwood's novel. based on IL, has been wide
~ read. In Mr.. SINNERS company are
Maud Durbin. Nannette Comstock, Joseph
Weaver and others.