The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-17
At the Novelty.
al Tic
Vaudeville.

At the Novelty.
Vaudeville.
''T'n not ashamed of it, but start
ed making living as a cash girl IN
New York at two dollars week, salu
Bessie Clifford, the Yama- Yama girl
in Three Twins as she stood behlnd
the curtain at the Grand opera mouse
this afternoon just before going on
for the first act. "That was lot OF
money to me then, even If did i've
with mother. 1 was reared in theat-
ricaI atmosphere and it isn't strange
that I decided that the stage was more
congenial than chasing down TO the
ribbon counter when some MARCHED
and pompadoured individual shrleked
cash"
fenlininity had greeted the visitor
some minutes before. She was IN
particularly amiable mood and seemed
to feel that she could not be blamed
when she thought of the far cry from
from answering the call of the cash
girl to answering the numerous cur
tain calls she receives at each per-
formance.
st picked up a girl in the neigh
borhood and we prepared a sister act,
confined Miss Clifford. eve played
in the neighborhood as Clifford and
Harvey 1 was with Al Woods two
years ago, doing nv speciality. rms
is the only show in which 1 have been
that / have not 1nI6TpOldIeu lily OWh
business but then Yama is SO much
like my own act that can't we'll do
both. I humor Yama, however, take
my time about it and really make it
my own
in THE Land of Nod though 1 was
not with the company that was in To-
pel5a. I opened Hattie Williams in
Fluffy Ruffies,' but there seemed to
be better opportunities IN Ihfee
Twins and here 1 am
Miss Clifford holds championship
medal as a dancer In the summer
she plays metropolitan roof gardens
and such resorts as Brighton Beach,
doing her own speciality.
Victor Morley the comedian OF
"Three Twins is related to John
Morley, the English author and
statesman. The comedian began to
study for the bar but presently was
overcome by the desire of a Briton
TO see the world. He sailed for South
Africa, went to Australia, passed
some time in Northern India and when
he reached home after a five years
absence he had an ambition to look
severely wise beneath a. wig.
When he came to this country eight
years ago, he felt sufficiently inter
ested in race horses to let them run
away with the remainder of his pc
be an actor he Settled down." spent
two years in stock, then Jared forth
with Grace George Brady in Pretty
Peggy He played the Englishman
in 1.-The Prince of Pilsen" and made
the Briton satisfactory to even sole
Lunnon." Then he obtained an en-
gagement in "The Spring Chicken
from Richard earle and in March,
1908, he created the present role when
Three Twins" was tried out first in
Peoria, Ill, preliminary to the long
Chicago run.
Winter on ''The Fortune Hunter"
William Winter, dean of American
critics, reviewed 1.-The Fortune Hunt
err" by Winchell Smith. Just before
quitting the New York Tribune after
fifty years of service. He waxed en-
thusiastic over the comedy which
comes to the Grand opera house for
one performance only, on Thursday
evening, December %.
eff the author of The Fortune
Hunter Winchell Smith, continues to
preach the same gospel of good hum
or, brotherly love and human interest
in his future works as is contained in
the four acts of that clever comedy,
he should be hailed as the evangel-
ist of the stage in the coming days of
regeneration for the drama. He has
conceived a new idea in comedy