The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-18

goerS will be delighted to learn OF the COM
ing of that excellent actor. Henry Miller,
who will play an engagement at Englshs
next week. 'Sallie in Our Alley" one Of the
latest of the rollicking musical comedies.
has also been booked for next week and
Vests Minstrels will give one performance
on the 18th. Mrs. LeMoyne, portrait of
whom appears on this page today, will be
the last attraction of the month at Eng
lish's, presenting Glen McDonough's new
play, among Those Present"
George w. Cable, whose novel, THE Cava-
Her." is now being presented in dramatized
form by Julia Marlowe, says that he had
never attended the rehearsal of play until
Miss Marlowe and her company began prep
arations for their new production this sea-
son. Mr.. Gable declares that the dramatic
critics would not maintain such lofty and
patronizing attitudes toward the theater if
they would but pass through his own re-
cent instructive experience. II have grown
to have an awe for the toll of stage work."
he says, land deep regard for the con-
scientiousness of the toll. These keep the
drollness of its incongruities at rehearsal
always more than half extinglished. l .gon-
der if the public wouldn't give itself a more
critical conscience if it knew what hard
work lies behind the play that is so easy
for the audience to enjoy"
George AIDE and William Lorraine's new
comic opera, Peggy from Paris, will be
given its initial presentation a week from
tomorrow night at the Studebaker The
alter, Chicago. 1t is understood that there
will be more of the AIDE slang in the new
piece than was injected into 1.-THE Sultan
of Sulu." One of the principal characters
is to be Reginald, "a useful boy" who, as
matter of fact, will be nothing less than
a composite edition of Fables in Slang"
One of his songs, called Lii, Like You,"
runs as follows:
IT thougnr 1 was wise to the whole bunch
of fairies,
Not one of the lot could put me to the
bad;
For I'd mingled a lot with your Maudes
and your Carries;
If trie,. to kid she sorry she had,
But ev'ry fly mug gets il sooner or later;
| know that TINS calico game is no clnch;
Since l met at The ten. twent' and thirty
The cause of me trouble. Miss Lily Ann
Lynch"
William Lorraine who has composed the
music for the opera, has supplied a melody
for this song that is likely TO become i'm
nlensely popular.
A number of indianapolis people have an
nounced their intention of visiting Chicago
for the purpose of witnessing the coming
production in that city Of the morality play.
"Everyman." Nothing like this stage pro-
duction had ever before been seen in Amer
lea until its recent presentation in New
York, and it is sure to prove extremely in
teresting to all students of the drama The
title. morality play" is given because a
moral lesson is taught by means of charac-
tiers which are personified virtues and vices.
Its author is not even known. According to
the best authority the work is attributed to
Peter Dorland, a priest of Diest. Holland,
who lived in the fifteenth century. The
earliest date to which the English version
can be assigned is in the reign of Edward
w. from 1461 to 1iSS. However, If this is
| doubtful there can be no question of the
certainty that the drama was printed in the
year 1900 lat London in Fleet strete at the
sygre of the George. by Richard Pynson.
prynter to the Kynge's noble grace" for
copy of this curious old black-letter text is
in the possession of the Elizabethan Stage
Society of England.
The New York Telegraph has been poking
great deal of fun at the Great Lafay-
et;e" during the last week. on account of
that lion episode on the stage of the Grand
Opera House I'm this city week ago last
night Lafayette is clever entertainer
that fact is admitted; but he is also one of
the most persistent seekers of notoriety be-
fore the public. His lion really did cause
some trouble early IN the week during La
fayette's engagement here, an account Of