The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-06
PAULINE HALLS DATE.
She Will Be Here in "Dorcas"
Thanksgiving.
"SINBAD" COHES ON NOVEMBER rs.
Other Theatrical News and Local
Dramatic Items.

Other Theatrical News and Local
Dramatic Items.
Pauline Hall, who will appear at the
Grand in opera Thanksgiving night, will
give "Dorcas," which she is singing eX-
clusively. In it she takes three distinctly
different characters. In the first act she
is a happy-g o-lucky peddler boy. in the
second "Dorcas," the jolly. mischievous
wife of a Jealous inn keeper and in the
third and last act she appears as Lady
Honoria," the swell leader of fashion.
Tuesday, November %, is the date for
David Henderson's big spectacle, "Sin-
bad"
EITHER the star has to be we'll known.
or the piece has to be familiar, or the
people won't go to see the performance"
says John Griffith. "The people will go
to see any one in Hamlet The trouble
in playing one part much is that the pub
lie won't have you in anything else. The
people won't so aud see Morrison in any
thing but Faust OF jim O'Neil in any
thing but Monte Cristo.'"
Walker Whitesde, the young man
who pleased Atchison, Leavenworth and
other places with his Hamlet" last year,
will come out here again this year, but
he will not appear in Topeka. He is in
Ots
won't go to see more than two or three
Iegitimates' in a season." says o. 7.
Crawford.
Wadsworth Harris, who has an extern
sive acquaintance in Topeka, is playing
with Modjeska this year. He is cousin
to VIII Wadsworth. Last year both of
them were with Otis Skinner. Before
that Harris had been four seasons with
Modjeska. She will confine her playing
to the east this season and come west next
year.
The Royal Hawaiian National band,
composed of forty native Hawaiians, will
be here two weeks from today
The "Green Goods Man" goes in for
green with vengeance. The bills in the
windows are green, the advance notices
are green; it is hoped that the company
sre not also. The photographs of the
company betray one into thinking that
some of the girls are pretty. Paul
Dresser, the heavyweight comedian, was
here in the farce last year, but is not
with the company this season. His sing
ing will be missed, but there is probably
some one to take his place. At the Grand
tomorrow night.
Primrose s. Vests Minstrel company
is the largest and leading one on the
4uSy aQVoEblSo IOTty WQLt6 people
and thirty colored men. It is certainty
that they carried this many last year
All the white people stopped at the same
hotel and when the company reached a
place the manager had an unique way of
registering. He had the names of all
the company printed on bills and walked
up to the register and pasted bill upon
it. 1t covered a page. The show has
put up some very nice bills for minstrel
HI ~ Of
1t comes to the Grand Friday night.
Prof ]. A. Houser gave his third lee
ture at the Crawford last night His sub
ject was Human Nature" He will be
heard again tonight An admission fee
of i've cents is being charged
"Grmes' Cellar Door, is the attraction
at the Grand next Monday night James
g. Mackie, vino is young, is the star. He
IS said to be good. The pictures which
MI Mackie circulates of himself show
him standing on his head in SILLY
Billy" makeup and doing other grotes.
que things that would make SageI
Midgely turn pale with envy. Midgely
was here with Gus Williams two year:
ago. but where he is now is a question.
Clara Morris is PLAYING all this weeh
at the Coates in Kansas City. Friday and
Saturday nights she gives her new
adaptation of Dumas "Raymonde." To
morrow night Article 47'' is the bill.
Will Wadsworth joins the Alabama
company on the 18th in Chicago. The
company is now playing one night stands
through Illinois and Indiana, and will
continue to do so until the Chicago en-
gagement at the Haymarket theater
which lasts a week. Tonight "Ala
bama" is in Bloomington, Ill.
We can keep you clean-Peerles.
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia ". Eighth.