The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-19
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.


julie Walters will present his latest
production. Just Struck Town. at the
New Crawford theater this evening He
claims there is much to commend in his
new piece. side Tracked" which has
always had a large following, is indis-
solubly linked with the name of julie
Walters. His new venture it seems, has
met with the same pronounced success
Louise Llewellyn, who playes a Swede
hired girl. and Adelaide Walters. the
daughter of the proprietor, are featured.
The prices will be 10, 20 and 80 cents.
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The sale of boxes and seats for the
enga cement of THE Princess Chic" at
the Grand opera house Friday night
starts tomorrow morning at s o'clock
at Flad's drug store. Numbers will be
gwen at Z o'clock The prices will be:
Box seats, $1.50; lower floor, $3.50 and
ST. balcony rs and so cents. The costum-
ing and scenic mounting of this legiti-
mate comic opera are remembered by
those who saw the performance here
two years ago superb. These fea-
lures add not little to the bright score
of the composer. Edwards and the book
of Kirke La Shelle. In his work La
Shelle has broken away from the pre-
vailing form of musical comics, and his
story and lyrics are of the highest class.
There is a definite plot, light one to be
sure, which tells of the conquest of
woman Halter. the Duke of Burgundy,
Dy Inc Princess CHIC, VINO enters MS
court disguised as a courtier Christine
Hudson as the princess in male attire
is heralded as chic beautiful and pos
sessed of an excellent voice. Joseph c.
Miron. whose tremendous basso voice
and handy legged comedy made such
hit here before, is again playing "Bre-
vet the staggering and faint hearted
soldier of fortune. The company is
large one, well supplied with comedians
and singers
Stetson's Uncle Toms Cabin com
pany, without destroying the venerable
earmarks Of this attractive dramatiza-
ton of Harriet Beecher Stoves great
work. has added much to the features
introduced. The fun is now enlivened
by the pranks of two ''Topsies," and the
humor strengthened by two Marks .
while more of the quaint pastimes of
plantation life as it was "befo' de
wahr, in the way of cakewalks, buck
and wing dancing, jubilee singing, give
a more realistic glimpse of the latter
days of slavery This company will be
seen at the New Crawford Friday matt
nee and night.
May Ward, a clever little ingenue,
will play the soubrette role in Manager
U. D. Newell's comedy, "A Jolly Amer
lean Tramp" She introduces a number
of clever specialties in her role. The
play will be seen Saturday afternoon
and night at the New Crawford theater.
The Vinegar Buyer" is the title of
Ezra Kendalls new play, OF rather the
play which Liebler & Co. had Herbert
Hall Winslow write for Ezra Kendall.
and which is to be presented at the New
Crawford Monday evening The title of
THE Vinegar Buyer" is an odd and
amusing one. but it imperfectly de-
scribes the Joe Miller" of the play, the
character which Mr.. Kendall imperson.
ates, for Joe Miller" does lots of things
in the play which are of vastly more
interest than his vocation as a vinegar
buyer. Really the vinegar buying bust
ness cuts but small figure in the play,
though Joe Miller is vinegar buy.
err" beyond question. Still he is a
grand, good fellow, whom the whole viii
lage learns to love for his big heart and
wise head and generous impulses, whose
whole life is devoted to good works. and
whose bump of shrewdness and known
edge of human nature enables him to
overcome the machina tons of the wick
ed and care for the unfortunate and OPP
pressed in a way that warns the cookies
of the heart of the auditor, and NAL es
him glad that he is alive. The sale
starts Friday.