The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

which part was originally Guy stand
ing's part. now is played by Walter
Hitchcock.
In one part of the country Henry E.
Dixey is PLAYING The Man on the
The Man on the Box is played by
Max Fixman. There are several COM
panies playing the Lion and the
Mouse" and THE Man of the House"
the new Broadhurst piece. is such
sent out playing that in addition to the
organization which plays it in New
York
While THE Time. the Place and the
Girl is being performed at the La
Sale theater. Chicago. another COM
pany is playing it in the country. Anna
Held's THE Little Duchess" is being
played by the Baroness van Hatsfeldt,
assisted by a small company.
So it goes. The day in which an ac-
tor might have been said to have
owned" a part is past Under exist
ing conditions many actors may be-
come Identified with the same part
Changes occur in the middle of the
season as well as at the beginning of
It, Actors who personally dislike each
other and whose methods of work diff
fer from each others find themselves
following in parts that were created by
dramatic shoes.
Fay Davis. the gifted Englishwo-
man. must have been born under an
unlucky star. Even such master writ
ers as Mrs Wharton and Clyde Fitch
could not make out of THE House of
Mirth' a play that had substance
enough in it to last Miss Davis more
than few weeks. She went into Otis
duchess in THE Duel" Along came
Keith Wakeman and got the part, and
now those that saw them both say that
Miss Davis was too exaggerated in the
part and that the lesser known Miss
Wakeman gives a more artistic per-
Torrance
Mary Mannering applied all her OPP
ulent art in the creation of the charac-
ter of Jim Frobisher's wife in the pro-
duction of THE Walls of Jericho"
made by her husband. Mr.. Hackett.
But rather than play the part on the
road Mrs. Hackett preferred to give
all her time to the little Haekett
daughter. and so Miss Blaney was
During the Chicago run of the piece
Mrs. Hackett came and saw her sue
cessor.
Mrs. Carter often has seen her sue
cessor. Eugenia Blair, in ''Zaza.'' and
has called it good performance.
While Ethel Barrymore was playing
Alice Sit by-tte-Fire. Mary Shaw, a
technically clever actress who had
made some success in Ibsen, was get
ting ready to take to the road in the
Marines" was played by Eliza beth
Kennedy as well as by Miss Barrymore.
Reflections end Incidents
1t is natural that the roast should
follow the "suDe-"
An actor who thinks small thoughts
can't act biz ones. So
An actress may confess her sins. but
never her faults.
1t is singular that the play that is
starving to death should eat up SO
much money.
The critic who has lost his enthusi-
asm is like parachute cut away from
the balloon.
In determining the value of a play.
the critic is only the theoretical chem
ist, the public applies the "acid test"
Be not surprise if you ask the box
office man who comes after this at
traction?" if he replies The transfer
You may know the rich by their au-
tomobiles as surely as you may dis
cover a real actor by what he does
with his hands.
An Englishman who lately visited
wrote home that the two best
plays he had seen were Uncle Thorn
Public House.''-Frank Wilstach.
Docs Theatcr Discipline Its Audiences?
The right of a theater to discipline
its audience is somehow tacitly though
completely admitted. says the Wash
fngton Star The patron as a rule
recognizes authority in every brass
button he sees. and yields himself so
willingly to direction that actual dis