The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

funny farce called Irish Justice" will
be the bill, with musical numbers by
Barney Mcconnell. Alta Pound, Hazel
Brooks and the Ray sisters The farce
will be followed with an clio embrace
ing a number Of novelties. Manager
Campbell's idea of a show different
from others is being carried out, and
it has appeared to please the audiences.
1.-THE Umpire" one of the recent Chi
cago successes will be an early high
class attraction at the New Grand OPP
era house.
Lhevinne. the wonderful Russian
pianist, who was brought to this cOun-
try by the Steinway piano people, viii
appear in Topeka some time during the
season, probably late in the winter
THE Umpire" which comes to Topeka
this winter, is said to be presented by
a notable East. Two well known and
well liked players in Topeka are in the
company. Fred Mace, who made such
a hit here last year in "Piff Paf, Pouf'
is the umpire" and Miss Edith Yerring
ton, one of the original cast Of The
Burgomaster" which was seen in Tope-
lxa before it had it's New York presen-
tation, is the other.
The Grace Hayward stock company
succeeds the Arrnin players at the New
Crawford theater. coming for a two
weeks engagement beginning Sunday
matinee September 30
Miss Vera Michelena, who was one
of the chorus girls in The Princess
/ Chic" the season it was presented here
1 with Joseph Myron and Forrest HUT
featured, and who later took the stellar
! female role in the same piece is at pres
ent playing in THE Tourists at the
Majestic theater in New York city. Miss
AIichelena is one of two daughters of
/ the famous Italian violinist of @e4at
name, whose reputation was known
from coast 10 coast, and who before his
death a few years ago, lived in San
Francisco.
IT Picked a Lemon IN the Garden OF
/ Love, Where They Say Only Peaches
/ Crow is the funny title Of one OF the
song hits of Richard earle in THE
Spring Chicken in which he is appear
ing this season.
'''The Free Lance" the new military
] comic opera by John Phillip Sousa, with
( the original cast, including Joseph
Cawthorn and a strong company and
/ ensemble Of 100, will be at the Willis
| Wood theater at Kansas City all of the
week beginning Sunday evening, Sep
It is said to be return to the opera
of other days. It is the result of col
| liberation on the part of the famous
bandmaster and march king" and
Harry B. Smith. the librettist OF
robin Hood
Joseph Cawthorn has a great part
/ and is in the company of Nella Bergen
Jeanette Lowrie, George Tallman, Geo
| Schiller, Albert Hart and Stanley Muir
ply, with one of the biggest singing
I choruses KlaW & Erlanger have ever
put into a musical production. JOSEPH
Cawthorn was last seen in the wesi
l as the principal comedian of the Alice
] Nelson Or1nTz IN tfrTha Sing
ing Girl" Since that time he has ap-
peared in all the big English Drury
Lane spectacles produced in New York
| Nella Bergen has been the prims
donna in every comic opera. compost
by SOusa. She Is the wife of DeWoE
Hopper Albert Hart, comedian, is {
fine basso and at one time starred il
/ Wang" George TalIman has beer
singing tenor roles with the savag,
Opera company. Jennette Lowrie, whS
assumes the female fun making char
aster, won her reputation for clever
ness in musical comedies in the east
musical comedies and comic operas To-
20 years.
The new Shubert playhouse at kan.
sas City viii be opened October 1, b.
Eddie Foy playing in THE Earl anC
the Girl"
Eddie Foy is considered one of tn,
most popular stars Of the Shuberts
I dAA0 Lie hdIl anu luE .\TlIA Ddl
proved to be one Of their best and big
gest musical shows.
When Foy was a more frequent Wis
= itor to Kansas City In the days of th'
Henderson extravag anzas, his histor.
) / was familiar to playgoers. 1t has beer
several years, however, since he ha
frolicked and grimaced there and 1
, may have been forgotten that his rea
3 name is not Foy at all. At the tim
he was born in Limerick, Ireland h
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= According to Foy's own version o
the affair, he brought his parents {
this country when he was two year
old. They settled in Chicago in 1864
, and after time Mr.. Fitzgerald died
leaving the mother, two daughters an
4 Edwin to fight life's battle as best the
1 could The mother, having some hos
pital experience, became the attendan
Of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. the mar
4 / tyred presidents wife, at Springfield
1 / Illinois.
Left alone, Eddie started in life as
4 ! bootbiack. and entertained his chum
4 on the side as a singer and dancer. A
4 the age of about 10, he secured
vaudeville engag enent at a. Chicag
4 theater and made a hit. Here Bill
! / Emerson, the minstrel, found him. an
featured him in his company for tw
years.
Following this experience. Foy joine
the old California theater stock com
D pany and played juvenile and charaS
N ter parts for three years in San FraT
cisco. Before joining the extrava gam
companies IN which he first becam
N widely known, his chief work was
the George S Knight and the KAT
Castleton companies Foy's talent he
always been for Glowing, and h
faculty for making people laug
= against their will has driven him to tt
4 top notch Of musical comedy.
tIn THE Earl and the Grip Whic
has been F'oy's greatest success, b
plays the part OF Jim Cheese, q wal
dering dog trainer, which sounds funT
& enough on the face Of it. THE Ea
and the Girl is OF English origin, II
book by Seymour Hicks, lyrics (
Percy Greenback and was first pr
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