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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-05
Theatrical Notes.

Clyde Fitch will build a home on Long
Island to cost SIS 600
Detroit is TO have new summer theater
with seating capacity of 5000
Truly Shattuck is to sing the prima
donna role in the production of Fiddle
Dee-Dee
Hilda Thomas and Lou Hall are to star
next season in THE Ffsherman's Daugh-
ter" comedy.
Only three cities viii see Mrs. Leslie Car
Philadelphia and Chicago,
Last Saturday night witnessed the death
of the Lyeeum theater, New York The
structure viii be torn down
Jessy Dandy. the vaudeville performer.
has had to cancel all his dates, it is re-
ported, on account of deafness.
Arrangements have been completed for
an Australian tour of Mrs. Leslie Carter
in '.Zaza@ at the close of next season.
Ellen Terry win play the role Of Queen
Katherine at the forthcoming Shakespeare
anniversary performance at Stratford-on-
Avon.
Minnie Dupree will be one Of next sea-
sons stars. appearing in = Rose of Plym-
outh Town under the management Of w.
6. Smyth.
David Relasco has secured contracts COW
ering three Years with q majority of the
company supporting Mrs Leslie Carter in
.Du Barry.
The law to allow standing in New York
theaters has passed both branches of the
state legislature and awaits the signature
of Gov. Odell
The chances are that Charles Frohman
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much money as scores of plays more
than triple its length.
Another one-aet play which has led its
author on to fame and fortune is Mr..
Henry Arthur Jones' Clerical Error
Until the production of this pathetic
little drama by Mr.. Wilson Barrett its
talented progenitor was unknown 10
theatrical audiences, but the success Of
the piece was SO great that Mr. Jones
was encouraged to make a further effort
in more elaborate direction. The re-
suit was The Silver King which he
wrote in collaboration with another
dramatist, and which placed him at one
bound among the foremost of English
playwrights.
Partisan playgoers are at the present
time being thrilled by one-aet draIna,
entitled .Au Telephone cat the teie-
phone), and it is said that the lucky au-
thor of this piece Of work IS rapidly
making a fortune therefronl. Already
the English rights of the play have been
purchased and offers from America and
the colonies are said to be pouring in
upon the playwright. There can be no
dosot that long before the piece has
ceased to attract the author will have
secured many thousands Of pounds
thereby fact which is all the more
remarkable IN view Of the rumcr that
written within the space OF a single
week
The well-known farce called THE
Spltajf1elds Weaver undou btedly
brought q considerable fortune TO Its
author. This one-act play was enacted
by Mr.. J. I. Toole at various periods
throughout his brilliant career in Eng
land and 1t has figured. moreover, al
/ countless anna eur entertainments.
Equally the amusing farce, lei On
Parle Francais'' has been responsible
/ for the piling up Of a very large sum
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Valuable FOLDER and Man.

A large folder which is called No. q
of the Four Track Series. has been is
sued by the passenger department Of
the New York Central Lines. This fol-
der bears the title Round the World
by WAY of New York and Niagara
Falls in Sixty to Eighty Days" It con-
tains a large amount of information Of
a cosmopolitan character, and an ex-
cellent railway map OF the United
States, showing the railway systems in
good proportion This folder is a Sc
queI to the address given by Mr. Dan
iels before the international Commercial
Congress at Philadelphia. and serves to
illustrate the immense debt which the
manufacturing and commercial inter-
ests of the country owe to Transports
ton lines for the effective manner in
which they have advertised the products
of An erican soil, mines and mills 10 tFle.
people of every country on the globe
The map which accompanies this folder
IS unusually clear and distinct. and the
eoloring and shading are artistically
treated. A copy of this folder will be
sent free. postpaid, on receipt of three
cents in stamps by George H Daniels,
General Passenger Agent. New York
Central. Grand Central Station, New
York.-From the Travellers Official
Railway Guide
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viii gain control Of another London thea
ter which viii run his total of English
holdings up to nine.
Klaw & Erlanger have the American
rights TO Mr., Bluebeard. + the big London
spectacle. John J. McNaly viii rewrite
the lines to suit this country.
1t was necessary for the actors fund to
donate $50 to save Billy Rice the min
strel from the potter's field. His friends
are talking of putting a 5000 monument
over his grave
Charles B. f4anford is having one of the
NEST successful seasons of his career in
Tanning of the ShreW and the one act
play THE Cid Guard in which he was
seen in Topeka this season.
Ellen Terry will more than likely not APP
pear with Sir Henry Irving when he tours
this country next season but Will take out
q company Of her own. appearing IN The
First Duchess OF Marlborough
Maud Qdell, who has appeared in Tope-
ka with James OsNeiil aud also a star
with the Castle Square Opera company.
will shortly be married to a prominent
physician of New York city
Sam Bernard has made the announce
ment that he win be married in June to
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MAD0E SCOT 7.

