TTTE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1904. PART THREE. Amusement Menu tKe WeeK sssH of

; Ha In tKe TKeaters of Indianapolis ary - Sultan of Sulu "Silver Slipper" and Crane in "The Spenders" at English's. ..Bill of Varieties at the Grand.. .Two Attractions asal aaaaaaaasa at the ParK and Burlesque at the Umpire to be thick with the plot of a rascally law--I plaudits of Broadway audiences. Some of Oz '' This is getting it "hot and heavy." yer who assails the name of a good woman. the critics mentioned him from time to time especially with only two dramatic attrac- drags down her husband, and, to gain his as an unusually hne actor, but not one of tions in the entire tour weeks Bertha Gal-lan- d, j ends, has loth confined in an Insane asylum. th :n gave him the serious, attention that who won such a deserved success here The play gets its name from the famous he deserved, and it is an actual fact that in "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall " and Bsb aadasvamr Bl little church in N"W York, wlur srr.ies of the New York theater-goin- g public knew lit- William H. Crane, who comes for the last theatrical people have been mi'rrid. and in tle or nothing of this distinguished Amer- two nights of this Week in "The Spenders." the play a wedding occurs, the plot taking ican actor for an actor may be dis- However, Indianapolis theater-goer- s are up the sorrows find joys of the bridal pair tinguished in this big lanl even if he is not partial to musical entertainments, so they and following thm to the end. The plot a Broadway idol. New York, the greatest should not complain of this feast of oper- brings out strongiy the emotional element. city in the country, and in many respects atic shows. The greatest novelty of all the SSL W Jll 9 as it reveals the sacrifices and devotion of the greatest city in the world, is the most musical pieces, "The Wizard of Oz." comes a loyal wife, while her steadfast friend, a provincial of American towns when it the latter part of next week, and is sure of fly . , ai gaaHah'' iSaasr ''SB homeless waif, runs the vtllian to earth. comes to dramatic matters. The metropolis a big business. Tuneful "Dolly Varden" LaS Its even pretend is going n turns to Indianapolis two perform- ' The play is said to be well mounted. doesn't to know what for as "Kftiiii'jK - i aW chief scene showing the exterior of the Ht-tl- e on in the theatrical world beyond the ances the first two nights of next week. church, with its lights ablaze and with boundary lines of Greater New York. And SMaSaWaSneaaSaSaWaSSaSaSaflaSaSnaSaSaSaSSaS the chimes ringing. It is after the wedding, so one needn't be surprised when one comes Amelia Bingham is "on the outs" with and there is a little child asleep on the across an Idiotic paragraph like this, which Mr. and Mrs. MarK Murphy toiP Wtoal!asll steps. Another view is that of the retreat appeared In the theatrical columns of a the New York dramatic critics again. for the insane, where the knave Is over- New York paper last Sunday: When the reviewers found fault with her In the Vaudeville Bill at the lirand. taken in his misdeeds and thrown from the "To really understand the esteem in por- "Frisky Mrs. Johnson" las: season Miss , window. One of the chief characters, that which Mr. Skinner is held by a large or tne iounuumr. is tauen Dy Lieroy um-ne- r, tion of the American public one must have Bingham was surprised, and now that they Gertrud Qumlan Virginia Palmer and some of the others of the company lived in the provinces. In many of the are finding fault with her latest production, ara Ruth McCauley. Cora Ardcll, Peter smaller cities Mr. Skinner's approach is "Olympe," very seems. la 'The Sultan of Sulu." at English's. In "The Silver Slipper." at English's. Wilson and Robert Masson. Miss McCauley. whispered among the villagers with all the she is indignant, it The Theaters New Yorh a Mr. Bingham, husband, is going around of -- an emotional actress of recognized ability, awe that mention of a circus instills. her SSTV1'' wvek will pon t morrow the motions of filling the glasses the real heads the company. When Otis Skinner comes to town the air with blood in bis eye, punching the heads I George dance begin. The girls whirl about the to night at English's with becomes redolent of mothballs, and whisk- of the unfortunate scribes who happen Play a a ..Harci-Lvic- K stage, - A "Which Is Made Success by Queer Expedient. Bnl-- kick and all but dance their Hothes ers, which are of years, cross his path.