The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
ION a recent jump across one of the
middle states to keep an engage
ment,' said Tim Murphy in New York
the other day, ct had just finished
lunch and wanted a paper. There
was no newsy on the train so asked
the dining car conductor if I would
have time to get a paper at the next
station. Plenty he replied. We
stop four minutes. From two to two,
to two two"
Marie Tempest is now reLearsing in
London new play by Alfred Sutro.
which Charles Frohman will produce
at the Comedy theater in the course
at present appearing in a revival of
Truth" The leading part in the
new play was especially written to
suit her requirements.
Lawrence D'Orsay, co-star with
Cecilia LOTUS in 1.-THE Lancers," was
married recently to Suzanne Rusholme.
one of England's favorite ac-
tresses. The evening before the cere-
mony the Green Room club of Lon
farewell bachelor dinner known in the
history of the organization. A low
ing cup, and Jewel hilted sword.
which he wears in 1.-The Lancers'
an received on that occasion.
Paul Gilmore, a great favorite with
Topekans, and who is probably the
youngest star in the country-he is
Just 80 years oId-began his stage
age of 21,, the late manager, Jacob
Lift, made him the leading man of his
I'm Old Kentucky" company Since
that time young Gilmore has ap-
ment in several productions and as
leading man with Henrietta Crosman
in Mistress Nell.'' During this latter
enga cement Mr.. Jules hurry saw him
and believing that there was bright
future for the young actor offered to
star him for a term of years. five of
which have already expired This
season Mr.. Gilmore is starring with
much success in comedy called
THE Wheel of Love-" which was writ
ten for him by George v. Hobart
Four companies under the manage
ment of Brady & Grismer are now
playing George Broadhurst's THE
Man of the Hour" The original
company will remain for it's second
York. The second company, after
four months in Chicago, is now tour
ing the cities of the Middle West
has submitted to Brady &
which Douglass Fairbanks is to star
next season. Fairbanks now has an
important part in the New York Man
Of the Hour company.
A new type of adventures has
been introduced into melodrama by |
Wymond Carey in his novel Love |
the Judge"-the young woman who |
has been four years at Girton, who |
reads Euripides at her toilet and |
combines with the "enigmatic" Mona |
Lisa smile a genius for operations |
On the stock exchange. She makes
4 curious and characteristic bid for
he hero's affections with intellectual |
"OnIy those who can
great literature know
what an anodyne 1t can be-" she says
1t is the finest and subtlest of all
for great literature
literature of power, is the criticism of
ife in artistic form by the minds of
hose who have suffered, suffered,
out not succumbed." But the god
II love hasn't matriculated and works
llong by the old methods still.
Clyde Fitch says he could write
better plays if 1T were possible for him
o take an hours dash on limited
rain before sitting down to compose.
Sailing through space at lively gait,
lie says, arouses his brain to action.
Tor this reason he makes a wild dash
.cross Europe each summer. stop
ping in small towns over night and
writing until the speed desire takes
lold of him, whereupon he jumps in
o his automobile and flies along to
he next stopping place.
One of the strongest dramatic at
ractfons in vaudeville this year is
Margaret Fealy. She is an actress of