The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-26
LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS.
Kathryn Kidder's Appearance at the
Grand TOnight

Grand Tonight
That Kathryn Kidder in Madame
Sans Gene is really a great attraction
may be gathered from what q critic
Of the San Francisco Gail says Of her
reception in that city. The following
is clipped from the Call of three weeks
ago. taken from the State Journals ex-
change table. He says.
Not since the initial appearance Of
John Drew as a star has the Baldwin
held so brilliant an audience as the
one that greeted the opening perform
ance OF the Sans Gene" company last
evening Nine Sans Gene with her
brilliant NapOleOnic background quite
captured her first san Francisco audi
ence.
such velvets and satins, yards and
yards Of them trailing over the stage
in real magnifcencet Such jeWelry !!
to look at it made one wink and pink!
Such unifOrmsi and they We're not
made according to the cOStumer Ter
vid imagination. either; they We're
copies from the pomp and panopoly OF
war in which Napoleon decl5ed out his
grande armee-lancers, hussars, dra-
gOOns, spurred and booted glIttered
with gold and silver. and many OF them
made up as very good cOunterpaTts OF
of the historic people they represented.
The staging of Madame sans Gene
was as gorgeous as Its cOstunllng5 IN
deed, really beautiful reproductions
We're given of rooms in the hlSlollc
I chateau Of Compeigne, and the sur
/ ring scene in the prologue, with the SOL
diers and the singing Of the Marsell-
/ laise' was excelently done.
Miss kidder's acting was dellghu-
full surprise and the audience showed
/ their appreciation Of it by repeated cur
tain calls at the end of each act she
is tall and WillOWy with pleasant al
/ belt penetratin voice, ana the cnatIli-
/ Ing ease and abandon with which she
. foF q
Z duchess was something which recalled
I Ellen Terry's lightness and grace IN
/ comedy roles. She had to run the Salnul
/ of a good many emotions nom llilpA-
( tience at the annoyance OF q court
/ train to grief at the emperor resolve
/ to have her friend De Niepperg SLraA-
/ gled but she was always natural ana
/ delightful in the expression OF het Ass4-
7The plot Of Madame Sans Gene is
4 too familiar to need repetition. IL
\ shows in a prologue how the washer
: woman Catherine Hulbscher saves an
] Austrian officer. De Neippergs during
! the revolution. from the Wfath OF ths
! French populace with the help or her
fance, Lefebvre. and ialer shG" , Ioee
/ she rescues him again when Le1eDVre
( has become duke and the emperor
/ suspects the Austrian Of being the en-
/ press lover. ,
| tries to make Lefebvre divorce mis-
/ wife Nine Sans Gene, for her tree ana
easv. manners and how Sans Gene ner-
SER wins his favor and makes him her
several Of the supporting characters
were well played, particularly angus
| tus Cook as Napoleon, Harold RusseAl
| as Iefebvre and Charles Plunkett as
II The same company. actor for actor,
I will appear in Topeka
The tTriIby" company which will ap-
near at the Grand Opera House next
! Wednesday night is guaranteed by tne
| local management and to them by the
palmer Brady management to be ex-
| actly the same as the one that recently
| DIaved San Francisco on its return
| from Australia with one exception. Inc
| execution is that Of Miss Barry, VINO
succeeds Miss Crane. who played the
mart Of Trilby here last year. TIE
copv for the Topeka programmes was
sent from the Columbia theater IN san
Francisco and is a copy Of the co ,lslill-
Fia theater programme OF last Week
Win the single change made on it in
ink.
.oThe Green Goods Man" which Is
! advertised as a farce comedy, Will De
- -. Cz-ar6 Tuesday evening.