- He got a severe punch in operatic comedy, TIM off. and it is all done In a manner entirely A dramatization of Marie Wellesley Sterl- the accumulation pugnac- comes are trimmed so that all may bear witness return the other night, but is still Experience of Amelia Bingham and Virginia tan or Sulu. which back inoffensive and with Just the least bit of ing's novel, "Only a Shop Girl," will be to the fact that a white shirt is on view ious, 'tis said. An excellent comedienne Harned to Indtenapolls for an engage lingerie showing during the rapid motions attraction Thursday and a hsndsome woman. Miss Bingham of the dance. the Park's banning beneath." Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. has be n marked up to ten. In th first ment of two night From almost any afternoon. The production had a successful By "provinces" the writer of this para- does not take adverse criticism in good part. performance "The Silver Slipper" is said to be set in graph to Chicago (a city that ban She swears that "Olympe" is a great play, NEW YORK, Feb. 6. A guyed drama of "Mother Gooae" they gave, merry ap- pro- alludes theater-goer- the encore song, point of view this entertainment magnificent surroundings. The same engagement here last year because of its proved far more discerning than New York that s want it. that she is going may be a highly successful drama if none for of a a verse In mockery extraordinary. The book of duction will be seen here that was seen in story of to stick to it, and the critics may go of the familiar quartette the kind that had proaches the satisfying love and Its wealth in a theatrical way during the last three that of the guying is done out in the auditorium a boom in Old New York, with exactly the same stage - seasons). Louis, Cleveland, hang or words to that effect. The Homestead." out of Oeorge Ade Man a wealth of keen satire, and settings and gorgeous costumes. The com- music. The plot is clear, and follows the af- 8t. Cincinnati. and the only guyer back on the Btage is which Chaunecy Olcott was chosen to b i is Km ndtanapolia, Detroit, Milwaukee and other made music of Alfred Wat hall tuneful pany numbers people, and Is headed by of a young In a large de Baftd-Weata- William J. Sctnlan's successor in the 'fairs saleswoman Ya cities that have for the last the actor of the hero. This is not only a This musical show scored Thomas T. Keogh. the German anj dian. partment store, who is subjected to many Joe Jefferson tells this anecdote of Edwin Irish comedy. Probably not much was ex- In the extreme. r well-know- ten years bestowed upon Mr. Skinner the by Oth'-- n comedians and singers in trials by the persecutions of a floorwalker. Forrest, who made a most successful debut mere theory, but a positive fact proved pected of this worn idea in travestv. but i great hit In Indiuitapnlis when seen here recognition due him. it was the cast are Gertrude Mlllington. Harry R One of the four scenes shows the interior young in the Ralph Stuart in "By Right of Sword." In freshened by the fact that, while the career, and there Is every r. Virginia af- in the character of Norval. actors made fun of quartette mannerisms, early in its Burch Fred RunnelK Palmer, of a department store, with the busy the character of a young American in Rus- reason to expect another very successful Horace Wright. Leo Mord.mt and Nor.i fairs of everyday trade. Another shows a Let us be thankful for small mercies. tragedy of "Douglas." The story goes that they sang melodiously with vobvs that Lieb. The seats for the three local per- moonlight fete held by the employes of the Whatever else the present season may not William Wood, the stage manager, who was sia he goes through this new play a jester harmonized. The hearers liked that and engagement. The story of the piece is (juite Eng- called for more. The response to formances will be placed on sale at store on the Hudson, when the unscrupu- have brought us two tiny artists, at least, seldom known to praise any one, being under conditions of gravity as well as first tha of comic opera office to-morr- morning. demand was to have the m n with of track box - nturn out the beaten lish's lous floorwalker abducts the saleswoman. gaiety, making sport of his own bniv- ry banjos librettos. The Indiana, humorist found ma- The cast includes twenty-tw- o speaking have been unearthed in two recent plays caustic and severe in his criticisms, was one which, instead of strings to flip, con- parts, practically all of them of the classes who demonstrate clearly it is quite night relating greenroom before and others' murderous enmity, chaffing the cealed automobile danger signals to touch terial for his satire in the conditions that William H. t'ranc will be the attraction that in the the off. That much, but a laugh. one may see before and behind the counters possible a on the whole company that the finest first appear- girl he loves and the scoundrels who seek wasn't it raised existed in the Philippines after the pur- at English's for the last two nights of the of a department store. Is a chorus for child to be natural The next added nonsense was Is march in Thre child, ance he had ever witnessed was that of a to destroy her; righting a duel smilingly a chase by the I'nlted States of the little isl- week, with a Saturday matinee, appearing of shop girls, and the specialty turns are stage. The days of the whining stage young gentleman from Philadelphia in the with bamboo tree on their shoulders, set numerous.' The piece is said to be well th.tt most terrible of all stage bores, are Character of Norval. Thereupon the great and facing death without a frown. ltM it up In the center of the st.