The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
Theatrical Notes.

Henrietta CrOSman will appear next sea-
son in comedy entitled Mary, Mary,
| Quite Contrary"
Lewis Morrison. who is coming to To
peka to play Faust has greatly i'm
proved his famous Broken scene.
Mary Mannering. in Clyde Fitch's new
comedy, 1.-The Stubbornness of Geraldine
has made a pronounced hit.
vesta Tiley will soon appear in a com
edy by Louis N. Parker, author of Pose
mary An American tour is promised.
The Storks'' has sent back $4,000 in six
weeks to the treasury OF the Dearborn
Arthur B. McCold bought from the
Ziegfelds and Charles Nixon recently the
Philharmonic Magazine. He will enlarge
E. H Sothern will begin his New York
engagement at the Garden thsater, De
cember q with Hamlet" Cecilia Lotus
Grace Quive Van Studdiford has reeov-
cred her. health and rejoined the Boston
ians in the far west, where they are sing
Mr. and Mrs Edwin Milton Royle an
nounce their purpose Of appearing in
Much Ado About Nothing. and The
School for Scandal next season.
David Henderson, so long a power in
theatrical affairs and fondly remem-
bered for his splendid productions OF ex-
travaganza. has gone into life insurance.
Martin Harvey, following an English
custom-and A very sons--recently re-
fused to hold a Sunday rehearsal in New
York.
A theater building to cost $4,000 and to
be called the Russell in honor of the late
Sol Smith Russell, will be erected at Min
neapolis.
Miss Helen Henschel. daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Georg Henschel made
her debut as a concert singer In New YoT3z
last week. land, while disclosing 10 remark
able qualities, acquittede- herself credita-
bly,.
Few more effective stage pictures. than
Hamflcar" at McVicker's, have been seen
in Chicago of late years Miss Walsh, as
Salammbo, is seated in the throne ehalr.
at the top of the great stairway
Ethel Barrymore will remain at the Sa-
voy tl1eater. New Y rk in Carrots ana
'.The Country. Mouse until January. She
has the choice of plays by Anthony Hope
and Justin Huntley Mccarthy for next
season.
Wniie Davis, son of VIII ]. Davis and
Mrs. Jessie Bartlett Davis. has graduated
from willie and school, and has become
assistant treasurer of the Illinois theater.
Chicago under the tutelage OF 1nonas j.
Mr.. Goodwin and Miss Elliott viii give
special matinees Of The Altar of FTfenei-
day. November 20. The piece is going very
strong at Powers, Chicago
Tyrone Power, whose Judas Iscariot in
Mary of Magdala'' has evoked much IA
vorable comment. says he will play Shy
lock next season and that he VIII cast
a finished actor for every role OF .Mer-
chant of Venice
aganza of the Beauty and the Beast
type, which Will be nandled IN tnlS couil-
try by Kaw and Erlanger has already
been booked to open the Iroquois, new
syndicate house to be erected on Randolph
street, Chicago Next October is sched-
uled as the date of opening.
The Beauty and the Beast" company
has gone to Pittsburg, where 1t plays
delphia for a month and Boston five
months. Then the whole production must
be returned pei, contra ct, to the manage
Virginia Harmed in PinerO'S Iris, will
remain in the Criterion theater, New
York until December s. when Miss Mar
not vet announced. Richard is evidently
herself again, so to speak
Rose Beaumont. who appears IN The
Wild Rose" has risen to her present posi-
ton from that of a circus rider Five
years ago she made her first appearance
in this country with Barnum and Bailey
circus in an act in which she drove five
white horses bareback
Thomas Mast. jr. son of the. great ear,
icaturist, has gone into vaudeville and VIII
appear at the Olympic, Chicago. In his
sketch he makes two pictures Simulta-
neorsly, and furnishes funny pictorial sur
prises. 1t will be his first appearance IN
the wet
Mrs. Ole Bull widow of the famous vio-
linist, recently returned from Norway al
ter an absence of two years and haif
She saws the new statue of Ole Bull at
Berben is the most artlstlc ana HIeIke
representation of kim she has seen
Arnold Dalmetsch. known as the last
of the Lutte players will make tour OF
America this season. He plays the music
of ancient times upon the .- Instruments 1er
which it originally written
The first offering of the Players Stock
company which will open its season az the
Bush Temple November "a, Will be line
Prince of Dreams comedy by Walter
Hackett. one time dramatic editor of the
Chicago American Emmett Corrigan VIII
have the leading role-a Colonel Sellers
type.
French book collector claims he re-
Gently bought for a small sum at a stall
on the Paris quays an prlganal copy o.
the plot of .*Othello." In this history of
the Moor of Venice, by Gerald Cynthio,
Desdemona is beaten to death by Othello
and Iago with sandbags. which leave no
marks of violence. Afterward they pull
down the crumbling ceiling above her and
dent The story concludes with the kill
ing of Othello by Desdemonas parents;
after he has been perpetualiy banished
from Venice by the doge-
In an article written for Charles MY
on's Philharmonic Magazine Mrs Fiske
gives her definition of the ideal play thus:
spires happily and awakens in its witness
the nobler emotions. Many OF the plays
of Shakespeare consider ideal because
they lift one out of the commonplace. of
which there is so much in life. and impel
sublime thought. while. they powerfully
move the emotions" Good for Shakes
Dearei
Martin Harvey. an English actor now
playing 1.-The Children of the King in
New York; has Just invented invent. !. an an eieetri-
The Joke that might be made on this IS
too obvious to make one dare to attempt
it.
of view the American production of 1.-THE
Eternal City, can not be compared for a
acting he would commit himself only to
tie extent Ct saying that he had a great