The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-05
"Babes in TOyland" Is Here
Next Week.
Only No. ? Company VIII Visit
Topeka.
USUAL HIGH PRICES.
Entire First Floor Prices Placed
at $3.50.
other Examples Of Hold Up by
Local Management.

Babes in Toyland" is booked to
appear at the Crawford theater next
week 1t will be its first appearance
in this city, and according to the usual
custom of the Crawford management,
the prices have been showed I'D as
high as possible. The price of all the
seats on the paruuet floor Of the
theater has been placed at $3.50 each.
The front rows of the balcony are
S1.O0 each.
There might be no criticism of the
prices asked for the production We're
it not for the fact that it is the No. 2
road company which comes to To-
peka.
Babes in Toyland'' is at the present
time running at the Majestic theater
In New York city.
The No 2 road company which
brings the production of Babes in
Toyland" to Topeka, comes here after
trip through Oklahoma, Indian Ter
rltory and Texas. After the Topeka
engagement 1t will go down through
southern Kansas where the people of
the small towns seem to be more
favored than Topeka people because
they do not have to pay as high prices
Tor high class productions as do the
people of Topeka.
Still it must be admitted that
Babes in TOyland' even with the No.
: company is a better production than
Is usually seen in Topeka. The
greatest drawback is the fact that the
Crawford stage is so small that pro-
duetion cannot be seen to advantage,
but the scenery has been cut down for
'one night stands" on the kerosene
circuit and consequently it will prob
ably be possible to get it all onto the
little Crawford stage.
The Princess Chic is booked for
its third appearance in Topeka. Re
gardless of the fact that this play is
nearly half a dozen seasons old and
that a No. road company brings it
here, the $3.50 schedule of prices pre-
walls.
Topeka people recently paid $3.50
prices for the No road company
presenting The Wizard of o." The
original company with Montgomery
and Stone in the cast was at the same
time playing at the Academy of Nfu-
sic, New York city theater. at 81
prices Montgomery and Stone and
engagement of 500 nights at New
York and the company is now making
"a tour of the country. This week the
company is playing at the Grand
theater in Cincinnati
Topeka people will remember to
their sorrow that they paid $50
prices for the performances of Eva
the towns north of Topeka as far as
Milwaukee. ST. Paul and Minneapolis,
and all along the line, only a dollar
schedule of prices was charged. Tan
quay is this week playing at the
Grand theater at St Louis at 25. IS
so, 20 cents and 81. Matinees % and
so cents Topeka people were held
up for just one-half more for Tanguay
than theatergoers in other cities have
to pay to see her. Even at that there
are many who think a dollar too
much, taking into consideration the
merits OF the company which sur
rounds Miss Tanguay.
The fact that the public is learning
the extent to which holdup prices
have been carried in Topeka doubtless
has had something to do with the re-
auctions which have been noted in
the prices for some of the attractions
played here recently
It is hard to believe that the theater
management can continue to charge
Exorbitant prices in the face OF pub