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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23

been poured into the box office for sin
during a fairly successful season amount
Two other theaters of low rental are
the Garrick and Garden. For the first,
Edward Harrigan. the lessee, pays, it is
was built for him at the. time he in
fortunes favor and a long lease was
stroke of the pen. He sublet '.Harri-
gan's'' to Richard Mansfield, who renamed
it THE Garrick.' and spent $4,000 in it's
decoration Misfortune came to Monsieur
Beaucaire in this venture and Harrigan
subsequently leased his house to Hoyt and
Mckee at a substantial increase on his
the Garrick Mr.. Harrigan draws
nual income of $4,000, and yet its present
Iessees pay little more for one of the most
comfortable and prosperous house in the
The owner of Days theater thought
great deal of Daily. who had transformed
Woods museum into the most fashiona-
BILE house in New York and the most Gel
ebrated in the country. Beginning at a
manager more than SIS, 900 a year. For fif-
teen seasons more Days took in from
81 200 to $1,700 night. and a months re-
ceipts more than paid the yearly rental;
At the same time Charles Frohman signed
a lease binding him to pay $4,000 a year
rental for the. Empire theater-
Ordinary builders are glad to realize 5
per cent on their investment. Theater
buildings earn from 10 per cent to so per
100000 yet it pays $50, 900 in 40 weeks.
Olympia has paid 100 per cent on the in
vestment.
The more theaters the more fun. Our
millionaires should look into this thing.
Lot of actors want a New York opening
and can not secure a stage, for which
week Kirl1e La Shelle is dickering about
a paltry 5000 IN the price of lots on
which he intends to erect a playhouse
at Seventh avenue and Forty-seventh
street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
A VETERANS STAGE FRIGHT
Fanny Davenport Never Overcame
Attacks of the Malady.

Clara Morris relates. in one of the
chapters of her most interesting book,
an instance when Fanny Davenport
suffered from stage fright. The story
is as follows:
Miss Davenport told me that, at the
time of her last appearance in ST.
Louis, she suffered so intensely from
stage fright that even in the old plays
of her repertoire, such as Fedora and
La Tosca,' the lines frequently
escaped her memory, absolutely, and
she was compelled to walk off the stage
to consult her book. The prompter's
voice was of no avail, and it was only
by taking the manuscript from that
Worthy's hands. and reading over fully
a length" of the part, that she could
regain her self-control and get her mind
upon the lines allotted her.
One critic in Chicago, a rather noted
writer at the time, seemed to find par
ucular pleasure, if no well founded rea-
son, in abusing the great Flora Tosca,
Slsmonda and Fedora, and so much did
the famous actress fear the unwarrant-
ed bitterness of this man that, as she
told me she never visited that city with
out being so overcome with fright as
to be compelled, at times, to put her
self under the care of a physician. A
first night in Chicago, she said, was
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"Ben Hur. the Record Breaker
in Chicago.
Nearly | 10000 People Attended
SO Performances.
RECEIPTS ARE $1,000
Three Trains Required to Carry
the Production.
Review of Weeks Theatricals
in Topeka.
RECEIPTS ARE $1,000

The past week has brought to TopeL'l
the first really notable event of the
theatrical season, The Henrietta
There have been second and third rate
companies here in good vehicles ana
there have been first-class companies
here in old affairs of several years
standing. The bookings for the rest OF
the season are rather meager and the
prospects are that there will not be
more than a half dozen attractions that
can Law claim to as much Importance as
that of Stuart Robson. The Saturday
before the Robson engagement MISS
Adelaide Thurston, a charming actress
with a good supporting company, was
seen in sweet Clover" a play that was
thoroughly enjoyed by those who do not
criticise too closely and which was
picked to pieces for faulty construction
and undramatic climaxes- 1t was good
and we'll worth seeing but sweet Clo-
ver'' will have a short and tempestuous
career.
Robson's enga cement stirred up a
deal of interest and those went to see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
SCORES ANOTHER SUCCESS.
Maud Adams New Comedy equality
Street, Clean and Wholesome.

Maude Adams annual engagement
at the Knickerbocker theater, New
York, in J. M. Barrie's latest comedy,
Quality Street. successor to 1.-The Lit
tie Minister,'s> has proven the comedy
to be charming, dainty play, the ac
ton taking place during the Napoleonic
wars The old-fashioned daintiness of
the story suggests Mrs. Gaskell's Gran
ford" and Miss Adams has role exact
ly suited to her personality and talents.
Quality Street. has to do with the
adventures of Miss Phoebe Throssell
(Miss Adams), who loves a ''dashing''
soldier, and whose unrequited affection
and simultaneous loss of fortune drive
her to a genteel expedient for making
fortune in the form of a select
school, Ten years later the soldier
returns to find Phoebe a prim school
ma am, her pretty ringlets, tucked be-
meath a cap and all her charms ap-
parently departed In a moment of mad
regret for her forfeited youth, Phoebe
dresses up in her girlhood's gown, let's
loose her curls and pretends to be her
own niece. A Irritation with the cap
tain follows, and when she believes he
is about to avow his love he declares
instead that he has always loved her
aunt Phoebe, and so the finale is con-
ventional and satisfactory.
While not a whole as attractive
as 1.-The Little Minister" it is never
theless charming and of the class of
plays described as wholesome
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
"GoING TO THE DOGS"
So Says James O'Neill Referring to
Future of the Drama

