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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1902
Page
6
Indianapolis will host its music festival at Tomlinson Hall on March 21 and April 1 with Theodore Thomas as conductor. The chorus exceeds 400 voices under rehearsal, and soloists Gertrude May and Olof Tryll are featured. Seats go on sale Monday, March 24.
Grand Vaudeville at the Picchiani troupe features seven women and one man in evening dress. Eldridge, a top black comedian, stars in a piece called a dance. Prevost and Prevost offer a high class talking act. Zelma, a male impersonator, and the Jenny Eddy trio plus Dave Fitzgibbon on piano headline. Inaudi performs a rap reading act. Mr and Mrs Perkins Fisher contribute a second sketch.
The minister's son, a pastoral play, comes to the Park for the first three days of next week. Not a new work, it charms with quaint beauty and quiet comedy. W B Patton stars as Simon Ray in an elaborately staged production with fine costumes and strong performances.
Indianapolis theater notes announce the Pike stock company, led by David Hunt, will bring Secret Service to the Park next Thursday through Saturday. Thomas Reynolds, Dolores, Lizzie Hudson, and Bryan Douglass headline. The production, set in besieged Richmond, features Charles Dumont as Capt Thorn and Benton Arrellsford as a Confederate agent.
The Empire hosts the Robie burlesque company with manager Zimmerman praising the act. Debuting at the house, the show features Joe and Nellie Dorner, Lewis and Green, Hilton brothers, Jack Gardner, the Simpsons, and James and Flora, with a 20 member chorus and a sextet. The Exclusive league will attend Tuesday night and K of P friends of the Simpsons are expected Wednesday.
The Thoroughbreds will perform at the Empire for three days starting Thursday. The bill features two burlesques The Isle of Diliass and The thoroughbreds with Mackie and Walker Larry McCale Mabel Carew Josie Flynn Healy and Farnum Polk and Tresk in a lineup of singing dancing and acrobatic acts.
Tim Murphy mobilizes a company in New York to revive Old Innocence, abandoning A Capital Comedy. The Vaudies sisters prepare a startling vaudeville act with a dramatic black backdrop and skylike lighting, signaling a new production slated for mid May.
Francis Wilson, younger and less famous, faced a hostile theater. Missiles flew and a cabbage struck the stage. He waved for silence, then quipped I expected to please you with my acting but did not expect anyone in the audience would lose his head over it, and continued.
The Swirl of Society column notes a vaudeville performance by the Dramatic club on April 4. It also mentions Mrs. Goodling and daughter visiting Capt. and Mrs. Lemcke, a fifth section euchre party by the ladies Manner chorus, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Thornton hosting a dinner for Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Smith, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick annual dinner at the Denison hotel Monday evening, and Alice Meynell lecturing for the Contemporary club Saturday night.
A period advertisement praises Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a safe remedy for La Grippe and catarrh. It quotes Rev. L. E. Palmer of Ceresco Michigan endorsing the tablets as a help against recurring head and throat catarrh and urges use every hour or two for two to three days to avert pneumonia and complications.
Kalamazoo girl Nellie Hathaway recounts lingering weakness after grip last winter. She describes dizziness, exhaustion, boils and vision issues, then recovers after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, which she and her mother credit with restoring health. The pills are advertised as a nerve and blood tonic for various ailments.
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