The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-09
LAND OF GRIDIRON
Washburn Girls to Produce a
Comic Opera.
Features the. Achievements of
1906 Football Team.
ORIGINAL FEATURES.
"Lieutenant GIassfOrd" One of
the Three Will aims.
Score Is Written by the Young
Women.

What promises to be one of the best
undertakings in the line of amateur
theatricals which has been put on by
Washburn college talent in several
years will be the football comedy which
has been written by some of the young
ladies of the Washburn Girls Literary
society and which is to be presented by
the girls next Tuesday evening in the
;, ash burn chapel
The play is entitled The Land of
Grfdiron" and is, as is indicated by its
name, a football musical comedy. The
historic. setting for the play Is found
in the football games of the past sea-
son which were played on the Wash
burn schedule.
THE Land of Gridiron' is musical
comedy in two acts. The plot and the
developments of the play arecharged up
to three of the girls of the -Washburn
Girls Literary society, the Misses
Lenore and Daisy Monroe and Miss
Florence Burge- The playwrights have
in their efforts produced a play which
Is worthy rival to anything ever at
tempted by Victor Herbert, George
1Nde, or at least that is what is being
handed out to the public by those who
know the nature of the play. The opera
is also featured with several original
songs which are parodies. on the pop
ular airs of the day. The songs are
written by Captain Wister Williams of
the Washburn team who in addition to
a 4
good student and has written several
songs which have attracted particular
attention. Others were written by Miss
F'lossie Burge, Miss Daisy Monroe, Miss
Lenore Monroe. Mrs. Margaret Hill
McCarter and Mr.. Henry Do1ahue-
These songs are dedicated by the au-
thors to the members of the Washburn
football team and to those who. are ac-
Quainted with the career of last sea-
sons team and the games of the season
wi he nj g
ing
The play is to be given by the girls
in the interest of the Washburn Ath-
letic association which received a sud
den jar in its treasury just at the close
%, the season.
fhe cast of the play calls for thirty
five actresses and singers as all the
parts are taken by the young ladies
of the college. There will be the
parts of the fourteen players of the
Washburn team who earned the wv"
this past season which will be taken by
the different girls. There will also be
a chorus composed of twelve girls
which is said to be in all respects equal
to the choruses of any play now on the
road, 1t will certainly be ahead of
anything of it's kind seen in Topeka
this ear..-Miss, Grace Page will be the
leader of the chorus. The young ladies
will be dressed in regular chorus girl
style and the story is going the rounds
that the chorus girls will be more gor-
geously costumed than any chorus
which has visited Topeka in years
Miss Eleanor Sims will take the
part of Captain Williams and will have
complete charge of the football team
in the game. Miss Daisy Monroe will
officiate in the capacity of Coach
Weede and will originate all of the
winning plays for which the Wash
burn. team is famous Miss Lenore
Monroe will play the role of Manager
Walter Stahl and will have exclusive
management of the play.
OF course Washburn could not have
a football play and forget the popular
up-the-river-coach, Quigley, who ref
erees all the games in Topeka. He will
be represented in the play by Miss
Effie Page
In the football world there are just
three men whom the Washburn girls
charge up with all the obstacles which
Washburn had to contend with last
season. One of these obstacles was
found in the person of Lieutenant
Glassford of Fit. Riley who made the
awful decision which caused Wash