The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-24

ing. The Vanderbilt Cup race is run
annually at Mineola, Long Island, and
the play centers around this race.
which comes as climax to the story,
when a racing car dashes on the stage,
accompanied by the noise and excite
ment of = real race.
Elsie Janis was the feature. or
rather is the feature of the original
because she is still playing in the piece
IN the east, and a number two COM
pany brings it to Topeka
Miss Janis is 4 remarkable person
She is but II years of age, but her
caricature representations of the lead
ing actors and actresses are inimitable,
and the success of the piece on its re-
markable run in Chicago was largely
on account of her efforts.
Alice Dovey succeeds to Miss Janis
part in the company that comes to To-
peka Thanksgiving day.
There will be two performances in
Topeka, both afternoon and evening.
The management of Helen Byron
claims there are sixty in the company
which she Will bring here to present
Sergeant Kitty" It will probably be
remembered that the book is by R. H.
Burnside and the music by A. Baldwin
Sloane. The chorus is reputed to be
pretty and what is more to the point.
can sing.
Helen Byron was the star of Henry
W. Savage's production of Peggy
from Paris last season James NIGEL
hern, who scored such an emphatic
hit in The Fortune Teller is the chief
comedian and others in the cOmpany's
long list of principals are Tom Hoda-
way. Joseph Chailee, Corrick Major,
Charles Fulton, Virginia Ainsworth,
Laura Sprague, Marion Langdon.
I'm Old kentucky comes tonight
with an entirely new scenic production
and a company including some of the
old favorites. Bert G. Clarke will play
his original role of THE Colonel and
Chas. K. French still gives his mimi
table characterization of the old-time
darby servant Uncle Mob" Frank
Dayton and George Mitchell still play
the hero and the villain The manage
ment believes it has secured a lind"
in the new "Madge Briefly" The part
of the mountain lass will be played by
Miss Marie QUINN" a young and
charming actress still in her teens.
The West Jubilee minstrels will be
given both afternoon and night, tomor-
row, Sunday, November %.
Attractions at Kansas City Next Week.
Shubert. all week-''The Road to
WINS Wood, four nights, beginning
Sunday, Nov. 25-''Fhe Vanderbilt
Cup" Three nights. beginning Nov.
29-"The Rogers Bros. in Ireland"
lucky"
In a new comedy of fantasy, 1.-THE
Road to Yesterday" which comes to
the Shubert for the week of November
IS. all the characters of the cast live
both in the London of modern times
and in Elizabethan England. Some
topsy-turvy and surprising dramatic
effects result. and the contrasted lights
and shades Of present and past should
be admirably brought into footlight re-
lief by the excellent players who are
soon to interpret here this odd play
novelty. White Whittlesey, Hall Nc
Allister Minnie Dupree, Helen Ware,
Miriam Nesbitt. Alice Gale and Julia
Blanc are in the strong cast. During
two acts Of the piece all these players
impersonate types surprisingly differ
ent from those they represent in the
other two acts, and yet the dual Iden-
titles are said to be mysteriously COM
mingled in the curious action of this
strange entertainment. Regular matt
nees will be given Wednesday and Sat
urday and a special Thanksgiving day
matinee is announced for Thursday
One of the most startling effects ever