The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-13
TOO BAD TO TALK ABOUT.
"Glittering Gloria Worked a Shell
Game on lola Theater GOers.
The article then says

| The article then says:
Probably no audience which has as
sembled at the Grand theater since its
opening was more keenly disappointed
than the one which witnessed the per-
Torrance of 'Glittering Gloria last
night.
'Glittering Gloria was misrepre-
sented to the Grand theater. The
management acted on its best infor-
nation. The management was given
to understand that the performance
the advance notices heralded it as
such. The reputation of Ryley &
Fisher, under whose management the
company is travelling, is first class,
they can see their way clear to per-
NIT themselves to be parties to such
a rank fake. They are among the
Oldest theatrical managers in the
country and the most reliable. lola
will have a long memory for them,
and their names will be pasted in the
hats of local theater goers for future
reference.
1.-The show itself is a good SO and
rs cent production, and sailing under
its true colors would be a very toler-
able performance.
THE company is poorly balanced.
ma of the production, should take early
occasion to cancel her contract with
Ryley & Fisher and hike back to the
woods. How she ever broke into the
is a mystery. There are some things
that cannot be explained, and one of
them is why Dorothy ever emerged from
the woods in the beginning. Also Miss
Lulu Louden, who played the part of
Dorothy Dentworthy, Archie Toddleby's
fiancee, should cut it out Lulu is very
pretty and petite, but if she will insist
on trying to sing and dance, when she
can do neither, she also should lose
herself in the depths of the forest.
ut will be quite a while before lola
will forget that it had shell game
worked on it in the performance of
'Glittering Gloria There is absolutely
nothing too bad to say about it. There
was no music in the show"
The theater-goers of Topeka are
coming to a realization of the fact that
the only way to secure their rights is
by staying away from the Crawford
theater until the theatrical magnates
change their tactics and open the
Grand Opera house where the lives of
the patrons of the drama in Topeka
will be as safe as may be expected.
This is shown by the attendance at
the performance of THE Dictator by
William Collier at the Crawford
theater last night. Collier is recog-
nized as one of the leading actors of
the United States. He is a comedian
of more than usual merit, and Topeka
was the first one night stand he has
made in the past six weeks.
Under ordinary circumstances. and
if he had appeared at the Grand
Opera house, he undoubtedly would
have played to a big house in Topeka.
But instead he played to hardly half
an audience last night. Little more
than half the seats on the first floor
were occupied. Perhaps hundred
people were in the balcony and per-
haps fifty in the gallery.
Collier is not to blame because he
had to play at the Crawford theater in
Topeka. The dressing room and stage
facilities are such that the leading
actors and actresses dislike TO visit the
house. The dissatisfaction at the ac-
commodations is as general among
actors who visit Topeka as is the dis
satisfaction at the accommoda lions for
those ''in 'front.' as manifested by the
expressions of the Topeka people who
have no alternative but to enter the
Crawford if they desire amusement of
this character.