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complain of, individually. for they have
been filling theaters since they began
the season in August. It may be said
of 1.-The Shotgun that it is one of
the best of the extended list of musical
plays. and Mr.. Henshaw is a player
who believes in making his fun go for
what it is worth. He caters to the
higher appreciation of his auditors
rather than to their fund of foolishness.
It may be that the remark of this first
class comedian was inspired by his
hope for the future, for he is contem-
plating an innovation in musical plays
which goes a step further in dignity
than anything now offered the public.
The piece is not decided upon yet, but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
eREATEsT AMERICAN WoLINIsr


A cablegram recently received from
London announced that Albert Spald-
ing, the young American violinist. made
his first appearance before an English
audience at Queens hall, London, and
met with remarkable success. Mr..
Spalding, who is a son of J. Walter
Spalding of New York, has had a bril-
liant career as a student in various mu-
steal centers. Since his debut at ten
years old in New York he has divided
his time between Europe and America.
He was heard in Florence at the age Of
twelve. and two years later played at
the promenade concerts in the Metro
politan Opera House, New York, under
the direction of Nahan Frankie. When
fourteen, he won at Bologna the diplO-
mo of Professor of the Violin, a title
won at that age only once before, and
then by Mozart.
Last June he made his professional
debut at the NOuveau theater, Paris
France. and on this occasion his rem
dition of Saint-Saens' Concerto, Bee
thoven's Romance. Bach's Chaconne
and Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, a most
difficult programme. held the audience
spellbound. Mr.. Spalding is rich in
capability, plays with great sentiment
and perfection of technique and is pro-
nounced a finished virtuoso-
America can now claim the honor of
being the birthplace of one of the great
est violinists of the age.
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tionals helm there would be no more
factional disputes tending to demoralize
the game, and certain umpires would
be relocated to the dim past.
1 can name five men who at this mo-
ment have more influence il National
league affairs than has President Pull
liam. John T. Brush of New York is
one. Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg is
another, Hermann of Cincinnati is No.
and the other two 7 prefer not to
mention. What kind Of a baseball or
ganization can be expected in a case
where the president is a man Of far less
experience than any one of the club
owners? OF course the president can
impose hnes and issue advice, but when
Pulliam issues advice it goes to many
men who were playing professional bail
before he was divorced from knee pan
ties
Pulliam's reelection is in itself sus-
picious. Certainly several important
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03

Page and announces that he (the colo
ned intends to kiss Mrs. Page, and IN
less he is allowed to do so inside of
three days a duel must result. To pro-
tect his wife Page sends her to White
Sulphur Springs, and he goes to Sara
toga with two women, one of whom
agrees to register as Mrs Page" The
doctor then conspires to have the colo
mel, who has followed him to Saratoga,
kiss the fictitious Mrs Page.
OF course the real Mrs. Page arrives
at Saratoga and, of course, the physi-
clan meets unlocked for friends. The
situations which follow are rather I'M
usual and exceedingly ludicrous. Mrs.
Page although violently enraged when
she learns of her husbands subterfuges,
finally smiles on him as sweetly as ever,
under the influence of one of DIR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03

