The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-26
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

Julie Walters and Louise L1ewellyn in
that comedy boom, Side Tracked" was
he way the announcement Of the won
derful production was given gently to
the people ON the advertisements.
WHAT right he has do it nobody knows
but the same Julie" Walters has been
travelling over the country as the box
car ramp in his startling drama" for
Eood many years, doing the same things.
wearing the same costume and looking
up the gallery in the same old way
to give the peanut gods the tip when to
applaud. Julie" Walters aggregation in
his comedy boom" is a fierce one, TO
say The least. There is every old farce
comedy character that was ever invent
ed. There is James Montague the
villain done by Henry Pemberton ard
done brown. He is one of those villains
that is rather tall, has a dab of corn
starch on his hair by the ears to look
preraturely gray, wears a long Prince
Albert coat and gloves and Of course a
silk hat. At other times he wears riding
boots and has a whip to use on the
shoulders of the poor but honest Sc
ton hand Then he smoked cigarettes
in the same old way which made c.,
think of a certain candidate for mayor.
When he got very villainous he fieck~si
the ashes off with his little finger in true
$40 per week villain style He told
the heroine that he had wealth and po-
sition" and that she could have all if
you Will became me wife, And Their
the heroine, Llewellyn. a pretty little
thing, perhaps, of about 165 pounds
Durden and a record to her credit of sew
eral summers since the Chicago fire.
scorned him just as the villains are al
ways scorned upon the stage She looked
50 saucy and cried Il shall be the wife
of an honest man" Then she looked at
the gallery through her half closed heaV-
lily painted lids and blinlzed until the
gods responded with a yell worse than a
Comanche' warhoop- Have a care
cried the villain and the blonde heroire |
shouted Coward like she was trying
to hail a street car. Then the villain, III
a very ungentlemanly manner, three 1
ened ner again. but she snapped her fin
gers in his face and whispered that for
your threats" She was such a humor- |
Gus heroine. She wore a bunch of roses !
at her belt, another in her chest and a
thru in her hair. Her lips were kali |
somined with vermillion but she puck
cred up her mouth every three minutes
despite the cracking of the paint Her
face was frescoed to the limit and har |
stuck together when she blinked.
There was the ''Dutchmans' with the |
Stubby beard who said watts in der |
vind' when he came upon the scene of |
action and that made him a life long |
friend with the gallery. There was the |
policeman, and he was just as poor rs |
the Dutchman, who tried to sing a sol.g |
and do a dance and made a dismal fail |
ure of both. He raped with his club |
and the bartender appeared with a drink |
for him. This feature was first done by |
the comedians captured by Noah and |
the cheap concerns have used it ever |
since Then there was a crash OF glass |
where the saloon was supposed to be and /
the police said Mrs Nations in there. |
but didn't get a laugh. Then he said |
hay was very high in Nebraska for the |
reason that one man got $4,000 for a |
little Cudahy.''
w. L
the American amalgamated tramp IN
ion and If the gallery had not stopped |
when it did the house would have come +
topping down on the parquet. Then Mr..
Walters as the tramp tried to eat all on
the lunch counter at the depot and said
eat of pie and other things and once
more the gallery gave an imitation Of
the battle in Manila bay. The villain
killed a man and made his escape in the
same old way. The innocent hero cane
along, saw the dead body Nv me fren,''
picked up the knife said who could
have done this Decd and while he held
the knife the villain appeared and said
You did, you are the murderer of John
Reynolds. Officer, arrest that man =
Then the hero says MY God, this plot.
7 on lie, I am innocent and then at the
right time the tramp appears TO say
the blood is on that other mans head.
I saw him do it,
A1NAAAtes AAAD RAOHAN71 VI liz AyAeAS -
young lady who could not sing tried a
bout with bethlehem" and come of
second best. She next tackled a dance
Of wonderful gyrations and did no better
with that. During the numerous events
HE gallery started a couple of fights
and ran things about like a Mexican bull
fight would be conducted Those in the
gallery only paid Is cents to see two
fights and the drama. julie Walters
will probably keep on playing the tramp
part as long as people will pay TO- Is, 81
and so cents to see him. He isn't 50
much to blame only he ought to have
guardian appointed.