field of musical travesty. but this has
been successfully done by the Wilbur
t&irwin organization. The original pro-
duction of Jack and the Beanstalk''
with the features used in New York
Chicago Boston and Philadelphia, will
be staged precisely as given on its
opening night in the metropolis. Pop
ular prices win prevail, whereas the
production was built to play at 81
$3.50.
The remainder of the week Will be
devoted to operate repertoire of pieces
OF the character Of THE NIikado.
said Pasha," The Grand Duchess"
THE Merry War 'dascotte.s The
company comes to Topeka under
guarantee This fund has been secured
through the sale of special subscription
tickets. These tickets. calling for the
best seats in the house any night and
transferable so as TO be used by any
friend Of the purchaser, are being. sold
I'm lets Of six at 81 per set. The re-
naming blocks of tickets are now on
sale to the public at the box office at
the same price
Other Peoples Money will be at
the Crawford tonight, with Hennesy
leroyle and Gertrude Norman as the
stars.
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Miss Florence Deutch, a non-professional
ter OF a wealthy tobacco merchant
Laura Burt sailed for London last Satur-
day and VIII appear in The Purple Lady
in that city under the manag cement of Mr.
Williamson Miss Burt turned down good
offer to appear as 'Zaza@ in Australia.
Frances Belmont who is to be Charles
Hawtreys leading lady next season in A
from the chorus and has never had a
speaking part since her debut on the
STAGE
1t is reported that Hilda Spong returns
to England at the close Of the season and
the remaining members of the Daniel
to the support OF Bertha Galland in her
new play
Wayne Ellis, the author Of Miss and
other border dramas IS at work on a play
in which Annie Oakley. the famous rifle
shot Of the Buffalo Bill Wild West viii be
q star in the event that the play comes up
to her expectations
presented in London this season Jessie
Milward playing Amelia Binghams part.
and Fanny Ward VIII try to repeat the sue
/ cess achieved by Clara bl0odgo0d in the
second important role.
Alice Fisher, who was q member of the
DAILY Tneater Stock company. New York,
sailed for London last Tuesday and will
city. He is a member Of the Arizona
company, now in London.
A report comes from Chicago that Mrs
Ezra Kendall tJennie Dunn}W1l rejoin her
brother Arthur next season. presenting the
sketch in which they We're 50 popular some
as Flipper in "A Runaway Girl this sea
! son
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LULU eEAsER,s RoBBY.
Paid $4,000 For Set Of shakespeare's
Works in Ten Volumes.

What a charming thing it is that the
young women are turning their
thoughts from the frivolous things of
the stage and devoting themselves to
literature of the higher sort, says Karl
Decker, in the Morning Telegraph.
There Is Lulu CHASER, for instance.
How edited we all We're when Lulu
purchased ten volumes of Shakespeare,
'hand-painted." at 81 coo a volume.
That Lulu should have spent her weeks
earnings thus. instead of buying Pinky
Panky-Poo or a set of table tennis in
dicates 50 clearly to US the studious
bent OF the young woman's mind 1t IS
true that had the set not been hand
painted Miss CHASER might have passed
it scornfully by, but even at that, it is
a refreshing incident.
Not every actress, however. can in
dulge in $4,000 sets Of Shakespeare, and
many would not care to. Many of
them cannot afford to invest more than
$1,000 or $4,000 a week IN books, and
they do not care to squander their
whole weeks allowance on one set.
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4 GENTLEMAN WOULD NOT DIE
Another DAILY Story by Jimmie Pow
ers of sRunaway Girl" Fame.


