The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-10

ENGLISH'S.-"Miss Bob White" Sis
GRAND.-HIgh-class vaudeville. 2:15 and
PARK.-"Child Slaves of New York." 2
and ID. m.
EMPfRE.-Burlesque, and p. IN.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 3 and d. m.
Willard Spencer's bright musical come
dy, Miss Bob White which Is being
produced a lavish scale by Nixon &
Zimmerman, will be the attraction at Eng
lish's this evening, the one performance
being the extent of the engagement here.
1t was seen In this city two years ago
with Marguerite sylvia in the title role, and
it made very favorable impression upon
that occasion. 1t is understood that the
present production is a more thorough one
than the first as the chorus is larger and
the costumes and scenery handsomer.
Among the well-known singers and come
dams in the cast are Dorothy Hunting,
Alice Dewey, Edith Blair, Neil Mcneil,
Frank Deshon, Robert Broderick, Nicholas
Burnham, Marion Granger, Donald Archer
and Lester Brown. The story of the piece
deals with two mililonaires who have made
and lost an election bet and are obliged to
masquerade as tramps for two months and
incidentally to suffer all of the hardships
that generally come to genuine knights OF
the road" The piece had a run of 100 per-
formances in Philadelphia last season-an
unusually long run for the Quaker City,
where few theatrical companies remain
longer than two or three weeks at time.
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In nearly every theater cat is kept for
the purpose of discouraging the inroads Of
mice and rats upon the scenery and other
| perishable property. 1t was due to this
fact that a member of the Miss Bob
| White" company, which will be seen at
r1se1,f
| rience the other night in an Ohio city.
| Dorothy Hunting was singing "churning
| song in the first act when the players and
| the audience were startled by an unearthly
howl 1t sounded as If it came from the
| neither regions and was the wall of a lost
| soul. Miss Hunting hestated moment
and then continued the song. giving the
dasher OF the churn another joggle.
| Again the frightful howl resounded through
the theater and the prima donna looked
scared She stopped singing, and then,
struck with sudden thought, removed the
| cover of the churn. An immense cat
| jumped out and dashed into the wings. The
| episode nearly broke up the show. One
of the members of the company had been
| If Miss Hunting learns the identity of the
| guilty party she'll never speak to him
| again.
George Fl. Brennan has opened negotia-
| tons with DR.. Sigurd Ibsen, son of the IA
lea next season for the purpose of deliver
| ing course of lectures on the Ibsen plays.
Mr.. Ibsen is a Cabinet minister of King
Oscars Norwegian government. He enjoys
1ame as an orator and is a writer OF dis
| tinction. Mr.. Brennans original plan was
| to induce the playwright himself to visit
| this country, but this project was aban-
doned owing to Ibsen's advanced age and
| failing health. The popularity of the Ibsen
movement in America is attested by the
4 nn1n nj a
country under Mr.. Brennans direction, two
! OF them playing Ghosts" with Mary Shaw
| and Alberta Gallatin as stars, and the
| which Elita Proctor Otis is the stellar fea-
| ture. ''Hedda Gabler" comes to English s
| the first Of next week.
An extra force of scene shutters will go
into training at the Park Theater this
morning, so that they may handle the
scenery of 1.-The Child Slaves of New York
this afternoon without a hitch. The play
is said to be heavily ladened with scenery
and mechanical effects. One scene shows a
| range of ice and snow-covered mountains,
| A more pretentious one Is that of a river
| front in New York, where an old grain ele-
| the barber police. A third shows an I'M
| foreground rapid transit line with trains in
operation. The play itself is an exciting
| melodrama. William Vedder impersonates
an Alaskan gold miner who loses his
wealth George Mack, who last year APP
| peared in Foxy Grandpa" has an impor-
| are Ida Howell, Vernon Sommers, Fannie
| Argyle and Van Dyke Brooks. A number
of specialties will be given.
| Indianapolis will have summer vaude-
Vile when warm weather comes again.
| William Iron had decided to discontinue
| the offering of summer evening amuse-
ments at Fair Bank, but has just an
| nounced that he has changed his mind and
| will provide high-class vaudeville entertain
ments at the pretty park during next June,
| July and August Performers of good repu-
| tations will be engaged and the bills will
| be changed from week to week Mr.. Iron
| thinks that while indianapolis people re-
| fused to support the fine open-air concerts
| that were given at Fair Bank last sum-
| mer they will be glad of the opportunity to
| attend out-of-door performances of a light
| nature during the warm nights OF next
| summer.
Since James O'Neill put aside his famous
Monte Cristo" he has had difficulty in
securing play well suited to him, but
| II would seem that 1.-The Adventures of
| Girard," which he brings to English's for
| a matinee and evening performance Satur-
| day, should be a splendid vehicle for this
| good romantic actor-that is, if the dram
| atization of Conan Doyles fascinating
stories has been we'll done. There is sure
| ly plenty of good dramatic material in the
| adventurous tales dealing with the young
French soldier of Napoleons army. Leib-
| Ter az Co. promise a splendid production
| of the new play and, is usual with the
| theatrical offerings of this well-known
| firm. nothing will be neglected in the sump-
tuous mounting of the piece.
Mile. Nirvana, who is to be the leading
| feature in the Grands vaudeville bill next
week with d novel act in which a beautiful
horse plays important part. is now in
| this city She is young German woman.
and this is her first tour of America Owing
| to her slight knowledge of the English lam
| guage she became involved in a misunder-
| standing recently that cost her two weeks
/ Work-that is she failed to secure certain
/ bookings that were really due her. Her
| act is said to be most unusual one and
| one that will attract considerable attention
/ when seen here The present programme
at the Grand is meeting with favor from
/ large audiences. There are many excellent
i features in the show.
Christmas time to English youngsters is
anticipated as much for the pantomime and
other theatrical entertainments especially
provided for them as for the holiday house
| parties The Juvenile theatergoers of
| America had not been catered to in this
| direction until last season. when c. II Dill