The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-12
Facts About the Village Parsol
Here Saturday.
Playing This Week at Schedule
Printed i'm State Journal.
PERTINENT FACT S
Montgomery and Stone Won
Be Seen in Topeka.
Willie Collier Here in "the
Dictator" Tonight.

The efforts of the Topeka theatrical
magnates to stem the tide of public
opinion and public sentiment by buying
space in newspapers to defend them
selves in their methods won't result in
deluding the people.
The State Journal told its readers
that THE Village Parson'' was adver-
tised to play at the Auditorium theater
at Kansas City at prices ranging from
10, % and 80 cents to so cents.
Crawford and Kane tried to deny this
fact by coming out in the morning pa
per with a garbled statement in an at
tempt to show that a higher schedule of
prices prevailed for this attraction at the
Auditorium theater at Kansas City.
They gave out a copy of a telegram
they sent to the Kansas City asking
what prices prevailed for 1.-The Village
Parson'' in that city.
They also followed that with the fol-
lowing reply:
"A. S. Kane, Topeka, Kan. Prices
Auditorium, Is, so, rs. and 81. Wood
ward & Burgess"
The Kansas City papers are within
reach OF every patron of the theater IN
Topeka. Sundays papers contained
large display advertisements announc-
ing The Village Parson'' at the Audi
torium at 10, %, 35, and so cents. The
week day papers contain single column
one inch advertisements, IKE the one
reproduced in the State Journal last
Friday.
But in the face of these facts the
Crawford management gave out a state
ment in the morning paper together
with the telegram quoting the prices on
this play at Kansas City at from %
cents to 81, or just double the price act
ually charged.
In attempting to justify themselves
for the prices charged for this attrac-
in q managers
overreached themselves. In the nrSt
place it is easy to ascertain mat the
Auditorium is popular priced inca
ter and that a. dollar schedule OF
prices never prevails there. The fifty
cents schedule prevails from one end
of the season to the other. The Grand
opera house in Kansas City is alone
in the field of attractions that are
played at a dollar schedule. And the
class of attractions at the Grand are
somewhat higher that any that ever
play at the Auditorium. And more
over, the dollar schedule at the Grand
in Kansas City provides for nearly half
of the seats on the first floor at IS
cents, which is not always the case
when a show is given at a dollar
schedule in the Crawford theater at
Topeka If the price for THE Village
Parson" had been 81 at Kansas City,
it would have beenn just rs cents
higher than the price at Topeka
One of the statements made by
Crawford and Kane in their recent
Journal, printed in the morning paper,
follows:
IF Lew Dockstader plays any other
one night stand in the country at 81
for the parquet seats, wo don't know
where it is. His agent said he made
this concession to Topeka because it
is Sunday night"
wbe+bar c.rauyford ana Eana Lna1y
or did not know, it is a fact that Dock
stader will appear at st. Joseph, Mo-,
tonight, a one night stand at 81 for
parQuet seats, and other seats on the
first floor are 70 cents.
Dockstader plays tonight at st. Joe
at the Lyceum theater, the Crawford
house in that city Crawford and
Kane ought to know that Dockstader
from 81 down, but above their own
signature, they declare that if Dock
stader plays any other one night
stand but Topeka at 81 for the par
quet seats, they don't know where
it is
If any person doubts that Dockstader
plays st. Joe for 10 cents and 81 on the
first floor he may quickly satisfy him
self of the truth of the above statement
by visiting a news stand and looking
at the st. Joseph News and Press of
last Saturday which contained a 4 col
umn 10 inch advertisement of this and
Otner aICFactlOnS at the Lyceum the
alter, the Crawford theater of that city.
Crawford and Kane say that Dock
Stader'S agent made the concession of
the one dollar schedule at Topeka be-
cause it was on Sunday night. Under
normal conditions business should be
better on Sunday night than on other
nights so they just made all the seats
on the first floor at Topeka the same
price. They were all 81 each.
The State Journal can't tell you why
the 81 concession was made at St Toe.
Doubtless Crawford and Kane will be
able to find an excuse, but the State
Journal does know that a still greater
concession was made for Dockstader's
appearance at St. Joe, and the circle
seats, behind the parquet seats on the
first dnnr were Advertised at Is cents.