The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-06
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THEATRES.
COMING ATTRACTIONS


COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Tonight, "Going Some"
Louise Cunning. Wednesday, Nov. 10.
Mikado, Thursday. Nov. IL.
Lyman Howe's moving pictures Nov.
II and 10.
Ada Meade. Nov. Is.
Stubborn Cinderella, Nov. II.
Gay Musician, Nov. 20.
Going Some" has made one of the
most substantial comedy hits ever
scored. There is fun galore in this
combination, the joint effort of Paul
Armstrong and Rex Reach. The enter
tainment Is fully up to the stanoaro
established by the Shuberts. There is
good, wholesome fun in Going Some, =
and the play goes with an uproar OF
laughter from start to finish. Eugene
O'Rourke as the typical athletic coach
has scored a hit in the role Frank
Wunderlee as Berkeley Fresno, the
Stanford tenor and college villain and
James Spottswood as the four-hushlng'
head-yelling imposter, who impresse5
the girls by posing as Yale's champion
foot racer, are close seconds for laugh
ter-winning honors. Going some" VIII
be repeated at the Grand tonight.
An event of unusual interest to music
lovers as we'll as to the regular theater
goers of the city, is the coming OF
Louise Cunning to the Grand Wednes-
day, Nov. 10th, in Pixley and Luders'
latest comic opera, ,Marcelle." Miss
Cunning appeared two seasons ago IN
the leading role of Tom Jones'" and
she had an excellent soprano role in
Loves Lottery" in which Nine. Schu-
man-Heink was starred some years
ago. Not relying on their star alone. as
many managers presenting one pos
sessed of such a remarkable voice and
such delightful personality would do.
the Messrs. Shubert have given MISS
Cunning, her representative claims,
splendid supporting company headed by
Jess Dandy.
The quest for the North Pole has Gull
minated in a dramatic discovery that
forms the biggest feature in Lyman n:
Howes Travel festival at the Grand
two days and matinee. commencing
struggle is told in pictures as no words
could tell it. The equipment of the
polar party. its dogs and sledges maui
II snow for the water supply, cutting
progress over the ice, and the final
dash for the pole are all shown in this
remarkable series. The severe strain on
man and beast, in their struggle through
the great frozen seas and snow hidden
land kindles admiration of their cour-
age in everyone There is distinct
grandeur in the mighty fields of Ice.
whether in chaotic upheaval or strewn
with colossal blocks, here there and
everywhere. Nothing short of the
scenes presented can enable anyone to
form a true conception of the land
where a day and a night is year.
In another feature. the heroes OF the
air, the "birdmen"-Curtiss, Farman,
Latham, Bleriot. Paulhan are all shown
in full flight. Biplanes. monoplanes-l
every form of aeroplane the modern |
mind could conceive to conquer the air |
are seen in tests of speed and endur- !
ance. What would have been consid |
cred as miracles up to a few months |
ago, are today's actual facts revealed |
in moving pictures that are intensely |
The program includes |
many other features such as Dig guns
fiji action, Canada. the Gorge du Var, |
etc. l.---
1t is said that ex-President Roosevelt |
was vociferous in his praise of the per-
fcrmance of The House of Thousand |
Candles, when that play was produced |
at the National theater in Washington, |
D. c. The ex-president and his party |
{ coupled the right hand stage box which |
WAS decorated III his honor In speak |
irg of the play, the Washington Post |
says: Its highly thrilling play and |
vas greeted with round upon round of ap- |
plaUse." The original production as seen /
at the F1ackett theater in New York and |
Garrick theater in Chicago. will be seen |
at the Grand Thanksgiving day.
For the benefit of those admirers who /
insist on seeing Charles B. Hanford in /
The Tanning of the Shrew
is retained in his repertory for this sea-
son.
At the Majestic.
The North Bros. Co. at the Majestic
will present next week Mrs. Danes De-
fence, by Henry Arthur Jones. This
is an excellent drama, and had
years run at the Empire theater in
New York. when offered there by
Chas. Frohman's company, which in