The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-02

All of the local amusement houses en-
joyed excellent holiday business yesterday.
At the Grand and Empire there was not
room enough to hold the crowds who want
ed to be entertained with speciality per-
formances The Grand has been doing
landoffice business throughout the week,
and will probably continue drawing big au-
diences for some time to come, the at
traction booked for the coming week, the
Great Lafayette road show. is an especially
strong one.
On account of the illness of the comedian.
Thomas Q. Seabrooke. his understudy. Fred
Mace. was given a chance last week to APP
pear in the leading comic part of "A
Chinese Honeymoon" the musical comedy
that has been such a continuous success
at the Casino. New York. Mace made n
and has been making a lift ever since. In
fact, he has done well in the role that
the Shubert brothers, who are managing
the production, are thinking OF placing
him at the head of a road company TO
present "A Chinese Honeymoon" out this
way during the spring.
Henry Kolker, once one of the favorites
of the old Grand stock company in this
city. has been engaged to head a stock
company in Syracuse. N. Y, where he is
well known and very popular ,, he is at a.
Her Majesty's Theater in Montreal.
The English actor, E. s. Willard, has
scored success in New York in his new
play, "AIl for Her." which he gave for
the first time last Friday night, and is
drawing large audiences. 1t is said to be
a very pleasing, though not an original
play. One critic sums 1t up in the follow
ing terse fashion: "It Is another one of
those plays that playwrights love to write
that actors love to act and that audiences
love to see-a play In which the principal
character sacrifices everything dear to him
in life, except the center of the stage"
XXX
Mr.. Frohman says that the rumor that
Maude Adams would appear in the forth
coming production Of 1.-The Resurrection"
is absurd. The chances are that Miss
Adams will not play this season at ALL
Her health is matter OF too great I'M
act again until she has fully recovered
from her long illness.
Fay Templeton as interlocutor and Nat
Goodwin and Willie Collier as end men
what do you think of that combination?
1t has been definitely arranged for these
three to assume these positions in the
first part semi-circle'' at the big minstrel
the Eagles at the New York Theater jan
Is. That show should be worth going miles
to see.
And now William Gillette Is to follow
Sothern with a production of Hamlet in
the near future and is carefully at work on
the scenic arrangements. Five magnificent
scenes are already under way, and IL is
said that Gillette will introduce details
into his Shakspearian production that will
prove surprises: From playing sherlock
Holmes to acting the role of Hamlet is a
big jump.
Sousa will begin a season of band con-
certs tonight at the Queen Hall in London.
1t is reported that his coming has been
eagerly awaited in the British metropolis
for the last month. Besides being a great
advertised In a way that has opened the
| eyes of the good English folks. On every
omnibus in London the magic word,
"Sousa," In startlingly red letters, is to be
| seen.
| 1t Is suspected that Weber & Fields have
| gone over, bag and baggage, to the Inde-
pendent Booking Agency formed by the
| managers of Mrs. Fiske and Miss Cross
| man, together with James X. Hackett, as
| the music hall managers have decided not
| to put their touring affairs into the hands
| of the syndicate.
| That original Englishman, Bernard Shaw
who, like Mary McLane, loves the devil,
! is writing a play which deals with a de-
/ scendant of Don Juan and introduces Satan
| as a principal character.