The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-25
THEATRICAL NOTES.

I QOn h6T nome Tor many years. One
of Madame Lehmann's most success
| full compositions were the musical
rendering of the Rubaiyat entitled in
a Persian Garden" Sergeant Brue''
is her first comic opera and its 800
nights run in London with more to
follow speaks well for it's success.
One of the best of the lesser roles
in Heir to the HOorah," which Kfrke
La She1le is to produce next week, is
that of Hush, a Japanese valet. With
his customary leaning toward realism
and atmosphere, Mr.. La Shelle, with
the aid of the Japanese consul to New
York, has found for the role one T.
TamamotO, a young Jap who, before
coming to work in one of the Japanese
art stores on Fifth avenue, had been
a local stage favorite in Toxic.
You can't always tell a. manor a
woman, either, for that matter-by
Sir Henry Irving was being paid only
$13 a week at the Queens theatre,
London where Sir Charles Wyndham
got SIS, and Ellen Terry $25. About
the same time ]. H. Stoddart received
SIS a week from the management of
place of amusement in Glasgow.
Lillian Russell got $50 a week from
Tony Pastor in 1873 or 1880, and the
late Edward Marble is said to have
declined to give her more than this if
she went on the road
George w. Munroe. the inapersonator
of Aunt Bridget has closed his star
date last Sunday in New York.
1t is estimated that the strike on the
subway and surface roads in New York
city is affecting the theaters there at
the rate of $150,000 a week.
Miss Anne Sutherland, the well known
leading woman, is to star next season
in The Sculptress," written for her by
Robert Drouet, now the leading man
with Blanche Walsh in 1.-The Woman in
the Case Miss Sutherland is to have
<Fsaz,. oil <@f
hex
Frank L. Perley will manage a nov
city next season in a production with
two women stars. Viola Gillette and Ma
bel Hite, who will have the chief roles
in 1.-THE Girl and the Bandit
While singing the Sammy song in
1.-THE Wizard of or" Miss Florence
Sinnott enticed an elderly gentleman
out of a box at Columbia, S. c., last
week and created sensation.
Mrs. Stuart Robson, assisted by Will
lam Friend and a competent company,
opened her tour in vaudeville at
Holyolke last Monday night, presenting
a sketch entitled THE Trading Stamp
Fiend."
Amelia Bingham presented Made
moiselle Adarni'' for the first time in New
York last Monday night and it is believ-
ed this capable star has found another
successful piece with which to finish
out the season.
Anna Held has given up the idea of
a spring tour and sailed from New
York for London last Tuesday. 1t is
more than likely that Miss Held will be
seen on the London stage before this
month is out
Hall Gaines latest play, THE Prodi-
gal Son." has been booked for II weeks
of the opening of next season in New
York by Klaw & Erlanger, but as yet
the actor for the leading role has not
been decided upon.
capITro6 a SiX-
year contract with Katie Barry, pro-
viding for her appearance for one
year more in "Fantana, at the end
of which time they are to star her in
a musical comedy by Robert G. Smith
and Raymond Hubbell-
Charles Richmond and Annie Irish
are to head the Davis theater stock
company. Pittsburg, for month be-
plays in which they have been sue
cessfully associated in the past.
Last Wednesday Miss Virginia
Harmed secured Robert Loraine's
name to a contract to play King Ed
ward " in the production of The
the 23rd of this month.
Notwithstanding that Virginia
Harmed in 1.-THE Lady Shore" was
given a frigid reception in Philadel-
phia and Chicago, she is going to re-
vive the piece for a New York run
commencing the 25th of this month.
Louis Wesley and Mrs. Annie Yea
mans, who played prominent parts in
1.-The Maid and the Mummy" have
joined hands for a season in vaude-
ing both opportunities to display
their we'll known versatility.
An epidemic of Indian plays is
breaking out among the popular price
managers. Aubrey Mittenthal will
produce a melodrama entitled Gus
ter's Last Fight" for which he has
engaged a band of forty Indians, and
Charles Blaney will offer Buffalo
Bill, the Boy Scout"
James Hardie, fifteen years ago
cific as the star of the Hardie and |
Won Leer combination, recently died |
in London. He made money in this |
and sailed for England in |
leaves his wife a large estate.
The Four Mortons have chosen the |
title for the musical piece in which
they will star next season under the
play will be called 1.-The Walking
Delegate and Lee Arthur has been
to write it. Sam Nor |
ton will play the title role.
Arthur Forrest, who is playing the |
leading part of Raymond Gormally |
in Abigail now running in New
York, has been engaged for one of
The principal roles in THE School for /
which will be produced /
next month, with Alice Fischer in the /
star part.
Maurice Campbell announces thef
production of an opera in the fall. The
ibretto is by George G. Hazelton, jr., I
and the music by Julian Edwards.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who met
with a painful accident in Philadelphia
several months ago, resumed her tour
n 1.-THE Sorceress'' at a Chicago thea
ter last Monday, and received several
curtain calls.
Richard Mans7eld's annual New
ork engagement will begin at the
New Amsterdam theater March 90.
The most interesting item in this con-
lection relates to the presentation of
Holisre's lie Misanthrope."