The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-13

Stella is wonderful in the part and
makes the play so much more inter-
estfng. And she is SO beautiful! I am
sorry she couldn't go on tonight. No,
don't think she is seriously ill-just
slight indisposition. She isn't strong,
you know, and this travelling is ter
rible. terrible! One catches such
colds in the sleeping cars-and Ne
hotels! 1t is impossible to set any
thing one can eat. think she will be
better in a day or two, but 1 regret so
much you couldn't see her here.
I'VE were SO disappointed today
my daughter, observation-disclosures we
couldn't find any Indians. They told US
that when we got to Kansas we should
see Indians and we took a carriage
this afternoon and the man said he
thought he could find US some Indians
and we drove a long way and when
we reached the place-well. there
weren't any. 1t was too bad. But we
had a beautiful drive and it was a
lovely day. We went shopping, too. We
were in a number of your shops and
bought hat and some other things.
We thought the shops very nice, but
we were sorry about the Indians
won't you look at my dear dog ?
Yes, this is Pinky Panky Poo. Oh,
you had heard she had died? Yes,
she was very i'll and there were all
those silly newspaper stories that she
had died. But here she is-seventeen
Years Olu, poor Ola anu pGTIecI-
ly blind" And she pointed to a, tiny
French griffon lying on a silken cush-
ion on a chair near the dressing table
"a withered, weakened, ridiculously
little old poodle, but none other than
the celebrated Pinky Panky Poo.
Mrs. Campbell and her company go
from here to Albuquerque, N. NJ,
where they give 1.-THE Second Mrs.
Tanqueray'' Saturday night.
When she was informed that she
a.
querque, Mrs. Campbell was delighted
and said they would take carriage
Immediately they arrived and go
on another quest of the Red Man.
eff my daughter can find some In
dian blankets and jewelry she will be
happy" said Mrs. Campbell. "She
dressed herself up the other day in a
blanket in anticipation of the Indians
she was to see in Kansas. Isn't it
strange we heard so much about the
Indians in Kansas, when you haven't
any at alp"
This is Mrs. Campbell's first tour of
the American provinces" She has
visited the Pacific coast but never be-
fore made the one night stands. The
season has been a disastrous one finan-
and many of the best companies have
been forced out on the road by poor
business in the metropolis.
On this point Arthur Ruhl writing in
Golfers Weekly says:
In order to see Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell one must apparently, go into the
wilderness. For six short days earlier
in the season Mrs. Campbell revealed
to New York her personal loneliness,
her repertoire of unhappy modern la
dies, and her quiet art. One rejoiced
especially in the accomplished cynic-
ism and irony of her Magda, a part
specially suited to her quiet, sophisti-
Gated key. Then she disappeared into
the provinces to earn money for her
Understanding which, appar-
emily, she can not, or is not allowed
to, do here. Mysteriously she crept in
to town again, and at the lonely Gar
den presented Herr Won Hofmann-
stahfs much talked of Electra" That
must have been unusually interesting.
One critical gentleman told me that 1t
was wonderful in the way it repro
duced the old spirit Of Greek tragedy;
another that 1t was wonderful in its
perverted un-Greekness, its decadent
fiesh-jabbing thrills like those in
''Salome;" but when I tried to see it.
something was the matter with Mrs
Campbelis larynx. The night before
something was permitted to happen to
the stage manager, there was nobody