The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-29
Topeka Asked to Pay $3.50 for
Second Rate Attraction.
EsThe TenderfOot" Without
Richard Garlic Is Coming.
USUAL HOLD PRICES
Author Was First Seen Here I'm
the Production.
No Prospect of improvement i'm
Amusement Situation.

1.-THE Tenderfoot" without Richard
earle in the cast comes to the Craw-
ford theater tomorrow night at the
standard schedule of prices for high
CLASS productions, $3.50 for every seat
on the lower floor.
1.-The Tenderfoot' was presented to
theatergoers at Des Moines, Iowa, on
Monday by the same company that will
play it in Topeka, and the Des Moines
Capital of Tuesday said:
1T is not to be compared with the
performance as seen the first time
with Richard earle in the cast Still
Topeka paid $3.50 then.
Richard Carries style of humor is
very original. He has been seen twice
in Topeka within recent years: both
times in plays of his own. He was
seen in Topeka in the company which
presented THE Tenderfoot'' here for
the first time. He will not be seen here
tomorrow night with the No. road
company which is bringing the play to
Topeka for the second time at a high
class schedule of prices.
earle wrote and produced three plays
at various times during the past few
seasons at the old Dearborn, now the
Garrick theater, of Chicago. The first
and best of the three was 1.-The Ex-
plorers,' now several seasons old. Next
came 1.-The Tenderfoot," which was
production of far inferior merit to THE
Storks'' which didn't make good, and
which has been relegated to the scrap
pile.
Richard earle is playing in an en-
tirely new piece in the east this season,
and very little is known of Phil Ryley
who is playing the leading role first
created by earle.
The company and the local theatrical
management are seeking to deceive the
theatergoing public of Topeka by adj
vertising that the show will be put on
here by Phil Ryley and a company Of
seventy
The statement is absurd on the face,
and Topeka people will not be deceived.
Even the No. 2 road company of THE
Wizard of OF" only claimed something
over fifty, and the big revival of San
Toy which has just finished tour of
the principal cities in this vicinity, and
which Topeka did not get, only claims
to have a trifie over sixty people.
Even the Hor ta,f G bnaIEa wh Tn1
peka in 1.-The Tenderfoot" had but
about half the number of actors that
Crawford is advertising for the No
road company which comes here to-
morrow.
'tGlittering Gloria" was advertised as
a crack musical comedy with a big
company and chorus, and the hundred
or more people who saw it here will all
testify that the only musical thing
about the show was an Irish dialect
song sung by man playing the role or
a baggage smasher in a union depot,
and the whole company numbered but
about a dozen persons
In fact it is very likely that there
has never been a theatrical troupe
which has ever been at Topeka which
actually had 20 people in the cast. 1t
is absurd to say that a No. road
company has that many people in the
cast.
is rnisrepresented, people cannot be
blamed for asking themselves if it isn't
quite likely that the quality of the pro-
duction is misrepresented.
The Crawford theater management
has not announced the date when the
people of Topeka will be served better
in the matter of theatrical amusement.
The western correspondent of the
State Journal who declared that so
long as people would pay radium prices
for kerosene circuit shows at a kero-
sene showshop, it was quite likely that
there would be nothing better for them,
has undoubtedly found a very happy
way of expressing very patent fact:
That the people disprove of paying
radil1m prices for kerosene shows at a
kerosene showshop is proved in the
fact that many of the best citizens of
the city never enter the local theater
nor allow any member OF the family
to do so. The number of those who
never go to the theater in Topeka seems
to be steadily growing.
Charles Hawtrey in "a Message from
Mars played the Willis Wood at Kan
sas City and he is also making one
night stands. Topeka did not get it
but other cities did. 1t plays at Des
MoineS, Iowa, tonight.
Topeka will see j. H. Stoddart next
Saturday in 1.-The Bonnie Brier Bush
and at 81 prices at that. Mr.. Stoddart
is in the first class and his production
is a success. The show will be we'll
worth the price asked, the only strange
thing ching that it is not $3.50.
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