The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-18
HOW STORY GREW.
Wild Romance Of cas- You Like
It'' in Topeka.


Under the headlines AS You Like
IT Too Good For Topeka" the Kansas
City World Of Tuesday afternoon con-
tanned the following
1.-THE crowd OF Thespians. professional
and otherwise, who left Kansas City
Sunday on barn storming tour
through the WiIds of Kansas, had an
exciting and rather disastrous time at
their first Performance in the Sunf1OWer
state last nigt. They appeared in AS
You Like It at Topeka, but AS They
Did Not Like It would have been a
more fitting title for what the Kansas
C1tyanS produced. HoOdlums gathered
around the tent which was some distance
from the stage, and opened fire on the
actors with dirt rocks and spoiled yege-
tables, Manager Edgar Poe AlleA
thought the onslaught. was being made
by a crowd of small boys and went out
to quiet them. He soon discovered his
mistake when an Over-ripe tomato
struck him with a sickening thud where
his girth is greatest.
" If you fellows don't stop that III
call the police, he yelled angrily, and
he sent off to find Topeka's guardians
One lone bluecOat was available, and
when he appeared the deluge became
greater He threatened to shoot, but
did not Thicker and thicker came the
rocks, and he at last fed in dismay.
Actor Lester IlOnergan, in doubler
and hose, tried his powers as a peace
maker. but he was greeted with yells
OF .Hani HAM and a lot of rocks. He
too, fed into the tent.
THE rock throwing continued until
the hoodlums grew tired, and then their
yells spoiled the effect of the perform
ance.
.'Alice Treat Hunt, who IS playing
ROsalind to Lonergan's Orlando was
struck in the back by a good sized rock
as she was passing from the stage to
her dressing room in the tent. It in
dicted q painful bruise and there is fear
thar it did her internal mi &c
she was unable to go on with her part
for some time. When she did she was
unable to remember her part, because
of the pain she was suffering and had
TO be prompted frequently. She finished
the performance. but is in bed under the
care Of a physician this morning. The
production is under the auspices of the
Topeka Elks Manager Allen notified
them this morning that the play would
not be attempted tonight unless proper
police protection is secured. The Elks
are Indignant and win endeavor to learn
who were in the crowd of rufffans who
made the assault last night"
Manager E. p. Allen, of the company
was entirely responsible for the story
about Miss Hunt being injured He was
the authority for the story as printed in
the State Journal Tuesday afternoon.
He gave an account of the accident ex-
actly as it was printed to a reporter
He now denies that Miss Hunt was in
jured in the least. The frills to the story
as dreamed out in the Kansas City
World Office about ripe tomatoes and
spoiled vegetables is but a carrying out
of that papers policy to avoid the truth
and to roast Topeka. Mr.. Allen now
hastens to explain that the original
story and the foundation for the Worlds
pipe dream was the product of his own
imagination. He says Miss Hunt was
accidentally struck by a clod. a very
small clod, which did not iniure her in
the least.
Mr.. Allen slept on that incident and
during his sleep it grew until the clod
took the form of a rock and the fact
that Miss Hunt was struck developed
into such serious form that she was
confined to her bed-in Aliens dream.
The AS You Like IT. company left
for Wichita last night after playing to
an audience which was even larger than
the one which witnessed the first per
Torrance. Every seat was sold. The
fourth act was shortened last night in
order to allow the company to catch a.
midnight train. The Shakespearian
comedy a la. fresco circus fashion would
be better if the hands who care for the
| lights and canvas We're imDued with a
! They began taking down the canvas
/ side walls and stakes last night before
/ the performance was finished They
shouted orders at each other much to
1 the annoyance of the audience.
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