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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
MEIBA HERE ON JAN. %.
The Queen of All Sopranos to Appear
in Topeka Auditorium.

Melba will come to Topeka at the
Auditorium January %. Many they
are who sing her praises. mere Le IL
something from the crlt1C Noitio-
I'VE may say of Madame Media that
her singing is fatal to criticism. 1t is
the sort of singing that by it's appeal
ing charm and it's persuasive grace
has the magical power by Whlch
cranky critics are transformed into
ardent admirers.
an word, Madame Media is one
of those singers by whom the purest
and noblest art of singing, the true be!
canto, is lovingly treasured; one OF
those who are entitled to rank high
above the herd of un1nsplred ana I'M
imaginative EocaliStS, as tone poets.
The artist personally may be, perhaps,
best described by using in her regard
Carlyle's famous tribute to charming
type of character-'A spirit all sum
shine, graceful from every gladness-
beautiful because bright
"She should be studied, appre-
ciated and enjoyed as descriptive
singer of vivid and exquisite eloquenee,
rather than as a dramatic one, for she
is essentially a picturesque singer.
Not that the dramatic sense is lacking.
without it she could not hold an
audience as she does, nor would she
have at easy command the magnetic
influence of tone and expression with
which to mesmerize the audience, and
make them the followers of her
slightest 1nIOnaClOn- we KNOW lIdl
art the most exquisite must go to pro-
duce such results, just as it has done
to produce the colors of Correggfo or
the expression of Raphael.
Like all the front rank singers of
the world, Madame Media has a voice
which has its own special points of
distinction and Individuality Her
voice is of that peculiar brilliancy of
tone which is defined as 'fluty,' and
with its richness and fullness it has a
bird-like lightness and grace, while
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
Stake List issued FOR Churchin Downs.

Louisville, KY, Dec. 31.-Lyman
Davis. secretary of the new Louisville
jockey club, has just issued a list of
the stakes to be run at the coming
spring meeting at Churchill downs.
The stakes Will close January Fl. The
stake events are:
The Kentucky Derby, for 3-year-
olds, value $4,000, one mile and a
quarter.
Louisville Nursery stakes, 2-year-
olds. value $4,000. four and one-haIf
furlongs.
The Kentucky Oaks, for s-year-oId
hllies, value $4,000, one mile and a six
teenth.
The Clark handicap, for 3-year-olds
and up, value $1,000, one mile and a
sixteenth.
The Debutante stakes for 2-year-
old fillies, value $1,000, four furlongs
The Bashford Manor stakes. for 2
year-old colts and geldings, value
$1,000, four and one-half furlongs.
The Juvenile stakes, selling sweep
stakes, for 2-year-olds, value $1,000,
five furlongs.
The Frank Fehr stakes. selling
sweepstakes, for 3-year-olds and up
value $1,000, one mile.
The Blue Grass stakes, for Swear
olds. value $1,000, six and one-half
furlongs.
The Louisville steeplechase, handi-
cap, for 3-year-o1ds and up, value
$1,000, full course. about two miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

