The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03

even show in a theater when it goes to
Kansas City. 1t will be given there
for the benefit of the students of the
high school in the assembly room of
the central high school next Friday and
Saturday, with an afternoon perform
ance on Saturday afternoon.
'tEveryman'' is frequently played at
towns under the auspices of lyceum
bureaus and societies.
At Hiawatha, Kansas, it is played
next Monday night at Armory hall un-
der the auspices of the choir of ST.
Johns parish. The highest price
charged at Hiawatha is rs cents At
Topeka the parquet seats are $1.00. But
then Topeka theater-goerS are use to
that.
"GIittering Gloria" is now playing at
Denver at prices ranging from rs cents
to 10 cents, the latter being the high
est price for seats. The play is booked
at lot of small towns in the oil and
gas belt of southern Kansas, and will
come to Topeka, where very likely the
price charged will be $3.50.
The highest price paid for seats in
the parquet for Williams and Walker,
the colored comedians at Kansas City,
was rs cents and 81. The highest price
paid for parquet seats for the same
show at Denver, Colorado. was rs cents.
At Topeka the parquet seats were just
double that price. or $1.50-all of them.
SANDY Bottom is advertised at
cents. At Lincoln, Nebraska. this play
is being given today at prices of 10 and
rs cents for the matinee, and the high
est price for the night performance is
50 cents. 1t is given at the oliver the
alter, which is a part of the Crawford
theater syndicate circuit which is man
aged by o. T. Crawford and F. C.
Zerung.
1.-The Sign of the Four played in St
Joe at Is. %. s5 and so cents at night
and for the matinee 10 and 20 cents
The prices in Topeka Thanksgiving day
were at night 25. So. so and rs cents and
for the matinee % to so cents. It's the
same old story.
York State Folks" played it's third
engagement in Topeka at the Crawford
recently to a very meager audience
same play has been here playing at
prices ranging from one dollar down.
The third time, however, the prices
were from 81. so down.
Railroad jack is coming. At Craw-
ford's Lincoln, Nebraska, house, it is
advertised for 25. 35 and 80 cents, the
latter being the highest price. What
will be charged Topeka. 70 cents or 81?
those who wish to go to cheap melo-
drama should be allowed to do so in
peace.
The paper neglects. however, to state
cause why the people of Topeka who
wish to witness cheap nelodrana
should be held up for prices from 90 to
100 per cent higher than are charged for
the same productions given by the same
companies in towns similarly situated
as Topeka, and where the attendance
cannot be counted upon to exceed the
attendance at Topeka?
But while the Crawford syndicate is
so Jealous in it's effort to pander to the
tastes of those who like cheap melo-
drama, 1t is sadly lacking in zeal when
it comes to catering to the tastes of
those who desire something better. OF
the list of attractions announced for
December, but three are recognized as
standard high class productions, and
one has been played in Topeka hereto
fore Another has been on the stage
for SO long that most of Topeka's peo-
pie who attend high class attractions
have seen it either in Kansas City or
Chicago Which leaves but one truly
desirable play for the whole month.
Topeka theater-goers, it must be re-
membered, are jealous of Atchison, a
town much smaller than Topeka. Atchi-