-- pose under and of Sulu, or Jolo. in E. E. Rose's dramatization of Harry it and sing the Bamboo Tree. equipped in a scenic way. The company is past and gone, heavens! Master tragedian arose, and, bowing with comic piece would be a strong but quite usual "I'nder In this operatic comedy KI Ram, the Sul- Leon Wilson's novel. "The Spenders." This headed by Lottie Williams, who plays the thank gravity, said: "Mr. Wood, I was young That wasn't much, either, yet the gain in Donald Gallagher, by the simplicity and that melodrama if it were not for Mr. Stuart's laughter was considerable. But even- tan, has recently Invaded the territory of will be the only dramatic event of the week, part of a street waif. She is one of the 01 his stage performances, has gntlenian." last chief funmakers, and it is she who ferrets naturalness The actors were delighted to see behavior, which makes it a novelty. We ing they made the peop'ie scream and one of the chieftains or "dattos" and cap- and as Mr. Crane Is a great favorite with held the belt of the champion lightweight that screech with me a out the knavery and helps the saleswoman leading man years, undisputed. Wood had unintentionally betrayed himself have had thousands of debonair heroes in what seemed to stroke tured a bevy of that datto's pretty nieces local theater-goer- s, the engagement is likely smooth out the difficulties in her romance. for two of comic genius. Do you recall that Charley Now two new young artists have dawned into a compliment, when Wood exclaimed: stage I I none with Hoyt. In to add to his royal harem. This annoys the to prove highly successful. Everybody who Lillian A. Harris, Jennie Cooper. Mabel sir! You have never done so well fiction. know, but recall "The Midnight Bell." had a mem- on the horizon line the one a boy. Master "11. so jolly a time as ber of a country school committee tell the who Ki recap- has the novel which Wright. Nellie Maskell. Iona Chamberlain, Barriscale of "The Secret of Polichinelle" since." Washington Star. whom audit nees have had datto. plans tc attack Ram. read from the play is Fannie Monroe, Albert Noble. Harry T. De Hamil- boy who recited "Woodman. Snare that ture the young women, and carve the little taken (it ran serially in the during Kirk, Jolly, Company an.l the other a girl, little Miss they do with Ralph Stuart's Jack Tree" that he ought to illustrate the words Journal Vee, Frank J. Edward Arnold June I'ayton, who In a tiny part in "That scenery ton. They laugh wooing and his monarch into small red cubes. The arrival of the autumn) will be desirous of seeing the Alexander and many others are in the com- The perfect feasibility of fireproof at his with appropriate action? pany. Man and I" turns out to be the friskiest London day fighting, his reckless into danger, "When you speak the line. 'Touch not a United States battleship loadel with ma- stage story. Mr. Rose been responsible lad of the whole lot. was demonstrated in the other dashes single bough."' a has young great- escapes; and, mind said he. 'place your hand rines, soldiers and a party of pretty school for many good dramatizations, and it would One of Master Barriscale's in one of the big music halls devoted to and his hairbreadth on your heart and bow as you utter tha The Empire Burlesque. est charms is that he makes no effort to spectacles and musical shows. you, they are not making fun of him. but word bough.' " teachers from Hoston, enables the Sultan seem that "The Spenders" offered many op- act. lie talks and acts just like any child elaborate portunities One of the oldest burlesque organizations The place was visited by the lord chamber- are enjoying the fun he is making for them. The to secure the protection of the American for the making of an interesting of his years would do in real life. There- quartette multiplies that drollery in a play. now before public is Rentz-Santle- y lain and a committee of the London County truly flag. He is introduced to various Ameri- the the fore his scenes with his grandfather and faithful and realistic Illustration of "Tha The opening act of the drama takes place Company, which comes to that sweetly pretty grandmother of Iiis ap- Council, who submitted