The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-23

Lew Dockstader'S Ministries Will be at
English's tonight, tomorrow night and
for a special matinee tomorrow afternoon.
The claim is made by Manager Decker that
the company is the largest and best min
strel organization the world has ever
known, q big boast, but one which the
well-known manager and his famous black
face stars promise to make good. Indian
apolis should be ripe for a big minstrel
show, as there has been but one other first
class entertainment of this kind here this
season 1t is said that not only has the
most careful attention been given TO the
musical and comedy features In the DOCK.
stader combina ton, but that the scenic
equipment Is by far the finest ever exhlD-
tied in a travelling show of this sort. The
performance is called an old-time minstrel
show with up-tO-date embellishments. Mr..
Dockstader holds that gaudily bedecked
satin costumes, white-face ballad singers
and powdered wigs are a thing of the past
In minstrelsy, and so he presents first
part" in which all of the entertainers are
in the old-fashioned black face. The come
dian himself is said to have the funniest
act he has ever given Carroll Johnson
and Neil O'Brien are the other chief fun
makers. In the vocal department are Fred
B. Bowers, composer of Because and
Always" Manuel Roman, John Early,
and James Wallace. The orchestra of
twenty musicians is under the direction Of
Bernard Schiliniski.
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Seats are now on sale at English's box
office for the second big Drury Lane ex-
travaganza of the local season. Klaw &
Erlanger's great production of ''Mr. Blue
Beard will open an engagement of five
nights and a matinee next Monday even
ing. This colossal spectacle is a twin
to that other remarkable musical show,
1.-THE Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" and
in New York Ii was considered even more
beautiful in pictorial and electrical way.
The cast is made UP of several famous
funmakers and singers, including Eddie
Foy, a great favorite here since the days
of the Henderson extravaganzas from the
Chicago Opera House; Bonnie Maginn,
Adele Rafter. Herbert Cawthorne Ga brother
of Joe Cawtherne), William Seymour, the
English pantomimist; Harry Gilfoil, Sam
sic Devote and May Taylor. The company
is one of the largest ever organized.
One Of the principal theatrical events Of
next week in New York will be the opening
of the New Amsterdam Theater, on Forty
second street, near Broadway. 1t is one
of the largest and costliest playhouses
in America. The theater hasN been in
the course of construction for nearly
two years and is really a double
structure, or one theater superimposed on
the other The lower, or the New Amster-
dam Theater, with a seating capacity of
/ 800, represents the latest example of the
atrical architecture and decorative art.
The upper theater, which will seat 100,
will not be opened until the latter part of
next month. The initial attraction at the
New Amsterdam will be Nat c. Goodwin
in his great revival of "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" Mr.. Goodwin will remain
but four weeks, and will be succeeded by
the latest Drury Lane spectacle. Mother
Goose'-the successor to Mr.. Blue Beard"
In Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's play,
1.-The Pretty Sister of Jose." Maude Adams
has found a part that is said to be even
better fitted to her peculiar talent and per-
sonality than any part in which she has
heretofore appeared, not even excepting
the role of Babbie in 1.-THE Little Minister"
She appears as Pepita, Spanish girl,
whose beauty won her many suitors, all
of whom she spurned, laughing at love and
lovers. Finally she is captivated by bull
fighter. the best in Spain, although she
does not recognize that she is the victim
of Cupid for some time Miss Adams is
said TO have very fine supporting COM
pany.
The most striking imitation which Fay
Templeton is now giving in THE Run
Always is one OF Lillian Russell singing
My Evening Star" In singing this pretty
negro melody Miss Templeton gives a mar
velous imitation, pictorial and tonal, Of the
prize beauty OF Weber and Fields's Music
Hall. She manages her face so that she
looks like Miss Russell; she sings that
her voice sounds like that OF Miss Russell.
and she seizes upon little tricks of gesture
which have gone TO make up the goods and
chattels OF the Russell personality.