Jimmie Powers has a fund OF Daily
stories that he often tells to friends at
ter the theater.
One particularly amusing one he tells
of an actor who had been engaged by
Mr.. DAILY for his famous company. The
actor had had a poor season, and asked
for an advance of three weeks salary.
After much humming and having in
his final meeting with Mr.. DAILY the ac-
tor eventually brought up the question
Of advance Mr.. DAILY half joldngly said
he could not grant the request, closing
his remarks with the assertion.
s4The play has not started. and. be-
sides, suppose something should happen
to your Suppose you should die between
now and the time rehearsals COM
uaence?s
The actor drew himself proudly to-
gether, and, looking Mr.. DAILY in the
face, replied:
Mr.. DAILY, that is impossible. I may
be poor, but I'm a gentleman
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HOW soTHERN WAS FOUND.
Daniel Frohman Thought He Had
@Too Much Co.,

Daniel Frohman was in a RETROSPECT
tive mood the other day while talking
tt a Philadelphia newspaper man.
TT was in Philadelphia he began,
that a manager of my acquaintance
approached me and asked if I would
not GO to see a play he was producing
There is a young man in the cast he
added. who has lots of go. I think you
viii like bim.' I saw the performance,
and he asked me what I thought of it,
and of the young actor in particular
The young man has too much 90.
answered; YOU ought to to- get PEI ri rid Of
him.
Why he exclaimed, if I do that
the play Will have to stop
Well, that's one reason why you
ought to get rid of that actor was
what I told him. The young actor was
E Fl. Sothern.''
Almost ever since Mr.. Frohman has
been Sothern's manager, and a better
noney-maker or a more popular star
is not in the country
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HAD ENOUGH OF PATTI.
Henry E. Abbey Lost $4,000 on He
American Tour.

LFrOm Leslie's Weeklyl
Adelina Patti was not always such a
gold mine" to managers as some may
suppose.
When she visited New York in 1880
her manager, Signor Lugo, overrea ched
himself by starting out on a ten-dollar
financial failure, notwithstanding PATHS
great artistic success. She sang to
81, 400 house on the first night and on the
second to $500. She got discoura ged, as
it was her own venture and gave it up.
The late Henry E. Abbey, who was bold
in his speculations then engaged her and
her company at $4,000 per concert. He
began at old WalIacks theater at Thir-
teenth street giving scenes of opera, and
the concerts there averaged over $1,000
a performance; but he lost in the out
of-town concerts 500. coo. a little later. be
ing asked by De Nivo to take Patti to
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solTE NOTABLE DEBUTs.
Henry Irving's and Ellen Terrv's Ca
reers Began the Same Night.


BY a very curious coincidence Sir
Henry irving was making his frst bow
10 the public from a Sunderland stage
umphs, Miss Ellen Terry, was making a
first appearance at Manchester under
gle.
70 neither is the memory Of that ev-
ehing pleasant. To Mr.. Irving it was
an eternity Of tortures'' and his nerv-
BUSINESS was so great that on leaving
the stage he tainted outright. Little
1slien ferrys' experiences were stilI
more painful. ana eliminated, like Mr.
lrVing's, In a dead faint the moment
she left the stage.
She was playing Puck in ssMids1ln,-
mer Nights Dream she was only z
years old at the time-and, in tie words
Of a critic of the time. was as svgaef
and dainty a Puck as was ever seen IN
any stage; and at the close Of the play
she had to rise through d trapdoor.
throned on a mushroom, TO make me
closing speech
Bx some naisehance the trapaoor was
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in the way Of authors fees. seeing that
Mr.. Toole alone enacted the same more
than four thousand times. and It has,
moreover, been played by amateurs in
every section of the Anglo-Saxon globe
"Ruth's Romance the pathetic and
charming curtain raiser which is
frequently performed at West End the
alters in London previous to the play Of
the evening, realized for its lucky
progenitor a handsome sum, and the
amount earned in fees by such one-act
plays as t'Withered Leaves Boots at
the Swan Delicate Ground and A
Case for Eviction would probably
amount to a well-nigh incredible fig
ure =
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MADE FORTUNES FOR AUTHORS
Famous One Act Plays That Achieved
Great Success.

