The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-02

The great ballet at the end of the second
act Of Mother Goose" the new Drury Lane
spectacle, which is to have its first Amer
lean presentation in New York tonight, will
eclipse anything of the kind ever seen in
this country. and will prove even more mag
niicent that the great ballots in 1.-The
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast and ''Mr.
Blue Beard" 1t is brought about in this
manner: Mother Goose, who has grown
favorite fowl, has not shown the good
taste in her surroundings and decorations
which her wealth should command. The
Demon King tells her of her lack Of good
Fantasy, there to exhibit her to the latest
artistic wealth of the day. The gorgeous
girls VINO represent worries. old and new,
Then follow Bronzes, Hemmered Brass,
Wrought Iron and Mosaics. These in turn
are S ayd the s,re
come Mother-of-Pearls, Limoges Enamels
and other Enamels After these are seen the
Peacocks and finally the Diamond.
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In THE Eternal City," which comes to
English's for a matinee and evening per-
Torrance next Saturday. with Edward J.
Morgan as the star, and Sarah Truax as
leading woman. local theater-goers wills
have an opportunity of seeing what is gen.
orally considered Hall Gaines greatest
work. and a play which was London and
New York sensation. Nearly everybody has
read the novel from which the drama has
been taken. All those who have will be
eager to see the stage version. In dramatic
ing the story the astute Mr.. Game made
two important changes, for In the play he
presents Donna Roma as an innocent and
prosecuted woman instead of the
paramour of Baron Bonelli the italian
nr9mier. arr2nRaS ending where
by the lovers, Roma and David RoSSi, may
realize the desires of their hearts. The
company provided by Liebler & Co. to en-
act the drama looks to be unusually strong.
The sale of seats for this engagement-the
most interesting of the week-opened
yesterday with a good demand.
Lew A. Warner, an Indianapolis actor.
has the part of villainous old miser in
when Women Love-" the melodrama at
the Park the first half of this week. On
the stage Mr.. Warner does all sorts of
rascally deeds and makes himself so dis
tasteful to the gallery that he usually winds
up by being generously Kissed. This is
merely another illustration that stage VIII
lains are usually gentle souls in private
life for when he is not acting in melo-
drama, Mr.. Warner Is raising fancy
chickens on a little farm that he recently
purchased in southern Indiana. He is a
lover of poultry and domestic animals and.
as he himself says, lis too chicken
hearted in private life to kill a fly" But
behind the footlights he murders men with
a relish. when Women Love- closes its
successful engagement tonight. The
Shadows of Great City,, a favorite old
melodrama, comes to the Park tomorrow
for the rest of the week.
The Orpheum Road Show. now giving the
best vaudeville entertainment of the season
at the Grand, will at the end of it's New
Orleans engagement, the week after next,
go directly to the Pacific coast for an eight
weeks visit. Mcintyre and Heath will not
make the trip with the rest of the company,
as they recently appeared in San Francisco
and the other big cities of the far West.
While the Orpheum show Is on the other
side of the Rockies new vaudeville COM
pany. headed by Mcintyre and Heath. will
| tour the principal cities of the South. The
| two minstrel comedians will again join the
] Orpheum combination upon It's return to