The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-20
HOWARD GOULD IN TOWN.
Not the Howard OF Much Cash and
Numerous Actresses, However.

of the charities viii get anything on
the strength Of it,
1t isn't that Howard.
This one is the young man who is to
appear al the Grand Opera House this
evening as Rudolf etc.. in THE Pris-
oner Of zenda. and further than draw
ins what is known as a good fat sal
airy from man who always pays his
salaries, lie is not wealthy.
For tie benefit of the theater girls
of Topeka-Topelza having no 1natinees
has no mantihee girls-be it said that
he is more than usually good looking,
and those who remember Hackett's
grace and length of limb and clear-cut
features and wavy hair and warm grey
eyes when Inc was here as Barnes of
New York two years and more ago
I VIII not be disappointed in Mr.. Gould.
for his physical qualifications are al
( most identically the same.
And he is clever fellow, too. as
( Hackett was and if the western critics
are TO be believed, quite as good an
actor.
The Prisoner Of Zenda company is at
Z the Throop. or the principal part Of it
I is There are 30 of them.
All the explanation contained in the
/ first few lines of this that is set down
here touching the exact identity of Mr..
z Gould as separating him from any un-
! due connection with money, is done at
/ his request
z For heavens sake he said, don't
get me mixed un with the millionaire
am particular about that, and per-
/ haps he is. understand YOU have a
I charity BAH here next week, and
! don't want to have to stay and lead
I the grand march and pay $1,000 or SlO,-
Qe9 for the privilege just to be accom-
/ mOdating and maintain the reputation
/ of anyb0dy's standing in the Million
aires union, Of which I am not mem
/ Der"
1T is to be hoped, therefore, that the
--1-f- r
point and viii leave Mr.. Gould alone.
4 Al any rate the managers of the chart
I ty ball have already selected the leaders
/ Of the german and the cOtlllOn and Mr.
/ G0uld's services would probably be de-
/ clined with thanks
and that isn't all" continued he.
! There are others. "a Howard Gould is
/ also a bank cashier in Portland, Me,
/ and always when I play Portland call
/ at the bank to ask him if he has any
mail for me
II have never met Gould. the million
aire- 1 have, however. met his brother
/ George, who is a pleasant fellow.
AS matter of fact / can't see what
/ business Mr. Jay Cfould's son mad steal
\ ing my name. anyway He mas no right
/ to it since I bore it three years before
ne did. He is three years younger than
I am.
when we were playing at Denver
! two ladies' appeared at the box Office
/ and demanded to know if it was really
/ true that Howard Gould was playing
q THERE AAey We're AoAAA ~ las dAA- were
shown the programmes. Wen. who'd
/ have thought it, said one; I knew he
! was mixed up once in some way with
an actress named Tyler, but I never
] thought he'd ever become an actor
The part Mr.. Gould plays in the "Pris-
( oner of Zenda" is said by theatrical
people to be perhaps the hardest work
/ ing part on the American stage. In re-
u atty he plays three parts.
I This isn't because there isn't actors
enough in the country, nor because A1r-
! simply because the author wrote it that
/ way
In the prologue said Mr.. Gould. IT
I am the ancestor. some 100 years back of
/ Rudolf whose personality I present in
] the acts to follow. You see the ances-
I try of Rudolf. the false king, in the
! book is in the shade and barely touched
/ on as an unpleasant feature of the fam
! lly history In dramatizing Mr.. Hopes
/ book, however Mr. Rose made of the
( incident of this ancestry a Is minute
prologue which is easily an entire play
1T is from this far back illicit rela-
{ u0nship that the English Rudolf gets
/ his startling resemblance to the Ger
man Rudolf, who is to be crowned king
/ the day after the first act opens.
1T is this resemblance which must of
! necessity be SO positive i'm the three
I men that cOmpels the position Of one
man playing the three parts two OF
I them at the same time.
The double part contains nine COM
Z plele changes oI dress and some Of
them must De made for an entrance
ttei- M 80 2Sl.e llle ext an less
go it,,a+5l.,, l,4+ "a 81. -laeIs "a 1q
- $3.50 - ~ Lsl II, y liSH
80 - 81 Y ~ > sa-AllSa Two
men 70 ASSIST -4I, 7Ollel.l MI Hslckett
ana no" sen IN these changes
E-FzL4 sttliil~ worn IN me part IS
I duplicated to prevent any delay
ln lAe scene ~ Wnlca the real king
IS 1ounH drunken ana cfussed by his
+ retalners, Y no start 70 take him into