The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
Notes and Comment.

Notes and Comment.
Some very interesting attractions have
been booked for early appearances at Eng
lish's. On Tuesday and Wednesday even
ings of next week Charles Frohmans ex-
celent company will be seen at that
theater in George Fleming's dramatization
of Mrs. Humphry Wards most popular
novel, Lady Roses Daughter" Miss Fay
Davis is being featured by Mr.. Frohman
in the title role. Miss Davis will be pleas
antly remembered by local theater goers
as the charming BILLY" of William Faver-
sham's last seasons comedy, ''Impru-
dence.' A week from next Saturday Mary
Shaw will come to English's for two per-
formances of Ibsen's celebrated problem
play, "Ghosts'-a drama that will attract
more attention from scholars and literary
people of this vicinity than any play to be
seen here this season.
In the first night audience which will
gather at McCauley's Theater, Louisville,
tomorrow evening to witness the initial
presentation of the dramatized version of
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" one
of the most interested persons will be
Eleanor Robson, the young actress. Miss
Robson is the daughter of Mrs. Madge Carr
Cook, who is to create the role of Mrs.
Wigs, and although she is decidedly busy
herself in making preparations for her
forthcoming starring tour she finds 1t i'm
possible to stay away from Louisville on
this important first night" She put aside
her own work few days ago, declaring to
her manager that she simply couldn't put
her mind upon 1t until she had journeyel to
Louisville to see her mother make her bow
as the darling old lady of the cabbage
patch" Miss Robson herself is soon to APP
pear in the title role of little Cockney
'slavey" in Israel Zangwill's new comedy,
Merely Mary Ann She will be seen here
late in the season. Mrs Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" comes to Indianapolis two
weeks from tomorrow night.
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The Theater Magazine for October is an
unusually attractive number and this is
saying good deal, as there is no dramatic
periodical in the world that equals The
Theater in general makeup. This months
issue is filled with interesting reading mat
ter about plays and players, and from a
pictorial standpoint it is doubtful If a more
artistic illustrated theatrical magazine has
ever been published in New York-or any
place else. There are fine reproductions of
scenes from the stage productions now run
ming in New York and a series of portraits
of some of the leading players of the day
that are well worth framing. The outside
cover shows beautiful picture in color of
Blanche Bates she appears in THE
Darling of the Gods" Two exceptionally
interesting literary features are a short his
tory of Wagner's sacred music drama,
"Parsifal," written by Richard Aldrich and
illustrated with reproductions Of celebrated
paintings and a very entertaining sketch
by Henry Tyrrell of Minnie Maddern
Fiske's career Each number of this maya
zine is better than the preceding one and
people who are interested in the stage
not afford to miss a single issue.
London Tit-Bts says that a few weeks
ago in an English theater the curtain rose
on an empty stage in the second act of
play and a meek-looking young man, with
dust coat on his arm, came on and loudly
shouted, ''Uncle! uncle!'
According to the book of the play he
should have received no answer to his call
and after an appropriate pause should
have gone on with a monologue. But
graceless god in the gallery took it upon
himself to answer the actor.
"All right I'm coming in moment. How
much do you want on it," he shouted.
A similar incident took place at the In
dianapolis home of burlesque-the Empire
one afternoon last week. A sketch team"
made UP of a giddy soubrette and loud
| talking comedian, were on the stage hold
/ ing forth with a rapid fire of old jokes.
| In the course of the dialogue, the man
grabbed the woman by the hand and, in
mock tragic tones. cried out, And now
where do we go-you and II"
| And deep bass voice from high up in
| the gallery answered, Straight to the
| workhouse!"
| Edward Hugh Sothern is the full name
| of the distinguished actor who will be seen
at English's the latter part of the week.
| Mr.. Sothern's road to success was not, as
| many people suppose, made easier by his
fathers having blazed trail for him. The
talents of the son lie in a different direc-
ton from those of the father. The elder
| Sothern chose the sunny paths along the
| flowers and the butterflies of the drama;
1 the road his son has followed has led along
| thorny places. The Sothern of Dundreary
fame skinned life's surface; the Sothern
| of Francois Villon fame, and who now
| appears DIS Inc fTOuu mas pFODeQ
its depths. One was an aaoor and bon
| vivant; the other an ac.or and a scholar
Like many another MAJ that has achieved
| success in a certain line of work, the elder
Sothern did not wish or intend that his son
| should follow in his footsteps, so after
educating him IT an English school in
| Warwickshire, and later on at Marylebone
| Grammar School in London, he planned
| an artists career for him, and sent him to
| study drawing in what was then the MUIR
sery Of half the famous academicans-the
| Heatherly Preparatory School Young
| Sothern was so bitterly disappointed when
his first picture was refused by the exam
| ming board that he made up his mind to
become an actor. In 1879 he became a super
| in John McCullough's company at the Star
| Theater. New York. In this company with
| which he remained for quite a long time.
he played fifteen small parts in fifteen
dramas. His first substantial success was
with Helen DAuyray in 1854 in New York.
and from that time on 1t mas been clear
| sailing for him on the dramatic stage.
| 1.-The Highest Bidder" written for him. bur
rewritten by himself. established his repu-
| tation when 1t was produced i'm 1856 at the
New York Lycsam. Since then. under