is left of the P. It. Twopaw & Jingiing
Bros circus, wrecked and stranded
on its visit to Mars, and that her image
has ever been before him. Afanities
have met. she is delightedly sure. She
announces her intention OF establishing
"a Society Circus at her palace and
giving a fete whose magnifcence wiz
astound and departs. telling Paslzy to
hurry after. The gleeful gypsies hur-
riedly pack and trail behind.
The next scene of "A Society Cir
Gus shows the beautiful terrace Of
Lady Volumnias palace. No less than
400 people handsomely attired appear
here, but even this great gathering is
to be outshone but few minutes later.
Finally the circus begins. and a won
derful circus it is. with the cream OF
European and American talent. Surely
the continent must have been raked
with a fine toothed comb to secure the
many stars
The next scene shows the elimination
Of the plot against Paul Pasky. At the
wedding he is seized by gypsies and
carried away.
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of dramatic fire and bubbling vivacity.
A career such as hers has been would
ordinarily suffice to send a strong man
to a rest cure hospital at the age of
forty. Nine Bernhard has consider
ably more than a trihtng twoscore years
to her credit, but she reveals the suf-
ferings of Camille, the tumultuous pas
sion and violent death of the Sore
and the romanticism of Sapho with all
the fervor of a woman of twenty five or
thirty.
In addition to Camille" ia Sor-
ciere" and "Sapho," Nine. Bernhardts
repertory for her present American tour
includes "Adrienne Lecouvreur," Pc
dora" "Phaedre.' t'Bohmois.'' Angelo b
la Femme du Claude" and others
The mere undertaking of such a task
combined with travelling Inconvenience
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the number Of accidents and put q
quietus on public clamor. Some ia
natics want the Rugby game abolished.
Legislative action is threatened by sew
eraI so called statesmen who are not
ayerse to notoriety
Rugby is too great a game to be
snuffed out, even though it is rough.
Modify it, don't kill it. Thousands OF
Americans are better men today than
they would have been had they not
played football When a man overeats,
his physician does not say, Never eat
another mouthful of food" He says,
Eat less food and let it be food that
will digest easily. The rules committee
should make football more easily di-
gestible. There viii then be fewer
cases Of athletic dyspepsia.
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COMEDIAN JOHN E. HENsHAw

1T is exceedingly difficult to make
the devotee of the Happy Hooligan
stamp of musical comedy accept the
magnificent wit of George Ade." re-
marked John E. Henshaw of "The Sho-
Gun" company the other day ct is
discouraging. too but the educational
process is thriving very well, and I be-
lieve before long that the public will
accept a player and production for their
intrinsic merit rather than for their
noise and rattle"
Mr. Henshaw was speaking generally
of the musical plays and their probable
tenure in the affections of the public
He and THE Sho-Gun' have naught to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03

it is probable that Henry w Savage
will be the producer, and if he does it
win be sufficient guarantee that the
public viii require no apology from
the theater presenting it. It will have
music, but it viii have absorbing sit
uations of real strength and will re-
quire genuine histrionic talent from the
players in the production.
While THE Sho-Gun'' last year was
a great delight, Mr.. Henshaw says it is
better this year More vim, better
music, the esprit de corps in the CON-
pany is such that all work for the grand
success of the whole production and not
for individual hits. This is a success
full combination.
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legitimate Drama.


So far as straight, or legitimate
drama is concerned, conditions have
been more favorable. Raymond Hitch
cocks failure in Easy Dawson" was a
surprise for George AIDES followers, and
Nat Goodwfn's unfortunate experience
in "The Beauty and the Barge" was an
other unlocked for disappointment, not
forgetting Mary and John" and Arnold
Days hasco's in John Bulls Other
Island" and Mrs. Warrens Profess
sion" But we can forgive much when
we consider the list Of successes. note
worthy among which are the following:
Margaret Anglin in "Zira," William
Faversham in THE Squaw Man." John
Drew in DE I4ancey," Maude Adams in
Peter Pan" Julia 1Tarlowe and E H.
SOthern in repertory, Robert Nantel in
Shakespearean REVEALS, Henry E
Dixey in THE Man on the Box" Cyril
Scott fla 1.-THE Prince Chap" Blanche
Bates in 'gThe Girl of the Golden West. :"
James X. Hackett and Mary Manner
ing In THE Walls of Jericho" Bertha
Kalich in Norma Wanna" Robert Lor-
raine in MAN and Superman" and
Grace Elliston in "The Lion and the
Mouse"
In large majority of these success
full dramas romantic seriousness pre-
walls, so the conclusion must be reached
that comedy, and particularly musical
comedy, is on the decline. Is i. easier
to write a successful romantic drama in
which seriousness and humor inter-
mingle than to write a simon pure
comedy of merit2 Indications point
that way. At any rate, managers stage
three of the former variety,tO every one
of the straight comedy kind.
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sufficient fun to guarantee a profitable
engagement at the Manhattan.
Fritz Williams is capital as DR..
George Page, who may well be termed
the principal victim of the complica-
lions which arise. Katherine Florence.
in the leading womans role, that OF
Mrs. Page, is effective throughout, and
beauty and charm of manner compel
warm admiration. Miss F'lorence's va
riety of expression is delightful. Mr.
Dftrichstein gives a character sketch of
a strenuous and amorous French colonel
that evidences the work of a true artist
Thomas A. Wise, as James Jeffreys, not
the pugiistic notable. scores an in
dividual hit. Jeffreys has troublous
times explaining how and why he is
not "Our champion"
George Boniface, Jr-, appears as DR..
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standard for spectacular production
that can hardly be collapsed by anything
in the future. I would not care to be
the manager whose hopes of paradise
depended on his surprising the present
work of Thompson & Dundy. Opening
with an elaborate forest scene repre-
senting a gypsy encampment, the spec
tator's fancy is at once captured. and
ne is held speIlbound to the end. Won
ders give way to new wonders; marvel
piles on marvel; beauty. color. song and
merriment vie with one another for the
mastery. Veteran theater goers sit al
most breathIess in Amusement. They
see realized for the first time in their
lives the full possibilities of stage spec
tacle. They know they are watching a
new stage era burst into full bloom;
they know "A Society Circus" is epoch
making.
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The Amazinn Climax.

