The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-20

Fanny Davenport paid to sardou a
quarter Of a million dollars as royalties
on the plays he wrote for her. The laTg-
/ est amount for any single compost on
/ paid was a hundred thousand dollars for
Fedora Sardou IS still receiving a
! handsome remuneration from this vehicle.
as the wonderfully constructed drama Is
/ still one of the best drawing attractions
on the road
Frank Daniels is uncertain whether
somebody is playing a joke on him or ne
| a newspaper paragraph told him he was
drilling his opera company with firearms,
with the view to being prepared should
train robbers attempt to hold up the COM
pany during its coming trip across the
continent. Early this week he received
an unsigned letter mentioning the para
graph and adding that as he, DaIhelS,
robbers he the writer, would promise to
accommodate him before he returned
from the Pacific coast. Daniels inclines
to the belief that the letter is the work
Rum NOR has it that Jefferson De Angels
is the latest comic opera comedian to be
yearning for a, chance to appear in Lon
don. It is said he may 60 over there next
Rogue and also present his former sue
eesses, The Jolly Mluskeetee e IN wh 1t,a
1.-THE Wedding Day. in which he starred
with Lillian Russell and Della Fox, who
have since both gone into musical coined
les Of the Dutch dialect persuasion. De
Angels also contemplates using an Eng
lish chorus should he decide TO risk the
Augustus Cook, whose Napoleon in
to again iInpersonate the emperor, as he
has secured a one-act play, entitled for
Valor at Marengo, which Is soon 10 De
produced by him.
Paul Wilstach writes that Mr.. Richard
AaIsfield,s engagement met at The The Ga 3lidE,a
records made there by this star. Two big
ShakespeGrean productions in succession
at the Garden. and both successes, Is an
odd report from New York.
On one Of the costumes worn by Marie
Drofnah, Charles B. Hanford,s leading
lady this season. is small fortune in
point lace. The lace is an heir loom which
has been in Miss Drofnah's family for
Charles 3. Hanford, although a TRACED
ian of many years reputation made his
debut for this season as an exponent Of
modern comedy last week He reports
that he had no stage fright.
Miss Fanny De Costa has been engaged
in Hoyt's "A Black Sheep this season.
Her form is reported to be fault ess-
That sweet and dainty little whirlwind
who danced into the hearts Of all theater-
goers last season Miss Lulu Beeson. viii
this season.
Delmore and Wilson. who are under
the mana cement of Ira. J. I.aMotte tn s
season. viii shortly appear at the Craw-
comedy entitled MY Aunt's Nephew It
is said that the comedian ere supported
by an unusually strong company of far
'sArizona's' business at the Herald
Square Theater, New York, is steadily
increasing. Every weeks receipts have
week, the receipts for last week amount
ing to within few dollars of eleven
thousand.
The new Illinois theater in Chicago was
opened Monday evening by Julia Marlowe
in Barbara Frietchie.''
It is--1inted that the arrangement which
bri gs Otis Skinner and Mrs. Lem yne to-
gether in New York City for some special
Performances of poetic plays may result
in transaction whereby that actor will
be starred by Liebler & Co. in a new
. ay Of modern life now in their posses
sion.
Edward Vroom. the American actor,
who has been in England for a long time.
is on the high seas sailing for these
sh RS. having left yesterday. Mr.. VrGom
comes here to present his own play, Mar
sac of Gascony,' under the Management
Of Jacob Lift.
Mrs. Norman selby. the wife of KID
Mccoy, who has figured prominently in
our latest scandal of the prize ring, an
nounces her intention of going on the
stage. It is said she will appear as
type writer girl in the farce Miss Print
which Marie DRESSER is to star in.
Ridge Waller phil hropic unE
man of Washington. has suspended the
publication of his weekly sheet called The
Chorus Girl. It was devoted to he
srnerry merry" and weekly editorials
were written in the hope that the better
ment Of he chorus girls condid mi yht
be realized.
Mrs. Langtry has secured a the ter of