all of the stage Right of Sword" can custon including the drinking of the in 'One Girl" by the Empire for nery and furnishings to the severest Three authors of "By Old Oaken Bucket." Bulger brings out a s the mine owned Peter pear exactly like real life. There is one d W. bucket, sets it down and sings very feeling- played by its annual engagement this week, beginning "Pol-ichinelle- ," by gas flames and electric light arches are named in the btt. They are Arthur cocktail, and his initiations and the effect Bine. the character Mr. Crane bit of stage business in the scene in tests ly. Old Oaken McCart fol- a typical Westerner, who has made his pile with the regular matinee to-morr- after- - sees her "The Bucket." new pro-Vi- de where the grandmother lows with an iron hoop, which he places the condition of things has on him boy's son time, always very for the first that tenderly around the bucket, and the duo many funny scenes. audi- iron-boun- brings a frtg into the throat of the continues emotionally. "The d The song hits in "The Sultan of Sulu" ence. The grandmother lifts the child upon bucket.'" Next Woodward comes on with are many, and are Introduced in the opera her knee and lovingly passes her hand a bunch of moss, attaches it reverently to down the whole length of hts little body. in a natural way and scattered pleasantly the bucket, and the trio imparts an air of As she reaches his knees her hand pauses tragedy to "The moss-covere- d bucket. " Fi- through the two acts. The chorus of at- and, looking solicitously up at the proud 5jrtaBaaaaBaaBaaEal nally Cawthorn appears with the curb of girls is a great feature and, like but frightened young mother, she asks in Jjr. a well, hangs the bucket in it. and the full tractive up of equal parts of Henry W. a tone which is made quartette, in dramatic attitudes of excite- all of the Savage productions, solicitude and .apprehension: ment and with quavering voices, rises to a the piece is staged in lavish style. Frank "Does he always wear such thin stock- aä PL. m climax with "That hangs in the welt" Mouian, the original sultan of Sulu, is back ings?" The other little youngster. Miss June In the cast. He left the company at the be- Payton. appnrs only for a few minutes Two buxom and usually buoyant beauties ginning of the season to piay the leading in the last act of the Savoy's success, but Ply "jH of the stage are playing in hard luck this part in another opera, but after an uneasy the delicious way In which she plays the week. Broadway's rejection of Virginia role of the mischievous small boy is one of time of It. returned to his tirst love, and is aaaB M old-tim- t you carry Harned in "The Light that Lies In now renewing his e success --as the the bnghte.-- recollections which merry little monarch. Many of the other away from this remarkably well acted Woman's Eyes" and of Amelia Bingham in comedians and singers who were in the performance. New York Sun. "Olympe" has been told In this correspon- original Cast are still Ailing their old parts, LaV SaaVaiaB L! dence. But I have found It interesting to the principals, besides Mr. Moulan. being Fix- Nat Goodwin admits in the February ' y&aBEffwjy watch those charming women after such Cheridah Simpson. irtrude Quinlan. Fred ' Freer, Walter Lawrence, Blanche Chap- number of The Theater that he is getting 2 harsh condemnation as they are not ac- v. man. Helen Tomlinson. Mellvllle Collin, tired of the stage. "I don't like the environ- customed to, and perhaps I can make it George O'Doiuull, John J. Fogerty and forty-fiv- e years John T. O Day ments," he said. "I'm old. readable. You have seen them in happy as- If I can't leave the stage when I'm fifty-fiv- e, pects of success. Csn you imagine them will be strange. Then I will enjoy under the depression of failure? The first Following "The Sultan of Sulu" Indian- it of the Vanderbllts or was it the second? apolis will have its tirst opportunity to en-Jo- y myself, get up when I like, go to bed when said in his wrath at harsh criticism, "The another big English comedy "The Sil- I like, and have all the outdoor sports I public be damned' " Well. Virginia and success- go of course. I Amelia are polite ladies, and. besides that, ver Slipper." which had a highly want. I'll to the theaters, it wouldn't be politic to talk back to a public ful run through last season in the Eastern couldn't stay away from the theaters, but which has given prosperity to them and it cities. It will be at English's Wednesday I'll go to watch the other fellows." r sure to do it again. So these two actresses After announcing his intention of one day un- and Thursday nights, with a Wednesday face their diminished audiences with erecting a theater which will bear his own diminished smiles, and h- m amiable matinee. This musical