The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-15

Are You a Mason2'' will probably be
Weber & Fields opening piece next fall
Edgar Smith is working on the piece
1.-The Girl From Up There will play the
season out in London. notwithstanding
the present bad business and Will resume
next fail at the old stand
Frank Keenan,. who has been seen in
Topeka in Sol Smith Russelfs plays. will
next season .aRpea4TT II InaT!eS stem
"A Short Exposure a one-act play by
Anstep. has been secured for the use of
John Drew to be utilized by him when
called upon to contribute to special per-
formances.
Not in many years has a New York
theatrical season been 50 profitable as the
one just drawing to a close. The failures
We're very few and they were chiefly mu-
steal productions.
MalfeT HoqS wh9 has PlaSSea i eo
pany. has secured the rights to Hum
bug" Roland Reeds old comedy, and
viii star in it next season
Christie Mcdonald, who was recently
married to a son of Joseph Jefferson, is
next season. Augustus Thomas is reported
to be working on the play for her
Vivie Nobriga,- recently of the variety
team of Van and Nobriga. died last Tues
day at Buffalo Of consumption Miss Mo-
briga was one Of the first ladies to score
a success singing coon songs.
If there is no hitch in the present nego-
tiations. Annie Russell VIII appear IN Lon
don next fan. presenting the Royal Fam
ily.'' King Edward VII is said to have
offered objections to the production.
It is said that the manager of a Chicago
theater is to back Leo Ditrichstein, the
playwright and actor, to the amount of
$4,000 in a venture with an independent
theater n Ihat city Inc lusa ls 70 sup
American plays solely
The effort to make an opera out OF
EhakeSpeare'S Much Ado About Moth
ing by DR.. Stanford and Julian Sturgis
of London. has proved a failure. The opera
and fell Hat
Lena Merville. the actress. has secured
q divorce from her husband, Al Leyering,
the travelling manager MISS MervIile was
best knogn in the days Of Henderson s
one of the principals.
THE Eternal City" Hall Gaines latest
novel. is to be dramatiZed and put on the
stage next season. AS Viola Allen is COM
pletely booked for all of next season In
the Palace of the King. Mr. Game will
have to look elsewhere for his heroine
The projected suit of damages by Maize
Toilette against Lula Chaser has been
called off through the efforts of several
New York managers. and the former is
likely to appear as a star in a musical
comedy next season. The offer of this en-
the dismissal of the suit.
There viii be quite a shifting around of
viii be with Mary Mannering. Robert T.
HaineS with Mrs IaA1Oyne. Robert LOr-
will play opposite to Annie Russell
and Robert Drouet goes with Blanche
Walsh
Florence Kahn, W. J. Lemoyne. Theo-
dore Roberts. Charles Kent. Arthur Ell
HOt, Fernando EliScu- George LesOir. Will
ton Lackaye. Virginia Buchanan and
Charlotte Walker are named for the sup
port next season of James K Hackett- It
is said that he is to act the hero of a
dramatizatiOn of The Crisis that is to
be made by Winston Churchill himself.
George V. Hobart (DunkenspieD is
named as the ibrettist Of two of next
seasons comic operas-'.The Daughters
Dangerous. which is to have a score by
Reginald DeKoven. and The Happy Hon
eyTnoonF' for which Gustav Iuders. COM
poser of THE Burgomaster,2 is to furnish
the music
Live lions. to the number of two, were
used in 1.-The Prince of the World a re
ligious'' play that was offered in New
York city during the last week Hal Reid
of Human Hearts fame and Bertha Belle
NNestbro0k wrote it.
Marie George is to be in the cast OF
THE Strollers. the new piece in which
Francis Wilson is soon to appear. Julius
Steger. who was to have appeared in the
same play. has been retired, owing. it is
said. to Mr. Wilson'S insisteuce that all
his assistants in the original production
shall be at liberty to remain with him
during next season in the event of the
success of the evnture-