The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-09
Theatrical Notes.

will be to miss one Of the real treats OF the
season.
Theatrical Notes.
Emily Clifton, five-year-old youngster,
with a rompting disposition, and her older
brother and sister, give weight to 1.-The
Night Before Christmas at the Park In a
merry Christmas celebration that occupies
most of one act The three children, who
are to close their engagement at the Park
tonight, have three sisters with Rebecca
Warren, who is playing Tess" The six
children, with their companies. happened to
meet in Philadelphia two weeks ago. when
a rousing reunion was held. The Tess
children had an idle afternoon on their
hands and they helped the other three with
their Christmas scene. They had such roll
licking time popping corn and telling stories
they waited for Santa Claus before the
big CRATE on the stage that for time they
declined to cease their fun that the play
might go on. Emily Clifton is graduate
of Shore Acres in which she was the
baby until she outgrew the part Marie
Glover Clifton, mother of the six children.
is with the company appearing at the fark.
1.-The Child Slaves of New York begins its
engagement at the Park tomorrow after
noon-
Some of the people of the stage manage
to secure advertising out of everything
that comes into their lives and good taste
is not always exercised when newspaper
notoriety is sought. Leona Bland Is
vaudeville performer who CHANGED to be
playing an engagement in this city with her
husband, Burt Howard, at the time OF the
terrible Purdue wreck and her press agent
is now telling a thrilling story in the East
ern cities where she is playing concerning
the manner in which Miss Bland, VINO
happened to be stopping at the hotel (the
Denison) where the injured footoall play
ers were brought, gave all of her attention
while not at the theater to nursing the poor
fellows" And now bark you to this,
printed in the Washington Post:
when asked recently to relate her ex-
periences she declined with modest dec
laration, L only did what / could and
should have done; the other ladies' az the
hotel were willing to help, but they did not
know how.
The Barrows-Lancaster Company is meet
ing with success in the Grand's vaudeville
bill this week. There is no combination
of players now on the vaudeville stage that
is better liked than this one Both James
o. Barrows and John Lancaster were for
merly actors on the legitimate stage. the
former having been with the Frohman
forces for years. Mr.. and Mrs. Robyns very
wisely concluded to change their act and
are now appearing in THE Counsel for the
Defense" the artistic little comedy In
which they were seen here last season. 1t
is a much better sketch than the one which
they presented Monday afternoon in the
opening performance. Genaro and Bailey
are injecting more singing and dancing into
their act this season than they did last
year and consequently their speciality is
much more enjoyable. They are at the
very top when it comes to comic singing
and dancing. The other acts on the pro-
gramme are winning approval and the en-
tertainment is pleasing large crowds.
XXX
Willie Collier. the comedian, and his man.
ayers, Weber G. Fields. have parted COM
pany 'for good" and the wise men on
Broadway are now busily engaged in figur-
ing up the losses of the famous music hall
owners. Collier received $1,000 a week last
year as a member of the Weber & Fields
Stock Company. This season he began his
starring tour on salary of $500 a week and
a percentage of the profits. But it is said
that there were no profits worth mention
ing, as Golfers first two plays were out
and-out failures and the third only
halfway sort of success. The losses on
the three productions he has made are es-
timated at about $40, 900. And yet Collier is
one of the best light comedians on the
American stage. and Weber & Fields are
in the world. The plays the thing after
all.
When Miss Bob White was seen in In.
dianapolis two seasons ago Marguerite Sill
va was the prima donna of the company
and playgoers will remember that both the
star and the opera made a very favorable
| impression here upon that occasion. VIII
lard Spencer, the author and composer OF
the piece, has made many changes in hi:
work since the original production and Ii |:
| said that all Of these changes have been fol-
the better. Miss Bob White" will be a
Il rCr1f c1f ing hot h0fr
| the only performance In Indianapolis. Doro
thy Hunting is the prinia donna this sea
SON and the principal comedians are Franz
Deshon and Nell Mcneil.
Joseph Jefferson is back to his fishing
| again, glad that his short tour is at an end
The stage attracts the veteran now only as
| an amusement. Before leaving Washington
| for the South he said that his annual tour:
are in reality vacations and that for many
| years he has not thought of the wore
| work" The trip through the middle Yves
| was the most prosperous ever made by ole
| RIP Van Wrinkle" Everywhere that h,
| played the audiences were just as large anC
| enthusiastic as the one that greeted him il
| this city at English's.
When Nat Goodwin recently left New
| York for Boston after his short and dis
| astrous season in the revival of "A Mid.
| summer Nights Dream" he left a note
addressed 10 his wife pinned to the wall OF
| his dressing-room, according to a story
| i'm the New York Sun. Mrs. Goodwin-or
| Maxine Elliott-was TO follow In the same
| theater for a run in her successful play
Her Own Way" The note read: BE good
| dear, and save your money, for remember
| you are the breadwinner now"
XXX
Many regular playgoers In New York are
| forsaking the Broadway theaters Ions
enough to take trip over into the Eas
Side district and witness the presentation
| of a play called Broken Hearts by
| company of Yiddish actors, headed by tn,
excellent Jewish actor, Jacob Adler The
| drama is built upon the common Jewish sit
uation on the East Side in New York anC
| is said to be not only a very strong play
| but a spiendidly-acted one.
Eleanor Robson, who made such a strons
| impression in Indianapolis in Merely Mary
| Ann" is to open her New York season a
the Garden Theater on New Years day
| and will remain until the close OF the the
atrical year She will present Merely
| Mary Ann" Mrs. Humphrey Ward:
| Agatha" and a new play entitled mile
/ La VALERIE" written by Henri Bataille
who dramatized Tolstois Resurrection"