The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-04

pany, Cleveland, for the summer.
Ed Rush, the well known burlesque
manager, is suing his late partner. john
Jerman of Philadelphia for ZOO al
legged to be due him for past services.
Olga Nethersoie is slowly recovering
from the effects of her operation at a
private sanitarium in London She will
not act again. however. until next sea-
son.
Manager Charles Blaney has been
sued for $500 by Madeline Mills, who
claims that much is due her on the play
The African King" and "A Mormon
Wife,
Thomas @. Seabrooke and"The Round
ers" have closed for the season Sea-
brooke's success was very pronounced,
and he is looking around for a new
opera
Mrs. James Brown Potter is very
sick woman, a physician being constant
" in attendance in the wings of the
London theater. She is suffering from
lung trouble.
Dudley HaWley, a leading member of
the western When We Were Twenty
One" company, which was seen in To-
peka, is suffering from congestion of the
brain in a hospital at Washington, Ia
Reports from London say that Count
Tezma, presented for the first time IN
that city last Saturday night by Forbes
Robertson and Gertrude Elliott, is a fat
''The Belle of Bohemia has been a
financial failure in London and has
almost swamped Manager LOwenfeld, of
the Apollo Theater, at which the piece
was produced.
The sGiddy Throng'' will shortly open
in Boston with a company said to num-
Der 135. Edward Hayes, Mabel Fenton,
and Dorothy Morton will have the prin-
cipal roles.
Phyllis Rankin began singing in the
London music halls last Monday. She
is assisted by six chorus girls and Selec-
tons from THE Belle Of New York are
given. The act made a hit
Edna Wallace Hopper recently won
$500 on horse race, a 12-tc 1 shot at
Aueduct
The Countess Russell will not come to
this country after all. Agent Gerson of
the Sires in New York cancelled her
contract because she insisted upon
bringing her mother over with her.
Ada Rehan closed her season in Cleve-
land last Saturday night. Her business
had been large, but she refused to go
west over a One-night circuit and re-
signed. She will sail for Europe next
week.
Marie Burroughs is to forsake the
Pherson, manager Of the New York
branch of Marshall Field & Co. of
Chicago. The wedding will take place
some time in June.
Henry Miller is still starring in Erich
ard Savage" He was in New York the
other day looking for a playhouse, in
which he proposes to make new pro-
ductiOn late this spring.
''Unleavened Bread is to have re-
vival at the fremont Theater, Boston,
May 6, with Brandon Hurst playing the
role Of the architect created by E. J.
Morgan, and Gertrude Bennett replac-
ing Eleanor Robson.
Clyde Fitch's PASTORAL play, Lovers
Lane" after four months of remarka-
BILE prosperity at the Manhattan Thea
ter, has been transferred to the Thea
ter Republic, where its New York run
win be extended until hot weather.
Three separate organizations present.
inc "a ct Ia
ed solid by VIM. A Brady for two years
to come. This successful rustic idyll and
it's younger rival Lovers Lane" will
be given in Australia by a special COM
pany in the spring and summer of 1902.
Negotiations are under way to secure
Francis Wilson for the comedy role in
The Prima Donna" now being played
in New York Should they prove sue
cessful Wilson and Lulu CHASER win once
more caper together, as the latter is now
playing the title role in the piece.
1t is among the possibilities that
James K. Hackett and his wife, Mary
Mannering, E. H. Sothern and Mrs.
Sothern all playing at the head of diff
ferent attractions, will be opposed to
each other at the opening of next sea-
son in New York
THE Girl from Up There" had it's
first London hearing last Tuesday
night and scored partial success.
While Edna May was well received, the
work of Montgomery and Stone. Charles
Aldrich and Harry Davenport received
the most applause.
Frank Doane quit 1.-THE Giddy
Throng'' company last Saturday night
as the result of a practical joke. In the
Richard Carve1' burlesque Doane
places a tin pail over his head as a
helmet and on that night it was coated
inside with hmburger cheese. Dan Nc
Avoy of the company is suspected as
the joker.
Grace Filkins. who in private life is
the wife of Commander Adolph Mark |
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very well known in Washington, has
severed her connection with the Otis
Skinner company Her husband has re-
Gently been ordered to the Philippines.
Mrs Mark intends going to Japan next
fall to join him.
The Theater is the title of a new and
handsome monthly publication devoted |
to the stage which will make it's APP
pearance in New York city. It's pub |
fishers, Messrs. Meyer Bros. & Co, in
tend making it a complete and elab- |
crate chronicle of the stage. 1t will be |
edited by Anthony Hornblow.
Oriska Worden, formerly prina donna I
of the Castle Square opera company, +
and now in vaudeville. has brought suit !
for divorce from her millionaire hus-
band, Charles w. Glover. of Ypsilanti /
Mics Miss Syor7en wants $40 900 a wear
parents for 500, 900 for alternating the /
alimony and will sue her husbands /
better halfs affections.
Mildred Holland, who has achieved re-
success in Theodore Kremer's
drama THE Power Behind the
Throne" will at the close of the present |
season make her first voyage across the
Atlantic She has rented house boat
on the river Thames, where she will
during the month of July entertain a
party of friends.
Lady Francis Hope. formerly May
Yobe. tainted during her first evening
appearance this week at the Chicago
opera house. She appeared unstrung at
he Afternoon performance, and although
advised not to try to sing at night. per-
sisted in her effort. Nervous prOstra-
ion is said by the physicians to be her
aflment and the statement is given out
that her condition is not serious.
Princess Chimay' some time since
signed docun ent pledging herself not
to appear over the footlights and re-
.