The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14

me HIS OIL California sunday
"a Girl From Sweden Monday.
"a Thoroughbred Tramp Wednes-
day.
"Ten Nights in a Barroom" satur-
day.
Lincoln ]. Carriers scenic melodrama,
1.-THE New Fast Mail" will be seen 1t
the New Crawford tonight. The scenic
efTects-that of a freight train and an
express train crossing the stage-can
hardly be imagined to be true on a
stage with the limitations that the aver
age stage affords for such a spectacle.
The scene of the great Niagara Falls
by moonlight is a fine affair and most
natural to those who have been 30 for
tunate as to witness this eighth wonder
of the world. AS to the cast, it is said
1t cannot be in better hands. The most
prominent scenes are the steamboat
explosion; the wreck of the river boat
st. Louis; the flight of the fast mail
on it's way, and other equally fascinat-
ing pictures, winding up in the final
act with a view of picturesque Niagara
Falls at night with the full moon
throwing its beams on the turbulent
waters and the old suspension bridge
looming out of the darkness as a senti-
mel to this mighty wonder of nature.
Frank Bacon and his clever company,
in a new rural comedy entitled THE
Hills of California" Is the attraction at
the Crawford theater tomorrow evening.
While the play Is new to Topeka, as are
also many of the people in the COM
pany Mr.. Bacon is not new here, but
will be ~favorably remembered by many
theater-goers, having appeared here on
his last visit in Heyts "A Midnight
Bell" Mr.. Bacon, since last seen in
his city has added to his reputation as
a comedian of the dry, quiet, humorous
sort; and in the character OF Uncle
Amos Hill, which he will assume in the
play, he is said to AVE exactly the part
suited to show the quaint side of his
nature and create laughter and tears at
will.
Like "Shore Acres" THE Old Home
stead and similar plays 1.-THE Hills of
California ma be described as a rural
comedy. In the farm scene, which is
said to be the most realistic ever pre-
scented on the stage, there are real
horses. COW, roosters, ducks and hens.
walking all over the stage with an air
of possession, which brings rounds of
applause from the audience. II add
realism to the scene two game chickens
are very much in evidence, which is an
innovation.
A number of clever specialties will be
introduced and the California quartette
will render several musical gems n
new glees.
"a Girl From Sweden is the appro-
pirate title of q play which will be seen
at the New Crawford Monday night, as
the play named has for its central fig
ure a young Swedish girl of about eigh-
teen who has recently Joined her for
tunes with those who are building up
the vast territory of the northwest
about Winnipeg. Although the Scam
dinavian girl is the one around whom
the interest Of the story c~enters, one of
the best characters in the play is that
of a young Swedish lad several years
under his majority, so that this play
should appeal directly to the whole
Scandinavian people, for not only are
the two characters named honest types
of a sterling and sturdy race. but the
play itself Is a well told and coherent
story, dramatic in scene and incident.
It is a pure, clean story with its love
episodes and 1t has been %leavened with
delightful comedy of the most infec-