Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1903 — Page 16
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1903.
N^ws From New York % Kyrle Bellew’s Hit Ben-Hur Again
THE BUSY PLAYHOUSES
Amelia Bingham Coming Attractions Booked Notes of the Stage
THE LOCAL PLAYHOUSES WILL HAVE BUS! WEEK
THREE ATTRACTIONS SECURED FOR ENGLISH’S.
OFFERINGS AT OTHER HOUSES
Americana who have traveled abroad ana mixed with the cosmopolitan aociety found in any of the European capital* will recognize in the drawing of type*, which Clyde Fitch has made In "The Frisky Mrs. Johnson," many old acquaintances. To people who have been denied the pleasures of traveling some of these types may appear a trlHe forced or overdrawn, but to the traveled person they are all familiar. Mr. Fitch adapted this play from the French of Gavault and Berr for Miss Amelia Bingham, who presented it successfully last season for a long run at the Princess Theater, New York, and who is to present it at English s next Monday and Tuesday nights The play Itself is described as a charming comedy, full of bright lines, witty sayings and epigrams, in construction it is almost perfect, for up to within a very few moments of the tinal curtain Is the suspense kept up It Is a study of the cosmopolitan society one meets In the European centers There arc g->od people In the play, also there are bad ones, but the good predominates, and "The Frisky Mrs. Johnson' proves herself to lx* t who). m<me, hlg-heaited, honand self-sttcrlfWitg woman. Miss Bingham has given this play a most elaborate stnge setting, said to be complete In (Hi . Its details, and, has surrounded herself with a flue company of players, headed by Wilton Lackaye, the best lending man »n America at the present time; W, L Abington, one of London's well-known leading men, and Miss Bijou Fernandez Miss Bingham herself plays the title role.
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English'^—"The Sleepy King.” The Walter Jones Comic Opera Company Is booked to appear at English's Wsdnor.day matinee and night In the musical comedy. “The Fieepy King The book was written by <1 V. Hobart, whose success in literary fields has been conspicuous. Uiovanno I’onterno, the wellknown New York hand master and musician, is responsible for the musical numbers. The music Is tuneful, catchy, btlght and with erfnugh dash and life to give it go. T)i# work of the librettist la said to be clever. The plot is sufficient to sustain the Interest, but with no more Intricacy than la usual with comic operas. King «.>zo, ruler of Hurahoitu, is a monarch whose one defcjru on earth Is to sleep—to get 'Two hours’ sleep In fifteen minute#"— and he does not care much who run# hi# kingdom, so long as he can get his naps To aid thin d«vin-, he make# hi# prime mini tor < hiinge plat e# with him and attend. to the cares of state. A number of interesting and humorous complications grow out of this. The senttmentul Infcre#t in the story comes through the suing for the hand of the beautiful daughter of the king by a number of foreign princes, and tho final triumph oft true Jove, the fair prince## being won by the king of Arcadia, disguised a# one of his own. subjects. Walter Jones is making a distinct hit as King Ogo. Edd Redwuy has a German character part, Pickh saner, of Pittsburg, with four Charming daughters, George Honrey, playing the prime minister, is an elongated Individual, whose appearance 1» funny. Mis# Rosemary tllo#* i# the prlmu donna Nellie O'Nall Is the soubrette A find credited to ’The Sleepy King ’ is llttlo Mile. Proto, dsnseusc. Among other members of the cast are: George Russ riskr. F. J. Btevens, David Abraham#, Frank PTirrlngton, Harriet Packard. Toby Craign, Kathryn Pearl-Redway, Louise Ski liman. Ijiura Witt, Gertrude Stillman, Amy and Edith Stuart. The special song number# Include: ''Reuben Red Breast," "The Girl with the Dimpled Face," "My Gloriunu," "In Missouri. 1 "Mamie,” "If I were Plernont Morgan and You Were Hetty Green," "The (Tgarette Song" and others.
English’s—'Way Down East. •* 'Way Down East" come# to English'# Opera-house Thursday evening. October I, for a run of three nights and Haturday matinee, and the advance #ule of scats show# that thl# good bucolic drama ha# lost none of it# hold. "’Way Down East’’ has become a classic among the drama* >>f rural life, because It Is true to
life and nature.
