The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-04

the success winch mas ATTENDED them The
comedy will appear at the Crawford on
Monday. January 5.
MAHARA'S MINSTRELS
Maharas big minstrel aggregation thar
will hold the boards at the Crawford
theatre next Tuesday night, comes to us
with the reputation of giving a perform
ance that cannot be excelled Nahara
Brothers. with twenty years experience.
believe in the old maxim: What is worth
doing at ALL is worth doing WELL" and
they have gathered together for this sea
son thirty colored entertainers who are
masters in their line of fun-making in
GLIDING quartette. eight dusky maidens
who do turn that would make ''FIoro-
edian George T. Fitchms, T. Arthur Max
well. the peer of all trick cyclists. and a
bunch of Darktown senators who fur
nish pot pouri of music. mirth and
melody, odds and ends and Oddities
sure cure for the blues.
Headed by their famous band, the COM
pany gives a street parade.
"Peck's Bad Boy" will be the attrac-
and night, January 10. The play has been
seen here before. but 1t has been changed
to such an extent that practically nothing
but the name remains of the original
comedy. From a comedy-drama il has
been changed into roaring farce-com-
edy. The main idea at the start is the
troubles Of the German groceryman. but
this is soon lost sight OF and the per-
Torrance becomes an indescribable COM
bination OF music. dances. cake walks.
sharp Irish wit. and series of laugh
provoking incidents that must be seen to
be understood and appreciated j. W.
Clifford and w. J. McDermott are the
fun makers. "Pecks Bad Boy" is GER
tainly built on original lines and one will
find the performance a very enjoyable
one.
For Loves Sake" has taken its place
ceeded. In every city and town the stage
has clientele who are satisfied with only
one class of play known as the melo-
drama. in which the action IS rapid. the
plot intricate, but carefully worked out
and the interest intense. All this is to
be seen and heard in For Loves Sake"
which comes to the Crawford on January
The dramatization of Westsco.t widely
read and phenomenally success sful book,
David Harum" will be made known at
the Crawford Wednesday. January I.
There is little to be said regarding the
extent and scope of the popularity of
David Harum" as a sketch of life and
characters in Central New York. The
publishers of the book can prove the vast
sale which the work has enjoyed. but it
is beyond the power of anyone to even
estimate the great number of it's readers.
This can be the more readily understood
when it is realized that one copy OF the
work has travelled through many house.
holds.
In dramatizing the book the fact was
never lost sight OF that in order to make
it a successful play, all of these things
which endeared IL to its readers would
The work was tried about two years and
a half ago and its success since that time
has been phenomenal. Nearly 200 OF the
performances were given in New York
and it has had long runs in Chicago.
Philadelphia and Boston.
The readers Of the book viii be pleased
to know that in working IL into play
shape very little liberties were taken with
it. \ strict adherence to the text was
insisted upon. There are three acts and
all of the scenes are laid in bonneville.
New York. The audience sees in the first
act David's bank. Aunt Polly's house
with IT'S old-fashioned plants and flowers
and the big barn in the background. The
second acts shows Harum's Office just be-
hind the counting room Of the bank, an
Office Uttered with equine trappings and
pictures of famous horses and the third
act shows the sitting room in Aunt
Polly's house
All OF the familiar characters In the
book are in the play. There Is pretty
Mary Blake. John Lenox. that miserable
old skin-fint. Zeke Swinney: the village
tough. Bill Montaig; the poor Widow
Cullom, dear old Aunt Polly: pert Chef
Timson. the landlord Of the Eagle tavern.
Amos Elbright; David's factotum. Dick
Larribee: General Wooisey and Deacon
Perkins. The horse trade is shown in the
opening act and in the closing act there z
Is the story Of David's visit TO tire circus.
The play ends with the Christmas dinner
and the engagement OF Mary Blake and
John Lenox. Sale Of seats for this en-
gagement opens Monday a. N. At Howe's
jewelry store.
At the ToIer.
On Monday. January 3. the Orris Ober
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