The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
Theatrical Notes.

Eugene Blair is playing The Dancing
The Rays will use 1.-THE Janitor'' next
season.
Alice Nelson may revive 1.-THE Fortune
TELLER next season.
Among recently copyrighted plays is a
version of Adam Bede."
Uncle Toms Cabin" is to have asspec-
tacular revival in Chicago.
Eddie Foy and Joseph Standish are
working on a comedy in which Foy is to
star next season. The title will be
Troubles of His Own"
Thomas Q. Seabrooke is to make his
vaudeville plunge on May Z. He will APP
York, in a sketch written by George v.
Hobart, and will be assisted by Jeanette
Langdon Mitchell, adapter of Becky
Sharp is said to have found a rich field
IN the dramatization of his fathers book,
The Adventures of Francois" which is
to be produced by Liebler & 20. next sea-
son.
Magician Kellar is said to Illustrate the
Hlndoo theory of the reincarnation of
souls this year. This m~aterializes a beau
tltuI woman by means of a Hindoo in
Viola Allen is said to have four plays
almost IN readiness for next season. They
are In the Palace of the King" 18th
Mantle of Elijah" Il Enchantment,' and
an unnamed play by Leo Ditrichstein.
One of the dispatches received by Will
pearance in David Harum,' was to this
erect; Hope David will make as big a
hit with the public as he did with Co
Hath"
De Wolf Hopper's season in the south
has been unusually successful. During
Holy week, a depressing period for all at
FRACTIONS, Mr.. Hopper gathered in over
| $1,000. a remarkable showing
Miss Catherine Lewis Gordon, daugh-
ter of General James B. Gordon, is in
New York preparing to give entertain
and genuinely characteristic coon songs
from the southern plantations.
Memoirs of Sara Bernhardt are being
published in Paris. 1t is recorded therein
that she made her first appearance on the
stage in a religious entertainment at 9
convent school when she was 10 years old
/ That was in 1857.
Viola AIen has secured an option OF
Jane Hading is to produce in Paris. 1t is
described as a modern medy-drama, alb
solutely pure and wholesome, which is
rather remarkable considering that i
comes from a French source.
Ida Conquest, who by her excellent
and afterward in 1.-THE Tyranny of Tears,
with John Drew, has come into a populal
mating the laurels of a star next season
She is to be featured in a new play.
By special invitation James O'Neill vii
give a performance of Hamlet mex
spring before the students and faculty
of Notre Dame university at South Bend
Ind. 1t is said the faculty intends con
ferring the degree of Doctor of Literaturl
upon Mr.. O'Neill.
Bettina Girard has completely recov
cred her health and will shortly appear il
vaudeville. Tony Pastor has booked he
for a week at his New York house. Mis-
0AIdlQ Will appear IL q AAOAAOAOS4 10 l.
ducing a number of songs.
Gertrude Bennett, the handsome ingenu'
with James O'Neill, resembles greatly tn
Duchess of Marlborough, nee Vanderbilt
The resemblance is SO strong hat it /
said she was mistaken for the duchess b,
the American ambassador at Charinl
Cross Railroad station, in London, las
year.
Frederick Warde overheard the follow
ing dialogue in New Orleans: Are 20
going to the show. tonight?'' TO Sc
what?" Frederick Warde." Where?
the Tulane theater." ANY good?
Rafting" We'll, maybe-who play
Warde?"
OF the many brothers-in-law that Lii
liam Russell has acquired during her or
ange-blossom career. Owen Westford, VIII
is with Frank Daniels, is about the onl