The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-23

Miss Allen to London in the drama
florence Sam the yS,lng aetress Mi1s
ION If ~ y VII lhIaelo pr9oeS
Hackettss leading lady next season. wher
he appears IN Don Caesars Return
Lady Francis Hope has closed hei
Gtddy Throng engagement and will
BY George. v Hobart Neither her voice
nor her talent would seem to warrant he1
stay before the footlights-only the novel
Malde Adams may play at the London
Prince OF Wales this spring. Alice Neil
sen, Edna May, Julia MarlOwe William
Gillette and E. H. Sothern are all look
ing forward to nearby London engage
Inenfs. as are also Nat Goodwin and Max
Manager Brady has certainly won the
his ventures ranging from Round New
York IN Eighty Minutes Nv omen and
Her Majesty Lovers Lane.'' way
Down East. the present Uncle Tom s
Canln revival and the forthcoming play
The Bonnie Briar Bush is to open at
the Republic theater, New York, Septem~
Blanche Walsh..s first play next. season
Is the drama tization Of the Crockett novel
Sadie Martinez made her first appear
ance IN s.Saphos' on Monday at Rochester.
Why not admit that Topeka theatergo-
ers We're disappointed in More Than
Queen as presented by Blanche Walsh
and her company
Anna Held is not to be seen in London
u evlfe, aecording e the latest
woman. Smith and DeKOven are at work
on a new music farce or vaudeville for
her use during next season, when, it is
thought, she viii have Zelie de Lussan
in her company. Charles A Bigelow. who
IS to remain in the Held employ.
lrying's production of .*Coriolanus." in
April He IS TO give the tragedy in three
parts. devoted to showing Coriolanus' trj-
from Rome and his death in the camp Of
the Volscians. TadeIna IS designing the
1rI
that, pictorially, the venture will tran
scend anything hitherto attempted by the
Joseph Holland IS to create the role
Of George. Washington in Betsy Ross,
receive a local production a new work
of fiction of that title is advertised as
which. it is said. is being subjected to
some heroic revision by Joseph Grismer.
his Monks of Malabar.'' It is too bad
that he could not have been induced to
come to Topeka
An eastern paper says: 1t is said that
Francis Wilson contemplates a revival OF
some Of the comic operas in which he
star The best of them ('.The Gondoliers''
excepted, Of course) was The Merry
the late Woolson Morse. It was a capital
music FARCE. with a number Of good COMIC
1.-THE Chieftain 1.-THE Devils Deputy
s'Half-a-King' and 1.-The Little Corporal
latest, s'The Monks of Malabar." is not a
wonder. The piece based on t-Cyrano de
Bergerac' was a fiat failure from the be-
ginning although it cotained some pretty
music.
It is said that Amelia SummerviiIe is
to become a star in the farce, written by
Thomas Addison, called What Shall We
Do With Herr
The engagement of the Marine band for
the Auditorium will afford an opportunity
for someone to use the injunction
Isaac Henderson, formerly publisher of
the New York Evening Post and for
many years q resident of Rome. has writ
nllV
HumIning Bird which Mr. Wyndham
will produce in London. where he with
draws Mrs. Danes Defense The lat
ter play, however. continues to enjoy ex-
traordinary popularity and some time will
elapse before London will have chance
of judging the production of the American
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