The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-28
AT the Novelty.

| AT the Novelty.
! Anything in uniform looks good to
the femmes and the very name of West
Point is potent to thrill and fascinate,
so the musical sketch, Commencement
Days, presented by PHYLLIS Lee and
company will Insure the Novelty good
matinee patronage, at least, this week.
| commencement Days is composed to
depict life at the Point and it is a
breezy and amusing musical comediette
! which gives Miss Lee and the six
| nifty" young chaps in her support an
opportunity to display their voices eff
fectively in solos and ensemble singing.
! Commencement Days was written for
an eastern vaudeville star and had a
run on. the big circuits. Miss Lee paid
$1,000 for the rights to the piece and
| is presenting it oH~the Orpheum circuit
this season. She had an off week and
the Novelty mahagement nabbed her
for this Topeka engagement.
There is a lot of music on the Nov
city bill. Kimball and Donovan, banjo
players, have high class act SURF Of
popularity. Miss Grace Mahoney
singing speciality has pleasing and well
trained voice and wears the cleanest
and most tasteful clothes seen on the
local vaudeville stage in long time.
1t must be confessed that mos. of the
vaudeville artists who come our way
are somewhat run down at the heels.
Cotton stockings of poor quality pre-
dominate, the less said about the shoes
the better, and if the gowns sometimes
look as if they might originally have
been we'll made they show signs of much
wear and tear. One imagineS their
present posseSsors securing them at a
bargain in one of the Sixth avenue es-
adjustments which cater to the Perfesh
in dyah OF Moo Yawk. But Miss Ma
honey's clothes are different She ap-
pears first in a spotleSS, well pressed
tailored suit of white serge, irreproach-
able patent leather ties and sufficiently
Il arlIO 1z<@1r I1faH
and tightly rolled silk umbrella. After
her first two songs she beats it," re-
turning before the applause becomes
discouraged, in an airy, white lingerie
gown, fresh and dainty a white gown
should be and as white gowns too rare
ly are, either ION or off"
None of the musical numbers is more
pleasing in its way than that of the
Novelty soloist, Miss Hazel Kaiser. Miss
Kaiser has raised the standard of songs
usually sung by the stock singer in the
vaudeville houses from the familiar
"weeper'' class and she makes her au-
ing the Glow Worm from the Girl
Behind tho Counter, a number we'll
suited to her pretty, flexible voice. Jen-
ME Calef and Andy Waldron have an
er's rights and Jack Mack, singing and
dancing monologist. and the Novel
scope completed the bill.
AT the Majestic.
Comedy is usually pretty safe We
hicle and the North Brothers Stock
company hit their gait in Du Souchet's
amusing farce. The Man From Mexico
which they are giving at the Majestic
this week The bill promises to be even
more popular than the Heir to the
Hoorah which was such a business-get-
ter week before last. and the enthusi-
asm of the audiences yesterday proved
again that the vulgar majority is no
Sob Squad and prefers laughter to
tears. Mr.. Harry Minturn is at his
best in the role of Benjamin F'itzhew,
the Man From Mexico. and Miss Gene
we've Russell finds the part of Mrs.
Fitzhew not uncongenial, Mr.. Robert
I5laylock, the Majors of last nights
caste Is new member of the COM
pany. Edward Ferguson, as a Dutch
comedian of the familiar slapstick type,
GETS all the laughs that are coming to
him and good work is done by Mr.
Chester Beach, Mr.. Albert Ferguson
Mr.. r.. Z. billiard. Miss Ruth Robin
sen. and others. The Chicago Ladies'
orchestra, as usual, plays a program
that is worth the while. The Man from
Mexico will be continued all week and
a Bachelors Romance from the roper
toire of the late Sol Smith Russell will
he given next week.