The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-07
ADJUSTMENTS.

Thomas Brooks Fletcher of C1eve-
land, O., lectured before fair sized
audience at the auditorium last night
on the "Martyrdom of. Fools His
lecture was the fifth entertainment on
the pipe organ Lyceum course. Mr..
Fletcher showed that he is an orator
of no small bility and he handled his
subjects with vigor. There was
plenty for him to talk about for he
insisted that everybody on the face
of the earth was fool of some kind.
He included himself in the category.
There was much of interest in his
talk especially when he spoke of men
and things political. He characterized
men who followed blindly the prin-
ciples and men of one political party
just because they had been born and
brought up in that party, as it were,
as the biggest kind of fools. He spoke
of Governor Hoch as being one of the
magnificent men in the political life
of Kansas He said that Senators
tive state were political "Judases'' and
he expressed the opinion that both
Bryan and Roosevelt were great men.
He declared that the money panic
had been caused by a few men in New
York city and that now q few men
were getting the praise for stopping
the panic when as a matter of fact it
belonged to the people generally as
they had refused to become frightened
and make runs on their own banks
Mr.. F1etcher's lecture was a trif1e
long, SO long in fact that Mr.. Frank
Foster charge de affairs of the pipe
organ course, was justified in pulling
the watch on him.
Charles H. Yale's Devils Auction"
seemed to please fairly good sized
audience at the Grand last night It's
an extravaganza pure and simple, but
one which has stood the test Of time
and thereby proved its worth. This
Is the twenty-stxth consecutive year
that the piece has been before the
public. 1t is certain that the show Is
not much like what 1t originally was
except as to general principles In
fact 1t has been improved in every
way from year to year and there is
much in it this year that was never
there before. Many Of the scenic eff
fects would be hard to equal. There
the show and two or three of them
are out of the ordinary. The pro-
duction has been a success so long
that the word Everlasting has been
and probably will be in use fifty years
hence and then some.
What promises to be good vaude-
Crawford, the manager, for the Ma
jestic for next week. not the least in
teresting feature of which will be a
reproduction in moving pictures Of the
famous ride OF Paul Revere, the sig
nal man of the Revolution. The Aims
for this picture were made by the
Crawford Film Exchange of ST. Louis
This adds additional interest to them
as o. T. Crawford and Arthur Kane,
who lived in this city for MANY years.
are the heads Of this moving picture
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A number of good acts, presenting
good variety of vaudeville. win be
on the bill, including Duncan and
Hoffman, in comedy singing and
dancing; Charles Ledegar, rope
bounding; Coture and Gillet, acrobats;
Frank Tfnney, musical comedian; the
Gaynoux, jugglers: and aAdelaine
performance of the show is tomor- !
row afternoon.
Manager Bryant of the, Olympic has |
kept up his good work since he took |
charge of this popular theater in pro-
yiding shows worth 4 consid era bly,
more than the price of admission in |
his bookings for the show for next |
week, with the opening performance |
tomorrow afternoon. There are a |
number Of good acts on the bill but |
the one which will probably attract |
the most attention is a whirlwind I
dancing and contortion act put on by
the Sisters Spray. These girls made q +
hit in Paris last year at the famous I
Folies Bergere. Other acts on the bill |
include Yer Valin, clever ventrilo-
luist; Lew Hamilton, the Mad |
and the Ways in q tramp /
sketch called, Mistakes Will Hap
PEN" Mr.. Galbraith will sing "Cali- |
new series of moving pictures will be