The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-29
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

The most complex character on the
stage today and at the same time the
most interesting from the standpoint of
human interest is that of sis Hop
kins" in the play of that name which
will be seen at the Grand opera house
on Tuesday. In isis Hopkins" which
is one of the most delightful of plays,
trimming with comedy and gently
touched with pathos. Miss Rose Mel
vile. who takes the title role. has
achieved an enviable reputation and is
this season in her fourth consecutive
tour in this play.
THE Heart of Maryland" will be the
Offering at the Crawford on Tuesday. 1t
fective play which David Belasco has
brought before the public. No play of
our time has attained so popular and
extended hearing nor gained for its
author SO secure and brilliant reputa-
ton among the leading playwrights of
the English speaking world.
The special engagement of Miss Alma
Kruger in her impersonation of the
character of the heroine. Maryland
Calvert" in which she was the original
successor of the famous Mrs. Leslie
Carter, for whom the play was written,
is welcome announcement. In her
portrayal of the part she achieved an
immediate success. The cast also in
cludeS Messrs Herbert Bostwick, Tefft
Johnson, Rowland Hill, Francis Justice,
B. J. Murphy. Thomas Lowell, Misses
Anna Wynne, Florence Foster and Janet
Golding.
Mrs Jack" by Grace Livingston Fur
Miss serves a double purpose for not
only does it provide roIlicking farcical
comedy for the amusement of theater
goers. but it also introduces in a con-
genial role Miss Alice Fischer now
universally acclaimed Americas fore
most Coincidence" Miss F'urniss in tho
three acts of her comedy employs IN
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laughable situations and tells her story
through the medium of crisp. pungent
dialogue. Her heroine, Mrs. Jack is
widow who, although she never livec
happily with her husband, inherits his
millions to the exclusion of his brother
and sister. She is of the west, of
broad, frank and honest nature and
shocks and discomforts her husbands
snobbish relatives because she insists
upon providing for heterogeneous col
lection of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., prize
fighters and poor relatives-whom her
husband had befriended in his lifetime
Suspensive interest is lent through a
codicil to her husbands will. In the
end his fortune goes to Mrs. Jack be-
cause she has given shelter to an hum
BILE relative. With Miss Fischers spirit
ed and highly humorous exposition of
the title role, a cast of clever comedians
and fine stage pictures, the play
proved to be a laughing success, total
ling run of 100 nights in New York
divided between WallackS and the VIC
toria theaters. Mrs. Jack" under the
direction of Mr.. Harry B. Harris will be
presented here at the New Crawford
theater on New Years afternoon and
night.
If a man goes to Sc a show, he doesn't
care who he sees. If he likes the show.
He wants the main part of the play to be
funny. but he wants a plot to hold the
interest. He wants the characters to be
true 60 life he wants to see good scenery
and good acting. such are the features to
be found in my Friend From Arkan-
saw" which will be seen New Years for
a matinee and night performance at the
Grand opera house. Prices are Is to 75
cents with matinee prices at Is to 80 cents.
| In For Her Sake" the play which
comes to the patrons of the Crawford
| theater Friday. will undoubtedly find q
piece of sterling dramatic merit for play
of the sort. 1t is four-act melodrama
descriptive of Russian official life and
/ the conduct of affairs in the Siberian con
vict mines. The company is a large one
and carries a big stock Of special scenery