The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-04

is Miss Clara Lane-haVe an engage
ment in a vaudeville house in New
York with an offer of an extension OF
time in London, where it is to be trust
than in their ill-starred season mere
where they opened with that time,
honored favorite, The Bohemian Girl,
and played to empty benches.
Mr. Taylor-Eugene w, If you please
may be one of those oft heard OF
fluent and virile writers" of Denver,
huf anyone would positively hate to be-
lieve it. Mr. Eugene w. may be the
man who distributes programmes at tiiS
theater. That sounds more likely, ana
that would give Mr.. Eugene w Taylor
an insight into the things theatrical ana
allow him to pose as an authority FER
haps he is the Alan Dale of the COLORADO
ca pital the place where the "oftlce boy
criticises the theatrical attractions Tor
the edification of the townsDeople.
Mr. Taylor. the same Eugene w, hap
pens to be slightly removed from MS
base. If the Boston Bijou company dlu
not go to pieces in TOPEKA, what OF
where did it go to- Mr. T. would have
neople think that it went to New York.
He is slightly mistaken, too, about the
hotel keeper. What Peter h1cCourt, VINO
manages the Broadway, the RAZOR
Grand and the Empire theaterS in Den
yer. did was to ship the Boston Bljou
opera company out of Denver after a
very POOR season which lost money for
the promoters Of the company. He was
clad TO finally land the company prac-
I ficalIv penniless and several weeks i'll
debt, in Topeka. He cast them upon
the tender mercieS of the ToDekanS
This hotel keeper referred to by Nj.
Eugene W did not exactly attach the
trunks Of the company Not exactly
What he did do was to take two mem
bers of the company who We're COM
pletely stranded to his hotel. free OF
charge and then raise sufficient money
] e fJ>,i,~ toll to na Ct
To the east. mind you; not to Denver
! He is not coarse, and he was not exact
" Objectionable to the Thespians he be-
friended He might, however, appear
"a Their coarse to Mr.. Taylor were he te
stop at his hctel and he might also de-
mand that Mr.. Taylor pay his hotel bill
1 in advance. For that gentleman would
probably be travelling without baggage
except perhaps his ''viril'' pen.
Mr.. Taylor says there is marked diff
ference between a theatrical company
busting and closing a season. Yea
verify. About the same difference as
there is in a railroad official resigning
and the office boy being fired. In botr
cases the parties who are severed from
their jobs are requested to quit, but ir
the case of the official it is called re-
signing. The p. b. opera company
closed. That IS true. Said opera com
pany was about like a morning glory
which blooms forth bright and early ir
the morning for ten minutes and ther
takes the rest Of the day to close. TIKI
r. B. opera company had been closing
for some time. The closing process com
menced in Denver.
The mad whirl of excitement has beer
reached in Topeka. 1t has been reached
annually for several years when Charles
E. Shilling, of Denver, inhicts the peo-
pie of the town with his comedy callei
Two Married Men" Mr.. Shilling is
the star because 1-e owns the show ant
can not be fired by his employees. ShiI-
ling is a great favorite at his home II
Denver. His popularity there is only
shared by the Cherry sisters and julie:
Walters tramp plays. They never miss
Denver And by the way tAlphonse ant
CASTOR" is to play a week in Denver
Enough said.
Topeka takes to such as 1.-THE Sultar
of Sulu," but it doesn't take to Shilling
Really, Mr.. Taylor talks as if he hat
been mixed uD with the big balloon
which was let loose in Denver. Did hi
furnish any of the hot air for the
/ ascent?