The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23

as an emotional actress Inc
play, the work Of Jules Eckert GOOD
man, is pronounced by New YORK
critics to be one of the most powerful
stage works produced in America IN
many years.
Following are a few excerpts from
From the children of the poor come
the great men of the earth.
Marriage is a sacrament and without
love it is a degradation.
Happiness is the right of youth alone
Marriage. nowadays, is a business:
Charity is the greatest crime of the
age, for it is begging of the question,
THE Right to Live
The rich who do charity work are
usually in need of charity.
A woman always gets what she
wants-that's why she is miserable.
The woman who marries a man to
reform him is a widow before she's
bride.
There is a difference between gram
mar and character.
Every woman is jealous. Even if she
doesn't want a man herself she is jeal-
Gus of the woman who gets him.
There is no friendship between man
and woman, for one is always sure to
give more than the other.
The dramatic version. in five acts. of
Sir Gilbert Parker's popular tale, THE
Right of Way" will be presented at the
Grand Thursday, April %. You may re-
member the plot. Charles Steele,
wealthy and brilliant lawyer, has en-
tered into a marriage of convenience
with a woman who loves another man.
The realization of it has turned him
into an infidel and cynic. His influence
corrupt5 others: he himself dissipates;
at length he determines to end every
thing; visits a notorious haunt of lum-
bermep, picks a quarrel and is pitched
for dead into the river Rescued thence
by one Joe Portugais. whom, though
fully defended from a charge of muir
der, he lives for three years in the
rams hut; physically well. but with his
mind a blank. Meanwhile. he has fall
en- in love with Rosalie. village girl.
while his wife, supposing him dead, has
married his rival. An operation re-
stores his memory. and the past with
all its horrors surges back into his
life. He has despised life, courted
death, learned to love. and now has
TO face duty.
The gayest viennese operetta that
ever came out of the gayest music-mad |
capital is The Merry Widow" which |
plays return engagement in this city |
Saturday matinee and night, April 80 |
1ehar, who wrote the music, has estab- |
lshed himself as the only living sue |
cessor to the line of light opera wri- |
tcrs beginning with Offenbach and end !
ing with Sullivan. He has all of the |
abandon and dizzy. riotous melody of /,
tie Partisan composer of "Pinafore,'
Sparkling dialogue, bewtldering scenes |
OF beauty and mirth passionate cpl |
sodes of genuine feeling and comedy |
moments follow one another in less |
time than it takes to tell it, THE |
Merry Widow is the biggest light |
opera hit since Sullivan & Gilbert COL |
Elaborated is a matter of theatric rec
ord The production which Henry w !
Savage will provide for his greatest |
success will be worthy of the vehicle |
he has brought over from Vienna The |
chorus which plays SO import ant a part |
ia the success of oDeretta, is conceded |
to be the most beautiful and best drill |
ed of any before the public.
At the Majestic.
Hello Bill, a comedy. is to be pres
ented next week by North Bros Stock
company. with Sport North in the role
of Bill Fuller. He has the best part
yet offered him. and he is determined |
10 make a favorable impression with
it. The play deals with the adven-
lures of one William Fuller, who on the
eve of his marriage is arrested in a
raid on gambling house and on read
ing of the appointment of a name
sake to the Office of colonel of a regi-
ment of U. S. volunteers. he claims