rFrom the New York World
Within the week two surprising accusa-
tions were made against the American
James o'Neill, an old and respected ac-
tor, said: THE drama has no future 1t
has gone to the dogs. The art of acting
is AT thing Of the pa past and there are only
The st. James Gazette Of London, com
nis h 0f qE the Pc tbjs
country, said: Our most charming per
lea vuigarized. with the bloom knocked
off them and with harsh voices and more
violent. gestures. We and they are the
Mr.. Clyde Fitch and Mr.. David Belasco,
foremost among Americas dramatic au-
their views of the STRUCTURES passed on
American dramatic methods. Their re-
clyde Fftch.s reply. "Nfr. James O'Nein
sends word from Michigan. the drama has
dogs. The very same day-it never rains
but It pours-the st James Gazette in
oh, Mr. O'Neill is playing Monte Chris
to- I saw him play, it at Booth's theater
play which he has produced during the
last dozen sI2, years a, to my knowledge was
1T seems to me Mr. O'Nein ought to
have counted twenty before he spoke. |
fine actor, had acted lately a strong new
part in a strong new play he wouldn't
Michigan today, nor would he be publish
ing these pessimistic views-.,The drama
Last season we had at our biggest first
class theater Miss Maude Adams play
ing L Aiglon: giving a really inspired
performance in fine pOetical version of
modern French classic. Mr. Southern was
giving us a beautiful performance of
Hamlet the best melancholy Dane since
Booth. CWe've had some merry ones in
betweenD Miss Viola Allen was playing
the best high class melodra ma produced
in years. In the Palace of the King
written by an American author of the
greatest talent, Mr.. Marion Crawford. At
the Empire theater Mr.. Frohman was pro-
ducing a strong drama by one of the very
leading drama fists of England Henry Ar
thur Jones' Miss Margaret Anglin's act
ing making something little .ess than a
sensa ton"
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dyspepsia Cure

Starvation seems strange remedy for any
disease. Yet starvation by rigorous diet
was once generally resorted to In cases of
Indigestion or other stomach trouble. Even
yet it is sometimes tried. Such a
remedy is worse than useless. Every
day of life consumes portion of the tissues
Of the human body. The food we eat serves
to repair this waste and you can't build up
the system by Withholding material for the
purpose. If the stomach is in such condi-
tion that it cannot furnish it the task must
be performed without the stomach's assist
ance. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the only
preparation which accomplishes this. There
are others which act on certain kinds of
food, but Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the only
one which digests them all as the stomach
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he needs variety of food and to reduce this
variety always produces bad results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
SCORES THEATER TRUST.
Mrs. Fiske Denources the Evil Before
New York Audience.

Mrs. Minnie Madden Fiske delivered
an address on 1.-The Influence of the So
Called Theatrical Trust Upon the Amer
lean Drama" at a meeting of the Nine
teenth Century club in New York re-
Gently. An audience of distinguished
actors and many society people heard
Mrs. Fiske. In the course of her talk
Mrs. Fiske argued the effect of the
trust on the actor. on the public, on the
drama, and on the production of new
dramas
As it is the theatrical trust which
controls the situation in Topeka and
prevents any successful competition,
Mrs Fiske's fight on the trust is COM
mended by Topeka theater goers. She
declared the producing manager as al,
independent manager, had almost dis
appeared from view, and that if such
manager invests in the production of
new play today he could not get a
theater or plan a route without first
giving the trust the equivalent of
share in his own property. This COM
merc1al system of running the theaterS
neither discovers nor develops talent,
Mrs. F'iske said. 'It buys plays after
their values have been determined and
in the same way it buys talent after
talent has been discovered or develop
ed Continuing, she said:
with all the elements that go to
make great national drama of which
every American might be proud, we
find the opportunity slipping away. Our
censor-the public-has slept at its post.
1t has permitted the temple of the
drama to be invaded by a horde of
money changers, who have stripped the
altar of its beauty and have driven out
the custodians of the sacred vessels.
Only in America has the stage been af-
f1icted by the sodden, corrupting, de-
bauching influence of such a co>trol as
the theatrical trust whose assumption
of the function of providing recreation
to a great people is the most extraordi-
nary and monstrous development to be
found in the records of any art.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23

squirting tired horse. For a moment he
responds. Then outraged nature reasserts
itself and he falls in heap. Sedatives are
equally ineffective. At first they deaden
pain but afterward comes the reaction and
keener suffering than before.
What the stomach needs is rest. To OBJ
tain it a substitute must be found for the
natural digestive juices. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure is the only substitute which accom-
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build up the system and at the same time
relieve the stomach from all responsibility.
The rest will restore it to its natural condi-
ton and soon effect a complete cure. This
is the only rational and common sense
method of aiding nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23

