The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-14
1T NEVER WAS BETTER.
Splendid Line of Attractions
Booked by L. MI. Crawford.
Many FrOhman Plays in the
List of Bookings.
Nothing for Topeka to Complain of in
the Way of Firstclass Theatri-
cal Entertainment the
Coming Season.

The first bookings for the Grand
Opera House in this city for the season
of 1878 have been completed. and Mr..
| E. S. Brigham has returned from New
York with SO contracts signed and da-
| ted. The bookings include a number
of splendid attractions which the thea
ter goers of Topeka will have the OPP
| portunity of seeing during the winter
/ st went to New York with the de-
termination to secure better attractions
for Topeka this year than we were able
| to secure last year, said Mr.. Brigham,
and 1 think 1 have succeeded fairly
! well. The first bookings do not include
two-thirds of the attractions that will
| come to Topeka during the season. and
| 1 expect to secure number of good at
fractions after the season opens in adj
dition to those already booked
| Mr.. Brigham was fortunate with the
| Frohmans in securing 3 of their big
| gest successes. These are Charles Froh-
| mans Under the Red Robe" and Sc
| cret Service, and Daniel F'rOhman'S
| THE Mysterious Mr.. Bugle" with JOS
| eph Holland as leading man. This will
| be the first season of Under the Red
Robe and 1.-The Mysterious Mr.. Bugle''
| out of New York city, and the first
| western tour of Secret Service
OF HOyt's attractions Mr.. Brigham
| secured four for Topeka 1.-The Milk
| w mite Flag and 1.-The COntented WO-
man" are among Hoyt's best farces, and
| will be eagerly watched for by the the
| alter goerS. The remaining two, "A
! Black Sheep and "A Bunch of Keys
| have been out for several years but are
! good The latter farce has been seen at
| the Grand but the former has never
| visited Topeka.
| Notwithstanding the fact that Sol
Smith Russell announced last season
| that he would make none but week
! stands this year, he will again be seen
nj h0 Gx1~lT7 hob ri,
| Stuart Robson and James A. Hearne
will also be seen in Topeka, the former
in 1.-THE Jucklins' and the latter in
| Other prominent actors booked for the
| Grand are Robert Downing and Robert
Mantell, w. S Hart, who was formerly
| the repertoire of the late Alexander
| Salvini, Bertha Creighton, who was last
year Sol Smith Russells leading lady
| and this year has a company of her
own, Clay Clement in "A Southern
Gentleman, Louis James in "A Gentle
man from France and Lewis Morrison
| in one of his new plays.
My Friend from India, (which is said
| to be even funnier than "Charley's
cunts b booked for the Gra9d this sea
| again seen here, and Frank Daniels in
his new opera THE Idols Eye
/ The season at the Grand will open on
| September 81 with the Hermann COM
pany. The company is now headed by
! Mrs. Hermann and the late magician's
nephew. During Festival week it is ex-
| pected that comic opera will be at the
| Grand
The attractions now booked for To-
! peka are the following:
| Hoyt'S "A Milk White Flag"
Hermann the Great company.
Clay Clement in his new play, ga
| Southern Gentleman"
Primrose & Vests Minstrels.
Robert Manten.
Ole Olson.
Rices Girl from Paris
MY Friend from India"
Andrew Mack.
Louis James in "A Gentleman from
| France"
w. S. Hart
| ley"
Lincoln Carriers Heart of Chicago
Charles Frohman's Empire theater
success, Under the Red Robe"
The Broadway Girl"
THE Dazzler."
Bertha Creighton.
Hoyts "A Bunch of Keys
Jacob Lifts In Old Kentucky"
Hoyt'S "A Black Sheep"
Lillian Lewis.
Coon Hollow"
Rhea.
Hoyt's "a Contented Woman"
Lewis Morrison.
The Prisoner of Zenda''
Katie Emmett in 1.-The Waits of New
| York.
Stuart Robson.
THE Girl I Left Behind Me"
Fftz & Webster in "A Breezy Time
Metthews & Bulger in Gay Coney
Island
Tim Murphy.
The South Before the War"
Human Hearts"
James O'NeiIl.
Daniel Frohman's Lyceum theater
success, THE Mysterious Mr.. Bugle.''
Shore Acres
Cortnne in AN American Beauty's
Lewis Morrfson's company
William Calder's 1.-The Span of Life
Town Topics
Thomas Keene
Thos. p. Shea in Man O'Wars Man"
Isle of Champagne Opera company.
The Gilmore band
Sol Smith Russell
Charles Frohman'S London and New
York success, Secret Service
New York by Day"
Morrison's 1.-The Privateer."
"A Puritan Romance"
The Brownies.
Rice's 1892"
Canary & Lederer's I'm Cav New
York. ""
The Electrician"
Northern Lights
Frank Daniels Opera couDanv
Robert Downing
1he Mackay Opera company
Dan A. Stuart's Verascope producine.
the Corbett-Fftzsimmons fight.
Band Concert
AT Garfield Park tomorrow afternoon.
o'clock, by MarshalPs Band.
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