The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-27

peeia1ly engaged by Mr.. BeIasco.
Among those in the cast is Miss Alma
Kruger who succeeded the brilliant Mrs.
Leslie Carter in the character of thu
heroic, love-inspired Maryland Cal
vert" and attained a memorable critical
as well as popular favor by her per-
Torrance. The remaining leading char
acters are given artistic significance and
an impressive individuality by Messrs.
Herbert Bostwick. Tefft Johnson, Fran
els Justice, ThoS. Lowell Robert NcIn-
tyre, B. J. Murphy, Misses Florence
Foster, Anna Wynne and Janet Gold
Ing. 1t is asserted that in all its details
and realistic effects. THE Heart of
Maryland has never before had so per-
feet representation.
Miss Alice Fischer. under the direc
ton of MI. Henry B. Harris. will make
her first appearance here as a star on
New Years day, at the Crawford pre-
senting Grace Livingston Furniss' Mrs.
Jack" farcical comedy with tinge
of dramatic force and unconventional
love story. Mrs. Jack" the role in
which Miss Alice Fischer scored so
great a triumph that she was elevated
to the position of star in a night, is
western woman who comes to New
York to take possession of the ten mil
lion dollars real and personal estate of
her late husband.
She is described by lurid society pa
per as typical woman of the west. a
buffalo hunter and learning of this
she determines to live up to the descrip-
ton. Her success along those lines leads
to many amusing complications and hui
morous situations. In reality Mrs. Jack
is warm hearted, generous woman and
the contrast between the woman as she
is and the woman society thinks her to
be is skilfully delineated by Miss Fisch-
er. Mr. Harris has surrounded her with
company of expert fun-nalIers who
assist her in providing rolicking and
rousing entertainment.
At the Grand Tuesday will be seen the
| charac ter of sis Hopkins which Miss
Rose Melville created a few years ago
as an incidental feature in farce
comedy, and since elaborated into play
which under the management of Mr.. J.
r. Stirring has become one of the class
les of stagedom. This is not, as many
may suppose, a brain creation. The awk-
ward country girl which Miss Melville
shows her audience once lived in cen>
! trail Indiana and Miss Melville saw her
on a farm where she was born and
/ lived 1t was on this farm surrounded
/ by her own people and in her real sur
roundings that Miss Melville studied
her and made her famous stage char
acter Since then the original of the
stage, isis Hopkins" has grown up to
be a real young lady and is one of Miss
Melville's warmest admirers. She has
| q farm of her own now and one of her
chief cares is a baby girl who has been
christened Rose Melville. Miss Melville
is godmother to the little tot and stop
ped the wheels of theatrical progress
| late last season for week in order that
she might travel down to the Indiana
farm where the baby was christened.
The stage of the Crawford theater will
swarm Friday night with Russian mill
tary men, ladies of title and all thr
myriad of people that enter into the
cast of a Russo Siberian play. The or
fering VIII be the new four act melo-
drama, For Her Sake dramatic tale
| of love, intrigue and treachery-a play
which, according to things told of it in
other cities where it has been seen, con-