The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-13
ADJUSTMENTS

An excellent vaudeville snow mas
been secured by S. r. Wells, its man
ager, for the second week of the New
Novelty, and it seemed to be greatly
appreciated by the audiences which
attended the performances at TINS
pretty playhouse on yesterday after
noon and last evening. An interesting
variety of acts is provided by the bill
and among them are two sketches OF
rather unusual merit. one OF these IS
Tout in the Night" which is presented
by Harold NJ. Shaw and company. 1t
tells the story of a burglar who gets
into the house where lives his former
wife who has married another his
own child catches him in the act or
burglarizing and her identity Is re-
veaied to him. There is a dramatic
scene between the burglar and the
little ones stepfather The part of
the child is taken by a little f1axen
haired miss of six or seven years and
she is Just as clever as she is cute.
Mr.. Shaw, who plays the part of the
burglar, does some really fine work.
Harry Furst and company present
the other sketch, which is called THE
Marriage Fee 1t is a most ludicrous
start to finish. Mr.. Furst gives an
amusing delineation of a money-mad
Hebrew and shows himself to be
character actor of ability.
Something of a real novelty is the
sharpshooting act put on by the vi
VANS. Both Mr.. Vivian and Miss VII
Wan are unusually clever rifle and
pistol shots. Mr.. Vivian does some
rather wonderful shooting from the
gallery in lighting matches WITH a
bullet at a distance of fully eighty
feet. The act is brought to a eonclu-
sion by Miss Vivian singing and Mr..
Vivian playing an obligato on different
toned gongs which are set up as tar
gets and which he shoots at and hits
with precision and in a rapid fire.
This act is bound to make a great hit
all week.
Other acts on the bill include some
nifty barrel jumping by Flood and
Hayes and the four Lorettos, a clever
troupe of acrobats. Three of this
quartette are girls, one of tn EN- being
a youngster and she deservedly gets
the most applause for her feats are
out of the ordinary. There are two
good illustrated songs on the bill, the
pictures for which are unusually fine.
Mr.. Irwin sings I'm the Land of the
Buffalo and Miss Parfitt sings when
the Moon Plays Peek-a-Boo." Two
interesting series of moving pictures
are also shown.
An evidence that Mr.. Wells intends
to have nothing but the best of acts
on the bills at his house was shown
on Sunday afternoon. He had booked
a singing and dancing act by a team
named Black and Segal. Their work
was so poor that Mr.. Wells decided
they were unworthy of a place on the
and their afternoon performance was
the first and last of the week for them
Majestic Has Something New,
Jasper is one of the stars on the
bill at the Majestic for this week. And
Jasper is indeed, the purveyor of
uproarious fun. Perhaps it would be
well to explain at this point that Jas
per is donkey, real sure enough
key though he may be, Jasper is
something of a wonder as an enter
tainer. He can cause more people to
laugh louder and longer, laugh until
their sides fairly split, than any but a
few OF the comedians who travel on
the vaudeville circuits. With Jasper
are Mr.. Clayton and Mr.. Jenkins
black faced comedians They help
some toward the success of Jasper in
the presentation Ola rough and tum-
BILE skit called "a Darktown Circus 5"
but Jasper is the biggest part of the
show. He cracks many a joke for d
dumb beast. All of them are with his
hoofs so it might be better to say that
he kicks jokes instead of cracking
them. The way he does kick his help
ers around is a caution and it is q
lucky thing for them that his hoofs
are padded. Were they not it would
have been necessary to have provided
the men with a couple of collins for
their remains after the act had been
put on for the first time.
But Jasper and his friends are not
Dy any means the Wnole snow at the
Majestic for this week. There are a
number of other acts on the bill which
are interesting and entertaining Poi
lard, a juggler, puts on one of them.
He does some hard stunts in such an
easy fashion that good many of his
efforts did not appear to be appre-
ciated. Then there is a good act along
acrobatic and aerial lines which is pre-
scented by Judge, De Coma and Judge
two women and a man. All three of
them are of the iron jawed variety OF
gymnasts and put on all sorts of dar-