The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-20
STAGE HERO GOING
Matinee Idol Practically Is
Thing of the Past.
1ArIs Cease Buying Pictures OF
FaVOrite Actors.
WOMEN ARE CRITICAL.
Players New Confronted With
Changed Conditions.
They Have Convinced People Oh
Their Own Worth.

The matinee idol practlcaIly Is
thing of the past, according 10 Llonei
Walsh, who now is rehearslng IN Inc
Wife Tanner" at the Maxine EIiiote
theater in New York.
"E,verything," he explained, runs IN
cycles, and this not the matinee lool
period. 1t is just little too PAD u
have him gone, because certainly at
one time there was greater glamour
about the stage than there is today.
ssWhy has he gone? Well, the rea-
aon is complex-one can't answer thdI
in lust a word. You see, the women
used to make veritable nero Oh ellS
man on the stage. They nave cedsSu
10 do that You don't see girls Duy-
ing the pictures of their favorlte ac
TORS now as you did, ana II ne uoeSh
act we'll and can't hold their lnIere ,S1
fhe girls won't go to see him. Ihey II
go to another theater Where soliie ANY
woman is playing. .ao,.
lyon can't fool the women today
They. have become 100 cIltlcdi'
number of years ago, you Know lIie
actor was not received py the PupltO
&c he Is today. He was thing apart,
VOW he has convinced the people that
he is not a mere puppet, but real
man This change in the social posi-
ton of the stage has done gredt
deal towards eliminating the matlhee
idol business. ~
s'In many instances women VINO go
m the play know the actors. Ihey are
friends or have met them soclally tWo
ar three times. They have ceased TO
have that tremendous curiosity ina
used tn possess them about an actor
life. And that he leads a sane, NOR
or less prosaic existence also oeIldo'0
from the fascination.
Few actors today receive what Is
known in the profession as the mash
note Girls used to write 10 the &C
tor. believe, because they old not
have much to think about ana tne TO-
mantle side of their minds worked over
time. At present the young women of
the country are a busy lot and they
don't find time for that sort of thing
and besides, If they did they know a
great deal too much about the stage
and its people to send such notes.
A New Play by George AIDE.
When George AIDE wrote Father
and the Boys" in which William H.
Crane appeared, Charles Frohman or
dered another play from the humor-
list. That was three years ago and
Mr.. AIDE has neglected the order until
recently. This week, however, Mr..
Frohman received the following let
ter from Mr.. AIDE:
At dare say you will be surprised to
know that the doctors notify me that
my only ailment is an ingrowing play.
With your contract staring me out of
countenance, I have finally actually
got to work and have progressed SO
favorably on a new play for Mr..
Crane that can tell you now that I
shall positively deliver before the holi-
days a comedy in three acts called
United States Minister Jackson
1.-The scenes are laid at Cairibina,
seaport capital city of one of the
small South American r6nnhIiCc
Ina Claire Makes Big Hit.
Manager Jack Truitt of the Majes-
tic on returning from his vacation in
Chicago, said that Ina Claire, daugh-
ter of a former Topeka teacher, is
the most talked of feature in Jump
in Jupiter now at the Cort theater
Mr.. Truitt was present at the open
ing night of the show. He said:
Ina Claire's success is no surprise
to vaudeville goers, who long since
recognized her ability. At the OPEN
ing night of the show she was I'M
known to the musical comedy first
ferred to her as the find of the sea-
son. and managers and public at
once took her into the mystic circle of
artists who truly are favorites.''
Howard Has Outdone Himself"
Joe Howard. the farmer Kansan, who
with Adams and Hough, was RESPONSE
BILE for Miss Nobody from Starland;"
The Prince of Tonight" and 1.-THE
Goddess Of Liberty" also had his part
In The Flirting Princess which opens
the Grand season, August 30. It is
said that Howard has fairly outdone
himself in supplying the score for the
musical farce for his songs, There are
Too Many Girls in the World" Ga
Deux Temps Parisienne," Cairo"
Pale Golden Star" My Jack O'I4an-
term" He Loves My Dreamy Eyes"
''Oh These Men," I'D Rather Look
st You Than Kiss Any Other Girl
I've Been Kissed in San Francisco"
Mr.. Singer IS sending an all star cast
in support of Mr.. Bulger, including such
we'll known names as Eulalie Jansen.
Chas. Morgan, Maude Emery, Frank
Carter Dale Fuller. Arthur Cranston.