The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
ADJUSTMENTS.

upon its fourth and last week at the Park
with the matinee this afternoon, present.
ing the favorite romantic drama, East
Lynne" This will be the last week Of
the local theatrical season. the Weber
and Fields engagement at the Park next
Monday evening being in the nature of
single supplemented performance. The
Holden company has done very well at
the Park during its annual spring visit and
has succeeded in winning many new adj
mirers. Its production of THE Christian"
last week demonstrated that this aggre-
cation of players can do BETTER work than
is demanded Of them III sensational mel
odramas East Lynne" the bill for the
quirtng careful presentation and Man
ager Holden promises an enjoyable per-
Torrance of the celebrated old piece Miss
Bernice Holmes will be seen as Lady Isa-
bel, the leading feminine character actor,
and John Preston will have the strong
role of Sir Archibald Carlyle. East Lynne
Will run until Thursday, the English mel
cdrama, THE Fool of ST Arven" being
the play selected for the latter half Of the
week.
Hal Reid, the indefatigable writer of
thrilling melodrama at popular prices"
has turned UP in New York with two new
''thrillers" which he calls "A Working
Girls Wrongs and "a Mothers Love-"
and the plays being performed in East
Side theaters 10 audiences that applaud
them vigorously. The scenes in the Work
ing Girl piece are advertised by the press
agent as representing the interior of
cigarette factory; the home of Mamie NAL
10y and her old blind mother; the slide for
vengeance (whatever that means), and the
escape from death and dishonor at the
eleventh hour. One newspaper reporter
who was sent by his city editor to write
up the new play laughed so hard at the
supposedly serious situations that the man.
tleater threatened
him out of the house.
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There was "A big demand for seats Sat
urday for the performance to be given
here next Monday night by Weber and
Fields and their all-star company of COM
edians, but there are still plenty of de-
sirable seats left in various parts of the
theater The more expensive seats were I'm
greater demand than the ones selling at
lower prices and early visitors this week
at the ticket window will have no trouble
In securing good places in the balcony
Spectator Is enabled 70 cinarIy 80 en- eiiat "a
performance on the stage from any seat
In the house and so far as a good view
is concerned. the cheaper seats are just
as desirable as the high-priced ones Ev-
erything points TO a packed theater on
"Weber-Fields night"
AnaNa Bingham stopped on her Journey
TO the Pacific coast for a weeks engagem I
in Cincinnati, which closed Saturday night.
Her stay in the Queen City did not prove
a profitable one. owing to the warm wealth
er. Miss Bingham, who is surrounded bv
a splendid company of supporting PLAYERS.
will play a long summer engagement in
San Francisco. where the weather never
becomes too warm TO interfere with the
theatrical business. She is an established
favorite on the coast. Next season she in
tends producing in New York her play
THE Canterbury Pilgrims" Just how
Chaucer on the stage will be received re-
mains TO be seen. but Miss Bingham saws
that she Is going to produce the play i'm
magnificent style.
The announcement that Miss Marguerite
Ellington is soon TO be married to Daniel
Frohman. Z. III. sothern's manager may
prove OF interest to local theater-goers, as
Miss Ellington was seen in this city the
week before last in the role of the abbess
in IF I Were King''-a part that she
played most admirably. During the recent
Illness Of Cecilia LOTUS. Mr.. Sothern's
leading actress. Miss Ellington portrayed
the part of the heroine OF the romantic
drama, and il was then that she won the
heart of her manager. Those who wit
messed her performance of the heroine of
the play say that she made better Kath-
crime De Nancelles than does Miss LOTUS.
Rose Melville. great Indianapolis ia
vorite. has closed her fourth season in isis
Hopkins" and she declares that she will
never act the play again, although she
could doubtless go on presenting il for an
other season or two with continued success
She Is tired OF pOrtraying the same old
Sis" year in and year out, and is anxious
10 De seen in another part. Next season
she is TO appear in new play called "A
Country Cinderella" and will as usual
I'LL weeks engagement at the Park.
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Ben Greet, the English stage director
who has turned his "Everyman'' company
into a Shakspearean troupe for the sum-
mer, calling them the Woodland Players.
has laid out an extensive programme OF
out-of-doors performances following the
successful al fresco representation of LAS
You Like IT. the other afternoon at CO.
lSmbia University. Dates for the repetition
of this performance. as well as for The nrol
duction OF other classic plays, have been
arranged for Harvard. Princeton, Welles-
ley. Smith and other colleges.
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The first of the open-air concerts Of the
summer season will be given tonight at
Fair Bank by Louis Ostendorf's concert
band under the direction OF William E.
Barnes. An attractive programme will be
rendered. made up OF both classical and
Barnes, the conductor. who will give a
cornet selection, and Pasquale Montana,
who will contribute special piccolo num-
Der Concerts Will be given every evening
throughout the summer.
Two English girls who VIII star In mu-
steal comedy in this country next season
are Nellie Hawthorn and Ethel Levy. Miss
Hawthorn was seen IN Indianapolis re-
Gently in vaudeville at the Grand. Miss