The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-09

| common range that needed only expert
deed.
Theatrical Notes.
W. r. Thompson is to have a leading
part In Robert Emmett
Kathryn Osterman will resume her
vaudeville tour early in September
| try he will produce sHamlet''
Chauncey Olcott will appear in "Old Linn
erick Town, the coming season;
! will make her debut next season.
The season of 1.-The Chaperons'' will open
c5rse is to Be- of
1.-THE Toreador" company next season.
augustus Pitou has engaged Emile La
| Frank Keenan, is to star as Mr.. Doc
ley,a in the Frohma am produ s on az
in the production of Monte Cristo" by
| Eye"
a feature of Anna Held's company for next
season.
| Frederick Warde will be seen next sea-
son in leading role in new society dra-
ma now being written especially for him.
Isabelle uTa ;Ila IS to be featured next
You for Five Millions?''
| Miss Violet Lansing, the niece of Gen.
lansing of Texas. has been engaged for
Margaret Anglin, whose work in THE
| Forest Lovers was so much admired last
E. J. Connolly and Mrs. Connolly Cvir-
ginia Ross have been secured for impor-
| tant roles in 'Huckleberry Finn
| OTIS Skinner has chosen Nanette Com
| stock for his leading woman next season
for his much-heralded production of La
| zarre.'
Ida Booth of the vaudeville team of
Dawson and Booth. fell from a high pair
of stills on roller skates recently at At
Katherine Hutchinson. Amelia Summer
| vile, Henry E. Dixey, Richard Golden and
a revival of E. f. Rice's .'Evangeline:
of Mormon" viii be produced in Salt Lake
| City about the middle of this month with
Joseph Haworth in the leading role.
Maude Odell is to be member of the
| Baldwin-Melville stock company next sea-
witt with Miss odei la as Rom Romeo y 'e ess'
Valerie Bergere has been booked by the
vaudeville Managers, association SOC for forty c
act play entitled ''Billie's First Love-
The vaudeville team Of Monroe and Wes-
ley has been dissolved. Wesley will go
into the cast of ''McFadden's Row of
Flats
! play, THE King Of Detectives" Sullivan,
Harris & Woods have had made thousands
of heavy plated badges which CLOSELY y,, re-
These badges are inscribed: THE King
| of DETECTIVES
the season of s.The Evil Eye August g.
at the Park theater. Philadelphia.
on his farm at chariestown. N H. and
| in the meantime is studying his role OF
in in which, he open of his
| tour in August, under the management of
Broadhurst & Currie- y,
August q. and will be here to join her
company in rehearsals :. for "unorna,'
exceptionally strong. one
| Joseph Tabrar, whose verses with and
has nasi'V written an ode to Queen Alexandra.
1t is a classic bit, and no one would sus-
rpe PEER 1na DADDY wouldn't Buy Ne BOW -
Bow
Lewis Waller has has. ;, bought the English gIsl
Langtrys theater while she is on her
American tour to produce it. He win also
DC Ds eTIen OF who tRe
Crown for Forbes Robertson and Mrs
Annie Oakley. the sharpshooter of Buff
falo Bills wild West aggregation. is to
Tne @sztsrn ssa ir in
Isadore Rush has finished her season
with the s'Florodora" company and has
| signed for next season.
Bessie Eagan, niece of Senator Thurs
ton has been engaged nn for o part M n the
s sMary Mary. Quite Contrary" is the
| title of a comedy secured for Hem
rietta Crosman- The. author is a we'll
known dramatist, and Miss Crosman is
| under contract to produce it within one
wallace worsley will be leading man
Rsgtha N n heT paT e
being written for Miss Galland by Lon
don playwright
play of the romantic type with the catchy
title of In the Days Of Old, When
| duce the first time in October next
| Mr.. Sothern has re-engaged Cecilia Loft
tus for next season and it is stated that
| she will have an opportunity for consid-
| erably more ambitious work than she has
| ever been enabled to undertake hereto
The injunction suit of Isador Whitmark
against Frank L. Perley over the introdu .
ton of the song sBloomin' Lie in 1.-The
| Cbanerons has resulted in a victory for
| the latter and Mr.. Perley says that he viii
Se weekly s receipts during the
| run of 1.-The Suburban in Chicago were
$3.50 an exceedingly. high figure for the the
that the highest priced seat in Mcvicker' S
is 81 sThe Suburban is to be put: on for
James K Hackett has negotiated with
lane Hadng and ID her c1m pan co for
rsne exp sese that Nine. Hading viii open
in New York in November
Maxine Flliott's manager. Charles Dill
| Hneham has received information from
her in London that Clyde Fitch has suf-
| ficiently recovered to be able to work, and
had already completed two acts of the
| new play Mrs. Farringtons Party"
Charles Howard. 65 years old once q
| leader in the black face world and pop
ular with theater-goers of a generation
ago was committed for year on charge
| of vagrancy in Baltimore
Fred Lenox. the well known comic opera
comedian has signed with Henry Savage
| to play Dick CARROTS old part in .eThe
| Burgomaster'' next season.
| Estelle Iiebling- who was the prima
| donna of 1.-The Sultan of Sulu'' last season.
will probably be re-engaged by Henry W.
Savage for his new AIDE opera, Peggy
| from Paris
| BeIasco's Theater Republic. it is expect
ed. will be completed by September /. al
/ though the estimated cost win run up to