A# in former year#. William A. Brady ha# given the play a new and elaborate vestment In scenery and stage setting# and there I# nothing lacking In any of the scene# to detract from the Illusion. The first scene show# the old homestead, and the barnyard with given pasture# and fields In the distance, it I# #o lifelike and real that It carries the audience In the first few momenta away from the thought# of the day, and absortie them In incidents of the story that I# living unfolded. Even the live stock and other inhabitant# of the barnyard fit so quietly into the #ceue a# to complete. Instead of detracting from the picture. Most animal# on the stage have a habit of breaking Into the progress of the theme, and unless thev are long and well trained, they fall to fulfill their purpose of putting the finishing touches to a realistic attempt. The second setting Show# the homelv but comfortable sitting-room of the typical New England farmhouse, and The thin! is the kitchen with the table readv for supper, and a raw blizzard outside. The frosted window panes are one of the happiest touches throughout the play. It Is into thl# snowstorm that poor Anna >Moore is driven because of the gossip connected with her name, being found later In a maple sugar camp by her lover The camp in the New England forest is a perfect copy of the place where the
’maple sugar comes from.”
The play ha# a charm that bring# one back to see it again and again, and in addition, the company includes many of
the original cast.
Coming Attractions at English’s.
AMELIA BINGHAM. In "The Frisky Mrs. Johnson," English s, September 28-29.
FLORENCE OCKERMAN, ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin," at the Park.
Their one-act comedy Is entitled ’"Ehe Ing man on the East Side of New York Ugly Duck." rechristened from the title frpm the time he was a pack peddler to
"He, She or It." It Is said that they car-
ry the most elaborate setting of any sketch on the vaudeville stage. The bill really has several acts entitled to top-line honors. The great Everhardt
when he owned a prosperous business and
back to the peddling days again.
Mr. Welch takes the part of Abraham Jacobson, an honest merchant, whose sayings are said to abound in fun. He has a son. Sammy, who became overprosperous In following the racecourse, and fails
comes with an original hoop-rolling act. into the snares of an adventuress, who He Is known as "The King of the Hoops," | £ n,lw8 in ^ 1 in u^old^HV^ ™bbViU the and was the first man to do an act of this? 8 ^ ore( and*through It all the fatherly afnature. Everhardt has just returned from | fectlon prevails and a helping hand Is Europe, where he put m three years In reached out to the son In time to save the beat concert halls and vaude- ^j m f roni uriscm. when the adventuress vllle houses. Several years mio; p, overtaken by a tragic death. Kverhardt worked for a firm in The vicissitudes through which the secInd.ana, where he picked up inis ont j.j ian) j ^,^0 p USt)e3 gupppyg groundact, and has mud* a big hit with U every- k for the pathos which the chief where. Billy S. Clifford, who is a j char%Gter blend3 With comedy. He is said nee favorite, conn* again with a new set to ^ supported by a talented company, of joke# and stories and songs ibeoth- t j u , ntage equipment Is also said ( th hitwf 1 nl. inrnmivninVilt ,0 in keeping with Mr Welch s first iuuiit ho billed us* an in&truniont&ii&t n mi** r rhA and vocalist It will be her first appear- • ^ rl '‘TThnrsdHV aBernoon aneo in this city. The sisters Meredith i ment wm begin 0.1 1 .inrr.oa> uiternoon. will sing son gw and appear in Indian cos- _ turtles, singing their original version of The Empire—Burlesque. wl!b^ l E^rn\-h^rL ter U ioni elr The Th0 blossoms burlesque comLovttts, In a tumbling and juggling act I an > ^ the ncxt attraction at the of a novel nature, and Crawford and' Empire for one week, with usual matl-
Munnlng will bring to the Grand new acts. This Is also true of Mitchell and Love, who
have an eccentric comedy act
to offer.
The program concludes with the bioscope.
The Park—Two Attractions.
Two brass bands, a band of jubilee singers and dancers, a band of pickaninnies, a drum corps of Creole women, | thirty horses, ponies, donkeys and oxen, a paok of six bloodhounds—these are a
few of the things which will mark A. W. j Musical Comedy Coming to the Park,
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nees, beginning Monday. The Cherry Blossoms company Includes, besides a bevy of pretty chorus girls, twenty-five other members, numbering In all forty people, among whom are Orleta-Hurd-Orleta,opera bouffe singers; Spencer and Held, Irish comedians; the Gotham Comedy Four," Messrs. Lang, Harris, Taylor and Herbert, the four eccentrics; Williamson and G’lbert. sketch artists; John Berry, the Celtic bard, and tha Al-
pine family.
opens Its engagement on October 5. company Is said to be a large one, under the direction of Frank D. Bryan, and the cast Is headed by Paul Quinn, who will taae the part of Mr. Dooley He formerly played the character of the judge in "Happy Hooligan." Charles Smith, formerly at the head of the "Gay Coney Island” company, will impersonate Dr. Sklnem. a get-rlch-quick promoter, The
The j duction promises to be one of the events
' of the year, since the play Is a dramatization of Frank Norris’s best-selling book and serves to Introduce one of the most prominent American actors as a star. Mr. Lackaye Is now with Amelia Bingham, who plays at English's next week.
