The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-27

Is expected that the presentation viii cre-
ate something of sensation.
Eugene Cowles is to forsake the operate
stage for a time and is to follow the con-
cert platform for this season at least He
Will be associated with Gina Ciapareld. so
prano: Gaetano Merola, pianist, and Clara
Harrington. violfnist.
The newest melodramatic villain is
known as an .sornithologfc anthropos." He
, has the claws and beak of a vulture and
his favor1te diversion is the strangling Of
policemen He appears in a play called
In London.
Brandon lyman has scored a permanent
success in Robert Emmett" in New York,
the house being crowded nightly, and 1t
is expected that the young author-actor
VIII remain in the big metropolis all sea-
son.
Ed Rush, after purchasing s.Hoity Toity-
from Weber and Fields, finds that he can
tht scarcity of German comedians For
lie has taken kindly to the broken German
dialect.
Among the passengers of the Kronprinz
week, were Nat Goodwin, Maxine Ell
lott. AL Hayman and Madeline Lucette
BYE Eylsy Mrs. r,, Ryley Is said TO have bright
sell on the trip over
1t is reported that George M. Cohen OF
the four Cohans is writing a sketch for
Old Time" They will produce it when Nor
rison gives over Faust and Joseph JEFF
ferson deserts RIP Van Winkle.''
Clara Lpman is doing SO well since the
operation made necessary by the disloca-
ton of her shoulder that 1t is probable she
Will open her season the first week in No
vemDer. Miss Iipman'S new play by Jus
tin Huntley Mccarthy has been received,
put its title has not yet been decided upon.
The London Pail Mall Gazette is author
ity for the statement that Oliver Bath, the
author of Naughty Nancy" in which
Kitty Lotus is appearing in the big Eng
count Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halls
bury.
1t is reported that Herbert Kelsey in re-
hearsing for Sherlock Holmes" was forced
a habit which he had not up to that time
contracted. He was also forced to shave
of his luxuriant mustache, SO that he may
be truly said to be a martyr to his art.
Mr.. Belasco the author manager, Is out
in big interview charging that Charles
Dillingham; is trying to entice one OF his
Belasco claims that he is the only mama
ger having the rights over all this actress
future movements
Grace Van Studdiford, prima donna OF
the Bostonians, has decided not to retire
from the stage, notwithstanding the well
authenticated report sent out last week to
this effect. She announces that she Will re.
main with the Bostonians for the rest OF
the season and will sail for Berlin next
June to fill an engagement In that city.
Cecil Raleigh has decided upon The Cir
Gus of Life as the title OF his latest melo-
drama to be produced in the London Drury
Lane theater 1t will be Boer war play,
with the heroic portion revolving around a
young man who goes to the front and Is
there overtaken by pair of sharpshooters.
the action eventually ending in circus.
Helen Bertram is sister-in-law to w. E.
Henley the English poet-author. whose
criticisms of the late Robert Louis Steven
son have brought him into such unfavora-
bic notice.
Wright Huntington is to star in THE
Globe Trotter," farce which was last pro-
duced by Maurice Barrymore.
Bruce McRae. who played leads with Ju-
liza Marlowe during the past two years, will
support Ethel Barrymore in Carrots
Miss Dorothy Hammack is the nome de-
be seen with Andrew Mack in Tom
Moore
Pearl Landers who used to be the in
genue of Daniel Frawley's stock company.
is to originate a small part in The Sill
yer Slipper
William Faversham has started rehear-
sails as the drunken but brilliant 9sTss lawyer,
Way"
E. Burke Scott for several years the
manager of May Irwin, has left the man.
agement of this star and joined the forces
of the big firm of Klaw and Erlanger. Mr..
Scott has been in Washington during the
Belles.''
Jefferson De Angels is dissatisfied with
the way his name is pushed to the back
ground and the opera EFT n isle Tea ca
opera has been a success. The latest report
from New York is to the effect that Mr..
De Angels is trying to buy the Shubert
interests in the opera.
Twenty years ago r. A. Barnet. the au-
thor of 1882 and other musical comedies,
| made his start as playwright with a bur-
lesque on Romeo and Juliet"
| 1t takes five cars to carry the scenery
and paraphernalia connected with the pro-
auctions of THE Bandit King and 1.-The
Cattle King" One car is used for the
transportation Of actors and the people
connected with the organizations. the sec
ond car is used exclusively for Mr.. Wal
licks trained horses. There are also one
car of baggage and two cars of scenery.
one for each production.