The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-04
Eugene Taylor Does a Stunt in
Denver Times.
Has Trouble With fermentation
of His Gray Matter.
WHO is THIS TAYLOR?
Certain He Knows All There Is
to Know.
other News of the Players and
the Musicians.

The following, which may have been
bright in the high altitude of the noun
Gains but which has lost its sparkle IN
the lower attitudes. was printed in the
Denver Times. Of Sunday. over the SIG
nature of Eugene w. Taylor.
1T was all a mistake. The Boston
Bijou Opera company did not go to
pieces. Its season closed in Topeka Pc
ter McCourt booked the company TO
play over a circuit in Colorado. ending
in the glittering metropolis of Telluride
Then the opera singers went through
Kansas playing The Gaiety Girl and
The Geisha' to painfully lonesome
houses. The tour lasted two weeks. al
though only one weeks salary was paid
At the end of that time thew went to
Topeka, Kan. the home of Sheldon and
morality Topeka didn't take kindly to
the goddess folk from Boston. Topeka
isn't big enough to take kindly to any
thing that isn't free. Topeka Is town
where the mad whirl of excitement IS
reached when the Methodist strawberry
festival cones round and every SWAIN
Is privileged to take his best girl at ~
cents a plate He can save money by
not eating-and it is said that he does.
Consequently there was an early frost
in Topeka. The tour of the Boston BIZ
jou company closed in Topeka, by order
of the manager and by general consent.
1t closed with a dull thud. if the truth
must be told. There was a hotel keep
er who had seen theatrical companies
close before and he was waiting for
this one. He was a coarse. objection
able person who wanted his bills paid.
The bills were paid but not until he
had held a trunk or two and threatened
to call a constable. Two or three of the
chorus girls whose fondest dreams was
to live in a city stayed in Topeka They
had a chance to work in the hotel in
stead of wearing three kinds of tights
a night and telling how merry they
were-with their board bills coming due.
The rest of the company went through
in a body to Kansas City or Chicago or
New York or wherever they were go
ing
1.-The company was booked to close its
seasOn-in plain words to diSband-in
Topeka There was no uncomfortable
contract requiring the management to
pay fares to New York or any other
central city. so that the company did
not-in heatrical oarlance- bust.
There is a marked difference between
busting and closing ones season. The
Boston Bijou company closed its sea-
son.
"A few members of the chorus found
1t awkward to face the conductor. but
the rest had money enough to pay their
fares back to New York. For the few
who didn't. J. K Murray out of his
private purse provided. The box office
receipts were not attached and the trif-
ling difficulty with the hotel keeper who
had been there before was the only in
cident to mar the pleasure of the jour
ney back to the Rialto. The manager
of the company left it at Buffalo, n. Y.
so that its friends may be sure it got far
enough east to make a great saving in
shoe leather. if actors and actor.nes
were not Drovident and the railroads
were unkind. Mr. and Mrs Murray
Mrs. Murray in front of the footlights