The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-02
MRS.JACKlS Good
Topeka Delighted With Alice
Fischer's Eurniss Comedy.
Proved Herself One Of the Best
Actresses Seen This Season.
PLAY is EXCELLENT.
Structures on Modern Society
Are Most Severe.

Two Large Audiences Witness
the Production Here.
There's no reason why he shouldn't
love you" said Mrs. Anna O'Eara'
There are 10G00. 600 reasons way he
Gb~ "a love me" exclaimed Mrs. Jack
Bpnaster. who was made ten times
millionairess by the death of her nus
sand.
Remember. there's as good a fish in
the sea as ever was brought out of it.
said Mrs. o Hara to Mrs. Jack when the
latter thought her idol was about to
Eyes. but YOU can't catch EN- unless
you have the right kind of bait" said
Mrs. Bansster
After Mrs. Jack has wrecked the auto
mobile and thereby checked Dexter
1Iead's" declaration she said, Man pro-
poses and woman disooses.
i've been trying to ask you for ha8
an hour 10 marry me- said Charley
Banaster"
Funny. / hadn't noticed it," replied
''Alrs. Jack"
as it a reporter" asked Charley.
NO he says his business is cOn6den-
tial," said Mark Deaves."
why. did YOU and Mr.. Fedris come
TO New York from the west alone2"
asked Mrs. Pointer much shocked.
Yes. alone except for 500 passengers
and t-e train crew to take the curse
off, said Mrs. Jack"
Our ancestors came over with Will
lam the Conquerer," said Mrs. Point
er."
William must have had a regular
Coxey's army following him" said Mrs
Jack"
Mrs. Jack" is the most refreshing
farce comedy that has visited Topeka
since Willie Golfers ION The Quiet"
Miss Alice Fischer is the most origi-
nal and pleasing comedian or comedi-
enne, barring none, that has been seen
In ToDeka since Collier.
In fact about the only marked differ
ence between Collier and Miss Fischer
Is that Collier is a man and Miss
Fischer is woman. When Collier
says things he looks like an undertaken;
when Miss Fischer says things she
looks as jolly as it is possible to look
and not have Mysteries. The lines given
Mrs. Jack" to say are bright and
witty. They are much on the AIDE
Dunno slang lexicon order but they are
bright and far from nonsenical.
Mrs Jack was produced for the
first time in New York last fall Miss
leading role. She was given the part.
Nothing extraordinary was expected of
the play but it was an instantaneous
hit and Miss Fischer woke UP after the
first night to find herself a star Miss
Fischer began her stage career in Terre
Haute Ind, by speaking pieces at
church entertainments. Mrs. w. A,
McCarter knows her and saws she is a
most loVable character in private life
She looks it and that is just why she
fits the stage role of the big hearted.
jolly Mrs. Jack, as the fellows out
west know me-" she explains. '"TheV
call me Mrs. Jack because they-well,
because they" she couldn't explain it.
Jack Banaster' was a New Yorker
with a bank roll fat as ten millions.
He went west. met the woman who
afterwards became Mrs jack and
married her Thay lived together six
months and separated but four years
fater, whom he died, Mr.. jack LETT
the millions all to his widow She
went to New York to claim them The
eastern papers said she was from the
west "and WildaudWOOlley and shot bis
cults and rode horseback and was q
dead shot" She was a breezy char
actar. Ov5rdraWn. for stage purposes
"a Nttle. but not much. She was snub-
bed In New York. by some, and cod
died by others and all the time was
the best person of ALL She was worked
by fakirs She was called in society
'The COmauChe." She decided to live
UP to the name and she gave q heroic
recitation. assisted by an actor i'm cow
boy attire. of how she chased and las
seed bunaloes on the streets of Cleve-
land a woman proposed writing
book about 1T. Make the title Arneri-
CO AS Tt ought to Was said Mrs.
Jack"
When she was snubbed her sister-fr-
law explained that they were of diff
ferent class as eve came over in the
Mayflower." Yer come over I'm the
Storage" interposed Mrs. O'Hara. -
t--r FL.
the stage. and James Carew. who PLAYED
'IicE Fodris." is no 0ig7nv Miss
Fischer is i'm the heavyweight class If
she walked down Kansas avenue the
small boys would get out of the way
and the tallest policeman would stare
after her. She must stand easily six
1eet ana tip any beam a. 1870. but she is
not fat, she is simply Immense" She
was not made I'D. She looks the role
of the iolly. gO0d-natured woman. To-
pel1a received Miss Fischer for the first
time on New Years, but she does not
need to wait fer another first of Janu-
arg to return In the language of her
pugilistfc friend Mark Deaves,'' she
made good"
"Afark Deaves" was good as played by
William Humphrey In fact every
character in the company was In good
hands Humphrey told about going
over t. train de sWells fer a wrestling
match they's goin' t. give in How a.
yer Like tt James CareW was a
powerful looking "Dick Fedrfs" Mrs
Thorndyke Poucicault made realistic
Mrs. Hilda Pointer Alice Leigh made
a brogueish hrs. O'Hara' Jacques
Kruger was a funny "Brinsley Roone. -
and-but there is no use calling the roll
Every character was well played
Miss Fischer has proven that other
good things besides axes and farm
wagons come from Terre Haute.
NV Friend from Arkansas drew two
small New Years audiences at the
Grand,
Congressmen's Salaries.