The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-30
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

The advance sale opens at Rowley &
SHOWS at o'clock tomorrow morning
Tor Foxy CUTLER at the New CraW-
FORD Monday night Numbers will be
given, beginning at o'clock. The
prices will be: Box seats and lower
floor, $50; balcony, 81 and rs cents;
second balcony. 80 cents. Richard
s5glden, the principal comedian of the
Foxy CUTLER opera companv is
known to theater- goers all over this
country as fun maker of rare ability
His work in the title role of De Koyen
ana Smiths tuneful opera is said to be
tue pest he has ever done as the char
acter of the bombastic, overbearing
oxy -t9u1iler affords him exceptional
opportunities for the display of his ire
slstlple numor No comic opera staged
IN recent years has been received with
such favor as Foxy CUTLER and it
mas been frequently referred to as the
pest efforts of those prolific writer's Dc
hoven and Smith. The same production
that won distinction in the large cities
OF the east win be brought here and it
is expected to be one of the best musical
offerings of the season.
The Carter Reynolds company comes
nlghly recommended to Topeka, opening
MONDAY night for three nights en-
saSement: They will present the four
act melodrama Cumberland Gap4 in
tersperSed with up-to-date specialties
Women will be admitted free to this
performance under the usual conditions
Inc sale starts tomorrow at F1add's.
The audience at the Grand tonight for
Ameha Bingham's production of A
Modern Magdalen" will be large ard
fashionable. The event appeals to play
soers VINO like high class perform
ance and ii is believed that tonignt's
presentation Will be one of the finest
ever seen here. With such distinguish
ed players as w. J. Ferguson and Ro-
selie Knott leading a company of near
~ score, every mem Der of which is
regarded as an artist thoroughly ar
tlst1c Interpretation of Haddon Cham
Ders intense and much discussed drama
is assured In her delineation of
katlnka, who sins that benefit may
come to her family. Roselle Knott is
credited with reaching great emotional
nelBnts- W. j. Ferguson has long been
known as one of the foremost character
actors on the stage. So pleasant was
the initial experience of playgoers here
with Miss Bingham's productions, when
Ihe Climbers was seen last April,
that they feel every faith in tonight's
event The scenery, gowns, proper ties
and other accessories viii be beyond the
high standard set in THE Climbers" it
IS promised. The prices are: Box seats
$l-5e; lower floor S1.50 and 81; balcony
IS and so cents; gallery rs cents.
Fitz and Webster's newest production
OF "A Breezy Time will be the offering
at the New Crawford theater Saturday
afternoon and night. The piece has
had many years of success. The prices
Tor children at the matinee will be Is
cents, and for others 25 cents: at night
70 50 and so cents will be the schedule.
While the comedy Two Merry Tranps, >,
as presented by Wood & Wards company
/ has been pronounced a bright satire by
the press during the past two years, the
| play in itself is of minor Importance, the
specialties and musical numbers intro
duced almost continuously during the ac-
ton of the comedy being the features that
have placed this organization at the head
of its class. Some twenty specialties are
given. Two Merry Tramps" will be seen
at the New Crawford Wednesday night
Two Englshmen engaged in a heated
! argument at a Sousa concert in London in
| December, one contending that there were
strings in the Instrumentation of the
American band while the other as post
lively declared that the March Kings
and simple The argument led to con
the concert Mr.. Sousa was asked to allow
the question to be definitely decided, to
which he readily assented. The first man
made his way through the musicians who
crowded the stage. and picking up the
snare drum he turned it over and showed
the several strings that span the under
head of the instrument. The argument
was over. With a laugh the kind" COM
panion agreed that he had lost. Sousa
brings his great band here for a single
concert on Friday night, November 7, at
the Auditorium, and the advance sale
starts Monday.