In ninety-nine cases In hundred indiges-
ton is due to lack of some of the elements
which constitute the natural digestive
juices, usually to the absence of hydrochlo-
rio acid from the stomach. 1t is by the &C
ton of these juices that food is reduced to
a form in which it can be transformed into
living tissue. With any Of them lacking it
is easy to see that the process of digestion
cannot be perfectly performed.
With the single exception Of Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure all preparations for the relief of
Indigestion lack certain of these elements.
Consequently they cannot digest all classes
of food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure contains
them all. It will digest anything that the
healthy stomach can digest. It's natures
own cure.
Don't resort to stimulating tonics. Such
drugs simply urge the already overworked
stomach to renewed exertions. 1t is like
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
ENORMOUS THEATER PROFITS
New York Houses Earn $45, 900 q
Year Rental.

Theatre property in New York is a
paying investment.
On a plot measuring so by 100 feet may
be erected a building whose income is
from $50. 900 to 900 a year.
The former price is the avera ge rental
of metropolitan playhouses. The latter is
paid for the Empire, one of the most COM
plete and luxurious of modern theaters.
Rentals, of course. run above and below
these figures Maurice Grau pays $50, 900
a year for the Metropolitan opera house.
Yet there is profit even in this invest
ment.
Although the temple of music remains
closed during most of the year. a month
of opera with ordinary success will pay
the annual rental and leave surplus for
the impresario. On occasions $1S0 600 have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
always certain to find her almost a

always certain to find her almost a
nervous wreck.
4 could feel this stage fright as
call it, coming on she said, 1.-The mo-
ment I got within hailing distance of
the city, and it never left me until our
trunks were packed and we were well
on our way out of that mans reach"
Mrs. Fiske, experienced and endowed
as she is with marvellous ability, talks
of stage fright not only as common
to herself. but further says that an en-
tire company may be, and frequently
is, affected by it upon a first night
1T would require a psychologist to il
1ustrate and -analyze the tempermenta1
phenomena that a frst-night perform
ance Develops
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Theatrical Notes.

In "a Woman of No Importance Rose
Coghlan may once more come to the front
as a star.
George Grossmith, the English comedian,
will pay this country a professional visit
early next year.
With regard to sounding titles for plays
an approaching London production is to
be called THE Boom of the Big Cum
The city of Cleveland is to try thea
ter that will appeal exclusively to the
pleasure and patronage of children.
Klaw & Erlanger will manage the tour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23

.Gentlemen:-For twenty years suffered
the most agonizing pains with dyspepsia.
For years I regularly tried every doctor and
medicine that 1 could secure but without
/ would die. Your agent at this place finally
induced me to try bottle of Kodoi Dyspep-
STA Cure. I commenced to improve from
the very first dose and after taking six bot
You are at liberty to publish this and 1
hope that it may be the means of rescueing
some sufferer from that terrible disease,
dySpepsia.-Mrs. M. Houston, Omaha, Mo.
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representative of a London theater
came also to examine the scenery and
staging and prepare for a London pre-
sentation. Both Germany and France
are to see the play in TRANSACTIONS also.
Last year Ben Hurs' time was di-
vided between Philadelphia, Brooklyn
and Boston, and the year before it ran
the whole season in New York
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Gentlemen:-I have been afflicted for four
or five years with dyspepsia. / have tried
various remedies without any good results
and finally was induced to use Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure. / cannot say too much in it's
favor as one bottle cured me. recommend
the remedy to all who suffer from the same
cause.-David Maylor, Windridge, Penn.
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Ben Hur won his chariot race for the
last time on the stage of the Illinois
theater in Chicago last Saturday even
ing, and with it he won a real prize of
modern life bigger than the one his
proweSs brought him in his play world
While the packed audience was cheer
ing the thrilling struggle of the horses,
Manager Will J. Davis of the theater
and Joseph Brooks director of the
company, were cOngratulating them
selves that never before had one play
I'm a continuous presenta ton scored
such a triumph in Chicago.
Eleven solid weeks, SO performances,
$4,000 spectators, and, greater than all,
$145,O0O taken in at the box office; these
were the accomplishments of the sea-
son.
The staging cost $4,000. and there is
and a quarter miles of cordage being
required to handle it. The racing ma
chinery weighs 40 tons.
The frequent rehearsalS of horses
there are 16 in all belonging to the COM
pany-and of camelS, are among the
features of the performance which the
public does not enjoy. One of the cam
els is ugly. He objected to lying on the
bare floor. and made so much trouble
his complaints won him a mattress,
which he didn't like, and he again re-
fused TO lie down Then he got a mat
tress specially manufactured for him.
and he liked it so well he would not get
up But he is still a member of the
company in good standing
As for last week. the mere mention
OF the facts about it proves the proph-
ecy, as we'll as prophecy can be proved
There were nine performances. incIud-
Ing an extra matinee Thursday after
noon. The two houses the last after
noon and evening brought out more
ISLANDERS than the anagement has
permitted in the house at any time be-
fore. And the extra matinee though
announced for the first time Sunday
had all its tickets sold Monday at the
end of the first days sale, and was a
turn away" performance
The receipts of the engagement. aver
aging $4,000 a week for eleven weeks
Will be remembered in the history Of
Chicago drama. There have been big
ger weekly averages, of course. when
the hlgh-priced stars like Irving and
Bernhardt have been here, but their
engagements lasted only two weeks. or
three at the most Such an average for
one play for eleven weeks was never
before maintained.
I'VE turned people away from the
doors at every performance of the en-
tire eleven weeks" said Manager Day-
is. except two or three of the earlier
"Wednesday matinees.
There was not a single time after
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
No dieting is necessary.

