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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
CHARLES {. EVANS
UNIQUE STAGE CAREER.

| Charles E. Evans, the William Henry
| Spangle of 1.-THE Shotgun cast, cele-
| brated a unique anniversary recently.
| 1t was the twentieth anniversary of the
opening of "a Parlor Match in Asbury
Park, N. J.
| This piece, which Mr.. Evans still re-
CARDS as the best comedy ever writ
ten, was brought out back in 1884, and
Mr.. Evans played the part of l. Nc
Corker $500 times during the twelve
years it was being produced. During
all this time he never missed a single
performance.
Mr.. Evans has had an exceedingly
unique stage career. He has been play
ing since 1869 and yet has assumed
comparatively few characters. His
first appearance was made in Rochester,
n. Y, in Frank Mayo's production of
''The Streets of New York He ap-
peared as Bob, the bootblack. Perhaps
many among even the old time theater
goers have forgotten that Mr.. Evans is
a graduate of ninstrelsy.
After his connection with Mr.. Mayo
he went on the variety and minstrel
stage for ten years. About 1882 the or
ganization known as Niles and Evans
consolidated with Bryant and Hoey and
brought forward a variety company
which produced among other things
farce called 1.-The Book Agent This
piece was in reality the foundation for
"a Parlor Match
The late Charles Hoyt was commits
stoned to rewrite it and expand it into
three acts, and it was through this We
hicle that Mr.. Evans and "Old HoSS"
Hoey achieved their first big success.
After playing the comedy for ten con-
secutive years it was abandoned and
then revived for another run of two
years.
More recently Mr.. Evans has appear
ed in Naughty Anthony" and There
and Back" He was a theatrical man.
ager in New York for seven years
A peculiar coincidence of this career
is that he secured his first cement
with Frank Mayo when he was thfr-
teen years of age and years later was
instrumental in starring Mr.. Mayo in
'Puddin' head Wilson"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
WINTERS HANDWRITING.

William Winter, the dramatic critic,
is thought by some to write the worst
hand of any man living. There may
have been giants in the past, men like
Horace Greeley, who surpassed him,
but no one his equal remains.
Some years ago Mr.. Winter was trav-
cling in Scotland and, having had many
amusing experiences, wrote an account
of them to r. H. Stoddard in New York.
Mr.. Stoddard received the letter at
breakfast and, combining familiarity
with the intuitions of the poet, man.
aged to make it out and enjoyed several
good laughs. He glanced up at Mrs.
Stoddard and said:
Its from William Winter. Very fun
ny. Want to read it %
you know I can never read q. word
of his writing" replied Mrs. Stoddard.
ooh, that doesn't matter replied Mr..
sStoddard, tossing the letter over. Its
just as funny to look at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
A Text For Many Sermons.

OF course the fatality gives the anti
autoists fine topic for discussion
I'VE told you So is heard all along the
line.
However, the truth remains that the
contest proved wonderfully beneficial
to the auto industry and its many ram
ihcations. Whether this added impetus
to a great and growing trade is worth
the price paid for tia human life
may not at this time be asserted. Of
course American makers will renew
their efforts to eclipse their European
rivals. American sportsmen will take
up the racing end of the auto industry
with increased interest, and the way
has been paved for the establishment of
auto races as regular annual features.
1t is safe to assume that the Vanderbilt
race Will be duplicated in various parts
of the country, and the putting, painting
engines will be popularized to a. greater
extent than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Mrs campheIrs Potential Az.

Mrs. Campbell plays the leading char
acter with convincing realism. She
runs the gamut of human emotions
with facility of dramatic expression
that plainly shows her to be one of the
really great actresses of our time. Her
British cOuntrymen may justly feel
proud of her.
Her manager has shown his implicit
faith in her by providing settings and
costumes that make possible scenes of
unusual splendor The play is a feast
of color if ever there was one.
The supporting company is strong in
most respects. Guy Standing as Don
Enriquez de Palacois. Zoraya's lover;
Frederick Perry as Cardinal Ximenes,
archbishop of Toledo and grand in
quisitor. and L. Rogers Lytton as Car
demos, agent of the inquisition, are par
ticularIy good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
The Sho-Gun.v

The Sho-Gun,' at Wallack's theater.
is the sixth play by George AIDE pro-
duced by Henry NJ. Savage Surely the
Indiana humorist has monster store
house of imagination from which to
draw. AIDE might well have been the
subject of Goldsmith's words when he
said, "And still the wonder grew that
one small head could carry all he
knew"
The play is "a comic opera in two
acts and the scenes are laid in Korea.
The music is by Gustav Luders.
Charles E Evans and Edward 3.
Martlndell play the principal roles
While not equal to the other AIDE sue
cesses, 1.-THE Shotgun" has many
bright spots. The trouble with Mr..
AIDE is that he has set so high a
standard for himself that he has diff
Guilty in living up to his reputation.
Still, ''The Shotgun is vastly superior
to many of the comic operas with
which long suffering public has had
to contend Don't get the idea that the
play is not worth seeing. 1t is bright
and breezy, but not continuously so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Story of "rhe sorceress."