Viola Allen will begin her season In "Twelfth Night" In Washington. October
_ . 26. In the cast are John Blair, Clarence company includes a large chorus, and tire; Handy side, James Young, Frank Currier, profuctfon Is said to be packed with new I Scott Craven Edwin Howard and Zeffle music and fun of the frothy kind "Mr. 1 Tilbury. In January Miss Allen is booked
Dooley" has never been seen in Indiana- I° r English's Opera-house. polls.
Maxine Elliott has been suffering considerably since her recent return from England, with a nervous disorder. On that account rehearsals of “Her Own Way,” in which she Is to star this season, have been interrupted. There has been no official announcement, however, that the play will not be presented at the Garrick Theater on September 28, as
originally planned.
Mrs. Sarah Cowell Le Moyne opened her tegular season at the Detroit Operahouse. Detroit, Mich., on September 14. playing out tho week. Her play was Stanislaus Stange's new comedy, "Lady Berinthea’s Secret.” From local re-
ports the effort was a succesa.
Chlcago is to have the first view of the newest George Ade creation, "The Shogun." and January is the month in which It will b“ first presented. The music for the production is by Gustave Luders, who has collaborated with Ade on other successes. and also provided the music for
Napo-
Notes of the Stage.
Kathryn Osterman entered the stellar
ranks of the legitimate drama at New
Haven last week A large house greeted
her enthusiastically at the Hyperion Theter In the five-act play, "Miss Petticoats ’’ The dramatization is by George
Richardson, a Boston newspaper man.
After the fourth act, Miss Osterman received five curtain calls, and made a
speech. She was deluged with flowers. KIrke La Shelle's reputation as an au-
thor has rested so far on the success of his librettos for “The Ameer" and "The Princes# Chic," and on his quaint "Poker Kubyiat." The dramatization of “The Virginian,” with the preparation of w r hich Mr. La Shelle has had a great deal to do. will therefore be his first work of
this sort to reach the public eye.
Jane Oaker. leading woman last year
for James K. Hickett, has been en- nroduetion "Mile gaged for the role of Laura Dearborn in IieW * prCMlUCUOn * AIlle '
■ "The Pit.” in which dramatization of 1 i Frank Norris’s novel Wilton Lackaye will
I star.
Victor Mape* s new comedy. "Captain
Martin’s production of "Uneie
Cabin.” which comes to
Monday for a three days' engagement. With these modern accessories to the old story of slavery days In the South, there is but one Uncle Tom, one Topsy, one Eva. The Martin production reaches the scale of a circus In magnitude, yet his version of the play is said to hold faithfully to old lines on which Harriet Beecher Stowe based her story of ante-
bellum days.
The play will be produced at the Park by fifty players, including twenty negro
he chief characters
■■■■■ The «re, mue.cel comedy o( the m-m-nrJSin L '^SLJT , ’’.t'”.h.' T War„ , ut *t the Peril will loe Mr Dooley." which 1 No ' e! ” b " ° *' ,h '’ " alnut
By a most curious coincidence two dis- men and women, the
> ■ - - • * being impersonated by white players.
Frank Leo will appe
appear as Uncle Tom and
Florence Ockerman will take the part of
Topsy *
Al Q. Martin has added one scene to the original version of this old play, that it might show some of the pastimes and practice# of the Southern negro in plantation day# before the civil war. It re-
Ungulshod players, man and wife, are to follow each other at English a the week after next. It will be a notable week, too, for the quality of the attractions. On October 5 and 6, Virginia Harried and her company will present Arthur Wing
Pineros latest play. Iris* the Play vea j s t he faith the old-time negro had which set New York critic# by the ears In "voodooism,” snake worship, and last season. It 1* a drama distinctly in : ,n the P° wer o{ 3 voodoo” doctor to heai Pinero’s best manner, and it# hemine, ''Vh^^gr^'ir Iris, suffers almost as much as the sec- • scene are said to enter Into its spirrt w !th ond Mrs. Tanquemy Following this eh- : all the fervor 'hat marks their Vaee. The w - - - - — singing, shouting and dancing of the ne-
■hpi] groes will be one of the features of the
his new plav 1 production. So much equipment and
by Justin Huntley McCarthy. "The Proud scenery is carried that the capacity of the Prince.” It Is a poetic drama which tells stage will be taxed to accommodate of the fall of a monarch into the estate Th*re will be a street parade at noon
of a beggar, where he Is able to learn a *Y-
what the world really thinks of him and « TK . o-jhi.- » what humanity means. Unable to secure ne ir ‘ time in a New Ydrk theater, Mr. Sotherr. Jo« Welch, for years an Impersonator of thus presents his latest production in In- German-Hebrew characters on the vaude-
gagement, on October T, 8. 8 and 10, the ■ husband of Virginia Hamed, E. H. Sotb- groes will
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The Grand—Vaudeville.
