The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-04
CORINNE GOING TO EUROPE.


Where She and Mrs. Kimba1I VIII Look
for a New BurIesque.
After the somewhat tedious and per-
haps straight-laced season we have had
of melodrama and comedy, Corinne and
her company of gauzy fairies came like
a sweetened pancake in series of sand
witches.
Corinne is about the same as of old.
If she has changed any in her work,
though, it is for the better. She never
was great actress, nor great singer
nor great dancer, and she never will be.
She does all of these things passably
well though, and what she lacks in the
matter of giving an entertainment Mrs.
Kimbalps taste in selecting a company
has supplied admirably.
Corinne is not a particularly pretty
girl. She is not homely though, and is
not so deshy as she was. As she
herself says she is in /" better
shape" Corinne is 81 years of age &C
cording to Mrs. Kimball, whom she calls
mamma" and who is twice and half as
big as Corinne and better looking. Mrs.
Kimball is the owner Of the company.
bills said she was 'sonly fourteen years
old.''
There are forty-two people in Mrs.
KimbalPs organization that act Besides
these there is the stage manager, cleo
trieian. calcium man, and enough more
to make fifty "heads" to be counted, as
Mrs. Z. expresses it.
Mrs. KimbaIl is good business
woman, and the personal director of her
company. She travels with it all the
time, and sits near or in Corinne's dress
ing room during the performances. She
originates much of the stacy business,
and knows the details of each depart
ment as well as the superintendent of
the department himself.
There were two good scenes left out
Saturday night for obvious reasons. They
were the best scenes in the piece in fact
the electric palace at the Worlds fair
and the phantom drill-both in the third
| act The omission of both was due to
the absence of electric lighting appar-
atus in the house, and to the fact that the
company did not have the time-or the
| inclination-to have the stage wired
for the one performance. The phantom
drill was done under full light.
The company is better this year than
it was last All the last year members
are with it still, and Charley Fostslle,
who was omitted last season, is back
again at his old tricks, in the part of A i-
gail. Charles Fostelle ranks high as q
comedian, and his recalls almost exhaust
ed him.
Willard Simms, the young man who
sold real estate where there was none,
and did some good specialties we'll, is
not new to Topeka audiences. For sew
eral years he was the leading comedian
of Claire Pattee's popular price COM
pany, and was with the 'Railro&d Tick
ct" when Mrs Kimball took him last
year.
| Next season will be the last for Hen
drick Hudson" says Mrs. Kimball. ''We
| shall take it south for the season and
| keep it there. Corinne and myself will
cross the water next summer, and I shall
look around for something that please:
me. If find it, shall buy it and fetch
| it over. Corinne has a desire to try
something besides burlesque, and if
can find something think she can do
I will put it on. think a good musica
drama or something on the operetta style
| will be the thing"
Corinne and her organization is play
ing at the Grand in Kansas City thi
week. 1--WE own Kansas City" sale
| Coriuno.