conference.-the is what I have to say
about Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.-About a
year ago could not drink either tea or coffee,
drinking only hot water, and could eat but
very little food, until 1 began taking the
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. and then began to
improve at once. After taking the kodol
Dyspepsia Cure during the summer l can
not only retain what food eat, but also
drink either tea or coffee. and / have gained
SO that am hardly considered by my friends
as being the sanae woman. cannot say too
much for what it has done for me, and
recommend it most cheerfully to all sufferers
from indigestion and stomach trouble.-Mrs.
Jeffrey, GEORGETOWN, Wis.
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Suffered URtoId AgeRg.

Gentlemen:-I want to say that your
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is the best remedy
It is the only remedy ever used with any
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price if it fails but so far have never paid.
The first dose relieves.
Geo. w. Lane, Pewamo, Mich.
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Gentlemen:-T have been great sufferer
for many years from indigestion which has
become almost chronic and have suffered
untold pains which were always worse after
eating hearty meal. 1 took two bottles of
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and am now well
man and life seems worth living.
Peter Sherman, No. Stratford, N. Fl.
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Indescribably beautiful are the only words
that appropriately convey the idea of the
magnifcence of this production Two car
loads of scenery are used in the presenta-
ton of this act; there are also sixteen
models, eight small children. live calf,
a magnificent ST. Bernard dog, kittens.
$4,000 production, than which no better
has ever been presented Other attrac.
a conception of mirth. melody and emo
ton. presented by eight young ladies'
logue artist: Vernon. the ventriloquist:
Rita Redmond in Dion Cato Sall that rs
beautifully; an act that employs many
beautiful electrical effects; Joe Re1chen
and his trained dogs; Shean 81 WARREN
The Ashleys and many others Contin-
nous performance from noon to IL D. m.
A mans head is SO turned by q
woman in his courtshiD days, that
after he marries. it revolves around
SO rapidly in untwisting that It Is hkeiy
to come off.-Atchison Globe.
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CuPed By HaIi a BeffIe.

Gentlemen:-I am one of the many suf-
ferers from dyspepsia and after buying sew
eral pepsin remedies, / concluded to give your
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure trial. did SO and
am now glad that / did. Half a bottle
cured me entirely and / have not been
troubled with dyspepsia since / used this
nedicine.-W, D. Lance. Meredith, N. H.
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him who never saw him and others
went who have seen him in years past.
There was a surprise in store for all.
Robson was forced to divide the honors
with Maclyn Arbuckle but as Robson
has made his mark in the theatrical
world and is now collecting profits to
lay away for a ripe old age he really
doesn't mind it much and rather likes
it. Robson counts Topeka as one of his
best towns and he never plays west
that he does not come to Topeka Jeff
De Angeles, another Topeka favorite
is here tonight in "A Royal Rogue
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Famous Doctor Urges
Pyramid Pile Cure.

DR.. Williams. a prominent CRITICAL sur
geon, says: 1T is the duty of every sur
geon to avoid an operation if possible to
trials with Pyramid Pile Cure L unhes-
itatingly recommend it in preference to
an operation. For sale by all druggists.
Little book piles, Causes and Cure, -
mailed free. Pyramid Drug Co.. Marshall,
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Visit Grand Canyon of
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Illustrated books
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"Grand Canyon of
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