The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04

Word has just been received from Louis
W. Buckley that he has decided to return
to indianapolis the coming season TO re-
sumo his position as press agent for the
Grand. Mr.. Buckley is one of the most
popular theatrical men that have ever lived
in this city and his return will be welcomed
by scores of his friends He has been acting
as advertising manager for WaIl-street
publication in New York since the first Of
June and has received several inducements
either to remain In the East or to become
press agent for a new vaudeville house
in Denver. However, Messrs. Ziegler * An
derson, the lessees and managers of the
Grand, have once more secured his serv-
ices, and MIR. Buckley Will report mere the
latter part of next week. Mr.. Buckley
wife. Pearl Buckley. the dancer, who is
known on the stage as Carmentella, Is
now playing on the Keith circuit she Will
come to Indianapolis at the conclusion OF
her present bookings and the BEckleys Will
then take apartments in this city Tor the
season.
The handsome new sets of scenery which
now grace the stage at the Park were
painted by Messrs. Minor and Livingston,
two young Chicago artists who were for
merly connected with the theater In the
Auditorium in Chicago. The young men,
who have been earning enviable reputa-
tions as scenic artists, have been at work
on the stage at the Park during the last
two months and they will begin to-day to
paint number of new back drops, IN
terors" and 'exteriors" for the stage at
the Grand. where they will probably be
employed the greater part OF the coming
vaudeville season. Manager Fred Dickson
says that in all probability the PARK VIII
have a new drop curtain before christmas
to be painted by Minor and Livingston.
Billy McClain, the general stage manager
for Gus Hills big colored company in The
Smart Set has left his home in this city.
going TO New York from Indianapolis for
the purpose of engaging all of the best
available colored talent for the forthcoming
season. There are to be over fifty people
in 1.-The Smart Set this season, Mr.
McClain says, and the organization VIII De
the only on the road playing week
stands, Williams and Walker and their
big company have decided to remain abroad
where they have scored a great success In
the negro opera I'm Dahomey-
XXX
1t is rumored in New York theatrical
circles that Jane Oaker, now leading
woman with the stock company at the
Broadway Theater Denver, is soon to be
starred on the road in dramatization of
Booth Tarkingtons story, "A Gentleman
from Indiana" Hamilton and Summerfield,
the managers of the Broadway Theater,
in Denver are understood 10 be the back
ers of the enterprise. Should the Tarking-
ton play prove unsuccessful a dramatiza-
ton of Anthony Hopes Heart of the Prin-
cess Osra'' will be tried by Miss Oaker.
XXX
The death is announced of Mrs. Jean
Margaret Davenport Lander, the widow Of
Gen. Frederick Lander, and known as an
actress for two score of years in this coun-
try and Europe. She died yesterday at her
summer home in Lynn, Mass, at the age
of seventy-four years. Many of the older
India napolis theatergoers will remember this
once famous player. as she appeared in this
city for a long engagement at the old
Academy of Music, playing in Shakspearean
repertoire and in many OF the favorite
classic dramas.
The vacation season for the people at
tached to the force of Weber & Fields will
come to an end this week and all members
of the famous organization of fun-makers
will report for the first rehearsal next Sat-
urday morning. Joseph Weber is quite i'll
a his summer home in the Thousand islands
and NAV not be able to be on hand.
The name of the burlesque TO be presented
the coming season at the little Broadway
music hall has not yet been chosen, but
the libretto and music are practically COM
Melted