The splendor of ancient Rome is OUT
done, but the climax is yet to come. a
climax seemingly conceived and con-
trived by master magicians. I refer
to the Court Of the Golden Fountains
As the curtains are drawn from before
onloolzers gaze enraptured at the scene,
In the middle of the big Hippodrome
tank massive float is seen; tier upon
tier it rises, its oars manned by ex-
travagantly gowned women and its
platforms crowned with more pretty
girls in similar attire On either side
huge fountains, supported by living
pillars of charming femininfty, spout
columns of water and spray high up
into the air Smaller floats are grouped
about the central figure, and snow
white swans swim to and fro in the
clear waters. Floats and fountains are
covered with sheets Of polished gold;
shafts Of colored light are directed up
on the dashing fountains, mingling with
the spray, and waited toward the audi
ence are zephyrs laden with expensive
perfumes. Further description of this
wonder scene Is unnecessary. Only a
view Of it can convey an adequate idea.
To make everybody happy, Paul
PasIzy is finally restored to his beloved
Lady Volumnia and good viii prevails.
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Worlds Greatest G 3..i 4s.5
Spectacle Is I
- g.: n. n 2 "ASOciety Circus
lFrom Our New York Dramatic Core
spondent.l

[From Our New York Dramatic Core
spondent1
~ HE dramatic season of 19O5-o6
has completed the first half of
its career and a new year
opens before it. A retrospect
Of the four months that have elapsed
affords food for much thought. Most
OF the failures have been musical come
dies. 1T must be admitted that the high
csass musical comedy is fast becoming
q rare bird. Managers seem to believe
that any old thing viii do in this line.
A few pretty girls. in a few extrava-
CANT gowns, assisted by cheap stage
contrivances, are not enough to bring
success to a production. They never
were and never viii be sufficient. What
the public wants are good music, well
sustained dramatic action and clean,
spontaneous humor. 1t seems to me
that a good formula for a successful
musical comedy, or comic opera, would
be as follows:
eco to see the last two Shubert pro
auctions, The Earl and the Girl and
The Press Agent and write some
thing as far different from these two
plays as possible!"
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aRsfors and go 4 Hit.

Before and After at the Manhat-
tan theater, is a merry farce by Leo
Ditrichstein, and the cast is capable and
well balanced.
The comedy is decidedly French in
some respects, and Mr.. Ditrichstein.
who also appears in a prominent role.
acknowledges Indebtedness to MN.
Hennequin and Bilhaud for the central
idea. The play is a success and is il
Illuminated by the excellent work of the
leading members Of the cast. providing
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Beautiful as0ne Of the Flowers. .