Emily Lytton and W. H. Gerard will have the headline act at the Grand this coming week. They are prominent members of the legitimate comedy stage, and have only been in vaudeville this season.
uoon tf i vllle sta * e - is coming to the Park the last j half of the week, when he will appear In the role of a Polish Jew in "The Peddler.” The play was written for him by Hal Reid and it gives the player wider opportunity to show his talent than he has had
in vaudeville.
It Is a comedy drama and follows the shifting fortunes of a second-hand cloth-
ieater. Philadelphia. The pro-
Barrlngton,” will receive Its premiere "on the road” on October 5. Charles Richman Is to bo the star, and Susanna Sheldon the leading lady of the company. Augustus Thomas's new play, written for Charles Frohman, was received by him from Paris Tuesday. It Is a play of New York life, a comedy of considerable novelty, and is called "The Parson and
the Pugilist.”
Maude Adams will make her reappeari ar.ee on the stage at the Wieting Operahouse, Syracuse, N. Y., at some early 1 date, not as yet announced. Her play will
be a new one.
One of the members of me cast of the new Drury Lane "melo-farce,” "The Flood Tide,” Is Portia Knight, the American girl who sued the Duke of Manchester for breach of promise. Ada Rehan and Otis Skinner will open their season at Atlantic City on October 19. “The School for Scandal” will probably be the play.
1 FRESH MODEi DRUM JOT FITS (Nli ltLLEV
"THE MAN FR^ ANOTHER |
M BLANKLEY’S* Ig SUCCESS.
WALLACE’S “BEN-HUR” AGAIN
[Special to The Indianapolis News ] NEW YORK. September ^.-Atlantic City is not New York by some hours' ride on the railroad, yet when Kyrle Bellew opened his season there on last Monday night he had to face an audience of typical New York first-nighters and critics. It just happened that this city offered no new play, and the little excursion to the seashore was quite the proper thing. What they saw there, according to all accounts, amply repaid them for the trip, for both i. 4 the play scored a success. The play was "Raffles,” made from R, E. Homungs “Amateur Cracksman” sketches, by Eugene Presbrey. It was the first time Bellew has appeared upon an American stage in evening clothes in sixteen years. Two other members of the cast were featured—Edwin Arden, whose charming performance of Raffles's chum. Bunny, was one of the distinct successes of the night, and E. M Holland, whose famous performance of Captain Redmund. the detective in "Jim the Penman,” was to have been transplanted into this new' play to act asm foil to the wily Raffles. The owners of "Jim the Penman,” however, would not allow the name to be used, so he was called “Capt. Bedford,” and he further illustrated that "the rose by any other name,” etc.—same wig, same long, fair moustach, same voice. , This play will undoubtedly prove popular. It holds your interest from start to finish, and It is a long time since Mr, Bellew has had a role which showed him to such a rare advantage. He makes a most loving blackleg, and the finale of the play, coming just when the audience had braced itself for a tragedy, Is not only a complete surprise, but it Is sure to win complete approval from the matinee girls. This finale is by all means the cleverest thing in the play. Rgif.w s nemesis is Mrs. Vidal, the woman Vyvlio was mixed up in the great pearl robbery and was on board- the ship when Raffles jumped overboard In midocean. In the play she and Raffle* meet at a house party, w here Bunny. Raffles s friend, loses a lot of money at cards. The Cracksman has been credited with committing several robberies m the vicinity, and when Captain Bedford joins the house party to try to get on the famous robber # trail, the proceedings begin to get interesting. Crawshey, just a common or garden burg.i s ln lea *f U0 wt th the hostess's French maid, and the couple have arranged to make away with her famous diamonds that night. Instead of putting her diamond# away in the bafe, by Bedford's advice #he places an empty jewel case there and goes to bed with the diamonds round tier neck. The maid undoes the necklace while she Is asleep and passes the jewels over the banisters to the burglar, who Is lurking by an open window down below. Raffles catches the thief Instantly and hands him over to Captain Bedford. The diamonds have vanished, however. Bedford then bets Raffles £100, to be given to any charity, that he will restore the diamonds to their owner within twentyfour hours. Ruffles takes the bet, and the hunt begins