Moorish superstition in the early part
of the sixteenth century forms the ba-
sis of THE Sorceress"
A charge of witchcraft is brought
against Zoraya (Bernhardt's role, play
ed by Mrs. CampbeID, a Moorish wild
ow, young and beautiful.
Zoraya had inherited from her ia
Their, who in his day had won fame as a
physician, the ability to make wonder
full cures. This power arouses suspi-
cion in the minds of the superstitious
Moors, and even those whom she bene-
fits are not dilatory in condemning her
Added to the distrust of her people
is the popular belief that she is a worn-
an of easy virtue. Her natural attrac-
tiveness and destinations seem in the
eyes of her townpeople to lend color to
this latter presumption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

AS the play develops Zoraya receives
desperate attentions from Don Enri-
quez, bridegroom of Joana. Jeana's
father is governor of Toledo. Zoraya
returns Don Enriquez's affection.
The bride meanwhile has gone into a
trance. Zoraya is accused of casting a
spell on her and is condemned to be
burned at the stake. Zoraya, however,
is given chance to restore the strick
en- girl if possible. She succeeds in
bringing her out of the cataleptic state
and thereby secures the revocation of
her sentence and is set free.
But Zoraya's freedom is not to serve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

of the gypsy are shown to be almost in
surmountable. The harvester, however,
when he returns, sees his old time
love and the boy (his SOM and finds
himself "a poor fellow for the first time
in his life brought face to face with
duty" and tarries to remedy the wrong
he has done.
While the play is pleasing in its ro-
mantle fancy and poetic treatment, it
puts credulity and even imagination to
strong tests at times that threaten it's
right to serious consideration. But Mr..
SINNERS ability saves the day.
The supporting company is for the
most part inefficient. The minor
French Canadian characters are too
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Interesting Football Figures.

Football shut outs have been more
frequent this season than ever before.
For instance, on a recent day when the
forty-five leading teams in the entire
country played only two of the losing
teams succeeded in scoring at all. One
college scored six points and the other
four.
The winning teams - thirty-one -
scored a total of almost 1000 points.
The highest scores were, as usual, made
by western elevens. Seventy-five points
are a mere nothing in some of the
games in the west among the minor
colleges. HARRY GRANT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

is of French Canadian life is effec-
lively told. The settings are partfcu-
larly praIseworthy.
Mr.. SINNERS art makes the play
what it is, even saving the first act,
which is glaringly devoid of even the
elementary manifestations of dramatic
propriety. The departure of the har-
vester for pastures new is so clum-
silly contrived as to threaten the sue
cess of the play for the moment. The
remaining acts, however, retrieve the
production.
Mr.. SINNERS role is a Fascinating one
in which the innate wandering instincts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
University of Virginia Football.

The University of Virginia as put a
strong football team in the ED this
season, as in past years. T Char
lottesville eleven, in fact, is t ablest
in the south. The university takes
great interest in the game and spends
as much money as many of the eastern
and western institutions in developing
gridiron warriors.
Sanford, once coach of the Columbia
university team. is coach at the Univer-
sity of Virginia. He is a master of the
game, and good results We're to be ex-
pected. Johnny De Saulles, formerly
the star Yale quarterback, was coach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

is responsible for this excellent play.
Henry Miller and Hiida Spong play
the leading parts. Fortunately for Mr..
Miller. he has found role giving him
better opportunities than those in
which he has been seen during the last
two sea sons.
Joseph Entangled' is distinctly a So
ciety play, and it's three acts are replete
with amusing situations, and at times
the repartee has distinct sparkle. The
play has it's pathetic side, too, which is
well brought out.
The strongest situation occurs in the
last act, and both Mr.. Miller and Miss
Spong do it entire justice.
FREDERICK TREGELLES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

play thoroughly deserves this descrip-
tive phrase.
1.-The Harvester was produced in
Paris under the title lie Chemineau."
In London it was termed Ragged Rob-
in Charles NJ. Skinner, a brother of
Otis Skinner, wrote the American YER
sion.
1.-The Harvester" as its name signi-
fies, is pastoral play, dealing with
peasant life in Quebec along the Sa-
guenay river. A harvester (Mr- Skin
ner) makes love to and betrays a
sweet young country girl, Toinette
(played by Lizzie Hudson Collier). The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

