The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-17
ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

ABOUT PLAYS AND PlLA ERS,
''Brewster's Millions has been sold to
the Shuberts, it is reported. by. Thompson
and it was said to be quite successful
when produced 1t is said Thompson 81
| Dundy were unable to obtain satisfactory
bookings.
Jesse Lynch Williams newspaper drama
chased from Henry w. Savage T BY James
M. Allison, and will hereafter appear in
York.
Albert NIcGuckin has been engaged by
Jefferson de Angels and specially selected
by Julian Edwards, the composer of THE
Girl and the Governor as musical di-
rector.
Arnold DAILY is playing ''HowHe Lied to
theater.- 1t is the first appearance of a
Shaw play amid such surroundings. but
since MIR. DAILY is in trouble with both the
trust and the independents, there does not
seem to be any other place for, him.
Tim Murphy recently won a long, hard
fought legal battle for unpaid portion
of Inc insurance on his celebrated collec-
ton of plays. play bills, prints and por-
traits lost IN the IRE which destroyed his
Long Island home three years ago.
The. Savoy theater in New York is hav-
ing series OF Failures that is becoming
appalling. First Lillian russell. in Bar
bara s Millions, went aWry; then fol-
lowed .Ihe House OF Mirth.' with Fay
DAVIS which WAS a sad anair, and now
his new play, Brlgadier Gerard" is not
impressing as it was expected. and Will
end us present run tonight. A new play,
Sir Anthony. is to foIow.
Henry. W. Savage has achieved a sensa--
tlon with his production in English of
Puccinis Italo-J apanese opera, Madame
Butterfly. Critical Boston has bestowed
its entire approval There is nothing more
TO desire.
THE Mimic and the Maid is the title
of a new musical comedy by Allen Lowe
the Shubert houses. The cast viii incI,5de
Low, Maurice ID Arcy, Harry b. Watson,
Alice Craft Benson, Melville and Stetson
to be made by the Hermann Oppenheimer
company.
An attractive advertising novelty used
IN the cities where THE Red Feather"
plays is gratultous distribution of red
feathers. 1hey are given away by the
thousands, and are of such an attractive
rich color they are eagerly adopted and
Manager Joseph NJ. Gates has used one
car load of feathers and has already bar
gained for two more.
Henry Woodruff was arrested in Pitts
burgh Halloween night for remon-
strating with policeman who was trying
the police court Mr. Woodruff was fined
50, and the reveller was sent to the
workhouse for ten days.
Because Edith shayne the niece of the
late c. G. Shayne. the New York furrier.
and who is a prominent member of The
a stage career her uncle cut her OFF in his
will with $1,000 instead of giving her the
intended portion Of 100000. Miss Shayne
is at present using her spare time be-
tween performances in trying to force her
claim in the courts to what she considers
her just due.
Days. one of the best known of New
York s theat tiers, is to pass from the pres
ent management to that of the Messrs.
Shubert. After several Weeks of negotia-
ton. which aroused all sorts of rumors
to the property, the independent manag
they will get control of the playhouse
next May, when the leases now held by
Mr. Frank Mckee expires
Fifty Sioux Indians under the command
of Chief Sweet Mouth, will leave Ne
braska in few days en- route to New
be ~ Produced a att at the New York hippodrome
Thanksgiving week. They all come from
ever been IN city Nearly oozen
sQuaws and several papooses are in the
party.
The scene on board of the yacht Filter
in the big Thompson and Dundy produc-
be the most startling scene of it's kind
ever disclosed Among the novel devices
in adding realism to this scene are three
enormous blowers, each propelled by
ten-horsepower motor. The full force of
the gale is thus made apparent when
these machines are at work.
Charles Bradford. business manager of
THE Flower Girl the third of the Shu-
bert shows to come to the Lyric theater,
explains why the present title of his
opera was substituted for "Veronique,'' its
original name. THE towns we play
route to the cities weren't equal to the
word tVerOnique. says MT. Bradford.
Most people thought it referred to a hair
tonic or new breakfast food In one town
the hotel clerk asked me where Mr.. We
self. He'll stop. right here and stopped
him. I changed the name and ordered
new printing at once. The change cost
my firm about 5000 and nearly drove
the authors OF the play to the madhouse
but an increase of nearly double our re-
ceipts has pacified everybody
Owing to the misunderstanding arising
from the confusion of titles of the dra-
rnatization of Marah Ellis Ryans ro-
nance, Told In the Hills and melo-