in earnest. The action changes to Raffles s room#, In the Albany, London. Bedford, In bringing the burglar up to London, has purposely allowed his prisoner to escape. The burglar comes to Raffles and demands the Jewels. He Is willing to go halves, but Raffles, of course, won’t hear of such a thing. How he outwits Crawshey and wins his bet from Bedford makes up the balance of the play.. Of course there is a pretty little love story mixed up In It all. Charles Hawtrey’s Success. Charles Hawtrey seems to have "struck oil” again, for "The Man from Blankley’s,” his new comedy at the Criterion, is so capitally acted by himself and his English company that Its career here is likely to be a long and lively one. Mr. Hawtrey’s role Is comparatively a small one, but he plays It in his usual debonair manner and scores at every point. There are at least three roles In the play which are of more importance ftian his, especially that of Mrs. Tidmarah, the hostess, which Fanny Brough makes simply Inimitable, and Mr. Gabriel Gilwattle, the inevitable family uncle, become a comic masterpiece In the hand# of that drollest of English comedians, Henry Kemble. Gen. Lew Wallace’s “Ben-Hur” reepened the New York Theater on Monday night, both piay and theater having been practically rebuilt Jurinq the summer. The company compared favorably with its predecessors. There was not a t scant seat in the house when the first curtain rose and the enthusiasm was as unusual a# when the first performance of the play was given st the Broadway Theater. Henry Woodruff a# Ben-Hur; J. E Dodson as Simonides. Annie Irish as Iras and Ellen Mortimer as Esther all gave capital performances. Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Elliott and their company who are to play In “The Light That Failed,” have arrived and the tour will open In Buffalo next Monday night coming to New York on November 9. Ada Renan la also one of the week's arrivals from sbrond. She is preparing for her tour with Otis Skinner in Shakespearean plays. The role which Richard Mansfield will c#say next year will be that of a daubing young Irishman. The play will be a dramatization of J. M. Forman s novel *"1 he Garden of Lies." Augustus Thomas # new play, ’The Parson and the Pugilist,” from New Yo.k life, ha# been received here and will be prc-duced tarly this season.
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A Dream-Play.
Mr. V. L. Courtney’s dream-play, "Undine,” which Mrs. Patrick Campbell Is about to produce in Liverpool, is In three acts. The first is laid in the fisherman’s cottage, where Undine, who describes herself as “a child of the sea waves,” [ meets Count Huldbrand. and Is married j to him by the wandering pnest. Father ! Hellmann. The hall of the count’s castle at Ringstetten Is the scene of the second, and here, after the’ bridal couple are ! welcomed home, comes the scene with his i former love. lie mi i da, which results in i Undine leaving him. In the third act. a < mountain gorge near the castle. Count | Huldbrand meets his wife and the curtain I falls on their reunion. In addition to the characters named, there are two other important personages, the fisherman and his wife, who have adopted Undine as their daughter, owing to the disappearance of their offspring Bertalda. Mrs. Patrick Campbell will, of course, play the
part of Untkaa
Rostand’s New Play. M. Edmond Rostand is reported to be at work in his Pyrenees country place at Combs on a new play in verse, which the eider Coquelin will produce in February next at the Gaite Theater. In Paris, which he will lease for the purpose. The actor went some time ago to Combs to jwe the poet, who showed him five plots of dramas, out of which Coquelin made his choice. Two other new plays by M. Rostand will also be brought out before long, "La Malson des Amants,” at the Comedie Francaiue, and “Jeanne d'Arc," at Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's theater. "Mademoiselle Napoleon,*’ Florence Zlegfeld will present Anna Held at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York. In 'Mademoiselle Napoleon." writen by Jean Richepin, and adapted by Joseph W. Heroert, with music by Gustav Luders \t Uh the Zlegfeld opera company headed oy Grace Van Btuddiford. he will present, at the Lvrlc Theater, "The Red Feather." by Reginald De Koven, Charles Klein and Charles E. Cook. While abroad Mr Ziegfeld engaged Senora Roearito Guerrera. whom he will bring forward here In the role of Carmen.
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