The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13

In Through the Center of the Earth at the
Park"
Miss Linthicum has supported Mrs. Fiske,
Wilson Barrett and other prominent stars
and is considered one of the very best of
stock actresses. Her many local friends
will be glad to learn of her progress in New
York.
One Of the most successful vaudeville
performers in London at the present time
is Happy Fannie Fields, an American
girl, who went to England unheralded
three years ago. She is hardly known in
this country at all. but her name is prac-
tically household word TO that la-ge pOr-
ton of the British public that attends the
music halls. Miss Fields went TO England
Immediately after the death of her mother.
and, therefore, very respondent, but with
the fixed idea that she must win. AT first
the audiences confessed that she was rather
puzZling, but she believed so thoroughly
in herself and pOked such gOod-natured fun
at the slowness of her auditors that she
won out. She never deViateS from appear
ing as a little German girl who dances a
clog with as much swiftness as drummer
beats his drum, and whose songs are anus
ing enough. She has a style that is literally
bounding. She wears the picturesque cos
tune of Dutch maiden, with rakish cap.
short colored skirt, white stockings and
sabots, and her speciality outside of her
dancing is the telling of funny stories in
an unctious Dutch dialect.
When I<irke La Shelle was preparing the
production of Checkers" he took into
earnest consideration the question of show
ing horses on the stage He intended at
first to let the race be seen. The trouble
was to do it in such a way that it would
be really effective. He has a general dislike
IN eli hp blff
have done so i'm Checkers if there had
been any way of showing the race so that
it would really look like a race. One day
he made up his mind. He determined that
there is more true realism in artistic Sug
gestiOn than in bringing the thing itself
before the audience, especially where horses
are concerned There is not a horse used
in Checkers, and yet any Gle who has
seen that wonderful race scene in the third
act is ready to swear that there are half
a dozen horses fighting along inch by inch
triumph of realism. Checkers will play
return engagement in this city next
month.
The principal plays that are being en-
acted in Berlin at the present time are
The Companions of Socrates by Suder-
mann; 'The Retreat" by Beycrlein. and
Rose Berud," by Gerhardt Hauptmann.
After having produced works of a realism
same Menschen" and die Weber" Haupt-
mann became romantic and mystical in
| "Hannele'' and ''Nersunkene Glocke." Then
| he wrote the strongest Of his plays. "Fuhr-
mann Henschel.' of a powerful and sober
| realism only TO return 10 the legend and
| 10 the romance in "Arme Heinrich" Now
again realism has taken possession Of him,
| and in his latest play, Rose Berud," he
| returns to his first manner
One of the best scenes ever seen in a play
| according to New York critics, is in the last
act of THE Virginian." Ii shows the from
tier town of Medicine Bow" where every
other house is a saloon. the remainder Of
the buildings being hotels and groceries.
| The reproduction of a town where cowboys
go rollicking through the streets, and where
| a feud to the death is settled. has that I'M
definable atmosphere" OF the West which
/ is one of the chief merits of The Vir-
| ginian," and when the duel takes place and
the victor. his smoking pistol still in his
| hand, looks calmly at the body of the ruff
| fan he has slain. the effect is tremendous.
| Ii is scene that one remembers wildly
< long after seeing the play.