fighting in England, American pugilists
seem to be afflicted with a mania for
going over there. Among those who
are booked to make a trip across the
ocean are Joe Cans and Young Peter
Jackson, both negroes. They are going
abroad under the eye of Manager A.
HEREFORD, who will endeavor to arrange
bouts for them at the National Sporting
club of London and several other box
ing organizations in the tight little isle.
Cans may tackle Jabez White, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

in the leading to the footlights"
role. l was the
heroine and the climax came when the
Vaccinations of the heavy villain
forced me to jump into the tank, from
which Old Tom. one of the assistant
heroes, promptly rescued me.
at was growing late in the fall, and
we found that d plunge into the tank
after it had been filled with water fresh
from The city pipes was a good deal like
brea king the ice. So l asked the stage
manager to put in some steam pipes
that would take the chill off. He did
put in two extra large pipes without,
as we afterward discovered, letting the
engineer know what he was doing or
had done.
'"The next night all went well until 1
stood as a frightened heroine on the
verge of the abyss, just ready to plunge
over into the river. / glanced down and
was Mortified to see what looked much
like clouds of steam rising from the
surface of the tank. However, there
was nothing else to do, SO / plunged in,
with poor old Tom. all unsuspicious,
right after me. Never in the history of
the stage has rescue been so quickly
accomplished. Tom gave shrek as he
struck the hot water and he pulled me
out, thoroughly parboiled, in about six
seconds.
"The applause was deafening. Tom
and /, looking and feeling exactly like
a couple of steamed CLAIMS, advanced to
the footlights, clouds of steam arising
from our garments. Then as quickly as
possible we retired to our dressing
rooms. Olive oil helped some. but the
stage manager was careful to stay out
of Toms sight for the next two weeks.
BY that time both of us had so far re-
covered that we were able to see the
funny side of it,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
To the Reader

Are not those results sufficient to JUS
tify the holding of the Vanderbilt race?
If the reader does not consider them to
have intrinsic value or if he is opposed
to automobile racing as a matter of
principle, then he puts himself on rec
ord a foe to the advancement of the
interests of the automobile. The auto
mobile has come to stay 1t has Great
ed an industry that gives employment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Unfortunate Accidents.

1t is great pity that the race could
not have been run without loss of life
The killing of Carl Meuler, the machin-
list, and the serious injury of Young
George Aren't. the New York million
aire, were the dark clouds that dimmed
the glory of the occasion.
Considering the nature of the course
with its faulty macadam and sharp
turns, it is a wonder that more casual
ties did not result. Heath stated be-
fore the contest that any man who en-
tered the contest took his life in his
own hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
l.. ROGERS Lytton.

Mr.. Lytton, who was E. H. Sothern's
leading man in 1.-The Proud Prince is
rapidly forging to the fore. He evil
dences fine appreciation of what con-
stitutes the artistic and effective i'm
personation of difficult serious roles.
Study in foreign galleries has particu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Heath's Great Exploit.

Heath has had long experience as a
racing autoist. but in the Vanderbilt
contest he was pitted against the great
EST drivers of America and Europe.
Therefore his victory is deserving of
all the more credit.
The dangers of the course, which
consisted of thirty miles of country
roads. were such as would dishearten
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
VIOLET HOLMES STORY
OF A GENUINE RESCUE.

Violet Holmes is a graduate OF one
of the famous San Francisco stock
companies. Miss Holmes has had many
experiences, some of which most people
would not look upon as particularly
amusing. But Miss Holmes is blessed
with that saving sense of humor which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Mrs. Campbell.

Mrs. Campbell is well known on this
side of the Atlantic. as also is her much
press ACCENTED lapdog, Pinky' Panky
Poo. Mrs. Pat as she is best known,
is the leading English actress OF the
day and of late years has won consld-
cradle success in emotional roles
''The Sorceress' is familiar to the
public in both England and France,
where Sarah Bernhard presented it,
scoring unqualified successes in both
countries. Not until now has the play
received an English rendition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

to thousands of skilled mechanics, af-
fords an outlet for capital that would
otherwise remain in banks and adds to
the pleasure of countless throngs. Rae
ing frequently results in death, it's
true, but no man is compelled to race.
He does SO at his own risk. The onus
should be placed on him, not on the
sport.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
GRIDIRON GOSSIP

and terrify even the most daring of
chauffeurs- But these very hindrances
and menaces, such as soft spots, holes
sharp turns, etc, are what made posi-
BILE the success of Heath, for, while
other auto drivers slowed down to
avoid the inequalities in the course
Heath plunged straight on regardless
of everything but the white strip of
road before him. He swung around
corners SO recklessIy as to cause spec
tators to gasp He let his machine go
seventy five miles an hour when others
were satisfied with sixty. These are
the tactics that won him the race, the
glory and the handsome trophy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

Under rule adopted by the associa-
ton of managers of New York thea
tiers no member is permitted to use
any form of advertising for which tick
cts of admission must be given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
DANNY MAHER, AMERICAN JOCKEY, WHO HAS AGAIN STAR
TiED ENGLAND


n al
A
attento the Arnerica
short head
and
street
in front,w the
is in
be
N howo rad n
much
to renanbeh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
A LIVE CHAMELEON.

