The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-20
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

A fine audience will greet Tim Muir
ply tonight at the New Crawford thea
ter, when this admirable comedian will
present "Ol6 Innocence" The central
idea of this play has been longer on the
stage than any other in the whole dra-
matte catalogue, and it will probably be
acted as long as there is theater for it
as old and as enduring as human nature.
It was first embodied in an ancient La
tin classic. Sydney Grundy, the English
dramatist used it for his comedy. "A
Pair of Spectacles. No comedy ever
had the career in London which stands
to the credit of this one. 1t ran two
years without intermission. has been
played almost continually since. and
was played before Queen Victoria three
different times by royal command. OF
all the migrations of this nomadic idea
it has found it's happiest expression in
the version called. after the central fig
ure IN the amusing chain of circum-
stances, 'Old Innocence" Delightful as
the comedy is there is however no doubt
that it owes much of its favor to the
realization of the genial old optimist by
Tim Murphy, who created the role in
America.
ION the Suwanee River is to be the
bill at the New Crawford tomorrow
night. 1t is simply a melody of the
southland with all the sweetness and
environment of the famous old ballad
which everyone loves. There are no
melodramatic situations. with blood
hounds on the trails or sowmills in full
operation. But there is restfulness and
Aunt Indy one of the dearest old
| plantation "mammies" that ever one
saw. The prices are from 25 to rs cents.
Mason and Mason appear at the New
Crawford Wednesday night in Rudolph
& AdolDh." a hurly burly of German
comicalities. This entertainment pleased
well last year, but since then the show
has been enlarged and improved. A
chorus of girls described as comely and
with good voices has been added. Dur
ing the summer Charles Newman re-
wrote his musical play and many new
specialties have been arranged. The
sale starts off well this morning.
Richards & Pringle's minstrels return
| to the New Crawford Thursday night
after winning success in Denver and
other western cities this season. Special
prices, 10, 20, 30 and 90 cents. will be
made. The sale starts tomorrow.
The Bostonians. travelling in their
special train. with upwards of SIS per-
sons, including their own orchestra of
ten, come to the New Crawford next
Monday night to sing robin Hood
AT THE GRAND.
Correspondents for the dramatic papers
have good words to say for "a Devils
Lane" in the current issues of their jour-
the
Gilmore sisters and James F. Green, comes
to the Grand opera house Thursday night
at 25, IS and SO cent prices. The seat sale
opens tomorrow morning.
The offering at the Grand Friday night
will be the latest farce, Browns in
Town The play is said to be very funny.
replete with the newest songs and humor-
Gus complications. It is the story of a
young man of twenty three secretly mar
ried, who seeks peace and quiet in the
country Immediately after his marriage tc
keep the affair from the ears of his father
who does not favor matrimony until his
son reaches the age of twenty-five He
! does not get the peace he seeks because
of the arrival of his relations and friends
The names of the company roster include
Chas. Horn Geo. WEIGH, Perry Alexander
Fannie Midgley, Elizabeth LindelI Whips
Edna Hicky, Coralie Clifton. Frank Mil
lard. Emanuel Ward and others. The ad
vance sale opens. Wednesday morning.