Lady Volumnia gives a fancy dress
ball IN 1.-The Garden of the Golden Peri
styles which is truly a feast of color
and precedes a magnificent ballet en-
titled Song of. the Flowers" More
than 700 performers are seen in this
feature. A myriad of daintily costumed
dancers pirouette across. around, for
ward and backward in kaleidoscope ef-
feet, literally ravishing the senses. Diff
ferent groups represent different flow
ers. and The color ensemble is a burst
of harmonious glory that bewilders IN
its luxurianee.
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recently abolished football at Columbia
university is professor of psychology.
OF course football and psychology. are
twin sciences, and the professors
knowledge OF the game must be un-
challenged For forty years his athletic
experience has consisted wholly and
solely of walking upstairs in the even
ing and walking downstairs in the
morning. However, as football at Co
lumbia has not been a fourishing in
stitution Of late, the faculty's action
may be considered advisable after all.
But what win the students sa.- next
fall?
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7 Ice Sport = Pugilism
wv


-IE reelection Of Harry c..
Pulliam to the presidency Of
the National league comes as
- a surprise to many baseball
enthusiasts who had hoped to see
more capable man in the chair of the
boss of the famous old organization.
Pulliam is not built of presidential
timber. He can no more control the
powerful individual interests allied un-
der the National league banner than he
can cause water to flow uphill unas-
sisted.
The National ] ague need such
president as has the American combine
Ban Johnson is q real president. He is
not merely an expert on clerical duties
There are two men who are Johnson
equal as baseball generals. One is p
u. Powers, president of the National
Association of Professional Baseball
Clubs, and the other is a. G. Spalding
with either of these men at the Ma
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How the story Develops.

No critic has ever dared to write in
detail the story of a farce. CompIica-
tons that require but q few moments
to portray on a stage consume whole
columns in print. In brief, Before and
After" develops as follows:
DR. Page takes one of DR.. Latham's
powders. It takes effect while the vic
tim is attending patient, the wife of
Colonel Larivette, and the physician
finds himself compelled to kiss her.
The colonel on hearing this. seeks
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perate weather. but rink skaters and
hockey players have not lost any time.
The college and club hockey teams in
the east have started operations with a
swing and a dash, presaging a lively
winter. In the colleges, Harvard
hockey. prospects appear the brightest.
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New York Chicago Auto Record.

That New York and Chicago auto
mobile record, representing, as it does,
the time that it is possible to make by
automobile between the metropolis of
the east and that of the middle west
is one much longed for. but it still hangs
high. Clovis Bertrand with his big
French car. managed to surpass the
record as far as from Chicago to To-
ledo, but after that the American roads
were too much for him and the record
of So hours IS minutes made by Bert
Holcomb and Lawrence Duffie, both
Americans with their thirty-f1ve horse
power car in 1904 still stands. On ac-
count of the Iateness Of the season it
is doubtful if this truly greae intercity
record viii be broken before next sum
mer.
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Youna Corbett and Rritt.

Young Corbett and Jimmy Britt are
to fight again. Corbett, while in fairly
good shape, is too fat and puffy to sue
coed against the Californian, and look
to see Britt defeat the Denver lad with
out a great deal of trouble COrbett still
has his terrible punch, but his clever
ness and endurance have waned no
ticeably HARRY GRANT.
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WENTWORTH 2:0415, WITH EMERSON E. MCARGO UP,
FASTEST TR0TTlNG GELDNG OF 1905.

felt very certain of having
their own way in the future or else
they wouldn't have voted for him.
Pulliam is a misguided young man.
He is willing-aye, even anxious-to
sacrifice his personal independence for
the sake of the honor of holding the
National league presidency.
Is the game worth the candle?
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During the evening Claire Heliot exc
hibits her trained lions, and her dar-
ing is amazing. The Kaufman troupe
Of cyclists also appear. A jungle scene
in which burlesque lions. monkeys and
bullfrogs appear provides much amrse-
ment.
Among the song hits are Moon,
Dear" and "The Laughing School" The
cast contains Rose La Harte. Olive
North, Francis Boyle, Edwin A. Clark.
AIarceline, the inim:table clown. and
Rita Dean, who, as a page, IS an allur-
ing symphony in pink
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VIEWS OF TWO SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTIONS NOW RUNNING
IN NEW YORK PLAYHOUSES.