piece is by the au- name, the comedian had this to say in re- thanks for less applause and fewer dollars gard to the theatrical tastes of our present-da- y thors of "Florodora." Owen Hall being re- "Wm. H . than they are accustomed to receive. "I Crane A. O. Duncan public: half-emp- ty sponsible for book, hate to play to a house," says the Leslie Stuart for the In 'The Spender." at English's. In Vaudevile, at th Grand. "I don't believe that the public is tired of rVvith Macculey Lillian Harris Amelia in character of Mympe. an ac- of the music and W. H. Risque for the lyrics. It Shakspeare. As well say it is tired music In "The Little Church." at the Park. In "Only a Phop Olri," at the Park. tress of the Comedie FYancaise. and the to a prologue, two acts and three scenes, while digging for it, and who hopes to see noon. The show comes in a new dress this or love of life itself, for Shakspeare is all people who no more than half fill the thea- his grandson stay out in Montana and "do season, according to the press agent, svith of thfse. It sums up life. True, the taste Marchmont, who wrote the novel; Mrs. ter laugh merrily. But she goes through and unlike most musical plays, has a gen-uin- o young for Shakspeare must be cultivated, but without being able to ignite them. There is things of a practical kind." This an elaborate scenic equipment and beaariful no reason in the world why every stage Doremus, a leader In New York society, and her part resolutely, turning on all the story to tell or, at least, so declares grandson, however, has had an experience costumes. There is a big chorus of pretty what way of cultivating it is better than to stops in her vocal organ for the emotional s.-- l'r-;,.y- I should not be made just as fireproof. the irrepressible press agent. This story on a visit to New York, before the play girls, who are said to be good singers and it properly presented? say, Leonidas Westervelt, a millionaire's heir, ppassages. but betraying her chagrin in spite deals with an inquisitive young woman on opens. He has saved a young woman In an dancers. "The Matrimonial Market" is the with the idea of interpretation ist. and who collaboratively wrote the stage ver- of herself at the times when she should be planet Venus, who, accident and his heart. Of course "she" title of the musical travesty which opens the setting subordinate, very saaWdin ate. I Charles Hawtrey. the English actor, will gaily volatile. It is manifest she the when caught in the l"t public taste," he continued, sion. But the book doesn't make the hero that act of peeping down at this wicked world, is in that party of New Yorkers in the the show, and which serves to introduce the in fact. The remain three seasons in England at the doesn't feel at all like that. petulantly kicks off her slipper over the mountains, and young Bines sees her, company in a scries of comical situations "is veering away from magnificent specta- any such joker as he Is in the play, and I makes to her, and madly dashes off musical numbers, and clos- cles. The highwater mark of theatrical ex- close of his present American tour. For don't believe that either of the dramatists edge of her star into space. For this act of love. and tuneful the re- more Indiscretion she by to New York In her wake. Once there, he ing burlesque is called "The Califf of Zuzu" travagance has been reached. The tide is three successive years he has been Identi- did it. My guess is that Stuart is the Virginia Harned's work is difficult is tried a jury of paco Is plain. sponsible party, and, as he the exper- women, there being no men on that planet, becomes a "spender," lives at a high presumably a parody of "The Sultan of receding. The future of the drama fied with American theatricals, and in that tried and irksome, because her role is that of a and la sentenced to go down in order to win out against the man who Sulu." Between the burlesques an olio of It will grow better all the time. The plays only iment In several Pacific coat cities before roguish, frolicsome, humorously-impulsiv- e to the earth, -- time has presented two comedies. in has been selected for the girl by her father. vaudeville features is given, with special- will be better. The acting will be better. to- risking it at the Atlantic seaboard, he had there to remain exile, accompanied by more "Saucy Sally." which he will produce courage ven- Irish woman. How hard must it be to face six of her sisters, until she. has recovered Old Peter Bines, in ignorance of the real ties by the Yamamoto Brothers, Gruett There will be less of dazzle and of Boston, will be the third. time to muster for the crucial reason of his grandson's bolting off to New and Donglaaa. Kva Mitchell, merit. More attention will be paid to read- morrow night in ture in a theater close