tri1ls the while like the birds above
The more intense her misery, physi-
cal and sentimental, the more frenzied
and superb her vocalism. And in the
end, her long scene of dissolution ends
in a wonderful expiring motel 1t is
unreasonable. preposterous, yet what
of ideal 1ove-unto-death as this crea-
ton of Verdi is when realized by
Sembrich? The Polish singer cIings
to the traditions of the opera, she
school and the new. In the ball scene
with it's beautiful waltz movement, she
follows PATHS example of finging all
sense of time and place to the winds
sopranos-they of the true regal prima
donna elegance-of 80 years ago that
Violetta was of the old Italian days;
they moved amongst a company ''in the
PERIOD wearing gown of modern and
modish splendor. Thus does Sembrich,
and further like unto her sisters of the
past. she is incrusted with diamonds.
And of Faust" what is there to say!
Who, who has ever been to the opera,
or even of those who have not, hasn't
thought everything he could think on
that subjecti Yet, a point we forget
is how wholly apart from the Goethe
poem this howery opera is. 1 went to
our German theater last season and
heard the long speeches of the original
drama detained to an enraptured au-
dience. ] tried last night to find a re-
semblance of that in the waltzes, red
lights. gay ballots and pictorial ascen-
sion to heaven of the Gounod enter
tainment. The person who spoke of
Henry Irvings famous ''F'aust" produc-
ton, as a drama tization of an opera
was not far wrong. His spectacle was
the marvel of 20 years ago. Today we
see what an aid electric lighting is to
the horrors of hell. Interest in the
present operate revival centers in En-
ma Games Marguerite, not, of course,
as a novelty, but rather as a safe CEN
ter for enthusiasm. Joy in the Eames
voice is an easy and accepted sign of
culture. The conventional among US
who don't risk thinking for ourselves
are made aware that special comment
or undue rapture is not expected, as in
the case of Sembrich, or of Milka Ter
nina This is nice to know, and makes
the strain. especially on the box occu-
pants, far less in hearing Emma
Eames. Our placid pleasure in this
American prima donna is ruff1ed only
when Husband Julian Story designs
new and dazzling costumes for her-as
in the brilliant aida" wardrobe. Mar
guerite gives no opportunity for that:
So an Eames-"Faust' night is one CT
the safest of the season for the uncrit-
ical, who run no risk in expressing well
bred appreciation, and feel no necessity
of ecStacieS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
MUSICAL NOTES.
A New York critic SAYS:


Three old dramas, at least two of
which we rarely see nowadays, came
into public view this week in the form
of grand opera. And their revival
suggests the thought that an accepted
musical setting has almost invariably
a blighting effect on a fictions value
as a solely dramatic narrative. Who
thinks of "Cavalleria Rusticana,' or
LA Boheme," or Lucia di Lammer-
moor primarily drama? Their
plots are accepted, not followed. Ask
some one genuinely familiar with
Bizet's Carmen or Gounod's
Faust" what the story is, and ten to
one he will tell you few incidents
with no idea of the general tale, or,
especially the sequence of occur
rences. Certainly you will find your
opera habitue knows next to nothing
of the tales as told by Merimee and
Goethe. The three music-dramas of
the week were La Traviata," ''Rigo
letto' and Faust" The original plays
Dame aux Camelias" alone holds its
own in spite of the operate version.
lie Roi s'Amuse' is sometimes acted
in France, but it's form familiar to US,
with Edwin Booth. Faust" except to
the reading public, has taken its place
nowadays as the vocalist's own. "Rigo-
letto'' gives no such opportunity for
as it was a mans play. Not since
Booth died can 1 remember THE
Fools Revenge" having been acted on
Broadway. Probably no one dares to
undertake a role made SO wildly that
actors own. Enrico Caruso called
forth cheers in the part, though, as his
dramatic voice and fierce, spirited act
ing have in every role he has played
in his season and a quarter among US
This Italian is the hero of the hour.
The "Traviata" of Verdi is at the
end of a winding way from Dumas
Lady of the Camelias." 1t is an
adaptation of an adaptation. The
virtuous English, who are now show
ing US things in the way of Irises and
Olga Nethersoless refused to permit
the French story of a consumptive
courtesan to be told on their stage
So version was arranged under the
gentle title of "Heartease," and Mar
guerite Gauthier, renamed Violetta
Valerie, was engaged to an Italian
lied Armand. 1t was to this form of
the story that Verdi set his airy Italian
airs, which the younger generation tell
us cannot be taken seriously. Some of
US may. indeed, smile al death and de-
struction set to gay and tuneful music.
but the rest are apt to say go hang
with the subject, let's revel in divine
song. And certainly it is divine song
when Marcella Sembrich sings it Here
is illusion flung to the winds. A fat
woman dies of wasting disease. yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
GOLF COMMITTEE
VIII Make Its Report at Annual Meet
ing Next February.

