The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-08
Was a Crowded House When the
Curtain Rose.
HAS BEEN OUT HUNTING
There Is a Fierce Snow Storm
Along the Mountains.
That Is It Appears That Way
From the Balcony.

New ork, April Sand who are
you?' cried the villain.
"D-a-v-y Crockett, subj" yelled
the trapper, who was being played by
Jim Jeffries, at the Bijou theater in
Jersey City. Maybe James J. isn't there
with a line of talk that would startle
you, too. Oh, yes, he is. That fellow
has the gaH of a. burglar and never tal-
ters once during the whole show.
The play is Davy Crockett and JET
plays the title role like a champion. He
shakes his voice in the sad parts,
draWls his words like the old trapper
and walks around the stage like an old
timer.
No, there's nothing cheap in his act
ing, and you would think that he had
been a Broadway star since the debut
of Maggie Cline, if you didn't know
better.
Yes. he's the citron Wen have to hand
to the boy. The real Jamnly article put
up only in cans with our name on the
wrapper.
There was a crowded house to greet
the new star as the curtain went up
and Joimes bowed like a carnival queen
to the plaudits of the push. He is the
trapper kind dressed up in his buck
skin clothes. He has been out hunting
bar" and takes rest in his little
cabin way up on the hills. 1t IS snow
ing fiercely outside
That is, the props" make it snow
hard, and Jeff comes in covered with
scraps of newspaper and flour when
look very cold from the first balcony
He is sitting at a table hiding the booze
to beat the band when he hears low
He goes outside and finds a poor
skinny fiusie almost frozen to death. lie
packs her in and puts her by the fire to
dry up. The stew she was with IS
brought inside, too and jeff throws a
few of those third rail whiskies (the
kind you handle with rubber gloVe9
into him and he begins to sit up ana
talk politics.
The rag and a bone and a hank of
hair comes through all right too, ana
begins chipping to jeff about love ana
other stuff. She grabs a book from the
shelf and begins reading about Ioch-
invar to Jeff and he falls for it.
His mouth opens, his eyes begin to
shine, and then I am a young man
of 30 and saw a girl the other day who
has me going. Does she love me or
not? What shall [ do?- He doesn'
write, but is in love for keeps.
She is there with the favorite flower
talk herself and they kind of get Jerry
ia one another from that time on
She had been engaged to some other
mutt before this, but on the wedding
day finds that the other mutt isn't on
the level and agrees to hook up with
on the day of the wedding all the
neighbors with their best scenery show
nm Some in tuxedos. others in hot
cbeckered suits. but all fixed up to kill.
Just as the other fellow butts in to
slip the big hoop on his girls finger,
Jeff steps in and0 stops it. He runs
away with the bride and they get an
other minister to do the talk act.
A bunch of cooked guys are shown up
and Jeff brings the second half. to the
home of his mother. Much cheering
and bull. and then the curtain.
Greatest ever!
After the curtain Joe Kennedy and
left mt on the gloves for a three round
light No stage scrap either. They
slam one another all around the stage
and have the gallery whooping like a
flock Of Apaches at the bell Billy,
Delaney referees the 60