The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09

homa City, where Manager North's 9TH
er show has an engagement. THOMAS
will spend his vacation in st. Joseph,
his home.
Miss Genevieve Russell, who was to
have appeared in special production
of "Sapho" in Oklahoma City last night
will do SO next week. Instead OF going
there Thursday as intended she will de-
part Monday morning.
Miss Ruth Robinson, who is playing
the lead in The Round Up at the
Grand theater this week, wears in the
second act belt made Of the hide OF
real rattlesnake which she killed in
Dakota the summer before she opened
in the North Brothers show.
Albert Ferguson, Juvenile character
player, in the North Brothers COM
Lany, was hurt one night this week
when he fell backward in the play and
severely wrenched his spine. He was
able to continue in the part, nOtwith-
standing that his injury was painful.
The Crawford, Kearney & Wells
Amusement company, who control the
Airdome circuit through Kansas Ok
lahoma and Nebraska, will have meet
Ing of managers of their houses in the
fall, at which time the booking of at
fractions for next season will be ia
ken up. A meeting was called for last
week but was postponed.
Messrs. Robert Blaylock and Roy E
Billiard contemplate going into vaude-
vile a few weeks before they reopen
in the stock at the Majestic in Aug
ust.
Mortuary note: Crepe that decorated
the dressing room of Messrs. Sport
North and Roy E. Hilliard at the Grand
I'theater following the Jeffries j ohnson
fight, has been taken down. The mourn
ing is all over.
Mrs. S. T. Hurt of Beaumont, Tex.
who has been visiting her sister, Miss
Genevieve Russell, will accompany the
latter to Oklahoma City, when she de-
parts Monday.
Stage Carpenter William E. Wilcox
departs for Oklahoma next week where
he will spend his vacation.
At Vinewood.
The vaudeville features at vinewood
park tomorrow will be the strongest
that have appeared at the park this
season. These will include the Chat
Ram Sisters, singers and dancers, one
of the Pantages feature acts: Mr.. and
Mrs. Daloy, in a comedy playlet, direct
from the Orphsum circuit; Miss Myr-
tie Giffney, one of the strongest bari
tones that has appeared in Topeka in
many months.
Miss Deskin will sing an illustrated
song and the moving pictures will COM
plete the show.
Dancing Tuesday and Thursday
nights.
l1Ic III TIC SttMuuSt
Miss Dollie Julian. the little English
rider went bouncing into the show
tent at Portland, beautiful bouquet
of roses in her arms. Then there was
a sensation.
put the links on the show" re-
marked Soader Johnson as he viewed
the innovation. while the company Of
acrobats and eCuestriennes crowded
around the lucky one and demanded
a share of the loot.
yes" continued the clown, I'VE
don't want to get like hall show
folks. First thing you know each of
us will be hiring press agent and
carrying around a trunkful of photo
graphs for the newspapers"
whats the difference 30 was asked
"All the difference in the world .
he replied. whenever circus folks
can set down big blue mark for the
passing OF the tents"
I'VE are different because we're diff
ferent, that's all. We think different.
we don't act like they do. We live diff
| ferently.
You see. it's this way: No excuses
go with a circus; you can't pull that
old artistic temperament gag on them.
You've got to make good. that's the
word, make good
That's the first time 1 ever saw a
bouquet of flowers brought into the
sawdust ring. I think it is a nice Gus
/ tom. Don't think 1 am a pessimist
But we don't want our women spoiled.
| Whoever heard of a performer in q
circus playing the FRITZ Scheff act and
| refusing to go on? Nobody. She
wouldn't last ten minutes with ouI
/ people, OF course we like applause
| everybody does. because we are hui
/ man. but there isn't a man. woman or
child with the Sells-Floto outfit who
i imagines for a moment that the show
would go galley west to Derdition il
| they were to quit on the job"
| There is very little jealousy among
| the performers. These people live in
/ a world entirely their own. Perhaps
that's the best answer. The outside