to Broadway. But a small, cold covertly derisive audience, the slipper. The merry adventures with Oruett. Charles gorgeous and which the girls from Venus meet during York after he had promised to stay in Mon- the Three Connelly Sisters and Macabe, ing and less to 'sets.' The day of it has gone right. Our blase class would after the newspapers have said that the tana, comes East. Once hers, he imagines Sabine and Vera. Lottie Elliott, a statu- tage pictures is passing." Maud Adams has played Scotch, Italian laugh at this Jack Hamilton if he took him- their exll on earth furnish a lively en- play, written for her by her husband, is ri- tertainment, and many amusing scenes take that his grandson is only in love with a esque burlesquer, and a great Empire fa- English heroines and a French hero self seriously, but he does not, and so they fast life, and in order to cure him, enters vorite, is the leading woman in the two following item appears in the theat- and laugh with him which makes the difference diculous? She has to grin and bear it. as place Before the slipper is finally regained. The (L'Aiglon) since she began her career as and triumph. The piece Is filled with pretty musical Into a conspiracy with the boy's rival to musical travesties. paper: "The between theatrical disaster the part requires her to smile much of the break him in Wall street. The game suc- rical column of a London an independent star, and in her new play, Jack is a marvelous adventurer in the land numbers. There Is a sextet song called setni-mystic- time she laughing. Think of the ceeds, the time when he is over- al play 'Corianton,' by Mr. Or- Pretty of Jose," she is appear- of the Csar, such as Anthony Hope's Eng- that isn't "Come, Little CHrl, that has been almost but Just at The Unique Vaudeville. "The Sister to a poor woman, just from a year and a half of aa popular in the East as the famous "Ten joyed to think that his grandson has come estes Bean, which was produced two or ing as a Spanish maiden. lishman was in Zenda. for his likeness admiration in the impressive "Iris " having Pretty ' to his senses old Peter discovers that the The chief attraction of thel'nlque's vaude- native profligate bads him to impersonate Me. Maiden. of "Florodora." and three years ago in Salt Lake City, will person:; ge sake of a lov. ly to dash on the stage in an automobile, are many gems. two men are really playing for the hand that for the un-skirt- ed there other bright The ville bill this week will be a comical fu- Snicide and Poetry. however, throw off a cloak, stand forth as the eensati n of the new play, however, is the of the girl, and that he has helped the rival probably be one of Mr. Beerbohm Tree's maiden. In the newer fiction, the Roseland be highsplrited dur- drive his boy from the race. Then, in one sketch given by David O'Brien and Hen- Lippincott's Magazine. absentee is the brother of the girl, not her and "Champagne Dance." in which six men and ture productions at His Majesty's. The h ing an amateur rehearsal of "Aa You Like con- of those favorite Crane scenes, in which rietta Harold. It is a little farce called fiance, and no deception is practiced on r alx girls participate. The girls are story relates to the amours of a prophet of Ncsbit Pinehurst had returned from the comedy com-- s It," and all the while conscious that the Ed-warde- comedy mingle so by pretender. s's pathos and happily, the the Plentiful sidered the best dancers from George "A Bunch of Nonsense," and gives both oppor- relating some af- people at the other side of the footlights school in England, and were old man. after racing off to New York in the the Aztecs, and, there are numerous Adirondacks and was of his of his transition from the counterfeit are scoffers. However. Virginia has the brought to this country under rivals automobile, brings the two young entertainers opportunities for introducing tunities for elaborate stage spectacle. Mr. experiences. fection of a brother to the genuine passion knowledge looks well contract by on a songs of a suitor. comforting that she Mr. Fisher especially for this dance. After people together, and the curtain falls their and dances. The Evcretts will Charles Frohman is now arranging for a re- "Yes, Sidney," he said, "she made fools in the tight Jacket and breeches, and that few bars of catchy music, girls appear happy party ready to start back to Mon- appear in a talking and singing specialty, vival of 'Corianton' In New York, the suc- a the next day. of both of us." smiling no one can sc' her in the absurdities of dressed In bright yellow costumes. They tana the and Carlos Daly, the California imperson- cess of Mr? Stephen Phillips's 'Ulyssess' "What!" said Sidney. "In one short sum- A duel with swords between this Bothern's comedy without feeling that