The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-30
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

1.-The New Dominion will be given
one performance at the New Crawford
tonight. Mr.. Clement in the role of
Baron Won Hohenstauffen is the per-
sonification of the simple manly and
lofty character of the student and the
gentleman. He is an actor who can
be studied with profit. He is an artist.
and a thorough one. The comedy is
clean, yet sweeps an audience into
laughter. 1t is Mr. Clements farewell
tour in THE New Dominion"
"a Texas Steer" which is considered
Hoyt's best comedy. comes to the New
Crawford tomorrow. matinee and
night. 1t is the most interesting laugh
producer in the entire category of Hoyt
plays. and has achieved a vogue that
is not enjoyed by any other comedy
that has been produced in recent years.
The Whitney opera company in
When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
not only broke all records for receipts
at the New York theater. but has con-
tinued to do so in every city visited, in
Guiding Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas
City, st. Paul and Minneapolis. and in
the few smaller cities or one nieht
stands There will be a large audience
at the New Crawford Sunday night
These who have read the novel, Lady
Audley's Secret, will doubtless re-
member how Lady Audley. wishing to
DESTROY the men who alone share her
guilty secret, sets fire to the Castle
Inn. When the present dramatic YER
sion was being made it was suggested
that his burning be done ''off," and
only q reflected glow represent the con-
migration on the stage. This, how
ever, did not satisfy George vessels.
who is starring in the play, and he and
other masters of stage craft set to
work to discover some means by which
the incendiary work of the guilty wo-
man might be actually presented be-
h
crowned with success. and the result
is that those who attend the perform
ance of the powerful play at the New
Crawford on Tuesday will be able to
see stage effect that is realistic
In THE Beauty Doctor" the newest of
the big musical plays which Fred E:
"Wednesday night. a special feature is
made of the scenic and lighting effects
Herr Won Palm, the famous designer of
La Lole Fuller S Partisan fire Dances has
planned some wonderful electrical effects
f Tor the big dancing numbers in The
elaborate as to require special equip
ment of electrical apparatus and corps
OF experienced electricians. who are car
ried with the company. The first act of
The Beauty Doctor" represents a scene
at the seashore and during the entire act
the Illusion of dashing and rolling waves
and moving clouds is preserved by means
season in THE Beauty Doctor for the
first time. This is done. too, on fully
lighted stage. In the big dancing ensens-
bles which Herr Won Palm has put on.
| the effects are also heightened by the
novel use of calciums and other electrical
1 devices, and in the Culture Drilr' he has
prepared a big surprise in the way of an
unique dance number.
In Alexander the Great the new play
by Rupert Hughes and Collin Kemper, IN
which Louis James and Frederick Warde
will appear next Thursday evening, the
idea of the time honored fable about the
ape who used the cats paw to extract his
chestnuts from the fire, is said to have
been used with excellent effect. 1t is ex-
will be played by Mr. Warde He is the
prime minister of Alexander the Great,
! played by Mr.. James for whom he pro-
but whose throne he envies and whose
death he finally brings about in the tragic
| climax to the play. His ability for using
others to do his dirty work and securing
himself the entire profits of their villainy,
amounts to positive genius. His Judas