The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-08


been dramatized-
Eddie Foy Is doing the west In one of
his old successes, In Town
Stuart Robson Will alternate "Oliver
Goldsmith" and She Stops to Con-
quer'' on his western tour.
RehearsaIs of the Alice Nielsen Opera
company viii begin in New York city on
| September o.
EstelIe Mortimer has been secured to
play Dame Quickly in King Henry W
with Richard Mansfield
Thomas @. Seabrooke is to star in THE
Founders and Richard Golden has re-
viyed s.Old Jed Prouty.'s
Richard Mansfield has accepted a dra-
matIzation of Monsieur Beaucaire,' .
made by a Boston journalist
The new play by Henry Arthur Jones,
written for Charles Frohman. is called
The Lackey's Carnival"
This season Fanny Rice will again be
seen in the late Rosfna Vokes' repertory
The Castle Square Opera company will
make tour Of Mexico this season.
Humperdinck is to compose a new
comic opera The subject will be Louis
Hall Gaines play OF THE Christian
has just been presented IN the Isle of
Man, with the authors daughter. Lily
Hall Game. in the role of Glory QuayIe.
Isadore Rush has scored distinct
success in the role Of q woman doctor In
Roland Reeds new romantic comic play,
a Modern CrusOe."
Frank Ebert and his wife, Elsie Lau.
well known in the Lilliputfan combine
ton, will appear in vaudeville in a sketch
called RIP Van Wrinkle, Jr''
Ojiboway Indians lately gave a per-
Torrance Of Hiawatha,' = dramatized. al
which Longfellow,s daughter was pres
ent with party of friends
Julia Arthur and her husband. B. p
Cheney are arranging to take a long
western trip, and it would appear that
RI has
ing to the stage this season
Joseph Jefferson begins his annual fall
tour Of eight weeks October l. His
repertory viii include The Cricket on
Five ShiHings. and rip Van Wrinkle
In the revival of Shakespeare,s "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" by Louis
James and Kathryn Kidder, there will
be great combination of fairy revels,
music, dancing and spectacle
Miss Flora Irwin viii soon present her
new comedy Miss Kidder.' by Glen
Marlborough, in Chicago 1t is pro-
nounced the best effort of this talented
and versatile author.
The following new plays are an
nounced for production in New York
this month: Richard Carvel.'' ssAll on
Account Of Eliza Prince Otto" Sag
Harbor.'' Cupid Outwits ADAM 1.-THE
West"
a Bird In a Gilded Cage" the story
taken from the song, has been put upon
the stage, and is said to have made
Bell played the name part
William Gillette is going to join the
London colony next summer and will
prevent there his Sherlock Holmes
country the coming season
One of the most surprising things in
the Rogers Brothers in Central Park
is the trick elephant which Mr. KIaw
bought in Europe the early part of this
summer. Nothing like it has ever been
exhibited here
Charles Frohman has engaged Marie
tempest for a visit to the United States
in English Nell" her new Nell Gwyn
play, but not till a year hence In the
meantime, she viii appear as Becky
Sharp in Vanity Fair
Quo vadis'' has made a trfunphal
march through the Italian cities 1t
was performed fifty times in Naples and
one hundred in Rome. The author mas
right
The character in which William Col
Ier will be seen this season in Augustus
is a student at Yale college. and the
second act is located in his rooms at
New Haven The third act is a unique
yacht scene
Della Fox will play a rather fdeaIized
eabby in the new piece which John J.
McNaIly has written for the Roger
Brothers She will be clothed in mas
culine attire, in which she has always
been a natty and attractive figure to
the eye.
Frank L Perley. manager of Alice
Nielsen, has entered into a business
partnership with w G. STnyth, and in
addition to the William Collier company
Messrs- Snyth & Perley will probably
make a number of dramatic productions
this season.
The matrimonial figures of life are
working overtime in the nomenclature
of late productions. There may be men
toned in this connection Two Married
Men" "A Husband on Salary" Wife
Wanted" and others too numerous to
detail
There is a story that Harry Rlaney,
the comedian, was recently rescued
Harrison Wolfe. the tragedian- Tragedy
and comedy walk and swim hand in
hand during the summer.
It is probable that Broadhurst Bros.
will next spring make a revival in New
York of George H. Rroadhurst's first
success, What Happened to Jones',
with George c. Bonfface, Jr.. in his
original role of Jones, and many others
OF the original company in the cast
Willie Collier followed Walter E.
Perkins in Du Souchet's MY Friend
from India Turn about is fair play
and now Perkins is to star In Golfers
role in Du Souchet's THE Man from
Mexico preparatory to his production
in December of the authorized drama
tization of Mary E wilkins quaint and
quizzicaI New England story, jerome,
q Poor Man.
Considering the wealth of dramatic
incident afforded by an electoral cam
paign in this country, it is strange that
the political play has not been more ex-
tensively utilized. Charles B. Hanford's
coming production Of Private John
Allen viii bring in some new ideas in
this field and make a strong bid for a
division OF public interest with the regu-
lar candidates.
AdeIine Mann, q we1I-known former
society girl OF Mobile. Ala, has signed
with THE Man From Mexico company.
Miss Mann Is the daughter of the late
Colonel Mann, who built the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, and was also connected