The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-29
/. PLAYS AND THEIR PEOPLE.

When eczema LOTUS was giving ner
PRESERVATION of Patricia O'Brfen at
weber's theater in New York, she
discovered just previous to her initial
performance that the costume could
not be duplicated, SO she wrote let
ter to Miss Stahl asking her If she
might borrow the costume each night
after the first act of 1.-THE Chorus
Lady" This was agreed to, and each
evening the maid went in a cab to
Hackett's theater, New York, where
Miss Stah1 was playing, and directly
Miss Stahl had got out of the costume
in. the dressing-room 1t was hastily
bundled into a box, put into the cab
and returned post haste to Weber's
donned by Miss LOTUS in order to
give her famous impersonation of
Patricia O'Brien.
The New York papers gave columns
to the first performance of "a Grand
Army Man." the critics agreeing in
the verdict of triumphant success
scored by David Warfield in a role in
which he drops his various accents
and displays his wonderful powers
along straightaway lines. AS Yves
Bigelow,- the commander Of a Grand
Army post in little town in Indiana
twenty years after the war, he has
one of those impressive roles which.
like Won Barwig of 'The Music Mas
ter" appeals direct to the heart. and
in the hands of this great actor takes
on the nany-sided interest that in
spires tears and laughter with equal
impartiality. The reception accorded
the play on the eventful first night of
the Stuyvesant was unprecedented in
enthusiasm.
Lillian RusselI's new racing come
dy was written by George Broadhurst
and George Hobart Miss Russell
plays the role of widow who has in
herited racing stable. This act she
keeps a secret from her friends and
races the horses under the name of
John Duffy. A bookmaker of the
same name instructs the jockey to win
or lose the race as he shall signal The
boy, thinking Duffy is his employer,
agrees. The signal to win is to be
from tho window of the trainers
quarters. Duffy plans to throw the
race. The widow meets Duffy by ac-
cident in the trainers quarters.
Learning of the plot she permits him
to make love to her while she gives
race.
-, An added interest has been given
Read in which Blanche Walsh was
seen in Topeka last spring. because of
a curious bit of Information which has
lust been picked up by her press
agent Mrs. Berth Ramsey a social
I
written Miss Walsh to tell her that
Clyde Fitch took the principal Incl
dents from life. She says that the real
Mo11 O'Hara-the character played by
Miss Walsh-now a happy married
woman, secretly saw the play several
times during its Aston theater run, and
that she wept and laughed at the pre-
sentation of scenes of her early life.
Some years ago E. H. Sothern was
playing Hamlet" in the opera house
III Cleveland. In the grave yard scene.
Hamlet approaching the bier of
Ophelia, throws himself on the
ground, and gives audible voice to his
grief. Mr.. Sothern is nothing. if not
realistic. and when he Frustrated him
self, he did IT with all the violence for
which the part called. Unfortunately.
the stage carpenter had left a rusty
nail sticking upright in the imaginary
earth. and the nail went clean through
Mr.. Sothern's hand. coming out at the