The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-19
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

The champion heavyweight fighter Of
the world. James ]. Jeffries, viii be
seen at the Crawford tonight in his new
play, "A Man From the West. The
champion pugilist has a. role in which
he viii display all the more familiarity
with its requirements from the fact
that his life with the exception of the
few years ne has spent in pugilisr was
spent among the people and about the
places Incidental to the scenes Of the
play Whether the author, Mr. Clay NJ
Green, had this in view when he wrote
the piece is not stated. but 1t has made
the role of an actor SOmeWht easier for
the champion. Many who have seer
MIN in the character role of THE IoIn-
ty Sheriff in " A Man From the West,
are sanguine in their statement that he
will become the premier pugilistic &C
tor of the world, just as he has aIrea ~
demonstrated that he is able to hold
the championship belt against all who
have tempted to come against him in
the realms of pugilism. The play has
been constructed along proper dramat-
ic lines and not with q view of simply
becoming a vehicle for the introdu elton
or rather exhibitions of the California
boy. Scenically the play is preteutious
and had a host of novel speciaIties fur
nished by John T. Tierney, remembered
for his clever work at the head of The
Hustler company Charles Shef.er of
the vaudeville team of Shelter and
Blakely, and Florence Sinnott. a pert
and vivacious little soubrette. add in
terest to most interesting performance.
"A Thoroughbred Tramp" which win
be presented at the Crawford Saturday
matinee and night is said to contain
many bright features that will enter
tain. The scenery and mechanical con-
trivances are said to be unusually eff
fective and the play one Of Interest
from beginning to end. Elmer Walters
as T. Rush Thompson, the tramp. keeps
the audience in happy frame of nind
whenever he appears and his 81 pport
promises to be good
"Goethe's poem Faust has done more
to elevate purity and illustrate the diff
ference between good and evil than all
the sermons ever preached" The HUI
bert Labadie company give the produc-
ton Of Goethe's Faust at the Grand
next Monday
That charming play, when We Were
81" as interpreted by that great actor,
George Clarke. and his talented com
pany. is m Getting with overlooking
houses everywhere. The story is raDlete
with humor, and the audience alternate
the evening in laughter and tears The
action of the play takes place chiefly in
the home of Dick CareWe, one of the
loveliest characters ever drawn by any
dramatis writer 1T is not often that
four confirmed old bachelors-an that
class of humanity is always believed to
be the most selflsh-can be found to-
gether in a little coterie, banded to-
Of a boy, the orphan child Of an old
friend. yet these men have for nineteen
years set by for the education of the
orphan money which, by reaSon of the
supposed chronic selfshness of bache-
lordom, would have been devoted to
their own personal comforts.
George Clarke was for years the lead
ing actor of the greatest theatrical
company in the English-speak ipg
tongue His long association with the
late Augustin Daily, for whom he acted
as general stage director, and with the
celebrated Miss Ada Rehan-who does
not remember George Clarke's t.Tetru-
clio" to her "Katherine?" His expert
ence with two such talented peopse has
made his name the synonym of all that
Is excellent in dramatic literature This
is the gentleman who. assisted by his
partners. the talented actor, William
Morris. and the we'll known manager.
Edward Z. Rice, organized the when
We Were Twenty-one" company. which
viii appear here Tuesday at the CraW-
ford.