The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-25

| now wears a beautiful wig of dark
| brown. Miss Buckley is also in the
same class as Miss Bates as regards
| wigs
May Buckley, who has been resting
| in New York since leaving a. Chicago
| hospital, was engaged during the week
| for important parts with the FraWley
| stock company, now touring IN the
| west
Nat Goodwin and his wife. Maxine
| Elliott, arrived in New York from Lon
| don last Saturday night Mr.. Goodwin
says that i'll health caused him to close
his London engagement, and not bad
| business.
| Gertrude Haynes claims to have g.
| copyright on 1.-The Choir Celestial" and
has asked the New York courts to pre-
vent Charles Blaney producing an imi-
! tation of her act with The Mormon
| Wife"
! Marie Cahi1l. the clever comedienne
recently seen in 1.-THE ChaperoneS,' was
one of the original skirt dancers in this
country and graduated from that line
/ of effort into her present prominence.
| Minstrelsy is the one form of stage
| amusement that America can claim
| credit for originating, and yet today
| Philadelphia is the only city that has
burnt cork organization as a perIaan-
ent attraction.
n, Robert J. +, Donnelly win put an original i1aI
Rp5 Swn on BY fh the ro Sea Seas With tss
hardships of a sailor s life. and will be
J. H. Gilmour, who has been playing the
which closed in Chicago last Saturday
role in the forthcoming production of NO
ire Dame in New York.
During the Kendals' English provincial
month, they will produce two new PLAYS.
Cpmpbeil and the otber Is anu an SHI
from a German piece.
J. E. Dodson, the well known character
NJ WI a xTrifh AlVu Hielre -f-
company Until recently q has been signed by
faa w Of B eiapg e toT the d d1ndo1 RT466uG
the part of Simonides.
Gus PiSley, the comedian with one Of
nth bad case of small pox at hospital
It Sand Greek, Col. 1t is believed that
Kansas City two weeks ago.
n role Ho TnO saS Rsen playing z ta the
mick, entitled Out Of the Fold" The
theme was derived from Moody and San
keys hymn, Ninety and Nine"
Charley Evans goes back to "a ParIor
Match" next season. Klaw & Erlanger
is looking for a comedian to play sOId
Hoss" Hoey's part. and he may decide to
engage a prominent vaudeville artist.
Eugene Powers, a nephew of Gov. Pow
ers of Maine, is playing the title role in
The Village Postmaster" Mr.. Powers
receiving a salary of so a week. and has
worked his way up to the head of the com
PAW
The business relations of Frank Perley
and Isadore Witmark somewhat
strained on account of the desire of the
former to introduce new music into the
"Chaperones." Witmark wrote the score
of that piece and objects to any but his
own music being used.
The seating capacity of the country
six largest theaters is: Auditorium, Chfca-
go, 400; Metropolitan Opera house, New
York, $500; Boston theater, Btu; the New
Star, New York, 8, 040; Grand Opera house,
New York. 2.937; Academy of Music, Phil
adelphia, 1000.
Plenty of American plays are being writ
ten, even if the ideal has not yet been
reached Among the new copyrights are
Jesse James, the American Outlaw" "a
Ragged Hero Men, Maids and Match
makers" King Highball H. and Mus
tard Plasters-"
Manager F1ske Of the Manhattan thea