The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-04
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

''Fovy CUTLER as seen at the CraW-
ford last night, is a one ring show with
one clown and that is Richard Golden
If it was not worn out the expression
lit is to laugh might well be applied
to him. He is the whole show and the
burden is not too great for his caDa-
biltieS.
Foxy CUTLER is advertised as
comic opera but that is Joke. huge
joke The Sultan of Sulu' is called a
musical satire and The Burgomaster"
a musical comedy. Both of them have
greater claims to comic opera than Foxy
CUTLER" Dekoven and Smith certain
ly ran out of material before they
reached this. But for the one really
good comedy conception the perform
ance would be SO unutterly rank that it
would invite abuse and vegetables.
There is no music &c it worth mention
ing Only Golden has an opportunity
and only Golden has the ability to be
unqualifledly funny. 1t is not difficult
to understand why the opera was
failure in the east when it was produc-
ed with Jerome Sykes in the title role.
The scenery Of the three acts was
very good and the costuming was far
above the usual The chorus was as
ugly rs & convention of South Sea Is
landers seeking female suffrage. The
chorus sang very well but had little to
sing that was really worthy of an effort
The singing honOrs were easily won by
Harry Leone. who played his favorite
Topeka before playing a similar part in
"A Runaway Girl" Leone has a rich
baritone voice much richer and fuller
than many imported as special features
with concert companies.
But to get back to Golden. He was
here last season and season before IS
"OId Jed Prouty,' of Bucksport, Han
cock county, Maine. who kept tavern
and once had eleven people to dinner in
one day. Anyone who has seen Golden
as "Old Jed" will see that many of the
motions and oddities of the part of
"Quiller" as he plays it came right from
Bucksport Golden was in comic opera be-
1 fore he wrote Jed PrOuty' and as ne
said in his curtain speech last night
after he had been called before the cur
tain following the second act, he has
gone back to his first love- The otHer
! funny man in the cast with Golden was
/ Adolph link Austrian by birth, % years
of age and Just able to shake the scale
beam at "a pounds with his OvercOat on.
link is funny because he is so small.
He was a Jap and then a pocket edition
of the ghost of Napoleon. Because link
could hide in clothes baskets and va
Uses and be carried around by the I'M
suspecting owners of the valises and
clothes baskets, he was ludicrously fun
ny
Golden ought to go home and run for
| the legislature. The funniest thing he did
last night was the speech he made in ac-
cepting a nomination. A band of Corsi-
can brigands had been left chiefless be-
cause their terrible leader had suffered the
fate of the u chiefs before him and had
been hanged The brigands nomina ted
| -sQuiIler' for their chief and the gestures,
articulation and spread eagle that he used
in accepting the nomination which had
been forced on him at the point of the
stilletto were the hit of the performance.
If Golden had only been in the local COM
paign with that speech he might have
started himself on the career of a states
man.
Carlotta Gilman as La Colombia was
n the leader of the female contingent and
she sang acceptably we'll Edna. Bronson
was hardly up to the requirements of
Polly Prime" and Daisy Hamlin as
| Daphne was not perfect. Melville Col
Inns lacked something to make the part