New York, Dec. 31.-A special
committee of the United States Golf
association, appointed at the annual
meeting last February to consider the
plan of placing all the clubs in the
national body on an equality, both in
the payment of dues and in voting
power, has finished its work, and will
report at the next annual meeting
February 10, in this city.
The committee took up a PROPOSE
ton from 4 western clubs to reor-
ganiZe the association into one class
of membership with every club en-
titled to a vote. In it's report the COM
mittee recommends a compromise,
adhering to two classes but providing
that an associate membership may be
changed to an active one and the dues
for the latter are reduced from 500
to $50. If adopted, this plan will per-
nit all clubs to attain voting power in
the national organizat ton If they so de-
sire 1t is also provided that allied
clubs be given a small representation
on the executive board.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
KENTUCKY FUTURITY.
Nearly Ninety Per Cent of Thousand
Entries Made Good.

Lexington. Ky. Dec. 31.-Secretary
Horace Wilson, of the Kentucky Trot-
ting Horse Breeders association. made
the Official announcement that the De-
cember payments on the weanling
<oals entered in the twenty-two-thou-
Eand-dollar Kentucky Futurity shows
the remarkable average OF nearly 80
per cent of the original nominations.
Gut of 1.001 mares which were nomi-
mated last March S73 foals have been
kept in and made good. This is the
highest percentage ever attained in
any nominating race In the history of
the American trorting turf.
Another instance of Secretary Will
sons confirmed habit of breaking rec
ords is seen in the list of largest nomi-
nations made and which eclipse all
previous records. The Walnut Hall
stock farm has 81 nominations made
good; the Allen stock farm, of Pitts
field. Mass, heads the list with 80;
Senator J. w Bailey, of Gainesville
Tex. Il; D. c. Palmeter, Chicago. II;
J D. Grover, of Georgetown, KY. 16:
the Empire Stock Farm. of Cuba, N
y 16; J. NJ Johnson. of Calais. Me,
10; John H Shultz. of New York, IS;
A MacI.aTen, Buckingham. Canada,
Is; Mansfield Stock Farm. Lexington.
Ky. IS; D. II. Ford, Stonyford. N Y,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
TURN DOWN MICHIGAN FFNCERs
Intercollegiate Delegates Refuse VOL
VerineS' Request.

New York, Dec. 31.-Delegates from
the seven eastern universities and
academies comprising the Intercol-
Iegiate Fencing association, in attend
ance here at the regular midwinter
meeting, have refused a request for
admission to membership from the Uni
Versity of Michigan Fencing club. An
application from the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology also was denied.
None of the delegates would make
known the reason for turning away
the two clubs. but it was said the dele
gates were anxious to learn more about
the fencing status of the Michigan
club.
Arrangements for the annual cham
pionship tournament were made. 1t
will be held at the New York Athletic
club March "a and 25.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
RowDYIsM AND BASEBALL. :
Eastern Magnates Considering Meth
DDS to Improve the Atmosphere.

Eastern MagnateS considering Metn-
DDS to Improve the Atmosphere.
Here is a suggestion from the Gin
cfnnati Commercial that might be con-
sidered by certain Topeka baseball
magnates with profit:
No matter what rules may be
passed by a league to suppress rowdy-
ism and umpire batting on the ball
field, they will all prove failures un-
less the club owners are sincere and
desire to Quash this nuisance.
This practice of voting for clean
baseball during the off season and then
encouraging players to indulge in
rowdyism during the playing season
should cease. The fact long since has
been established that the public wants
clean baseball, devoid of any obtec-
tionable features and unnecessary de-
lays and rules to eliminate rowdyism
from the the game are passed and en-
forced for the benefit of the club own
ers and not for the edthcation of the
individual who is empowered to carry
out the rules of an organization.
The latest step of the National
league against rowdyism is to deduct
$40 from the players salary for every
day that he is put out of the game or
suspended, and it will be sure to bring
about the desired result providing the
club owners continue to be in SYM
ever. the player should pay then the
intention of the rule is frustrated and
rowdyism will flourish.
There was a time in the National
league when club owners paid their
players fines, and the result was that
the game was fast losing it's grip upon
the public. Whether it is possible at
violate the rules by doing this remains
to be seen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
TO PURIFY IOWA ATHLETICS.
Educators Plan to Devise New Regula-
lions for Colleges and Schools.