she supporting company is y, dsnce a bit. and are then joined by six men Mr. Crane's said ator who scored a success last week, will be having proved to him that a large section of mer?" American and a scowling Russian adver-aar- would be admirable in the excellences of to be an excellent one in every respect, and retained by the management, and will ap- blank-vers- e garbed as waiters. Each of the waiters car- the playgoing public appreciates "No," said Nesbit, "in two short weeks." in a forest at daybreak, is quite as Shakspeure's. ries a table to which is uttarhed a small the pluy is given a tine mounting. The sale pear in a new and novel act. A funny after- pieces." of seats for the three performances will piece and a of pictures "What did George do?" inquired Sidney. fierce an as the one which has not bell. The waiters, after placing the tables series animated will The writer of that paragraph is evidently "George, poor fellow." r pried Nesbit, affair A play within a play la a more common In position, retire to a respectable distance open Tuesday morning. fill out the programme. not very well posted in regard to Ameri- lost its thrills during a half century of rep- asaassi - "threw himself into Lake Champlain." than valuable expedient with dramatic au- while the girls are dancing, and are finally can theatricals. The truth of the matter is "Drowned himself?" etition ih "The Corsican Brothers." The summoned by the of bells, (iraud Vaudeville. that "Ulysses," although one of the most thors. Of course, are the classic ex- ringing the The NOTES AND COMMENTS. "Drowned himself." new device of is one with there which fet is accomplished by the girls tap- artistic productions of the year in this "Well, did you do, Nesbit. old boy?" brand excitement amples of Interpolated tragedy In ping the bells with then toes. The This week's vaudeville entertainment at country, has been a complete failure from what which some Nihilists plan to wreck the the waiters "Wh at did I do? I didn't do a thing. Sid- "Hamlet" and the farce In "A Midsummer retire oni to return with champagne bot- the Grand will be made notable by the tirst Those prodigious thinkers and mighty a financial standpoint, and has been taken ney. I wrote some verses about the affair Czar's traveling car. They assign a fanati- tles and glasses, and after going off the stage by Manager Frohman. who is Night's Dream," I have in mind the through appearance in this city of Jean Marcel's penwielders, the N w York dramatic crit- aud sent them to a magazine." cal to job. an elec- but not at all likely to bring out any more scientist the He installs are players and "Living Statues' an exhibition that is ics, are Just discovering Otis Skinner. poetic plays for some time to come. tric apparatus in an astronomical observa- use of characters who 1 Cournge tory on a hilltop overlooking a sharp curve whose mimic emotions are mixed In with 1 H among the very best things in vaudeville. Strange as it may seem. Ada Rehan and of Childhood. ESI 'ijiCa Bk:' in the railway. By simply pushing a lever Lecouv-- The living studies presented by this Mr. Skinner are having a highly success- operas George chil- their actual emotlbns. "Adriende I Ii I art The musical comedies and comic The late Francis Train loved the imperial train may be plunged over a tteQ well-know- ' ' n by no precipice. Oh, but it is the most ingenious '"8 al r- - Frenchman are means ful metropolitan season in the old classic continue to pour In upon Indianapolis. The dren. The children of New York will miss I t ff BSaraaKi of assassinating machines, and seams sure liif E the usual "living pictures" which had such comedies the selfsame plays that New fortnight just ended brought to town Square, In 4 EatlasB "The him from Madison where. fine to do its work infernally well. However, vogue in the vaudeville and burlesque thea- York refused to patronize several seasons Burgomaster." "The Yankee Consul," w. ither, he would play with them ail dav. the boss of the affair is the very devil of a seasons, but, are ago when Augustin Daley was "Citisen" Train used to tell of a little girl lover, too. He abducts the girl of ters for several beautiful presenting "The Tenderfoot" and "Bed Feather," to whom he once gave a rich cake. She his reproductions of the world's greatest paint- them in admirable style. In ten years fortnight, ate wicked desire, and brings her to the lone- ings. M. Marcel, who is looked upon as a Otis and the next beginning it, and asked for another. some observatory. The time of that exploit to-morr- you genius tn line, long Skinner has made but three appearances on with evening, will offer "I'd like to give another," said the is just right for the drama's third-ac- t cli- his has had practice old man, make you to th- - fig- Broadway, "but