The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-12

preceding Richard Harding Davis's three
act play, 1.-The Tanning of Helen" The
brief comedy proved so successful here
that Mr.. Miller has been playing 1t ever
since, and says that he will continue to put
on one-act plays next season. Other stars
are talking of following his example.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is bent upon fol-
lowing up the dramatic triumph of his
Sherlock Holiness which is to be seen in
Indianapolis for the first time this week.
The English novelist has just completed a
four-act play in which his celebrated Bril-
gadier Gerard is the hero. In order to give
continuity to the plot Sir Arthur, discard
ing all thought of that staggering SOL
dier's previous exciting adventures, has IN
Gerard will be seen both as an ardent lover
and as a fearless adventurer.
George Tyler, general manager for Lieb-
Ter & Co.. has decided that the first OPP
portunity of witnessing the drama
tization of Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch will be given to Louisville early
next season The reason for this is that
Mrs Annie Heagan Rice who wrote the
book. and Mrs. Flexner. who dramatized
it, both live in Louisville. In addition the
cabbage patch is laid in Louisville, so
that the play will be of unusual interest to
the residents of that city. The play will
Immediately after it's Louisville engage
ment.
Oscar Wilde's "Salome," the public per-
Torrance of which was forbidden in Ger
many by the authorities, has just been
privately produced in Berlin with great
success Herr Eugen label, the eminent
German critic declares that Wilde has ac-
complished in one act what Sudermann
strove for in six in Johannes" Wilde's
poTtance of Being in Earnest" have both
been presented at the Klenes Theater, Ber-
lin. this season with success. At this same
theater Gorkeys dramatic study of the on
scourings of humanity. From the Depths
of Life" has just passed its fiftieth per-
Torrance.
Julia Marlowe. who comes to English's
a week from tomorrow night for an en-
gagement of three nights in the dramatiza-
ton of George w. Cables novel, THE Cav
alier." enjoyed long and triumphant run
at the Criterion Theater, New York. recent
ly. Unlike most American military dramas,
in 1.-THE Cavalier" the sympathy and senti-
ment are of the Confederacy rather than
of the North. The heroine of the play is
Charlotte Durand, a daughter of that part
of the South Of which Mr.. Cable loves to
write-Louisiana. The part is said to offer
Miss Marlowe excellent opportunities, of
which she takes the fullest advantage. She
is supported this year by important
cast, including Frank Worthing.
1t may not be generally known. says the
Boston Transcript, that E. II. Sothern has
had Hamlet" as a study in mind since
his childhood and his love for the charac-
ter, grown with his growing years. more
deeply impressed itself upon him when he
visited Hamlet's home in Elsnore Dem
mark. During Sothern's school days when
he was dreamy-eyed youngster he per-
siste@ In dishguring pieces of paper with
and the staid professors of the very Eng
lish Marylebone Grammar School of Lon
don declared that he would either come to
no good end or become painter an
actor. There is still preserved in that school
copy OF Shakespeare that Is thumb-marked