tons for Colleges and Schools.
T. Des Moines. Dec. 31.-A conference
of the presidents and representatives
of the faculties of the colleges of Iowa
will be held this winter to devise new
regulations of intercollegiate athletics.
This action was auth orized by the col
Jege department of the State Teachers
association today.
1t is proposed to require one years
residence and actual collegiate work
from candidates for places on athletic
teams to make them eligible to mem
bership thereon. The college presi-
dents today denounced professionalism
in college athletics and expressed a
determination to rid the Iowa games
of it.
The high school principals of the
state organized a board today to take
charge of athletics in high schools
Only a few of the more important
schools now are represented in a
league, and the plan is to make rules
and regulations for all high school
athletics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

its compass upward is well nigh I'M
limited for all legitimate purposes OF
song. Frenchmen would describe 1t as
a pearly voice The possesSor of the
voice, apart from her peerless natural
gifts, inpresses one as being not
merely scientific vocalist, but a
scientific musician as we'll No one
who is not intensely musical in the
best sense could phrase so beautifully.
AT times when Madame Melba is sing
ing one is tempted to steal and apply
to CarlyIe's image of the .dewdrops of
celestial melody.'''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
COMING TO THE THEATER.
in Brief About the Theat-
ricaI Bookings Next Week.
III THE GRAM

AT THE CRAWFORD.
"Our New Man." Sunday.
rip Van Wrinkle" Monday.
The Moonshiner's Daughter" Tuesday.
''Sign of the Cross" Wednesday.
F'aust's Minstrels, Thursday.
'-Peck's Bad Boy" Friday.
Sherlock Holmes" Saturday.
Harry Beresford comes in his new
comedy, "Our New Man" Mr.. Beres-
ford is known to Topeka theater-goers as
an excellent comedian, having played here
in THE Wrong Mr.. Wright"
Thomas Jefferson, son of Joseph JeffeI =
son, has successfully succeeded to his
fathers famous role of rip Van Win
kle-" The younger Jefferson is reputed
to be successful in the role.
The Moons liners Daughter" is a melo-
drama which has been in Topeka before.
The Sign of the Cross is the late
Wilson Barrett's best known play. 1t
years.
Some four years ago Teddy Faust and
the Faust family Of acrobats appeared in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

IL; East View Stock Farm, New York,
IL; w. B. Dickerman, New York, II.
The other nominators run from
to 10 nominations each and the re-
mainder of the 302 nominations have
been kept in from one to three foals
each, which shows an unusual interest
in this, the greatest stake on the trot-
ting turf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
Revolution Imminent.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

Topeka with Fields Ministries. Then Ted
dy Faust started q minstrel company of
his own, which was here a year ago
The only good to be said of 'Peck's
Bad Boy is that it made the author
prominent and his prominence made him
governor of Wisconsin.
Sherlock Holmes has twice been in
Topeka and comes third time. Herbert
Kelley and E1fie Shannon appeared here
in the play last year. The company is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
Jiu Jitsu ut Annapolis.

Washington. Dec. S1.-At the cabi-
net meeting yesterday Secretary Nor
ton said it had been decided to have
Jiu 1ltsu, the Japanese science of
wrestling. taught at the naval acad-
envy.
The president is much interested in
the japanese style of wrestling and
cordially approves of It's introduction
at the naval academy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

Blanche Walsh has not been able to
make THE Kruetzer Sonata a success
and will soon bring out the new play by
Clyde Fitch, to be known as THE Wo-
man in the Case" Much secrecy concern
ing the story is manifested, as it is claim
ed that Mr.. Fitch insisted that no pub
lcity be given to the details of the plot
until the play had been produced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money If it
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature
is on each box. 25c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles. Your druggist will refund
money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to
cure you in 6 to IA days. soc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
A Pill i'm Time

will save a serious sickness, especially
to people subject to Bilious attacks,
Sick Headaches or who suffer from
Stomach disorders. A pill in need is
friend indeed, and you should never
be without a box of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

Maude Adams is rehearsing LAS You
Like IT. and this charming comedy will
likely be brought out in New York ere
her present engagement there terminates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31
SOME OF THE STAGE LINES.