Rose La Harte, cannot spend her vast
fortune because her money is tainted.
Later Paul Pasky edwin A. Clark
enters. leading a white horse. Lady
volumnia, amazed and impressed, in
terrogates him, hears that he is all thai
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spent on the then forthcoming produc-
ton I bowed hunbly in homage to
what considered his superior imagi-
nation, but after viewing "A Society
Circus I take it all back.
"A Society Circus" establishes a
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Nine. Rernhardt.s Tour.

New York's recent theatrical sensa-
ton was the appearance OF Sarah Bern
hardt in repertory. This remarkable
Frenchwoman seems a perpetual spring
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Often the Case.

decentralization do you farmers
here stand on the road question?
F'armer-Waal. usually. abaout half
up tew our knees.
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Philip Latham, a physician who has
invented a powder that is a sure pro-
ducer of laughs and love, which pow
der forms the basis Of the plot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
The Football Changes.

The radical changes in rugby football
rules now being made by. the intercol-
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and inevitable social duties. is striking
evidence of the determination and
energy of the greatest actress of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
The Plot Appears.

During the gypsy scene we learn that
Lady Volumnia, charmingly played by
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Latham's sunny JIM powders. which
had been administered to her secretly
in a glass Of champagne.
Before and After is a package Of
genuine comedy and viii serve good
purpose in contributing to the gayety
Of the holiday season.
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Eiippodrome,s ereat New speetaeIe.

"A Society Circus" at the Hippo
drome exhibits the apotheosis Of stage
spectacle. The scenic splendors Of the
new Thompson & Dundy production
excel anything of the sort ever pro-
duced in any playhouse in any land.
The once lauded color effects and en-
semble scenes in Drury Lane (London)
inportations fade dimly away like "the
stars of the morning" in comparison
They were but the feebly fiickering oil
lamps in the woodcutter's little cottage
on the hillside.
Some time ago when W. c. Thompson
of the Hippodrome managerial staff
said that more than 100000 had been
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The season for outdoor ice sports has
been delayed in some sections by tenn
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the National league comes as
The Washington times., 1906-05-13
Russell Brothers Strenuous Experience.

The Russell brothers, while they were
plavine in vaudeville in this city. three
seasons ago. had a funny experience.
For some. reason, the management Of
the hotel at which they were stopping
had discharged a couple Of its domestics.
and the girls were sent to their rooms
10 pack UP and clear out The Russell
brothers theater trunks had. in some
way. gone astray. and they had 10 dress
at the hotel. where they had another
outfit exactly the same as that used
on the stage. They had ordered a cab
10 take them 10 the theater. and were
waiting in their rooms ready TO be call
ed. The bell boy announced the arrival Of
the cab. AS the brothers emerged from
their rooms the discharged chambermaids
saw them, and thinking they were the
girls hired 20 take their places set to
work TO give them a good tOngue-lash-
ing. The Russell brothers quickly grasp
ed the situation. and saw chance for
some fun. and pretended TO be the
newly-hired girls. So clever was the
deception that all who Witnessed the
The Washington times., 1906-05-13

Mile. Modiste.' The final pe-f~rrrance
OF the prima dOnna's six monI-s en-
gagement in the KnfCkerbOcker viii be
given on Saturday evening May 19
Following a summer vacation which
Miss ScheH viii spend abroad. the
run Of the opera Will be resumed here,
commencing on Monday. September l.
The Grand opera House is 10 break
away from its traditions, which IN
cludes changing the attraction every
week and indulge itself in quite a run.
The Clansman" has been booked for a
fortnight. AS an extra feature a troop
Of United States cavalry horses will
gallOp. four abrea St, from one side
scene to another on their way to wreak
vengeance on the Ethiopian villain.
Josephine Cohan and Fred Niblo Will
sail for Europe on May 10. They will
visit Mediterranean ports and work
their exit from the Continent by way
Of France. They will be back in the
early fall