The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-27
AT THE THEATERS.

| George M. Cohan's Little Johnny
Jones'" which achieved unusual sue
| cess last season in the musical play
| line, was presented at the Grand last
night by a sprightly company a COM
pany perhaps not quite as good as was
| seen here in the piece a season ago,
| but one which was quite capable of
| doing the play justice and furnishing
| an excellent entertainment. There
was not as large an audience on hand
| as the company and the show deserY-
ed but the one that was there seemed
| to be most appreciative and was Wig
| orous with it's applause, which was
| responded to generously, considering
the size of the house.
The company was large one with
an attractive lot of chorus girls who
wore innumerable fetching costumes
and provided some real dazzling stage
pictures in their ensemble work. The
| play was finely staged in all detaifs
and the scenic effect of the departure
of an American liner from Southamp-
ton was SO good that it brought forth
hearty applause The last scene,
showing nook of San Francisco's old
Chinatown, was also a pretty piece Of
Stagecraft.
There were a number of clever peo-
pie in the cast including Miss Helen
Dexter, who has a pleasing soprano
voice, and who in the leading fem
mime part portrayed "Goldie Gates in
the original and in her DISCUSSES as
"Rosario Fauchette" and the Earl of
Bloomsbury" Billy Seymour as
Johnny Jones" and William Keough
as "The Unknown" Keough's work
was particularly good.
the music Of the piece. About every
one is familiar with it's catchy tunes,
Yankee Doodle Boy" Good Bye
Flo" and "Give My Regards to Broad
way" which have been whistled and
sung all over the country for the past
year.
Musical reviews may come, and
NJ. THESES Wine. Woman and Song
will go on forever, wrote one of the
New York theatrical writer's of the
attraction which will be at the Grand
tonight This production is a sort of
a musical meiange-it might be called
a sort of a potpourri, in which the
most talked of actors of the day are
satirized by. some exceedingly clever
people. 1t enjoyed run last season
of over three hundred performances
at the New Circle theater in New York
city and the company to be seen here
is practically the same as that which
made such success in New York.
Among the striking features in the
production are the American Pony
Ballet and 1.-THE Broadway Quart
cite" There are many well known en-
Htertainers in the company, which is
large one, including Miss Louise Au-
one of the most beautiful women on
the American stage, Meyer Harris,
Sam Hearn, Mart Hogan. Ed Lnde-
mann Bert Kalmar, Alfred MARSHA,
Marjorie Conboy, Gertrude Fay, Alyce
Gilrain and Ernest Storm.
Joseph E. Towards most successful
melodramatic musical play The Dis
trict Leader" presented by a company
which is said to be most capable, will
be at the Grand on Thanksgiving,
with an afternoon performance begin
ming at three o'clock and one in the
evening at the usual hour.
1.-THE Blue Moon" the musical
comedy success of two continents,
with an unusually large company will
be seen at the Grand on Friday night.
James T. Powers, as clever and YER
satile a comedian as there is on the
stage, has the title role in the piece.
His appearance alone would insure
something worth seeing and he is
supported by an excellent cast.
There will be four performances at
the Olympic on Thanksgiving day, one
in the afternoon and three in the eve-
ming and the chances are that crowd
ed houses will be the rule for all of
them because the show there this
week is one of the best which has
been seen at this house during the
season. 1.-THE Three Lyers," in a mu-