The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24
the neighborhood of seventy-five
eople in the performance.
THEATRICAL NOTES.

blue Grass" has made a hit In San
Francisco.
James ]. Corbett is to star in 1.-THE
Girl Question"
Henry B. Harris is said to be a big
winner at Monte Carlo.
1.-THE Devil in the Arliss version is
now in the stock companies.
Vesta Tilley is to make tour of six
weeks in vaudeville in this country.
Clara Morris is to appear in a scene
from Macbeth" at the benefit to be
rendered her.
1.-The Little Princess formerly
played by Mile James, is being re-
vived by Boston stock company.
1t is said that E. H. Sothern will
be the first actor to appear at the
New Theater, and that he will make
revival of "Coriolanus.'
''The Fortune Hunter" by Winchell
Smith, is said to be even funnier than
that authors other successful play,
"Brewster's Millions
During her annual stock starring
engagement in st. Louis, Amelia Bing-
ham will try two OF three plays to
test their value as starring vehicles
for next season.
One of the striking portrayals of
the times is that of Mrs. Burnett's
optimistic heroine, Glad, by Eleanor
Robson in New York, in the play
1.-THE Dawn of a Tomorrow
Louis James is having one of the
most successful seasons in his career
in peter Gynt," the comedy master
piece of Ibsen, which Mr.. James is
giving an elaborate production.
There is an Indication that Miss
Katherine Kavanagh may appear in
the leading role of a new sketch, I'M
der the management of Miss Valerie
Bengere, who is known as one of the
most important headliners in vaude-
Vile. Miss Kavanagh has been sup
porting Miss Bergere for the past
three weeks, and has made good"
with Miss Bergere, the press and pub
lic This week she Is playing an i'm
portant role in 1.-THE Lion Tanner" with
Miss Bergere in Brooklyn.
Robert Edeson is writing a play
with a labor delegate as the central
figure.
A new play to be called 1.-THE
Ghost Breakers" Is to be produced
by Henry B. Harris.
Miss Blanche Chapman will take
the place of Ada Dwyer in Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch as Miss
Dwyer is in the cast of 1.-THE Dawn
of a Tomorrow"
Eddie Foy will appear in vaudeville
next month in a sketch called "Ham-
let by Freight" and Victor Moore
will also appear in new version of
Change Your Act"
The maiden name of Grace F1lkfns
playing in "The Third Degree" was
Streleska. She was born in Warsaw
and is the wife of Rear Admiral Mar
tx, U. S. N, who was also judge advo-
cate of the court of inquiry on the
blowing up of the Maine.
The performance of Barrie's play.
'sWhat Every Woman Knows" which
Maude Adams is to give at Yale Uni
versfty shortly, is the only one to be
given outside of New York this sea-
son. 1t will be a duplication of the
New York production, even to the su-
pers.
When Grace George appears as
Lady Teazle in 1.-THE School for Scan
daT' the cast will include Frank
worthing as Charles Surface. CYRIL
Scott as Joseph, Thomas A. Wise, as
Sir oliver, Louis Mann, Douglas Fair
banks, Harry Harwood. Robert Ffs-
cher and Jane Corcoran.
1.-THE Gay Life" had a production
under the management of Harrison
Grey Fiske in Providence this week
and made a hit. Individual hits were
scored, among others. by Katherine
de Barry as Mamma de Branscombe,
Consuela Bailey as the chorus girl and
Thomas Thorne as Dopey Mcknight.
Kathryn Kidder. who has been alb
sent from the stage for more than
two years, made a temperance re-
Gently in New York at the Herald
Square Theater, in new play entitled.
"a Woman of Impulse" Miss Kid