Miss Emma Carus, the lady peacock
in "Woodland,' wears a live chameleon
on her gown in the second act of the
play It is fastened by a slender gold
chain around it's body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
LoRJMER's CAST.

Wright Lorimers "The Shepherd
King" company will number over 200
people this season and will include
Charles Kent, Edward Mackay, Lori
mer tombstone, Percy Lennon, May
Buckley, Nellete Reed and Margaret
Hayward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

IFrom Our New York Dramatic Core
spondentl
FIRST nighters have been leading
dizzy" lives of late. The
many new plays have kept
4 New York's great theatrical
and theater going colony in a kaleido-
scopic round OF activity There have
been "sounds#cf revelry by night and
scenes of tragedy with vengeance
Mrs. Patrick Campbell in Vlctorlen
Sardou's 1.-The Sorceress" at the New
Amsterdam -theater, Otis Skinner In
'sThe Harvester at the Lyric, George
AIDES THE Shotgun" at Wallacks and
Henry Miller in Joseph Entangled" at
the Garrick are the principal new fea-
lures offered by the managers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
HENRY MILLER In"JosEPH ENTANGLED"
Mrs. Campbell
In THE SOrceress"
THE HARVESTER" 1.-THE Shotgun"
; HARVESTER" THE Shotgun"

larly fitted him to picture classic char
acters. Martha Waldron is an insipid
Joana. Although her role is that of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
FIGHTING IN ENGLAND.

In spite of the fact that the purses
offered are small and constant reports
are that no money is to be made by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Henry. Miller i'm
Joseph Entangled

personif1ed, fragile flower, she might
well put little more life into her per-
Torrance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

her to any good end. The populace re-
fuses to forgive her for her alleged
crimes. At the close she dies in the
arms of Don Enriquez.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

at Charlottesville previous to the en-
gagement of Sanford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

Jackson will probably meet one of the
best of the English middleweights if
satisfactory inducements are offered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
Joseph Entaneled."

oOSSPn GHIanSieOs
Joseph Entangled," at the Garrfck
theater, is not SO full of tangleS as the
title would seem to indicate. Henry
Arthur Jones, the English playwright,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

1.-THE Harvester"
Otis SINNERS play is the work of
Jean Richepin. "A poetic and idyllic
drama it has been termed, and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

conventional in speech and appearance
They create no illusions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

1lCA kyS viz II
many a hard
place.
H o w m a n y
people, for in
stance, uld
look upon a
plunge into a
tank of half
boiling water as
anythin G ap-
proa chin a
joke?
at was in my
San Francisco
days." says Miss
Holm e s. I'VE
ere pla yin g
After Dark one
of the first of
the old tank
Dramas with a
real tank full of
real, wet water
in the leading
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01

Aiolla1re american sportsman VINO mas
lived in Paris during the last ten years.
Heath is the champion daredevil of the
United States. and in the 800 mile race
for the cup he narrowly escaped death
a dozen times.
Heath drove a French machine and
competed for the Automobile Club of
France. The victory of a foreign made
car was d sore disappointment to
American manufa cturers and only &C
rentuated the fact that our native autos
are not i'm a class with those of France
OF the first five machines to finish in
the race but one was made in America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
AutOnObiling
VANDERBILT RACE - GRIDIRON GOSSIP
FOOTB ALL

80 GORGE HEATH, winner of the
great automobile race for the
Vanderbilt cup held in Mas
~ sau county, n. Y. is a mil
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-07-28
Killed by a Barn Door.

During a stern which passed over the
southern end of the county last Thurs
day afternoon John Mcdonald, a farm
hand employed by E. A. Colston, near
Summit Point, was crushed to death
by a huge barn door falling upon him.
The accident happened on Mr.. Coils
tons farm. When Mcdonald saw the
storm coming up, he remembered that
the barn doors had been left open and
went to the building to close them.
AS he pushed one of the doors shut 1t
rolled off the pulleys, and before the
unfortunate man could escape the door
had crushed him to the earth among a
pile of stones nearby. Some of Mr..
McDonald's fellow laborers, alarmed
at his failure to return, wentln search
of him and found his crushed and
bleeding body under the door. He
was then alive but unconscious and ne
was removed to the house, where he
expired in few minutes after being
found and without regaining con-
sciousness. His skull had been crush
ed in and his body was badly man.
gled. The dead man was about fifty
years of age and was a native Of Clarke
county. Surviving him are his widow
and IS children.