The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-28


he will open Monday night in David
Harum."
James K. HacIett and his wife, Mary
Mannering, will appear in special
production of THE Tanning of the
Shrew', next spring
]. B. Howe, the veteran English actor,
will shortly celebrate with a testimon-
ial and a benefit his fifty years in the
profession.
Iris the name of the principal char
acter, is the name selected by Mr.
Pinero for his new play, soon to be
produced in London.
Helen Merrill. singer fom San Fran
cisco. has been signed for a prominent
role in the Frank Daniels Miss Sim
plicity' company.
Jolly John Nash. the comedian, is
dying in London of cancer. Several ben
eficia1 organiza tons of which Nash is a
member are providing for his wants
The Sin of a Life" a dramatization
of Ouida's novel Wanda is shortly to
be produced in London. The play is
built along melodramatic lines.
Since the piece has proved a success
George Broadhurst admits that he is
the author of Rudolph and AdOlph,'
in which Mason and Mason are star
ring.
Nelly Farren has opened a school in
London for musical comedy aspirants,
and as she has become an invalid gives
her instructions from an invalid's chair.
A London theater of prominence has
the following ALTERATION as a motto
printed on its programmes: Pure
plays and pleasant. performances at poor
purse prices"
The title of the play Justin Huntley
Mccarthy has written for E. H. Sothern
is IF I Were King" 1t deals with the
life of Villon, the improvident French
poet.
Carmen was sung at Bayonne,
France. recently in an arena with a
stage 100 feet wide by 50 deep. Two
bulls We're killed by Spanish toreadors
in the bull-fghting scene.
Jack Mason, in The Altar of Friend
ship" has had a favorabl reception in
Boston, and his manager, Jacob Lift,
is trying to secure an extended date in
New York
Mrs James A Herne is directing the
rehearsals of Sag Harbor." She was
once an actress and thoroughly under
stands her husbands ideas as to how
the piece should be presented.
Helen Redmond, seen here with Frank
Daniels. has replaced Bertha Walzinger
as the leading soprano in the New York
production of "FlOrodOra-" Miss Wal
Finger joins a road company playing
the same piece.
VIII A Mcconnell will be let out OF
"Champagne Charley through the blue
penciling OF Augustus Thomas Mr. Nc
Cornell intends going back into the bust
ness management.
J. Fred Zimmerman. jr.. will be married
Miss Bob Whife.'i next Spring. Mr.. zinl-
norman met Miss Jackson last winter and
will retire from the stage.
Barrie's new comedy for Maude Adams
Quality Street. tells of the lives of two
maiden ladies who dwell in small coun-
try town. The period is the early part OF
the nineteenth century.
Frank Mckee the manager says that
Sardou. Pinero and Clyde Fitch are now
work on original plays for Mary Man
Janice Meredith fails to draw.
Thomas Bailey Aldrichs Mercedes is
soon to have London presentation 1t
will be PLAYED as curtain raiser to ,'Ihs
in the English metropolis.
Miller Ken. Kent opened his season a,s in Clyde
Atlantic City recently The company is
tour extends to the Pacific coast.
Relatives of Georgia Cayvan say that
the recent reports of the actress illness
We're greatly exaggerated and that it is
expected that she will shortly recover
from her present hysterica1 condition
Fred Whitney has closed up his The
Wooing of Priscilla company and viii
wait for New York opening before pro
the piece is sover the heads of one night
stands" Clarence Coldren Of Topeka is
in the company.
scented at Roster & Balls several seasons
a go and made something of a hit, will be
brought up to date and sent on the road
with strong company about the first OF
November
The part of the widow in 1.-THE Henriet-
ta.v to be played by Stuart Robson this
season in Topeka was offered to Mrs
James Brown Potter. but she declined
with thanks. and says she does not care
to return to America at present
JUNE McCree,a western comedian whose
work ha been confined to variety houses.
has impressed the New York managers SO
favOrably that he has been secured as the
principal funny man in a musical comedy
soon to be presented
The Clippers London correspondent
says that rumors that Sir Henry Irving
and NJ Coqueiin have acquired the Eng
fish and French rights, respectively in
Foxy Grandpa are denied as premature
by those distinguished actors
Two of the London theaters. over which
Charles F'rohman has direct control. and
three others in which he was Interested
with English managers We're closed last
Thursday night ont Of respect for the late
President Mckinley
Horace Golden. the well-known magi-
clan. in interview in London paper
years ago in Tennessee he was clerk in
a store and after that a jeWelry drum
mer and stage assistant to a magician.
Kate Carney. a well known London
vaudeville actress, has a new skit on the
picl1aninny business which she calls
Kate Carney and Her Troupe of Pick
pockets" The kids are arrayed like
district
A play based on Poe's story, The Muir
ders in the Rue Morgue, viii shortly be
produced in England. ind the chief part.
that of a huge ape, viii be played by Ed
ward Sill ward who has had experience in
a monkey part in a sketch called Satan
Martin Harvey. the well known English
actor. has advised KlaW & Erlanger that
he viii make an American tour next