The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-24
HAS MADE A HIT.
The Girl From Kansas a Sue
cessfnl Comedy.
A Satire on WOman's Rights and
Female Politicians.
BY GRANT STEWART.
Olive May and John w. Albaugh
the Stars.
The Story Of the Play and the
Plot.
BY GRANT STEWART.

TIE hit of the vaudeville circuit this
summer mas been the one act comedy
-The Girl From Kansas written by
Grant Stewart, and played by Miss
Olive May and John w. Albaugh, Jr.
Miss May was the original Bonita
in Arizona" Mr.. Albaugh has man.
aged theaters in Baltimore and Wash
4ngton and has headed his own stock
company in Baltimore.
The story of the play in brief is as
follows: A small town in Kansas, Cen
tralia, has gone for wonan's rights. and
the heroine of the play-AIiss Frances
Taylor-has been elected inspector of
customs. when it is suddenly discovered
that Centralia isn't a port and they
have no customs. So the young lady
decides to study the customs somewhere
else. and departs for Mexico, and lands
4n a little Mexican village where the
play opens At the rise of the curtain
the innkeeper is discovered preparing
breakfast for a guest. when a rich
young Mexican gentleman Jerau
Gonzales-enters and wnen asked who
the breakfast is for. the innkeeper re-
plies for a guest who arrived last
night The young man looks at the
register and reading Frances Taylor
Inspector of Customs, Centralia. Kan
EaS." jumps to the conclusion that the
q
from America and who is taking ad-
vantage of the extradition laws of Mex
fco to Jump his own country. He
therefore tells the landlord that he must
EtarVe Mr." Taylor out. as it is the
only means of getting rid of so obnox-
aouS parsonage. the complications
from there on can readily be under
stood, the young woman almost frantic
with hunger, the landlord Obeying
Gonzales order not to serve her with
anything to eat, Gonzales not knowing
for some time that she is Miss Taylor,
andhiS having fallen in love with her
at first sight The action of the play Is
quick and concise and the characters
admirably drawn Miss Taylor is an
exceedingly womanly woman who has
a absolutely no idea of what she means
when she talks politics, which she has
learned parrot like. During the course
of the play she repeats to the young
learned by heart and it is extremely
funny.
A few lines from the play are:
Frances Every official position is
held by a woman
Cionazles-''Is it possible?''
ICES Everything is possible in
Kansas"
Frances lin her political speech)-I
sonal feelings and vote for your own in
terests-f
Gonzales Cat the conclusion of her
speech by which time he is head over
heels in Lowell wouldn't care wneth-
er knew what you were talking about
or whether you knew yourself. 1 only
know if you would talk to me like that
and look at me like that I would vote
for anything you would want
Frances (when the innkeeper says he
has obeyed Gonzales instructions to
break the cooks head')-"Im sorry
for the poor cooks head
Gonzales-"Yo You needn't be, senorita,
he never used it in his cooking"
trances--Our mayor is sucn a cat
Why he told the commissioner of house
cleaning mean-er-er-Street clean
fng-that the district attorney was
bieached- Now I've known Daisy ever
since she was a little girl and she was
just as blonde then"