The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-25
Music and Drama
Coming Attractions for
Wichita Amusement Lovers.
At the Crawford.

AS a novelty of entertainment the spec
tacular production of the Eight Bells
which was presented last night at the
Crawford certainly holds the record. The
play itself is nothing but nonsense, but
there were so many acrobatic features
and novel scenes that one nearly forgot
that such a thing as a plot existed. In
the first scene of the two schools, one. for
boys and the other for girls there were
no end to funny situations, the pranks
the scholars played on the teachers Kept
the audience in roars of laughter. The
second scene where all the students are
on board a steamer bound for Paris was
something out of the ordinary, the sea
was so rough that the boat began TO re
volve to the amaZement of the audience
The imitation of Jonah and the whale
was good In fact there was not scene
presented but what brought forth some
thing new and startling. The John Byrne
troop of acrobats were simply fine, every
one is an artist l. Z. Page, the worlds
greatest jumper is one of the best, II
not the best performer of this kind ever
seen here, the difficult jumps he made
in singing and dancing speciality. In all
this attraction was more than pleasing to
all who are fond of this kind of enter
tainment.
Saturday special attraction, Blanche
Walsh in Resurrection
BLANCHE WALSH IN "RESURREC-
TON"
Wagenha1s and Kemper. managers Tor
Blanche Walsh will be held in grateful
remembrance for having included this city
in the tour they have arranged for that
now famous artist She will BE- seen at
the Crawford on Saturday. February 2Ith,
in Resurrection, the play which has all
the big capitals of Europe agoS and
which mas astounded the playSoers OF
New York Much. however, has been
said of the play, infinitely, more has been
said of Miss Walsh's superb portrayal OF
Maslova the leading character. As an In
stance of the esteem she has won from
the critics. the opinion of so cOnserva-
tive a writer as Mr. Acton Davies Of the
Evening Sun, is well worth while TO
quote
She swayed and held Broadway
audience last night says Mr.. Davies, as
she has never done before. You could
literally have heard pin drop in the
prison scene last night. Miss Walsh
threw all her charms to the winds. Every
trace of beauty in face and form was
sacrificed. With her brandy bottle In
hand she sat there in the prison yard
befuddled. besotted creature beyond de
spair. and so far past recollection t5at
when her first love. her betrayer comes
Ia her. protesting repentance and prof
ferinc aid she does not recognize him and
merely greets him with the professional
leer that habit has taught her to extend ~
each new customer 1t was al aW ui
sight and made your blood run cold Then
when he disclosed himself. when MdSloFa
finally realized that this handsome prince
in f,1rs was not only her betrayer but one
of the men that sat on the jury when
had found her guilty of a murder she
had never done she turned on him ana
withered him with a scorn which was
made the more splendid from the very
source from which [ came. In no role
that Miss Walsh has played has she
shown so intellectual grasp Of CHAR
actor Her later notes Of borrow. re-
pentance. tenderness and final love were
all touched honstlv. surely Her Mas
Iowa in fact was the triumph of her
career