The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-05

herited her mothers personal charms,
and is now one of the best soubrettes
before the public. Another clever girl
who both sings and dances well IS
Louise Jeffries. Finally mention must
be made of the original Lumbermen's
quartette.
Are You q Mason2' will be presented
at the New Crawford theater Saturday
afternoon and night The marital mis-
haps of two husbands who have in
duCed their respective wives to believe
that they have followed their requests
to join the Masons is the central idea
of this big farce comedy success. The
comedy is now in its third season and
! has made q record as one of the biggest
comedy successes ever produced in this
country. 1t ran an entire season in New
York and subsequently played during
an entire summer at Powers theater
Chicago. It was presented in London
last spring and made the greatest hit OF
any comedy ever produced by an Amer
lean manager in England. The English
men declared it one Of the very funniest
comedies produced in that country.
A powerful melodrama Astounding
with startling sensations, scenery, cleo
trical appliances and mechanical ef-
fects ard devices, with q strong acting
/ company. constitute the main charac-
teristics of THE Convicts Daughter
The author has made the central fig
ure that OF a tramp-an escaped con-
vict-innocent as far as crime goes
but uniustly sentenced for another
mans crime that of murder. He final
+ ly escapes from prison and becames a
tramp. Al the New Crawford Sunday
night.
Patrons of the drama essentially ad-
nnire hero who has to fight against
odds and who yet wins his way-not by
impossible efforts of the ordinary
heroes OF hction-but by the use of
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manner that is not only probable. but
entirely logical. It is such a hero as
this that Theodore Kramer has intro
duced in his intensely interesting melo-
drama, The King Of Detectives which
Sullivan. Harris and Woods viii show
at the New Crawford Monday night
THE Suburban" which Jacob Lift
produced with emphatic success in CHI
cage. and which viii be seen here at
the Grand Tuesday night, bids fair to
distance any of the seasons attractions
as a money maker. 1t has already run
fifteen weeks in Chicago 10 the largest
business ever known there for that
/ period, distanciug the records of The
Price Of Peace" Quo NadiS'' Hearts
are Trumps,f Sporting Life, THE
! Great Ruby and other of the big Lon
don and American successes which have
! had production at McNicker's theater.
The new play does for New YOTk what
the big spectacles from London did for
that city. Many of the scenes in THE
/ Suburban" represent places well known
I to New Workers and persons who an
nually visit the metropolis. The pay
is thoroughly American IN spirit and Mr.
Lifts fine production shows his conf
I dence in the work of American dramat
+ lists. and particularly that Of Mr.. c. r
+ Darcy. author of the new play. for The
+ Suburban, IS the third work of the same
/ dramatist which Mr.. Lit has staged
/ with lavish disregard of expense. The
first Of these In Old Kentucky" laid
the foundation for Mr.. Lifts great for
tune and is still a fertile source of in-
come. although it is now in its tentk
season The Suburban with its
tun7ultuous and exciting racing scene
ana the splendid Interpretation given IL
by the FIRE company now presenting IT,.
bios fair TO g. even Tn old Kentucky
enc better as a money maker. It's runs
at McNfcker's theater is one Of the
most successful in the history OF that
[ thaa4er.