The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28
Theatrical Notes.

Eva Tanguay has Cancelled her western
vaudeville dates on account OF illness and
returned to her home at Springfield, Mass,
to recuperate.
The stellar debut of May Edouin and
Fred Edwards in STAIRS GirP' in New
York last week appeared to find abundant
approval.
Daniel Frawley has done so well in
South Africa that he has extended his
season and says that he win remain away
from America all of next season.
The theatrical business in Chicago has
The Office Boy" closed his season there
Saturday. He had expected to run longer.
Louis is something OF frost. The many
houses are playing to almost nothing, and
the people are gazing at the sideshows
along The Pike.
The Wizard of OF" goes in the Grand
opera house, Chicago, next week for an
eight weeks run and will then shut down.
This will give The Wizard" a continuous
run of 112 weeks.
Mark Gray Lyons, the mailman, who.
when q years old. shot at Edwin Booth
in McVicizer's theater, Chicago. April q,
1879, recently died at his home IN keo-
Charles B. Dillingham; will present Miss
Lulu Chaser next season in a musical YER
sion of when KnighthOOd Was in Flow
err to be called "A Madcap Princess, ar
ranged by Harry B. Smith and Ludwig
Englander.
Clara. Morris probably made her last ap-
pearance in New York last Saturday nig 1T
/ with the closing Of the season of the Two
/ Orphans star cast The women members
!
4 handsome loving cup.
Lee Arthur's new play, "A Business
Man" will be produced in Chicago for the
! first time June u. William Norris, now
with Babes in Toyland,' will play the
chief role, which is said to be strong in
pathos and full of heart interest.
Edna May is to be permitted to get her
! long-sought divorce and to obtain it with
out difficulty. Fred Titus, her husband
Feather company, will go to London
June and make arrangements to thai
end.
Nine Antonio Navarro mary Ander-
SOM, who retired from the stage in 1888
has rejected the latest of many attempts
to induce her to reappear in public This
was invitation to AXE a tour of the
United States and she was offered a guar
antee of $4,000 on the season.
| A step toward opening the Iroquois the
| ater, Chicago, has been taken and plans
for remOdeling the interior in strict com
I pliance with the ordinance have been laiC
before Commissioner Williams BY the new
| owners, Hyde and Behman of New York
and Barry Davis of Pittsburg.
Viola Aliens big success in Twelfth
Night last season has led her to. continue
in Shakespeare next season. An elaborate
production of "A Winters Tale will be
| put on. Boyd Putnam recently signed g
| contract to act as her leading man next
season. He has been with Joseph Jeffer-
son for the past several seasons
| Joseph NJ. Weber will not conf1ne his eff
forts to the management of his music hal
in New York after his severance Of his
business relations with Lew Fields. His
first Independent venture will be the man
agement of Lillian Russell in John Ken
dricz Bangs and a. BALDWIN Sloan's MI
steal piece, Lady Teazle,'' which vii
open its season in New York about tn
| first of September. This play is a must
cal comedy version of Sheridan's ''Schoo
for Scandal"
| Frederick Warde, an actor and lecturer
who has been playing Shakespearen play
since the days of Edwin Booth, filed {
! petition in voluntary bankruptcy recent.
| in the United States district court, Brook
! Ign. The petitioners debts were contract
ed during the sly part of the last de
| cade, during the series Of unsuccessful
theatrical tours in the west