Perhaps no one-aet play has brought
IFS author a richer harvest than has the
celebrated farce known to all hn2ilsli7
speaking playgoers throughout the W sosll
e ssF3oS and Cox This clever little
Dfaee has produced many thousands OF
1eunds in the shape OF acting fees, and
although its duration is little more than
half an hour it has earned ten tunes as.
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The Minstrel Men of Yesterday.

Z wonder in what Isle of Bliss
Jack Haverly doth fare2
And where the mirth Of Christy IS,
That charmed us once from carking
care2
And where is West the debonafr2
The wind has blown them all away:
Their songs, their jokes. their savoir
Oh. where are the Bones of yesterday?
Say where the great Alexesis.
Whose name was programmed as LIE
Clare2
And Barney Williams. whose duslzy miss.
Sweet Lucy Long, was a tuneful
snare2
And Billy Rice, Of the kinl1v hair2
The wind has blown them all away;
And Emerson. of the 'stumper's' chair2
Where are the TaTnbos of yesterday?
No more the plaudits or the hiss
To cheer them or to breed despair;
They care not for applause I wis,
Nor heed the drum or brasses biare:
They had their day and they paid their
share.
The wind has blown them all away
We cry-and echo nsWerS-Where-
An where are the End Men of yester-
day?
L EnVoi
Primrose, they've left you, pair by pair,
The wind has blown them all away,
IN vain we seek them here or there,
All, where are the Ministries of yester-
day?
Rochester POst-Express
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san Francisco. Abbey repzad: My dear
yivo, have got enough of Patti 1 lost
$4,000 but I made a reputation.
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The Wilbur Kirwin opera company
which PLAYED a successful weeks en-
gagenent in Topeka last season, VIII
be at the Crawford all next week. at
popular prices.
This big operate organization has a
surprise in store for the amusement
lovers Of Topeka on next Monday even
ing. when the scenic extravaganza
Jack and the Beanstall' win be pro-
duced. 1t is something of a departullr
for an opera company TO enter into the
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@25to California via Santa Fe.
Daily during March and April. Through
trains with free chair cars. and tourisE
sIeeperss
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THEATRICAL NEWS
Six Nights Of Light Opera Next
Week.
ssJack and the Beanstalk' on
Monday Night.
gUSIFKIRWIN COMPANY
Vaudeville Features Given Be
tween the Acts.
ether News of the Players ana
Players.
SUSIE KIRWIN COMPANY

ssOther Peoples Money, tonight
Wilbur kirwfn opera company, aA
next week.
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-05-17
Southern Baptist Convention.

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above occasion the Queen < Crescent Route
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c., at one first class limited fare for the
round "trip, on May 6. 7, 3, 9. and 10 with
final limit May Fl, with further privilege of
extension to June 2, provided tickets are
deposited with joint agent at Ashville on or
before May IS. and upon payment of fee of
fifty cents. This arrangement will give dele
gates and visitors attending this convention.
as we'll as the public generally, splendid
opportunity to visit Ashevile ut an exceed
ingly low rate.
The Qeen and Crescent Route offers
double daily service from and to New
Orleans.
Trains leaving New Orleans 9:Io a. m.,
and 1880 p. M, daily, arrive at Asheville
| $3.50 Il. M, and o:IS p. n,., respectively. The
9:Io a. m. train carries sleeper and dinning
car to Chattanooga; sleeper Chattanooga to
| Asheville. The evening train carries through
Pullman sleeper to Morristown; day coaches
Morristown to Ashevlle; dining car, Alfalfa
| to Morrstown.
| The 3:I5 p. m, train leaving Shreveport,
arrives at Asheville next evening 9:I5. This
train carries Pullman sleepers to Chatta-
nooga and Morristown; dining car serving
| meals.
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REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
Property Listed.

