The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01
Topeka Bookings Made for the
Coming Season.
Manager Crawford Announces
Several Of Latest Successes.
MANY MUSICAL PIECES.
The New and the Old Coming in
Force.
Many of the Best known Stars
on List.

Call! The Trials of Akepot sasnak
company will assemble Tuesday. Aug
4. at 1920 a. M, Gug1eheimer hall, 4ist
street and Sixth avenue. Acknowledge
this call by letter to main Office"
The dramatic papers are full of no
tees similar to the above. The festive
advance agent is jumping out ahead
70 fight with his brother agents for the
best positions on the billboards The
press representative is already arguing
with the managing editors why his i'm
possible fabrication should be displayed
on the first page under "sereamer.
As for the manager-"Casey's Troubles
are diversions compared with the thou
sand and one things he is trying to do
It all bespeaks the opening of a new
theatrical season. The wave Of open
ings will strike Topeka on August 16.
On that night the New Crawford theater
will cease to be dark" 1t will be
scene of activity again, with San Or
phan's Prayer" as the cause.
Ablaze with a huge lettered electric
sign which will announce the name or
the current attraction. the entrance to
the theater will be one of the lightest
spots on Kansas avenue. The stage Will
be entirely gone over before the openln9
and put in ship shape.
"The way to resume is to resume"
says the management, and there will be
several shows in August, while in Sep
TENDER they come thick and fast
"F1orodora," the big musical comedy
which scored so strongly here last year,
is one of the early September bookings.
Mr.. L. NJ. Crawford has succeeded in
securing an unusually large number OF
attractions for Topeka the coming sea-
son and all tastes have been carefully
considered. There is a greater lot of
high class performances than the city
has hitherto known and especially in the
1f-r
Topekans are promised the best there is
on the road. But those whose tastes
lean toward melodrama. farce, rural
drama and the dozen other heads under
which plays navigate have by no means
been neglected and there is long list
of their favorities contracted for pre-
sentation.
The bookings are by no means COM
plete. but the mention Of the names OF
such stars as Robert Edeson, Mrs.
Fiske, Grace George, Isabelle Irving,
Marie Cahill. Herbert Kelley and Effia
Shannon, Otis Skinner. Lulu Chaser.
Frederick Warde and Louis James and
Lew Dockstader besides those that To-
peka is more or less accustomed to see
ing, as Richard earle. Frank Moulan,
Richard Golden. Blanche Walsh, Ezra
Kendall, Walker Whiteside, Jeff De
Angels. Adelaide Thurston, Charles B.
Hanford, Harry Beresford, Rose Cogh-
Ian, Marie Wainwright and a host of
others give an mixing of the rich list of
good things that are coming this way.
Mr.. Crawford's circuit of theaters has
now become so extensive that he has
maintained a special booking represent
alive in New York all this summer. The
result seems to have been most salts
factory.
The stars mentioned as new to Topeka
are Broadway top liners. It is doubtful
If playgoers here have seen more
complete and satisfying dramatic pro-
duction than Soldiers of Fortune" il
which Robert Edeson comes. In acting
scenery and everything that goes &c
make up a strong performance it Is
superb. Aside from the work of the stan
there are a number Of the finest kind OF
presentations. The play was made by
Augustus Thomas from Richard Hard
ing Davis book and was produced q
year ago last spring at the Bijou, New
York. Topekans will feel confident OF
the character of the performance wher
they know that Mr.. Blossoms manager
is Henry 3. Harris. under whose direc-
ton Alice Fischer delighted with Mrs
jack last New Years.
Mrs. Fiske is known to most play.
goers. 1t is likely she will be seen il
s'Mary of Magdaia," that ran severa
months at the Manhattan, New York
last winter. 1t is a heavy scenic pro
duction. Grace George in PRETTY
Peggy" was one of the hits Of the sea.
son at the Herald Square. She open!
in this play in London, May 4, 1904
Marie Cahill held New York in hel
grasp in Nancy Brown" a musica
comedy, at the Bijou from cold weather
to hot. Lulu Chaser, last seen here a:
leading woman with Francis Wilson il
'Erminie," will come in her third sea
son as a star in Dolly Warden" Thi
has been her sole vehicle. Julian Ed
wards. the composer, and Stanislau'