The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-18
Theatrical Notes.

little Lord Fauntleroy'' is to be revived
in London.
AUNT Louise Eldridge is critically ill in
New York with pneumonia
1t is again reported that Della Fox has
entirely recovered her health.
F. F. Proctor is organizing a stock com
Weber and Fields will handle ''Du Bar
ry'' and Mrs. Leslie Carter in their next
burleSCue-
At the last meeting of the Dramatic So
ciety of Rome ninety original works were
sent in.
Billy Emerson, the old time minstrel, is
in want in San Francisco and will be given
a benefit.
New York city capitalists are thinking
manent circus
Mrs Leslie Carter says she never forgets
the gallery gods" a- -
Ezra Kendall is to be on one of next sea- sea;
handle the managerial reins-
The Barnum- Bailey show is said to have
melted profit concentrating mating SS5o.OoO as a
The Music hall and Columbia theater
Boston, have advanced their prices of ad-
mission. A good sign of prosperity.
Henrietta Crosman has been personally
directing the rehearsals of Joan of the
Shoals in Boston during the past week.
Mildred Holland has a new play, THE
Lily and the Prince" 1t has to do with
Rome and it's nobility several centuries
ago.
Joseph B. Polk, an old time actor, was
found dead in bed at a hotel in Baltimore
last Sunday. His death was caused by
The statement that the women of the
College Endowment association in MllWau-
foT. them becsuse she had been an actress
is denied.
Edwin Arden has secured an engagement
with a San Francisco Stock company and
will play leading roles there until the end
of the season
Peter F. Daily has made a joke. Since
he has gone into continuous vaudeville he
says he has dropped the Peter r. ana
may be known as Twice Daily
1t is stated that in the Island of Heligo-
land, where Richard Mansfield was born,
no person under sixteen years of age, is
permitted to enter theater-
R. A. Barnet's latest musical comedy,
WHICH is to be PRODUCED for the the first time
be Called .a,ishe SHOW Girl ''-''' w.
Laura Burt who has been in a New
York hospital for the past six weeks, is
on the stage next week
William Collier gont apR .ea in H. Harry
ter all. Mr.. Collier says the piece is not
to his liking in its present shape
When May Irwin retires from the stage
Reed s daughter Of the late Roland Reed
will star in the Irwin repertory.
Deputy sheriffs got after Walter Jones
in Boston for an old Indebtedness and.
pleading a sore throat as an excuse, the
comedian Immediately left for Chicago.
''San Toy ran for 500 consecutive per-
formances at Days theater in London
and was then only taken off because an
for it.
Stella Hammerstein, daughter of Oscar
Hammerstein, the New York manager,
night in Frohman's 'Frocks and Frills.'
Paul Testers new play; interchangeable lie
Mrs. Langtry a week from tonight The
piece will have an elaborate production.
William H West. the well known min
strel, is suffering from smokers cancer,
and. although his present condition is not
critical it is feared that he can not re-
cover.
E. D. Stair will put forward George Sid
comedy. Mr.. Sidney has been a big sue
cess with Ward and Vokes in Hebrew i'm
itations
Charles Frohman says that he intends to
and hopes to have the aid of NJ. Coque-
lin in the idea and perhaps in the manage
ment-
A New York report says that John w.
Dunno has been offered $15, 900 by Fisher &
Ryley as a compromise in his suit against
the latter for a portion of the profits OF
''Florodora.''
Mrs Patrick CampbelTs Chicago engage
ment has been big success. 1t is esti-
weeks, play, and this with the big Sunday
crowds eliminated
Ormond H. Butler of Washington has
Joined the forces Of Stuart Robson as act
ing business manager. Mr.. Butler was I'M
til recently business manager for Daniel
Frohmans company.
E. H. Sothern's engagement in Chicago
was the second largest, financially. in the
history of Powers theater. Some years
ord with $4,000 for the week
Joseph Wheelock. jr., who went west to
recuperate from threatened attack of
consumption is said to have almost recov-
sumo acting before next season
Mary Hall, who played Janice Mere