The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18

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1.-The Rosary" attacks the theme
boldly. It deals with the lives and for
tunes of a little group of people living
in the beautiful West Chester country
near New York city. The husband is
disbeliever in all religion; hts WIFE, a
woman OF serious convictions regard
ing faith in the things of life unseen.
Strong in his belief and thoroughly
human, a priest moves through the
subtle story of this play When doubts
come and the man and woman's- lives
are shattered, seemingly beyond the
human power to repair, this priest an
alyzes the situation and by the power
f6f his faith brings both the people
whom he loves back to happiness.
Gertrude Hoffman has supplied
America with a stage sensation in the
bringing to this country of the Russian
Imperial artists, now appearing in La
Saison des Ballots Russes." America
has taken to its heart the dances and
mines from the kingdom of the Tsar,
has rejoined in accepting new reli-
gion in art and has hailed Miss Hoff-
man as the High Priestess of a new
cult Associated with this enterpris
ing young woman are Managing Di-
rectors Morris Gest and F. Ray Com
stock to whom honor is due for being
the first to introduce to nation speak
ing the English tongue a form of en-
tertainment which IS the foundation
stone underlying the recent aesthetic
movement in Russia.
La Saison des Ballots Russes'' does
not consist of the presentation of Rus
sian dances, as these dances have been
known to America. They are poetic
interpretations by a gigantic organiza-
ton of Imperial artists of the plastic
dramatic last word in art-before
the sublimity of which the efforts of
the sculptor and the painter stand in
eclipse. What the sculptor and the
painter have attempted from the pri-
mary inception of the art of represen-
tation by means Of pigments and mar
BILE. these Russian artists accomplish
through the medium of photographic
mirnodrama, bringing to its final
perfect realization an art which dates
back countless decades on the CONT
nent of Europe.
The three baIlets constituting the
entertainment are Cleopatra" a MINI
odrama, for which the music was COM
posed by A. Renslzy, Glinka, Rinsky-
KorsakoW Moussorgsky and Glazoy-
Now: Les Sylphides,Y a romantic rev
eIry. music by Chopin. and "Shehera-
zade' a photographic drama, music
BY Rinsky-K The great COM
pany of dancers and musicians will be
at the Grand next Thursday night.
Those who keep posted on the cur
rent theatrical events of the day will
undoubtedly be gratified to learn that
novelty Alma, Where Do You Live %
will be seen at the Grand, December
l6. Nanette Flack is Alma the CO.
ouettish maiden, who has many admir-
ers at her beck and call, and Charles
A Murray plays the role of Theobald
Martin, the principal comedy part.
The piece is said to be trimming over
with the most exquisite melodies which
are of the catchy variety. Mr.. Maitland
Davies, is to be seen in the tenor role.
ssBaby NIine.'
An announcement of the December
2 attraction is Margaret Mayo's play
'sBaby Mine which ran for one solid
wear at Days theater. New York, and
now ia its second year at Sir Charles
Wvndham's Criterion theater, London.
'.Baby Nine is conceded to be the best
md most dfverting comedy ever writ
ten. New ventures are difficult and
new trails hard to follow, but in BABY
Nine Miss Mayo is said to have writ
ten the typical comedy of an absurd
and original idea with a newness and
freshness of characterization and dia-
logue that gives it an air of possibility
and plausibility.
The Coburn Players. who have been
identified with performances Of the