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

plenty of time to be bored until we have
reached twenty and to be disconsoate after
we have reached forty"
AS announced in these columns two weeks
ago, the big Weber and Fields organiza-
ton will be seen i'm indianapolis during
its coming spring tour. The great COM
pany of comedians, including Willie Col
lier, Charles Bigelow, Peter +. Daley Fay
Templeton, Lillian Russell. Louise Aleen
Collier and Weber and Fields themselves,
has been booked to appear at the Park
Theater for one night, soon after the close
of the Parks regular season.
Frank j. Wilstach is the only one of
the three Wilstach brothers from Indiana
who has not made an attempt at play
writing, but he is fast coming to the front
one of the cleverest press agents that
ever went ahead of a theatrical organiza-
ton. Although he is business manager for
Viola Allen in THE Eternal City his
employers, Liebler & Co., sent him on the
road for a fortnight to stir up interest
in Eleanor Robson's Southern tour in
Audrey" The wide-awake Hoosier hur-
ried down into Dixieland and, without any
apparent effort, succeeded in getting Miss
Robson, the actress, and Miss Mary Johns
ton, the author of Audrey" and incident
ally himself, the press agent, talked about
and written about to such an extent that
the play is enjoying tremendous business
in every city where it is now being pre-
scented. Audrey was not a pronounced
success in New York, but the Southerners
like it immensely.
New York is again filed with big musical
shows of the most spectacular kind. "Mr.
Blue Beard is at the Knickerbocker; De
Wolf Hopper in Mr.. Pickwick'' at the Her
aid Square; 1.-The Wizard of o. is at the
new Majestic; 1.-THE Sultan of Sulu' is at
Wallack's; THE Silver Slipper is at the
Broadway; 1.-THE Millionaire" is at Days;
"A Chinese Honeymoon is at the Casino;
when Johnny Comes Marching Home" is
at the New York; "Florodora'' is at the
Academy of Music; 1.-THE Rogers Brothers
in Harvard is at the Harlem Opera House
and the ever popular musical travesties are
being presented, as usual, at Weber &
Fields Music Hail. Never before has such
list of great gayety shows been on view
at one time in New York, and the visitor
have hard time of it deciding entertain
ment of riches.
Klaw Erlanger will not carry out
their announced intention of organizing a
great minstrel company next season with
Lew Dockstader at the head of it, The
reason for the change in their plans is due
70 he
Primrose to the effect that this is his last
year as minstrel. He and Lew Dockstader
will dissolve partnership at the end of the
present season. and the company now bear
ing the names of the two famous Ministries
will be continued under the leadership of
| Dockstader When it was learned that
Primrose intended retiring permanently
| from the stage Dockstader saw that it
would be more desirable thing for him to
take the company OF which he is now a
member and run it himself than to carry
| out his prearranged plan of heading the
| proposed big minstrel organization of Klaw
| & Erlanger. He accordingly secured his re-
| lease from the managers and has effected
arrangements with Primrose whereby the
Primrose G. Dockstader Ministries will con-
tnue to exist with the genial Dockstader
| as the sole owner.
Joseph Haworth is to play the leading
male role in the coming production OF
| Tolstors 1.-THE Resurrection" instead OF
Wilton Lackeye. Mr.. Haworth has just
| retired from the role of Cassius in Richard
Mansfield's production of Julius Caesar
in which he scored a great success, anC
| will begin rehearsals Of his new part to-
| morrow. He told New York interviewer
that he left Mansfields company reluc
family, as his experience with MANSFIELD
| had been one of the pleasantest i'm hi.
| whole career, and he cast quite a differen
light upon the great actors personalit,
| by saying that Mansfield was one of tn,
most misunderstood and most abused mer
| i'm public life. He is the most genuin,