it would sick." max, all wrong for the cause of Ni- in the posing of mmlels represent and has remained for only a as the leading attraction at English's me. but the ures no "Give it to anyway." said the little hilists, as toot of the Czar's locomotivt-i- s in great pictures, and one has j brief stay each time. He is the one "The "The Slip- I get the ' : actor Sultan of Sulu." Silver girl. "At the dispensary can medicine I jif: Ut - .aaPasawrV $ ever equaled him in producing similar ex- in Arn rica who does not seem to "Dolly heard at the moment thM the limp cap- hibitions. are seven models, tour crave the per," Varden" and "The Wizard of for nothln'." New York Tribune. tive is laid on a lounge. The deadly lever nsSr"-- There men and three women, and they have abso- Is turned, and she sees It. The Am. r. l'V , i':.'r sr, ( lute control over face and muscle. They butts into the affair simultaneously to res- pose In fac-simili- es cue He whips UM I t l aaSnB.. ' big golden frame, presenting his swetthart. lustful iof many celebrated pictures that vidian, and she pulls back the electric lever, hang in the most famous art galleries. The the King and the girl are saved in one tur- act is one of the most expensive on the bulent minute, and the curtain closes in on vaudeville stage, and certainly one of the a duplex situation that ought to be pat- H s i ' i I most beautiful. It is to attract great ented. attention in Indianapolis this we k. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy will furnish It is worth while to visit an extrava- the principal comedy feature of the Grund s again, new programme. Everyb dy knows Mark ganza after it has been performed Murphy and bis wife, and a reintroduction several months, to see what In It has been is hnrdly necessary. These good funnaahers changed. Things in these ductile shows have been coming to the Grand annually which don't please the audiences are cut since the th. utT b. e.irne :i vaadevilie bouse, an.l have never failed to provide down and out, and those that do phase plenty of amusement. They will b D are amplified. This is true tasjadaHy of in "Why Dugan this time their farce. Sv Vt the material given to the to be Off." A not he. i local favorite on the bill comedians "V is A. O. Duncan, a ventriloquist, Tanks funny with, and the competition amon who e among the best. His "talking dolls" are tho.-- antic gentlemen is far more s : always well worth hearing and seeing. Hal than their behavior indicates. I had Merritt is a crayon artist who has a novel watched four of them. Bulger. M'".irt. way of eniertiinm hi- - audience. Hi tells Woodward and Cawthorn. as they started I funny stori s a;al draw.- - good pictures at out at the opening of "Mother (Joose with ataO w9vlaaaBaaBMaBBB9 ntowiuf the same time, uxul his act Is to l, very Just about an equality of opportunKiea. j i diverting. Gillagher. Barrett and Company Last night I observed them again One had will appear in a new farce; Bryant and gained a lon bad over his nearest rlral, Raville. 'the blackface monarchy of min- who was well ahead of the third, while the strelsy." as they are called, will contribute fourth wns all but diM.ui. .1 K-- i every HaE8Baa9 a new maaieal act, mixed w.th com-dy- . Joke that the fellow at the fron had ' Lew Sully, who 1 down on the as cracked at the outset he now had .1 n, & bills the I dz f jV sB .1 and was told most of them were wf YaaaaaVvfwif liifBaaaavsinT prit ce of jsterf.' will offer new mono- that of logue and some comic songs, and M olge his own make. He had added verses to his Maitland. a commedlenne who is tonics songs, too. anil nurtured every seed credited of hjmor In a being very clev r. will sing- his role Into thrifty growth. - with a 1 provide - k aVaHaaH' W i 9sJnL- aäVfTlajE3 don.- aaaaBBBBaVaw SBaBBar ILYWfcJrE JaaV jf ing and talking specialty. With . Tlv seeond chan had well with tna interesting animaf i l ie m.s shown on the matter intrusted to him. and was striving bioscope, rnls programme looks to be one of sturdily to better his place. The third was :h. best of tie- :1 at the tirand. past hope of overtaking the second The fourth was a discoum ! i .tt c : Ter whom unimproved chances had been with- lu rk ltrnclions. drawn. Wh) don t 1 ItU which is which? new Well, I lack both the courage aud the cru- Marion Russell's melodrama, "The elty. Fax Tvmploton Little Church Around the Corner" will be Virginia Harned Who, InsUad of Joining A Scene from the Second Act Virginian" Wbr FlelJe, 1 the attraction at the Park for three days, of "The Those four comedians figure Jointly and Is Har Nw Play. New to-morr- to Star In Comic Optra. five-minu- te beginning afternoon. It is said T1' New Western Play by Owen Wtoter, hi-- Ha Scored a New York Succeaa, eqc-all- in a good thing that in New Tork