Sayings From Some of the New Theat-
ricaI Productions.
Here is a joke that is said to pro-
woke more laughter than any other in
"a Girl From Dixie"
Has the bunko man got you YETI"
"Yes-for $1O.'
Did you complain to the police?'
mo. Isn't SO enough?''
There isn't anything inherently
funny in the lines. 1t must be civic in
trospection which causes their recep-
tion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

1.-THE "Bibulous Baker of Bonn" is
the name of a song newly interp olated
THE Royal Chef This smacks
somewhat of that master of allitera-
ton, W. S. Gilbert who wrote:
We will sit in solemn silence in a dull.
dark dock,
In a pestilential prison with a lifelong
lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short
sharp shock
From a cheap but clipper chopper on
a big, black block.
The play in which Sir Charles
Wyndham is showing himself and his
London company. Mrs, ,Gorri mi $
American, Hubert Henry Davies,
though, like Mcclellan, he has lived of
late in England. So here we are with
two native dramatic authors to be sud
theft of precious stones is the subject
of Davies play, like that of Nc
LelIan's, but here it is put into
comedy that drops into melodrama
again that familiar stage hero who for
one sentimental reason or another
takes upon himself the odium of a sin
which he hasn't committed. AS usual
he is the middle-aged lover of a young
woman, but it isn't to shield her
brother, as usually is the case, that he
lets it be believed he is a thief. 1t is
her husband who steals Mrs. Cor
r1nge's necklace. Now, Wyndham
loves the woman, not knowing she is
bride, and when he learns that she
has secretly married the cuIprit he
can't bear to shame her by exposing
her spouse as criminal. There is
nothing new in this self-sacrificing
hero, nor in Wyndham's fine portrayal
of him. 1t is his leading actress, Mary
Moore, who comes out aStoniShingly
well in this play as the Mrs. Gorringe
whose necklace is stolen. Miss Moore
her debut here as the Iackadaisical
seemed very bad actress, indeed, and
we marveled that she was a London
favoIite. But as the totally different
Mrs. Gorringe-a silly, vain, giggling,
loquacious young matron in swell So
ciety-she has tickled us till we more
than forgive her Ada. She is a guest
at an English country house, and she
goo-goos every man in sight, from the
hero who falsely confesses the theft of
her necklace and the rascal who
really stole it down to the detective
who is called in to solve the mystery.
And all the while she processes an
ideal loyalty to her absent husband.
Il must examine your room," says
the detective. 'and will you go with
MY bedroom?" she gasps. with
me alone? The idea! shall tell Mr.
Gorringe of this
In the course of his questioning he
says; ''Yo on tell me that. after disrob-
ing for bed, you put on not only the
necklace, but a quantity of other jew
elry."
"Oh, you horrid man." she ex-
claims; Il had a scarf on, too"
VERY well; but that doesn't mat
ter. What want to know he be-
gins.
"Oh, but it does NATTER she inter
rupted; 81 won't have you regard me
wearing nothing but diamonds and
rubies and pearls
but, ma ann he insists, "I want to
know why you put all those things
on"
'fWell. then she wriggles and
twists to say, IT wanted to see how
would look as an Oriental
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-31

Forbes Robertson, the distinguished
English actor, and his American wife.
Gertrude Elliott, sailed yesterday from
London for this country. In a short time
they open their second American tour. at
Toronto, Canada, presenting several i'm
portant plays in Mr.. Robertson's roper
tOire.