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

when they saw the people become cir
Gus hungry. We have agreed to cut that
out The routes of the circuses are to
be so mapped out that Barnum & Bail
ey can be doing one circuit while the
Ringlings are travelling another There
will be no more conflicts in territory.
and altogether the public will be the
gamer by the arrangement"
THEATRICAL NOTES.
M coquelin is acting in Cairo and Al
exandria.
new pIay which H V. Esmond has writ
ten for Forbes Robertson.
Under the head of a musical satire" a
burlesque of George AIDES successful
comedy. The College WIDOW" viii short &C t.
New York city.
Nine. Modjeska denies that she is going
into vaudeville, although she was offered a
large sum weekly to give scene from
Macbeth"
Ida Greeley-Smith, a granddaughter of
Horace Greeley, the editor and daughter
of Col. Nicholas Smith, is playing the role
of Maggie in Augustus Thomas comedy,
1.-The Other Girl
Virginia Harmed will begin her season
in Philadelphia Christmas week. when she
viii appear In a new romantic drama en-
Smith and Mrs. Vance Thompson are an
nounced as the authors.
Fay Templeton has been devoting the
week to studying Mime: ReJane as Zena
comedy at the Liberty theater in New
York. 1t will be worth the seeing, that's
certain.
Blanche Walsh will present for the first
time in Chicago Jacob Gordins 'Kreut-
Sunday night. In her company are George
Fawcett, Alexander Won Mitzel, William
Wadsworth and Miss Helen Ware.
Alexandra Guilmant. the French organ
list composer. sailed for home last Thurs
''he takes with him many American dol
lars and a new sheaf of laurels- "
don in the spring having made an ar
rangement with Sarah Bernhard to give
jointly with her 80 performances through
with her in Paris. These two stars play
ed together last spring in London. giving
playing in French. ~ Vs
Mr. Beerbohm Tree has become the
pOSSeSSOr of Agatha" play by Mrs.
Humphry Ward and Mr.. Louis N. Parker
which already has been played in this
that his daughter, Miss Viola Tree, may
have an opportunity of showing what she
can do with strong emotional charac-
ter.
Blanch Walsh begins her annual en-
gagement in New York early in January,
appearing in THE Woman in the Case"
a new Sc ciety drama by Clyde Fitch.
]. H. Stoddart is said to be thinking of
making a special tour across the country
in revival of plays in WHICH he won re-
nown, such as Saints and Sinners THE
Long Strike and Alabama
Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern have
just completed six weeks of success; both
financial and artistic in New York and
it is now announced that they will begin
their second year together at the Knick-
erboeker theater next october. 1t is un-
derstood that Merchant of Venice will
be one of the plays they will add to their
next season. 1t will be the first
time that either of them has appeared
in it.
w. T. Hodge, whose portrayal, of Hiram
Stubbns in Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch here last season is remembered,
made his first appearance as a novelist
last week with piece of fiction called
9 Eighteen Miles from Home The story
has been dramatized already by it's au-
thor and he will probably star in it next
season. since Valley Crossways," which
Franklin Fyles wrote for him has proved
to be unsuitable. Eighteen Miles from
Home is dedicated to the memory of
James A. Herne, whose protege Mr..
Hodge was