The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-05

Polly Primrose" Saturday.
Hoyt's "a Bunch of Keys polished
up to date, will be presented at the
Crawford tonight
The piece is well known to the the
ater-going public, and nearly everyone
has either seen or heard of "A Bunch
of Keys" The company consists of
mostly all new talent this season.
There is an abundance of bright music
and songs, pretty costumes and appro-
PIRATE stage settings. "A Bunch of
Keys will this season be produced by
Gus Bothner who has engaged an ex-
cellent company. The piece has been
polished up to date, and special atten-
ton has been given to the specialties,
which will embrace several novel fea-
lures, among which burlesque will be
given by the Acme quartette. The
musical numbers will also be a feature.
1.-THE Irish Pawnbrokers, the third
edition of which is presented by Joe
w. Spears, is the work of Edgar Sell
den, the prolific playwright who has
contributed many successes to the
American stage, his most recent hit
The Rays "a Hot Old Time" being
still warm in the affections of amuSe-
ment lovers. This new edition of 1.-THE
Irish PawnbrokerS' is said to be one
of the brightest pieces of eXtrava ganza
yet seen, Astounding with comical sit
uationS and dialogue. The heart af-
fairs of the amorouS miGdle-aged
AdOniS have always played an import
ant part in works of this description,
and much of the trouble in 1.-THE Irish
Pawnbrokers' is brought about in the
same way. 1.-THE Irish PawnbrokerS'
win be at the Crawford Sunday night
What promises to be one of the quaintest
and oldest of all this seasons theatrical
Offer ings, is soon to be seen in this city
in Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
which is a dramatizatiOn OF both that
hot
and also Mrs. Rices sequel story,
''Lovey Mary" These books, which
have been the best selling works pub
lished within the career of the Century
company, have naturally been drama
tlzed in these book-dran1a days, and IL
reports from southern cities are to be
believed, the footlight adaptation has
most happily reproduced the delightful
figures and humorous episodes of the
original tales. Mrs. F'lexner, who has
accomplished this task so seemingly
successfully, is a bosom friend of Mrs.
Rice and 1t was at her special request
that Mrs. F1exner made the stage YER
sion. LfebIer & Co. have apparently
provided a cast worthy of the unique
production, to judge from the praise
which has elsewhere been bestowed
upon the Mrs. Wigs of Mrs. Madge
Carr Cook, the "Lovey Mary of Mabel
Taliaferro, the mis- Hazy' of Helen
Lowell. and the Mr.. Stubbins' of
William T. Hodge. The play will be
at the Crawford next Friday.
Old Georgetown on the Potomac is the
scene of Adelaide Thurston's new play,
polly Primrose" which will be greet
ed for the first time here Saturday mat
tnee and night, December II. The ac-
ton takes place during the Civil war.
Polly Primrose" is in no sense a war
drama, still the atmosphere of those
troublesome times furnishes the motive
for exciting situations in the play.
Polly is a proud little tyrant, and
staunch to the southern cause. She is
in love with a young northern officer,
Hugh Carlisle, the guest of Pollys
young brother, whose wounds Hugh
nursed after a bloody sl1irmish between
the opposing forces. Pollys father is
General Lees secret aid in his proposed
attack on the northern capital. Prim-
rose mansion holds nightly meetings of
these advisors of General Lee, who is
unknown to General Grant, camped
with his army within easy reach of
Washington. A northern renegade
Chase, to turn Pollys love from his
rival, Hugh Carlisle. makes it appear
that Carlisle is a northern spy, violat-
ing his honor as a guest in the house