The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-15

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She was an excellent actress, known on
the stage as Adele lie Gros, and was de-
voted to her sons. Although the mother
profession, Mrs. Farnum was only fifty
years old at the time of her death. She
married at the age of fifteen. She was
very handsome woman and IL was from
her that the sons inherit their comelness
and artistic ability. She trained her boys
for the stage and was more like sister
than mother, in that she was always
their confidant and companion. Her death
came as great shock to them.
Sir Charles Wyndham must have been
hard put to il when he came TO choose a
name for his new London playhouse or else
he is singularly lacking in the creative
faculty, for the property has just been
christened the New Theater. OF all names
on earth! The Chicago Record-Heraid has
this to say on the subject:
with the chronicles of the English stage
fairly scintillant with the names of good
men and great from Shakespeare downward
il seems as If one of them might have been
appropriately memorialiZed over the door
way of a great playhouse in the heart of
the worlds capital A better tendency is
observable in Chicago, for the name Illi-
nois has historic significance Of general
nature. and the projected IrOquois will also
serve TO perDetuate traditions racy of the
soil In New York an absurd mimicking
of the names of English theaters seems to
be coming into vogue. The reconstructed
Theater Comique was rechristened the
Princess. a name absolutely meaningless in
this country. The Savoy was not a happy
choice for the reconstructed house off Her
aid square. and. worst of all, the projected
theater in Long Acre square is TO be called
the Royal and to be of Moorish archi-
style of architecture utterly inappropriate
in a crowded city of this latitude"
While David Belasco was taking a much
needed rest at Atlantic City last week.
Hilery Bell paid him visit and drew this
interesting pen-picture of the famous dra-
matist and producer for the Washington
Post:
He was in bed at the time. sick man,
in a poor, little. old-fashioned. squeaky
bed in a single room at the rear of the
seaside. hotel. attired in frayed dressing
gown, his beard unshaven, his great mass
OF iron-gray hair tumbling over his face
like the last act of Beau Brummel The
exact antithesis of Clyde Fitch, who dresses
like dandy and is as faStidiouS as a wom-
an. Yet this shaggy, unkempt fellow. roll
ing feverishly on what might almost be
termed truckle bed. in a small room that
was a miracle of disorder, Is the creates.
and most prosperous dramatist In Amer
lea. His income viii stop temporarily with
in a few months at the ending of the sea-
son. At present. however. Belasco is earn
ing at the rate OF over $4,000 a year. AS
he lay in bed his hand grasped a telephone
and he remained in communication with
all parts OF the eountry-now whirlwind
of wrath from Mrs. Carter over some an
noyance at the theater. for she has red hair
and red-hot temper now an intimation
that rival mana gers were trying to abduct
Blanche Bates; now a voice or complaint
from David Warfield. Uneasy lies the head
that wears a crown. and Belasco tossed on
his truckie bed as one In "a fever.