GOOD BUSINESS OPENN(-A large with residence
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WHO IS RESPON.S/BL

The war in the Philippines
Neither side will be OutdOne by
the other in it's metOdS of tor
ture. And if we want to be fair
we will not blame the soldiers.
A great American general, a
past master in the bloody
science, has said that war is hell,
and the American army in the
Philippines is simply trying to
make it as dark hell as it's op-
portunities will permit. 1t is a
horrible admission in this cen
tury of alleged Christian civi1i-
zation, which points to the death
Of the lOwly Nazarene as it's
fOunt of inspiration, that society
views with an approving con-
science the wholesale butchery
of a people whose only crime is
a desire to be free
The Gazette does not believe
that the American soldiers in the
Philippines find any pleasure in
the burning of homes and in the
killing of the unhappy islanders
They have been sent there for a
bloody business and they are
trying to make quick job of it.
War between two civilized pee
pies is at best an awful thing,
but how infinitely worse when
an adversary is a semi-savage
race? Are there in all the an
nails of time examples which ex-
ceed in cruelty the campaigns
against the aborigines in North
and South America, resulting in
many instances in the complete
determination of whole tribes?
The Gazette refuses to believe
that the American generals in
the Philippines and the commits
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sion sent to the archipelago are
perversely wicked. They are
engaged in the subjugation of a
people and it is not to be ex-
pected that they will succeed in
establishing American authority
throughout the islands without
the shedding of much blood, the
burning of homes and the
destruction of towns. The most
humane of generals have done
these things. To take life and
destroy property is the purpose
of war, whether waged by the
American, the English, the
Spaniard or the Filipino.
Instead of heaping abuse upon
the army, would it not be more
just to blame the benevolent
assimilatOrs" at Washington for
the atrocities which are being
committed in the Philippines? ?
They are responsible for the
national disgrace which has been
brought upon this country.
The Lafayette gazette., 1902-05-17
COZ DA U.s. PLAN

To man up Il tree the action
of Gov. JEFF Davis in pardoning
a negro convict, providing that he
Massachusetts, looksvery much
like bid for notoriety. AS a
reason for tacking so unusual a
proviso to the pardon, Gov.
Davis says that during a recent
visit to Massachusetts he was
repeatedly told by the people of
that esthetic commonwealth how
dearly they loved the unhappy
colOred brother who has been
doomed by a cruel fate to spend
his days in the South where his
good qualities are not appre-
ciated and where he is denied
social and political privileges
merely because the Almighty
has seen fit to cover him with a
white instead of a black skin.
The governor declares that when
he returned home he picked out
among the cOnvictS of his State
rare specimen of the genus
Afro-American who possessed
all those racial characteristics
which have challenged the adj
miratiOn of the humane New
Englander from the time of Mrs.
Stowe to that of Miss Jewett.
Gov. Davis seized what he con-
sidered a glorious opportunity to
make happy at least one Arkan-
sas negro and to contribute to
the happiness of Sam bo'S long
distance friends.
Though we are inclined to
: think that the Arkansas execu-
tive is a practical joker or is
seeking nOtOriety, there is some
thing is the novel plan which he
proposes to bring together two
classes of worthy citizens who
have such passionate fondness
for each other that it is little
short Of Il crime to keep them
apart when it is so easy to make
things mutually agreeable. But,
strange to say, the MasSachu-
setts papers have failed utterly
to appreciate the lofty sentiment
which, it is said, prompted the
governor to take this step. He
has been called all kinds of bad
names and it is feared if the un-
fortunate convict should 90 to
Massachusetts he will find any
thing but cordial greeting at
the hands of the meek Puritans
whose hearts never cease to
bleed for the negro, provided he
keeps within safe distance