The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-13

held up by landslide, and. finally,
the orange fete at San Diego.
There are some delightful things
in "A Stubborn Cinderella and part
of the music is gracefully pretty. 1t
is, of course, brilliantly reminiscent.
Mr.. Howard, the composer, has fac
ulty of taking bar here and bar
there from this and that bright COM
position, and calling it his own. The
work is skillfully done, SO we get
inald De Koven and all the good ones
No one objects, of course. for every
thing goes in comic opera.
''The work of Mr.. Stone last even
ing-featured as the leading man
was radiantly happy. He is very neat
very sprightly, and has bright, low
able personality, which endears him
at once to the audience. His sense OF
humor is quietly keen, and he gets
his smiles over without apparent eff
fort. Miss Kennicott and Miss Ar
telle, as the leading girls, Lady Leslie
and Sallie, were fetching, and If the
singing was only a little better among
the principals all would be perfect
But the fine chorus makes up for de-
linquencies in that respect"
One of the most delightful eharac-
ters in modern fiction and drama. IS
Bates, the inscrutiable butler in the
House of a Thousand Candies" the
attraction at the Grand on Thanks
giving day. Bates is a commanding
Character. attracting the sympathy of
the audience from the moment OF ms
appearance and holding it until the
last act reveals him in the hgnt OF
a greater hero than the action OF the
present time permits. He is possessed
of a. dry humor, which is an asset for
any hero-he is brave, fearless and a
man of mystery. He, above all of the
characters, holds the key to the STU
alton, the solution of the riddle Is IN
his hands. At a word from MIN the
mystery of ''The House of Thou-
sand Candles would vanish, but his
LOYALTY to the whimsical builder OF
the strange mansion and TO tnat
builders purpose-to bring MS graho-
son home and see him married TO
Marian Devereaux seals his ups ana
makes him as well as young Glenarm
j victim of Pickering's villa1ny. 10
him the aged owner of the estate I'M
folds his plan and declares his 1nten-
ton of pretending to die. And II is
Bates who summons the grandfather
to return when he observes that an
et+ack Nv pickering and his armed
hireIings upon the mansion and its oc-
cupants can not be postponed.
Through his well timed message and
Marian's aid, the senior Glenarm mas
tens to the scene in time to prevent
hloodshed that threatens to be I'M
evoidable. 1t is this unexpected ar
rival to all except Bates, little less that
a resurrection that marks the cIInaS
Of the play. From the time the elder
Glenarm unfolds his plan and departs
so that it may be executed to the final
undoing of Pickering, the course OF
The piece is in the nature or steaoy
nrogress toward the final scene
The season of 19O9-1O has opened
brilliantly for Charles B. Hanford
| The public has left no doubt of its
readiness to welcome him in mod
cbaracter sufficiently strong in human
interest to call for his best abilities;
saThe American Lord as interpreted
by him, is a study in human nature
and not a merely farcical creation
and the comedy is the more enectlve
because it is a spontaneous out
growth of the plot